SCOTLAND'S LADY PRO 'BIG GUNS' MAKE DEBUTS ON PAUL LAWRIE TOUR IN EARLY JULY EVENTS
By COLIN FARQUHARSON
Colin@scottishgolfview.com
The Angus and Perthshire "Swings" on the Paul Lawrie Scottish Ladies Open Tour see the debuts on the fledgling circuit of players of the calibre of Pamela Pretswell, Kelsey MacDonald, Kylie Walker (pictured below), Clare Queen and Danielle McVeigh.

The Angus double-header features 18 holes at Downfield Golf Club, Dundee on Tuesday, July 2 followed by 18 holes over the Carnoustie Burnside course on Wednesday, July 3.
The Perthshire double-header is the following week - Blairgowrie Rosemount on Thursday, July 11 and Alyth Golf Club, which is near Blairgowrie, on Friday, July 12.
There is no limit on the amount of entries we can accept so let's see if we can top the 30 mark at all four venues!
Each event is open to any lady professional and to all lady or girl amateurs who have a handicap of nine or under.
Specsavers is donating £500 to the prizefund at the Carnoustie event which we have renamed the "SPECSAVERS SPECTACULAR."
Still searching for a comparable sponsor for the other leg of the "Angus Swing," i.e. the one at Downfield.
If you know of any individual or company who put like to put £500 into the Downfield prize fund and become the title sponsor, please ask them to E-mal Colin@scottishgolfview.com or Tournament Director Nicola Melville - nicola.melville@live.co.uk
We are aiming for a £3,000 prize fund at each of the four tournaments in early July but that depends on (a) Getting at least 30 entries for each one and (b) Finding a sponsor for the event at Downfield.
The performances of the amateurs have been the highlight of the first four events on the Paul Lawrie Tour, headlined, of course, by Jess Meek (Carnoustie Ladies) who leads the Order of Merit..
But Nicola and I think that the amateurs will be hard pushed to get into a prize list for the top 12 or so now that the "big guns" of Scotland's lady pro world are coming on the Paul Lawrie Tour scene.
With that in mind, if no amateurs figure on the official prize lists at Downfield, Carnoustie, Blairgowrie and Alyth, we will give a dozen golf balls to the two leading amateurs at each venue.
If only one amateur makes the prize list, then the next best amateur will get a dozen golf balls.

Aberdeen-based Scotts Atlantic (4 Albert Street) are the latest company to answer our call for additional £500 sponsors to swell the £1,000 put up by the Paul Lawrie Golf Centre at each venue, plus the entry fees.
Scotts Atlantic will be the name sponsor for the Alyth event - the SCOTTS ATLANTIC CHALLENGE.
Scotts Atlantic is a small boutique advisory business providing tax and financial advisory to private and corporate clients primarily in the Aberdeen and London areas as well as structured tax and financial solutions for individuals and companies.

It has also been heavily involved in film finance and acts for approximately 50 partnerships which exploit British films such as "Gosforth Park", "Nicholas Nickelby", "Renaisssance", "Day of the Sirens" as well as TV shows. 

It also set up and managed a number of partnerships which distributed Warner Brothers movies in a number of territories including "Two Weeks Notice", "The Last Samurai" and "Scooby Doo".  

John Dryburgh, father of Scotland international Gemma who plays on the US college circuit for Tulane University, is the owner of the Scotts Atlantic company,

Gemma cannot play in the Alyth event because she is a member of the Scotland squad for the European women's team championship at Fulford GC, Yorkshire that week.

Other sponsorship news:

NEAREST THE PIN PRIZES AT BLAIRGOWRIE and ALYTH
Alan Bannerman, owner of the Red House Hotel, Coupar Angus and the Dalmore Inn, Blairgowrie, is putting up £100 nearest the pin prizes for our events at Blairgowrie and Alyth.
The 17th hole is the chosen prize hole at both venues. If an amateur wins either or both nearest-the-pin prizes they will receive vouchers to the value of £100 for each. 

WEEKEND BREAK AT GLENEAGLES VILLAGE FOR 
LOWEST BLAIRGOWRIE-ALYTH AGGREGATE
Nicola Melville's mum and dad have very kindly agreed to donate a weekend break at self-catering accommodation they own at Gleneagles Village as a prize for the player who has the lowest aggregate when adding together her scores at Blairgowrie and Alyth.

+If you have never played the Rosemount course at Blairgowrie, then you are missing a treat. In recent years, the Lansdowne course has come to be regarded as the main circuit at Blairgowrie but the Rosemount course has a distinctive appeal.  If you have never played it, please make an effort to put that omission right in the Paul Lawrie Ladies Tour event on July 11.
+And the same goes for the Alyth venue. We badly need an influx of entries for both the Perthshire events, probably amateurs because we have just about got all the available lady pros in Scotland on the entry list. 
Of course, it would be great if lady pros down in England, Wales or even those in Ireland would come up or over to support the Paul Lawrie Tour.
WE LIVE IN HOPE.