KELSEY AND MEGAN BRIGGS BEATEN IN TAIN QUARTER-FINALS
By COLIN FARQUHARSON
Colin@scottishgolfview.com
Two past champions - Kelsey MacDonald (2010 at Craigielaw) and Megan Briggs (2009 at Southerness) - were beaten in this morning's quarter-finals of the 98th Scottish women's amateur championship, played in a drizzle and over a links course which soaked up a lot of overnight rain but was beginning to show puddles here and there by lunchtime.
Kelsey was "skelped" 7 and 6 by Kilmacolm's 19-year-old Scottish girls champion Eilidh Briggs who lost to Louise Kenney in last year's championship final at Machrihanish. Eilidh's older sister Megan, 22, four holes up on 17-year-old Muckhart player, Eilidh Watson, after seven holes and still three up on the 14th tee, let a place in the semi-finals for the second year in a row slip through her wet fingers.
Watson, the only P and K player to make the match-play stages, won the 14th, 17th, 18th (where Briggs three-putted, finally missing on the very wet green from about 2 and a half feet) and 19th for the biggest win of her fledgling career.
In this afternoon's semi-finals it will be No 1 seed Jane Turner (Craigielaw) versus Eilidh Watson, and Eilidh Briggs versus Laura Murray (Alford), the No 2 seed who beat the home hope, Sammy Vass (Tain) by 5 and 4.
Jane Turner was a 5 and 4 winner against Susan Wood (Drumpellier) with roughly level par figures. Wood had a slight edge over the opening holes - which Turner has still to play well - but wins at the fourth, fifth and sixth gave Turner a two-hole lead and she was never in trouble after that.
The Craigielaw player won the 11th and 12th with birdies to go five up. A half in birdie 4s at the 14th ended the match which was a repeat of one of last year's quarter-finals. Jane won last year as well.
Eilidh Briggs never looked back after winning the first three holes against Kelsey MacDonald. It just wasn't Kelsey's day. She was roughly eight over par when the match finished on the 12th green. Both players are Stirling students but that was the only similarity this morning. Eilidh was an approximate one over par for the holes played. She had only one birdie, which put her six up at the 11th.
Laura Murray, like Eilidh Briggs, won the first three holes and took the fifth as well to surge four holes up on Sammy Vass. Sammy won only one hole, the sixth, and was four down at the turn.
The long-hitting Murray fiished the match with a birdie 4 - her only one of the moorning - at the 14th. Laura was roughly one over par for the holes played.
Colin@scottishgolfview.com
Two past champions - Kelsey MacDonald (2010 at Craigielaw) and Megan Briggs (2009 at Southerness) - were beaten in this morning's quarter-finals of the 98th Scottish women's amateur championship, played in a drizzle and over a links course which soaked up a lot of overnight rain but was beginning to show puddles here and there by lunchtime.
Kelsey was "skelped" 7 and 6 by Kilmacolm's 19-year-old Scottish girls champion Eilidh Briggs who lost to Louise Kenney in last year's championship final at Machrihanish. Eilidh's older sister Megan, 22, four holes up on 17-year-old Muckhart player, Eilidh Watson, after seven holes and still three up on the 14th tee, let a place in the semi-finals for the second year in a row slip through her wet fingers.
Watson, the only P and K player to make the match-play stages, won the 14th, 17th, 18th (where Briggs three-putted, finally missing on the very wet green from about 2 and a half feet) and 19th for the biggest win of her fledgling career.
In this afternoon's semi-finals it will be No 1 seed Jane Turner (Craigielaw) versus Eilidh Watson, and Eilidh Briggs versus Laura Murray (Alford), the No 2 seed who beat the home hope, Sammy Vass (Tain) by 5 and 4.
Jane Turner was a 5 and 4 winner against Susan Wood (Drumpellier) with roughly level par figures. Wood had a slight edge over the opening holes - which Turner has still to play well - but wins at the fourth, fifth and sixth gave Turner a two-hole lead and she was never in trouble after that.
The Craigielaw player won the 11th and 12th with birdies to go five up. A half in birdie 4s at the 14th ended the match which was a repeat of one of last year's quarter-finals. Jane won last year as well.
Eilidh Briggs never looked back after winning the first three holes against Kelsey MacDonald. It just wasn't Kelsey's day. She was roughly eight over par when the match finished on the 12th green. Both players are Stirling students but that was the only similarity this morning. Eilidh was an approximate one over par for the holes played. She had only one birdie, which put her six up at the 11th.
Laura Murray, like Eilidh Briggs, won the first three holes and took the fifth as well to surge four holes up on Sammy Vass. Sammy won only one hole, the sixth, and was four down at the turn.
The long-hitting Murray fiished the match with a birdie 4 - her only one of the moorning - at the 14th. Laura was roughly one over par for the holes played.
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