EILIDH BRIGGS ONE OF THE FAVOURITES FOR GIRLS CHAMPIONSHIP

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Eildih Briggs (Kilmalcolm), runner-up in the Scottish Ladies’s Amateur Championship in May, will be aiming to mark her last junior season with victory in the Scottish Girls’ Championship at Glenisla Golf Club, Alyth next week (Tuesday to Saturday, July 12 to 16).
Lesley Atkins (Gullane) will be defending the title she captured at Eyemouth last year – and beaten finalist Kate McIntosh (Broomieknowe) is also still young enough to mount another challenge.
Briggs, pictured by Cal Carson Golf Agency at Machrihanish, currently heads the Scottish Ladies’ Golfing Association’s Girls’ Order of Merit and she is heading Scotland’s challenge in this week’s European Junior Championship in Sardinia.
Her five team mates – Alyson McKechin (Elderslie), Hannah McCook (Grantown-On-Spey), Ailsa Summers (Carnoustie), Lauren Whyte (St Regulus) and Clara Young (North Berwick) – will also have sights set on success at Glenisla.

A total of 69 players have entered the Girls’ Championship and the list includes last year’s beaten semi-finalists in Aberdonian Gemma Dryburgh and Craigielaw’s Gabrielle Macdonald, who is the first reserve for the European Championship.

Briggs and McKechin are the back markers with scratch handicaps and the Championship consists of two round of strokeplay qualifying with the top 32 going through to the matchplay stages. The 18-hole final takes place on the morning of Saturday, July 16.