I OWE IT ALL TO MY SCOTS-BORN HUSBAND, SAYS NEW CHAMPION

"Ive never really won anything at golf before ...." former English international hockey player Felicity Christine (Woking) and her husband Jim, Grangemouth-born PGA club pro at Worplesdon Golf Club.

Felicity did not take up golf until her 30s and even then she was in her 40s before she began to play the game "seriously" ... coached, of course, by husband Jim. "He deserves all the credit for anything I have achieved in golf," said Felicity generously after becoming the 2011 British senior women's open amateur champion today at Belvoir Park Golf Club, Belfast.

+Read Colin Farquharson's report of the exciting final day's play on http://www.lgu.org/

Left to right: Runner-up for the second year in a row, Ireland's Pat Doran (Donabate), who bogeyed the last hole when a par finish would have put her in a play-off, new Senior British champion Felicity Christine, and Welsh legend Vicki Thomas (Carmarthen), officially placed third after finishing on the same total as overnight leader Maria de Orueta (Spain). Images by Cal Carson Golf Agency.

BRITISH SENIOR WOMEN’S OPEN AMATEUR CHAMPIONSHIP SCOREBOARD

Belvoir Park Golf Club, Belfast

FINAL TOTALS

Par 216 (3x72) CSS 75 (reduction only) 75 73

230 Felicity Christine (Woking) 78 77 75. Winner of Linda Clark Trophy and Silver Medal.

231 Pat Doran (Donabate) 77 79 75.

232 Maria de Orueta (Spa) 78 74 80, Vicki Thomas (Carmarthen) 79 77 76).

235 Janet Melville (Sherwood Forest) 80 80 75, Jane Rees (Hendon) 75 86 74.

236 Minna Kaarnalahti (Finlan) 80 81 75, Rocio Ruiz de Velasco (Spa) 83 75 78.

237 Caroline Marron (Bromborough) 80 78 79, Sheena McElroy (Grange) 77 80 80, Sue Dye (Delamere Forest) 77 77 83.

239 Christina Birke (Swe) 81 80 78, Helen Jones (Strabane) 83 77 79.

240 Catalina Castilliego (Spa) 89 73 78, Violet McBride (Belvoir Park) 80 82 78, Rozalyn Adams (Addington Court Ladies) 80 80 80.

241 Viveca Hoff (Swe) 80 81 80, Mary Smith (Tain) 82 79 80, Ruth Lindley (Hartlepool) 81 77 83.

243 Jean O’Connor (Newport) 85 79 79, Lena Tornros (Swe) 86 78 79, Catherine Reilly (The Heath) 81 82 80.

244 Ivy Steinberg (Can) 83 80 81.

245 Debbie Richards (Burhill)  82 84 79, Heather Anderson (Blairgowrie) 81 81 83..

246 Lorna Bennett (Ladybank) 84 83 79, Mimmi Gugliemone (Swi) 83 84 79, Jeannie O’Keeffe (Hankley Common) 85 82 79, Marleen Nijhof (Net) 83 77 86..

247 Niamh Giblin (Dun Laoghaire) 85 80 82, Gertie McMullen (The Island) 84 79 84.

248 Birgitta Ljung (Swe) 88 80 80.

249 Ginny Marshall (Can) 84 84 81, Marion Kaufmann (Ger) 85 82 82, Maureen Richmond (Royal Liverpool) 86 79 84.

251 Mary Madden (Ballinasloe) 82 85 84, Pauline Walsh (Headfort) 90 77 84, Bev New (Lansdown) 82 83 86.

258 Mette Meyer (Denmark) 85 82 91.

Disqualified (for playing the wrong ball and not correcting her mistake before the next shot) – Diane Williams (Can) 84 81.=

Withdrew (flu symptoms) – Cristina Marsans (Spain) 84 82 –

AGE CATEGORY PRIZEWINNERS

50 to 54 years - Jane Rees (Hendon).

55 to 59 years - Sheena McElroy (Grange).

60 to 64 years - Christine Birke (Sweden).

65 years and over - Mary Madden (Ballinasloe)

HOW THE LAST ROUND SEESAWED

AFTER SIX HOLES
Nine over par - Maria de OruetaAFTER NINE HOLES12 over par - Doran.AFTER 14 HOLES

11 over par - Pat Doran.
12 over par - Vicki Thomas.
13 over par - Sue Dye, Felicity Christine.
14 over par - Sheena McElroy.


13 over par - de Orueta, Thomas, Christine.
15 over par - McElroy, Dye.


14 over par - de Orueta, Doran.
15 over par - Christine.
16 over par - Thomas.
19 over par - Dye, McElroy.

AFTER 18 HOLES
14 over par - Christine.
15 over par - Doran
16 over par - Thomas, de Orueta.
19 over par - Janet Melville, Jane Rees.
20 over par - Minna Kaarnalahti. Rocio Ruiz de Velasco.
21 over par - Dye, McElroy, Caroline Marron,