ALISON BARTLETT IS TOP SEED FOR NORTHERN COUNTIES MATCH-PLAY AT ELGIN

Royal Dornoch's senior international player Alison Bartlett earned the top seed spot with a round of four-over-par 78 (two under the CSS) at Elgin Golf Club today in the qualifying round of the Northern Counties LGA championship. 
She headed the 16 qualifiers for the match-play stages by two shots from Reay youngster Eleanor Tunn and local Elgin player Shona Leese, who is a new name for the upper reaches of the qualifiers.
Eleanor and Shona both scored 80. The card countback placed Eleanor as the No 2 seed and Shona as No 3.
Defending champion Jenny Milne, playing over her home course, is the eighth seed on 74.

ELGIN GOLF CLUB
Par 74. CSS 76

SCRATCH QUALIFERS 

78 Alison Bartlett (Royal Dornoch)

80 Eleanor Tunn (Reay), Shona Leese (Elgin),

81 Cara Gruber (Royal Dornoch)

82 Louise Marshall (Elgin), Hannah McCook (Grantown on Spey), Anne Ryan (Tain)

83 Jenny Milne (Elgin)

84 Mary Smith (Tain)

86 Lynne Fraser (Fortrose and Rosemarkie)

87 Gillian Dowling (Inverness), Christine McAndrew (Nairn Dunbar), Nina Morrison (Carrbridge)

90 June Nicol (Inverness)

91 Margot Barr (Gairloch), Annabel Brown (Nairn Dunbar)

MATCH PLAY DRAW

Bartlett v Brown, Smith v Milne, Marshall v McAndrew, Morrison v Gruber, Leese v Nicol, Dowling v McCook, Ryan v Fraser, Barr v Tunn

HANDICAP QUALIFIERS

73 Marion Kessack (Elgin) (31)

77 Linda Wheeler (Forres) (16), Ella Simpson (Elgin) (15), Carinne Taylor (Elgin) (18)

78 Maureen Walker (Elgin) (18)

80 Fiona Macdonald (Royal Dornoch) (20), Pat Morrison (Muir of Ord) (12)

90 Liz Ballantine (Elgin) (18)