ALEX GLENNIE SETS PACE IN SCOTTISH SENIORS AT KEMNAY

By COLIN FARQUHARSON Colin@scottishgolfview.com Ayrshire's Alex Glennie (Kilmarnock Barassie) made an excellent start to the defence of her Scottish senior women's amateur stroke-play championship in the first national golf event to be played at the Kemnay course in Aberdeenshire. Like every golf course in the country, Kemnay is very, very wet after days, even weeks of rain and was playing every inch of its length today. Glennie, pictured, Ayrshire county champion in 2004, did not have a birdie on her card but 16 pars and bogeys at two long holes, the 15th and 16th, represented a very good day's "work" for a two-over-par 73 (37-38). She will start Wednesday's second and final round with a two-shot lead from Jill Harrison (Cruden Bay) and Mary Smith (Tain). Harrison had a double-bogey 6 at the fifth but birdies at the fourth and 17th in halves of 40-37. Smith had to wait until the long 16th before she marked up her first and only birdie in 38-39 figures. The leading 16 players after the 36-hole stroke-play test is completed will contest the seniors' match-play championship on Thursday and Friday. Noreen Fenton (Dunbar), who had an 81 today, is the defending champion in that. LEADING FIRST-ROUND SCORES Par 73 75 Alex Glennie (Kilmarnock Barassie). 77 Jill Harrison (Cruden Bay), Mary Smith (Tain) 80 Helen Faulds (Douglas Park), Kathleen Sutherland (Royal Montrose). 81 Janice Paterson (Drumpellier), Anne Ryan (Tain), Noreen Fenton (Dunbar), Heather Anderson (Blairgowrie). 82 Pamela Williamson (Baberton), Alison Bartlett (Royal Dornoch). 83 Anna Telfer (Milngavie), Sheena McDonald (Buchanan Castle), Linda Urquhart (Banchory), Lynne Terry (Cruden Bay), Frances Neish (Moray), May Hughes (Lanark). 84 Gillian Wallace (Blairgowrie), Sue Penman (Gullane), Pauline Warlow (Cathkin Braes), Fiona Hunter (Baberton). 85 Sandra Littlejohn (Erskine). 86 Ruth Brown (Lothianburn), Joanne Watt (Gullane), Barbara Biggart (North Berwick), Karen Ballantyne (Craigmillar Park), Karen Maxwell (Milngavie), Morag Clapperton (Banchory). 87 Karen Burns (Bathgate), Anne Brownie (Gullane), Lorrainge Campbell (Cardross), Ann Smart (Banchory), Margaret Tough (Falkirk), Caroline King (Clober). 88 Marion Quigley (Craigmillar Park), Pat Hutton (Lanark), Jennifer Mack (Haggs Castle). 89 Joanna Scott (Cathkin Braes), Rita Dee (Kingsknowe), Fiona Farquharson (King James VI). 90 Sandy Bushby (Blairgowrie), Morag Wardrop (Turnhouse), Emma Wilson (Elie and Earlsferry). Agnes Freedman (Panmure Barry), Margot Barr (Gairloch), Mairi Pollock (Craigmillar Park), Yvonne Moir (Kemnay). 91 Pat Wilson (Murcar Links), Kathleen Esslemont (Cruden Bay), Alison Gemmill (Kilmarnock Barassie), Leigh Duff (Cathkin Braes). 92 Frances McFadzean (Craigmillar Park), Lesley Johnston (Gullane), Fiona de Vries (St Rule), Mary Miller (Cruden Bay) 94 Mary Hope (Blairgowrie), Sheila Hartley (Braehead)., 95 Janette McCartney (Erskine). 96 Alicia Wilson (Clober). 97 Wilma Catto (Kemnay), Isabel Chapman (Forfar) 98 Rose Anderson (Huntly), Pamela Cran (Kemnay). 99 Carol Fell (Ranfurly Castle). Fiona Roger (Ranfurly Castle).