And the winner is .... Martine Pow! Picture by Gillian Kirkwood

Rookie senior Martine Pow adds another title to her collection ... and is match-play top seed

Selkirk's Martine Pow, a rookie senior - her 50th birthday was in the spring, has marked her reinstatement as an amateur after a short spell as a professional by winning the Scottish senior women's stroke-play championship over 36 holes at Powfoot Golf Club on the shores of the Solway Firth.

The top 16 go on to contest the Scottish senior women's match-play championship today (Thursday) and tomorrow (Friday) and Pow is seeded to meet Aberdeen Ladies' Sheena Wood in the final.
Martine (pictured putting today by Gillian Kirkwood) , winner of the Scottish women's amateur championship and the British women's mid-amateur title in 2006 as well as countless Selkirk club and county titles, had rounds of 72 and 73 for a one-under-par aggregate of 145 over the par-73 links. She had halves of 38-35 compared with 35-37 for her first round.
Pow had seven birdies over the 36 holes, which was one fewer than Sheena Wood who scored 75-72 for 147, two shots behind the stroke-play title winner.
Wood's second-round birdies came at the second, third, fourth, fifth, 13th and 16th.
Alison Bartlett (Royal Dornoch), the Northern Counties LGA secretary who won both the seniors' stroke-play and match-play titles, has lost her grip on the first but still has a chance of the second as one of the 16 qualifiers .
She finished joint seventh with scores of 78 and 77 for 155.
Noreen Fenton (Dunbar) would have qualified on the limit mark for the match-play stages but  declined to play as she is a selector.
There was a play-off between Lorna Bennett (Ladybank) and Kathleen Sutherland (Royal Montrose)  for the last place in the draw.
Kathleen had a birdie 3 and Lorna a par 4 at the first extra hole (the 17th)
SCOTTISH SENIOR WOMEN'S STROKE-PLAY CHAMPIONSHIP
Powfoot Golf Club, Solway Firth
Par 146 (2x73) SS 72 CSS 72 73
145 M Pow (Selkirk) 72 73
147 S Wood (Aberdeen Ladies) 75 72
151 L McKinlay (Dunnikier Park) 78 73
153 K Burns (Bathgate) 77 76
154 M Tough (Falkirk) 80 74, F Millar (Carnoustie Caledonia) 77 77, A Hanson (Glencorse) 77 77
155 A Bartlett (Royal Dornoch) 78 77, A Glennie (Kilmarnock Barassie) 77 78, F De Vries (St Regulus) 77 78.
156 L Dyball (Pitreavie) 78 78, A Lowe (Royal Birkdale) 77 79.
157 L Johnston (Gullane) 78 79.
158 L Keohone (Loudoun Gowf) 78 80.
159 N Fenton (Dunbar) 79 80, A Telfer (Milngavie) 79 80.
+ N Fenton decided not to play in the match-play. There was a play-off for her place between L Bennett and K Sutherland. The latter won the last place in the match-play.

CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH-PLAY - THURSDAY
8.30 Pow v Sutherland.
8.38 Glennie v Bartlett
8.46 Tough v Lowe
8.54 Johnston v Burns
9.02 McKinlay v Koehone
9.10 Dyball v Millar
9.18 Hanson v De Vries
9.26 Telfer v Wood.

AFTERNOON QUARTER-FINALS
Pow or Sutherland v Glennie or Bartlett
Tough or Lowe v Johnston or Burns
McKinlay or Keohone v Dyuball or Millar
Hanson or De Vries v Telfer or Wood.

OTHER TOTALS
160 L Bennett (Ladybank) 79 81, K Sutherland (Royal Montrose) 78 82
161 M Sievwright (Buckpool) 81 80, A Baker (Crail GS) 81 80, G Kyle (East Renfrewshire) 80 81, S Penman (Gullane) 79 82 C Kieran (Powfoot) 77 84
163 S McDonald (Milngavie) 82 81, E Stewart (Greenburn) 82 81, E Whyte (Aberdeen Ladies) 80 83, H Faulds (Douglas Park) 80 83
164 G Wallace (Blairgowrie) 88 76, P Williamson (Baberton) 84 80, R Brown (Mortonhall) 82 82, K Maxwell (Milngavie) 81 83, K Ballantyne (Craigmillar Park) 80 84.
165 L Fleming (Greenburn) 87 78, D Barnes (Gullane) 81 84.
166 C King (Clober) 85 81, B Biggart (North Berwick) 81 85
167 H Anderson (Blairgowire) 86 81, J Paterson (Drumpellier) 81 86
168 C Steedman (Pitreavie)  79 89
169 L Campbell (Cardross) 85 84
170 M Begbie (Ladybank) 86 84, L Graham (Carnoustie Ladies) 85 85, F Hill (Crail GS) 84 86
172 M Pollock (Craigmillar Park) 83 89
173 W MacCallum (Falkirk) 89 84, M Hughes (Lanark) 88 85, J Mack (Haggs Castle) 87 96, C Kinnaird (Glencorse) 84 89
174 L Terry (Cruden Bay) 86 88, C Purves (Selkirk) 84 90.
175 P Smith (Mortonhall) 85 90
176 E Goodwin (Glenbervie) 95 81, S Bushby (Blairgowrie) 87 89
177 M Woodhead (Gourock) 89 88, J Petrie (Ladies Panmure Barry) 83 84
178 F McFadzean (Craigmillar Park) 88 90, F Johnston (Blairgowrie) 87 91, G Glen (Craigmillar Park) 85 93.
180 A Freeman (Ladies Panmure)_ 90 90, M Wardrop (Turnhouse) 90 90
182 A Wilson (Uphall) 97 85, F Cameron (Cowglen) 92 90
184 R Dee (Kingsknowe) 93 91, M Barr (Nairn) 89 95 

HANDICAP MATCH-PLAY THURSDAY 
9.34 Maxwell v Ballantyne
9.42 Whyte v Penman
9.50 Barnes v Kinnaird
9.58 Smith v Fleming
10.06 King v Petrie
10.14 Biggart v Steedman
10.22 Baker v Wallace
10.30 Williamson v Kieran.

AFTERNOON QUARTER-FINALS
Maxwell or Ballantyne v Whyte or Penman
Barnes or Kinnaird v Smith or Fleming
King or Petrie v Biggart or Steedman
Baker or Wallace v Williamson or Kieran.