KELSEY - "FEELING AWFUL" - WITHDRAWS FROM TODAY'S PAUL LAWRIE EVENT AT ALYTH

   Kelsey MacDonald in action at Downfield on the Paul Lawrie Scottish Ladies Tour (Picture by Cal Carson Golf Agency).

By COLIN FARQUHARSON
Colin@scottishgolfview.com
It was obvious from her score at Blairgowrie Rosemount yesterday in the Paul Lawrie Ladies Tour's ATR Classic that Kelsey MacDonald was going down with something.
She took 43 strokes for the last nine holes and finished with a 10-over-par 82.
This morning Kelsey has E-mailed the organisers to say she "is feeling awful" and won't be able to play in the Scotts Atlantic Challenge over 18 holes at Alyth, the eighth event on the Paul Lawrie Tour for lady pros and single-figure girl amateurs.
The Alyth event has been badly hit by pull-outs ... Hannah McCook, Sheena Wood, Kylie Walker and now Kelsey have withdrawn from the original entry.
As each prize fund is funded, partly - but it's a big part - by the entry fees, it means that there will be £200 less to play for at Alyth.
Thank goodness for the additional sponsorship by Scotts Atlantic - courtesy of Gemma Dryburgh's dad, John - it means there will still be the best part of £3,000 at stake, money for the pros, prize vouchers for the amateurs.
Have a good day, girls! 
LATER NEWS: Chrisje de Vries (Netherlands), winner of the first event on the Paul Lawrie Ladies Tour at Marriott Dalmahoy in April, has also withdrawn from the Alyth event this morning.
Like Kelsey, Chrisje, pictured left in action at Burnside, is feeling under par .. and not in a golfing sense, either!
That means another £50 deduction from the prize fund.
If you, the reader, is not going anything this afternoon, how about making up the numbers at Alyth!
Phone Tournament Director Nicola Melville 07816 353 434 if you can make it time.  First tee off time is 1.50pm but the gaps in the field are after 2pm.