HELEN HOLM REPORT AND FINAL TOTALS
Annabel Dimmock with the distinctive trophy - a mounted "jigger" used by the late Helen Holm - flanked left by third-placed Olivia Mehaffey and on the right by runner-up Connie Jaffrey.
Chloe Ryan, who finished joint fourth, is on the extreme left
ANNABEL DIMMOCK HOLDS OFF FAST
FINISHING LOCAL HERO CONNIE
By COLIN FARQUHARSON
Colin@scottishgolfview.com
Wentworth teenager Annabel Dimmock completed a wire-to-wire victory with a final round of two-under 73 over the Royal Troon links today (Sunday) to win the Helen Holm Scottish women's open amateur stroke play golf championship with a total of 11 imder par 214.
Colin@scottishgolfview.com
Wentworth teenager Annabel Dimmock completed a wire-to-wire victory with a final round of two-under 73 over the Royal Troon links today (Sunday) to win the Helen Holm Scottish women's open amateur stroke play golf championship with a total of 11 imder par 214.
The impressive v ictory for the 17-year-old must have clinched a place in the GB and I team of eight to defend the Curtis Cup at St Louis, Missouri in early June, either through the World Rankings, the LGU Order of Merit or as one of two wild-card picks by the Selection Panel who will announce the team on May 6.
Starting the final round with a five-stroke lead, Annabel, a winner on the Florida Orange Blossom Tour in January, runner-up in the Spanish women's amateur championship in February and winner with a pro partner, Steven Brown, of the Sunningdale Foursomes last month. survived a mid-round crisis when she ran up a double bogey 5 at the short 10th and dropped another shot at the 11th but Dimmock showed her class and confidence by bouncing back with birdies at two par-5 holes on the home straight, the 12th and 15th, to hold the fast finishing "local hero" Connie Jaffrey at bay,
Teenager Jaffrey made up two of her five stroke leeway over the Royal Troon links she knows better than Dimmock with a four-under 71 for 217
Connie, bound for Kansas State University in the August, birdied the first, second, fourth, 12th, 14th and 15th in haalves of 36 and 35.
She dropped only one shot, at the third.
It was a brave bid by the reigning Scottish U18 girls and Scottish schoolgirls champion to be the first Scot since Heather Stirling to win the "Helen Holm" in 2002.
What a pity it may be at least four years before Jaffrey is free to compete in the Scottish women's stroke play championship again.“That was my best ever round over Royal Troon and I played really steady today,” said Connie after her six-birdie round.
“I went out for the third round thinking I had a chance to win and I got close. This rates as the best result of my career.”
Irish girls open stroke play champion Olivia Mehaffey shot the lowest Sunday round of seven under 68 for 220 which for some time was the unchallenged clubhouse target until Dimmock and Jaffrey demoted her to third place late in the day.
When last did teenagers finish 1-2-3 in the "Helen Holm?" Actually, most years at least two of the first three are teenagers. Last year (2013) winner Olivia Winning was 18, runner-up Alyson McKechin 19, and third placed Poppy Finlay 18.
Lauren Whyte, the 2012 Scottish U18 girls champion and another bright Scottish prospect bound for an American college in August,
finished the second best Scot in joint 10th place with a one-birdie 78 for 225. - seven shots ahead of Alyson McKechin (Elderslie) who defends the Scottish closed women's title, also in Ayrshire, at Prestwick next month.
McKechin, runner-up in the "Helen Holm" last year, signed off with a sad 83 today after the inward half cost her 44 blows, including a triple bogey 7 at the 13th and a double bogey 5 at the 10th.
England scored a double whammy in that they provided the individual winner and also captured the international team trophy, an event staged in conjunction with the main event.
Annabel Dimmock is pictured above with the trophy for the team triumph. The other England team member was Gabriella Cowley but she had set off on the long journey home to the south of England before the prizegiving was held.
SCROLL DOWN FOR THE FINAL TOTALS
INTERNATIONAL TEAM EVENT 438 ENGLAND (A Dimmock and G Cowley)
447 IRELAND (P Grant, O Mehaffey)
451 FRANCE (A Carnet, E Broze)
461 SCOTAND (A McKechin, E Briggs)
462 WALES ( C Williams, G Bradbury)
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