NOREEN FENTON WINS SCOTTISH SENIOR WOMEN'S MATCH-PLAY

By COLIN FARQUHARSON
Colin@scottishgolfview.com
For the second year in a row Blairgowrie’s Heather Anderson has found just one player too good for her in the Scottish senior women’s match-play golf championship.
Last year Fiona De Vries (St Rule) beat Heather by one hole in the final. Fiona could not defend the title at Portpatrick Dunskey GC this week , having broken a leg in the senior world curling championships in the United States.
In her absence, Anderson reached the final again – only to lose once more by one hole, this time to Noreen Fenton (Dunbar), the No 2 seed.
Anderson, the No 5 qualifier, had KO’d the top seed and stroke-play title-winner from earlier in the week, Alex Glennie (Kilmarnock) by 5 and 4 with level-par play in the morning semi-finals.
Fenton, pictured by Cal Carson Golf Agency, four up after six holes in her semi-final, was roughly three over par in beating Janice Paterson (Drumpellier) by one hole in the end.
In a closely-contested final in which neither player was ever more than one hole up, Fenton led for the first time with a par at the eighth but was pulled back to square by Anderson’s birdie 2 at the short 11th. The next four holes were halved before Fenton birdied the the par-4 16th to regain a one-hole lead.
That was to prove the title-winning move with the the 17th and 18th holes halved, leaving Noreen the over-55s national match-play champion.
In the final of the inaugural Handicap Championship, Caroline King, who plays off 12 at Clober, was well under her handicap in beating Margot Barr, an 11-handicapper at Gairloch, by 6 and 5.


SCRATCH CHAMPIONSHIP
Semi-finals – Heather Anderson (Blairgowrie) bt Alex Glennie (Kilmarnock Barassie) 5 and 4, Noreen Fenton (Dunbar) bt Janice Paterson (Drumpellier) 1 hole.
Final – Fenton bt Anderson 1 hole.

HANDICAP CHAMPIONSHIP
Semi-finals – Caroline King (Clober) (12) bt Muriel Dysart (Cathkin Braes) (13) 4 and 3, Margot Barr (Gairloch) (11) bt Sandie Streets Largs) (11) 5 and 4.
Final – King bt Barr 6 and 5.