RECORD ENTRY FOR SLGA UNDER-16 GIRLS AT STRATHMORE

NEWS RELEASE ISSUED BY THE SCOTTISH LADIES GOLFING ASSOCIATION

Clara Young (North Berwick), who played for Great Britain and Ireland in the Junior Vagliano Trophy last year, is the low handicap Scot in a record entry for the SLGA’s Under-16 Open Strokeplay Championship at Strathmore Golf Club, Alyth on April 12-13.

With 127 players having entered the event, girls with handicaps over 14 had to be balloted out to reduce the field to the maximum 102.
The backmarkers are English scratch players, Gabriella Cowley (West Sussex) and Sophie Keech (Lyme Regis). Clara plays off two and is among the record 75 players with single figure handicaps.
Connie Jaffrey (Troon Ladies), winner of last year’s Junior Champion of Champions, and Lauren Whyte (St Regulus), both playing off two, are other leading Scots. Along with Clara, they are members of the Scottish Ladies’ Golfing Association’s National Training Squad.

An international event is run alongside the individual championship and two teams from Scotland will face two from England, two from Ireland and one each from Wales and Italy. Italy’s Laura Sedda won the individual title in 2008.

This is the 14^th year of the popular Championship and the impressive list of winners includes Scots Louise Kenney (1999), Krystal Caithness (2004 & 2005) and Carly Booth (2006) and the Irish Curtis Cup player Leona Maguire (2007). England’s Bronte Law won the title last year