GREAT SECOND ROUND OF 68 PROVIDES DECISIVE FOR STIRLING STUDENT

                           Hannah McCook and Montrose Links Trust chairman Alan Crow.

HANNAH McCOOK PIPS AILSA SUMMERS

FOR MUNROSS TROPHY AT MONTROSE

Stirling student Hannah McCook (Grantown on Spey) pipped St Andrews student Ailsa Summers (Carnoustie Ladies) for the Munross Trophy at the end of the 36-hole SLGA Order of Merit event at Montrose Links.
McCook, beaten by the eventual runner-up, Connie Jaffrey, in the second round of last week's 100th Scottish women's amateur championship, had rounds of 77 and a very good 69 for a total of 146.
Hannah bogeyed the seventh in her afternoon round but then covered her last 11 holes in a bogey-freem fuve-under-par run.
She birdied the eighth, ninth, short 16th - and then
the trophy-winnng eagle 3 at the long 17th.
That gave her a one-shot victory from Summers, the No 2 seed at Prestwick where she was beaten in the quarter-finals by St Andrews University team-mate Gabrielle MacDonald, the eventual title-winner
Ailsa had rounds of 76 and 71 for 147. She was out in 32 with birdies at the fifth and ninth in her second round and at that stage was several shots ahead of  McCook but the Carnoustie player's inward half of 39 left the door open for Hannah to come charging through.
Troon youngster Hazel MacGarvie (78-70) and Iona Stephen (Wentworth) (72-76) tied for third place on 148.
MacGarvie, who plays off three, won the top handicap award with a net 36-hole aggrgate of 142 - a shot ahead of Strathaven five-handicapper Kirsten Brown. 
PRIZEWINNERS
Scratch: Hannah McCook 146, Ailsa Summers 147, Iona Stephen 148, Gillian Monteith 150
Handicap: H MacGarvie (3) 142; K Brown (5) 143; M Richmond (10) 145; K Reid (4) 146 (better second round).

LEADING SCRATCH TOTALS
Par 146 (3x73) CSS 73 73
146 Hannah McCook (Grantown on Spey) 77 69
147 Ailsa Summers (Carnoustie Ladies) 76 71
148 Iona Stephen (Wentworth) 72 76, Hazel MacGarvie (Troon Ladies) 78 70.
150 Gillian Monteith (Royal Montrose Ladies) 75 75
151 Rachel Walker (Dumfreis and Co) 73 78
153 Jacqueline Sneddon (Alyth) 80 73, Ki8rsten Brown (Strathaven) 76 77
154 Katie Reid (Monifieth) 80 74, Jen Saxton (Kinross) 74 80
155 Kimberley Beveridge (Aboyne) 81 75, Danielle Ker (Roxburghe) 75 80
157 Lesley Atkins (Gullane Ladi8es) 81 76, Eilidh Watson (Muckhart) 79 78
158 Sammy Leslie (Aberdeen Ladies) 79 79
159 Molly Stewsart (Murcar Links) 84 75, Shannon McWilliam (Aboyne) 80 798, Nicola Robertson (Stirling) 78 80.
160 Ann Ramsay (Kirriemuir) 87 73, Kate McIntosh (Broomnieknowe) 81 79
165 Kirsty Bordie (Strathmore) 89 76, Louise Fraser (Kingsknowe) 82  83, Claire Robertson (Carnoustie Ladies) 81 85, Molly Richmond (Strathaven) 81 84
166 Jackie Brown (Monifieth) 82 85
168 Ellie Bryce (Strathaven) 81 87
170 Jane Grubb (Montrose Mercantile Ladies) 86 84
173 Diane Brown (Renaissance) 87 86.
178 Hannah Scott (Broomieknowe) 90 88, Ashley Alston (Royal Montrose Ladies) 90 88
187 Gail McKill (Gullane Ladies) 92 95
188 Eilidh Crawford (Harburn) 99 89
196 Gail Penman (Royal Montrose Ladies) 93 103
204 Anne Smith (Gullane Ladies) 101 103.