NORTHERN COUNTIES CHAMPIONSHIP FINAL AT ROYAL DORNOCH
THIRD FINAL LUCKY FOR ALISON
BARTLETT, WINS BY 5 AND 3
Alison Bartlett (left) receives Mary Benton Trophy from Northern Counties LGA captain Liz Coghill. Picture by Robin
Wilson who also provided
the information for the
following report. Thanks,
Robin!
After losing in the 2010 and 2013 finals of the Northern Counties women's county championship, Scottish senior international Alison Bartlett got a third bite of the cherry at her home course, Royal Dornoch, today - and won her first county championship since moving into the area and taking up the role of county cecretary.
It takes a bit of doing to organise a championship, play in it .. and win it . but Alison pulled it off by beating Nairn Dunbar's Annabelle Brown 5 and 3 in the final.
Brown, aged 19, is a first-year student at Aberdeen's Robert Gordon University.
The title door opened for Bartlett when her clubmate and defending champion Cara (Gruber) Thompson was ousted in the quarter-finals by Inverness's Kerri Harper, making a return to
county golf after a long lay-off.
Bartlett then beat Harper by 3 and 2 in the semi-finals.
In the final, the first two holes were exchanged before Bartlett went one up at the fourth where
her opponent was bunkered. It was a lead she would not surrender.
Brown three-putted to go two down at the eight.
It was Bartlett's turn to three-putt to lose the 10th and see her lead halved.
Brown three-putted the 11th for Bartlett to go back to two up.
Bartlett birdied the long 12th to establish a formiable three-hole lead.
She made it four holes of an advantage at the 13th and then took the 15th as well for a 5 and 3 victory.
Well beaten, but still a good performance by eight-handicapper Annabelle to reach a county final.
The handicap championship was won at the first attempt by 23-year-old Niketa Cruickshank, who plays off 10 at Buckpool.
She beat another debutante from the Moray Firth coastline, 16-year-old Madison Strachan (Cullen), who has a handicap of 12, by 3 and 2. Cruickshank was two up at the turn.
RESULTS OF FINALS
SCRATCH
Alison Bartlett (Royal Dornoch) beat Annabelle Brown (Nairn Dunbar) 5 and 3.
HANDICAP
Niketa Cruickshank (Buckpool) (10) bt Madison Strachan (Cullen) (12) 3 and 2.
Wilson who also provided
the information for the
following report. Thanks,
Robin!
After losing in the 2010 and 2013 finals of the Northern Counties women's county championship, Scottish senior international Alison Bartlett got a third bite of the cherry at her home course, Royal Dornoch, today - and won her first county championship since moving into the area and taking up the role of county cecretary.
It takes a bit of doing to organise a championship, play in it .. and win it . but Alison pulled it off by beating Nairn Dunbar's Annabelle Brown 5 and 3 in the final.
Brown, aged 19, is a first-year student at Aberdeen's Robert Gordon University.
The title door opened for Bartlett when her clubmate and defending champion Cara (Gruber) Thompson was ousted in the quarter-finals by Inverness's Kerri Harper, making a return to
county golf after a long lay-off.
Bartlett then beat Harper by 3 and 2 in the semi-finals.
In the final, the first two holes were exchanged before Bartlett went one up at the fourth where
her opponent was bunkered. It was a lead she would not surrender.
Brown three-putted to go two down at the eight.
It was Bartlett's turn to three-putt to lose the 10th and see her lead halved.
Brown three-putted the 11th for Bartlett to go back to two up.
Bartlett birdied the long 12th to establish a formiable three-hole lead.
She made it four holes of an advantage at the 13th and then took the 15th as well for a 5 and 3 victory.
Well beaten, but still a good performance by eight-handicapper Annabelle to reach a county final.
The handicap championship was won at the first attempt by 23-year-old Niketa Cruickshank, who plays off 10 at Buckpool.
She beat another debutante from the Moray Firth coastline, 16-year-old Madison Strachan (Cullen), who has a handicap of 12, by 3 and 2. Cruickshank was two up at the turn.
RESULTS OF FINALS
SCRATCH
Alison Bartlett (Royal Dornoch) beat Annabelle Brown (Nairn Dunbar) 5 and 3.
HANDICAP
Niketa Cruickshank (Buckpool) (10) bt Madison Strachan (Cullen) (12) 3 and 2.
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