KirkwoodGolf: KINGSKNOWE'S LOUISE AND ALLYN WIN SCOTTISH MIXED TITLE

Sunday, August 21, 2011

KINGSKNOWE'S LOUISE AND ALLYN WIN SCOTTISH MIXED TITLE

Kingsknowe’s Louise Fraser teamed up with clubmate Allyn Dick, a Scotland international last year, at comparatively short notice to win the Scottish mixed foursomes championship at Mortonhall Golf Club today.
“My usual partner wasn’t available and I still didn’t have a partner to play in this tournament until a week or so ago when I asked Allyn Dick if he would play with me. I think I chose wisely,” said Louise in her prizewinning speech.
Dick, who has a handicap of +2, recently won the Lothians men's Champion of Champions tournament and he won the Newlands Trophy SLGA Order-of-Merit 72-holer at Lanark in July.
He retained the Harrison Open title on Saturday morning, the day before his Scottish open mixed success.
The Fraser-Dick combination returned a gross score of 72 over a Mortonhall course that has a men’s par of 72 and a women’s par of 73.
Helped by an eagle and four birdies, they had two shots to spare from a home-course partnership, Scotland international Rachael Watton and Greg Nicolson. Rachael leaves shortly to start a four-year golf scholarship at the University of Denver, Colorado.
The lowest net score was 71 ½ off a combined handicap of 12 ½ by the partnership of Sandra Dickson (Mortonhall) and Ian Dickson.(Gullane). They had so much in hand that they could afford to run up a 10 at the last and still win.
Katrina McKinlay (Ratho Park) had a hole in one at the 10th hole (109yd).
A total of 39 couples took part on a day when the fast greens produced higher scorers generally than expected. The competition was organised by the SLGA.

SCOTTISH MIXED FOURSOMES
Mortonhall Golf Club
LEADING SCRATCH
72 Louise Fraser and Allyn Dick (Kingsknowe).
74 Rachael Watton and Greg Nicolson (Mortonhall).
77 Diane MacDonald (Dumfries and Co) and Derek Douglas (Southerness).
78 Linda Bain (Lochend) and Graham Robertson (Silverknowes).
LEADING HANDICAP
71 ½ Sandra Dickson and Ian Dickson (Mortonhall).(12 1/2).
73 Kirsty Burgess and Tom Caldwell (Silverknowes) (7).
75 Lorraine Morrow (Erskine) and Martin McLeod (Dullatur) (10).

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