Hannah beats title-holder Alison at Forres

Defending champion Alison Bartlett (Royal Dornoch) was beaten 5 and 4 by Stirling student Hannah McCook (Grantown on Spey) in the match-play stages of the Northern Counties wmen's golf

championship at Forres today.
Leading qualifier Kerri Harper (Inverness) advanced to play Meg Sievwright (Keith) in the semi-finals.
Alison Bartlett did not go down without a fight in quality match, especially over the first nine holes when both players had four birdies and the match was all square.
"The difference," said Alison, the Northern Counties secretary, "was that Hannah kept it going with another two or three birdies!"


McCook, pictured, will now play five times county champion Cara Thompson (Royal Dornoch) in the other semi-final tomorrow morning.

Scratch Qualifiers
Par 72  SS 71 CSS 72
72 Kerri Harper (Inverness)
75 Cara Thompson, Hannah McCook (Grantown on Spey)
78 Meg Sievwright (Buckpool)
80 Emma Logie (Buckpool)
81 Alison Bartlett (Royal Dornoch)
82 Hazel Flynn (Inverness), Jenny Milne (Elgin).

Match-play results:
QUARTER-FINALS
Harper bt Mine 1 hole.
Sievwright bt Logie 3 and 2.
McCook bt Bartlett 5 and 4.
Thompson bt Flynn 8 and 7.

Handicap qualifiers

Ellie Docherty (Moray) (15) 68

Doreen McCaig (Forres) (15) 70

Jeanette Cowe (Elgin) (25) 72

Eleaner Munro (Forres) (18) 72

Sally Rowan (Inverness) (20) 73

Fiona Grant (Forres) (20) 74

Elaine Hill (Grantown on Spey)  (18) 75

Marian Evans (Elgin) (12) 75

Match-play results

QUARTER-FINALS

Docherty bt Evans 1 hole.

Rowan bt Munro 2 holes.

Grant bt Cowe 2 and 1.

McCaig bt Hill 3 and 2.