KirkwoodGolf: LINDA URQUHART IS SENIORS' GIANT-KILLER AT KEMNAY

Thursday, July 05, 2012

LINDA URQUHART IS SENIORS' GIANT-KILLER AT KEMNAY

By COLIN FARQUHARSON
Colin@scottishgolfview.com 
Banchory's Linda Urquhart, last of the 16 match-play qualifiers, claimed the scalp of top seed and new Scottish senior women's amateur stroke-play champion Alison Bartlett (Royal Dornoch) in the first round of the over-50s match-play championship at Kemnay Golf Club, near Aberdeen today (Thursday).
Urquhart, pIctured, Aberdeenshire champion in 1988-98-99, was a 2 and 1 morning winner over Bartlett and then reached the semi-finals by beating Baberton's Pamela Williamson, several times winner of both the stroke-play and match-play titles, by two holes.
In Friday morning's semi-finals (9am and 9.10), Linda will play Janice Paterson (Drumpellier), and Karen Burns (Bathgate), who knocked out the No 5 seed Anne Ryan (Tain) by 3 and 2, will play Heather Anderson (Blairgowrie), a one-hole winner against No 2 seed Alex Glennie (Kilmarnock Barassie),
The final tees off at 1.20pm.
FIRST ROUND
Linda Urquhart (Banchory) bt Alison Bartlett (Royal Dornoch) 2 and 1
Pamela Williamson (Baberton) bt Anna Telfer (Milngavie) 3 and 2
Anne Ryan (Tain) bt Jill Harrison (Cruden Bay) 2 holes
Janice Paterson (Drumpellier) bt Elaine Allison (Stirling) at 19th.
Karen Burns (Bathgate) bt Mary Smith (Tain) 2 and 1
Fiona Hunter (Baberton) bt Helen Faulds (Douglas Park) 6 and 5
Heather Anderson (Blairgowrie) bt Kathleen Sutherland (Royal Montrose) 1 hole
Alex Glennie (Kilmarnock Barassie) bt Margaret Tough (Falkirk) at 19th.
QUARTER-FINALS
 Urquhart bt Williamson 2 holes
Paterson bt Ryan 3 and 2
Burns bt Hunter 1 hole
Anderson bt Glennie 1 hole.
HANDICAP MATCH-PLAY 
FIRST ROUND
Sandra Littlejohn (Erskine) (11) bt Morag Wardrop (Turnhouse) (9) 4 and 2.
Pamela Cran (Kemnay) (14) bt Yvonne Moir(Kemnay) (10) 1 hole.
Karen Maxwell (Milngavie) (10) bt Caroline King (Clover) (11) 3 and 3.
Karen Ballantyne (Craigmillar Park) (5) bt Barbara Biggart (North Berwick) (8) 3 and 1.
Mary Miller (Cruden Bay) (13) bt Pauline Warlow (Cathkin Braes) (8) 3 and 1.
Gillian Wallace (Blairgowrie) (6) bt Mairi Pollock (Craigmillar Park) (10) 4 and 3.
Leigh Duff (Cathkin Braes) (12) bt Lorraine Campbell (Cardross) (6) at 19ty
Sheena McDonald (Buchanan Castle) (6) bt Fiona Farquharson (King James VI) (10) 1 hole.

QUARTER-FINALS
Littlejohn bt Cran 2 and 1.
Ballantyne bt Maxwell 8 and 7.
Wallace bt Miller 3 and 2.
Duff bt McDonald at 20th.

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