Haggs Castle Golf Club, Glasgow championship winners
Left to right: Calum Elliott, Craig Morrison and Jennifer Rankine with their respective trophies
Jennifer (14) is youngest-ever club champion
Haggs Castle GC held its Finals Day on Sunday in what was an unusually dry day, given the weather this summer.
In eJunior Championship
Final, played over 36 holes, Calum Elliott took control in the first round
of his match against Ronan Johnston and at the end of the first round
had an eight-hole lead. Although Ronan competed well in the second round he
was unable to make inroads to the substantial lead Calum had
established and eventually Calum won 8 and 7
The Ladies Championship Final
pitted the defending champion Laura McGeachy against 14 year old
Jennifer Rankine who had represented Scotland at the European Young
Masters in Switzerland earlier this year.
Laura held a two-hole lead
after the first nine but Jennifer chipped away at this and with wins at
the 10th, 13th and 14th took the lead.
Jennifer had an opportunity to
close out the match on the 17th but missed a putt. She redeemed herself
by winning the 18th to win the championship by two holes and become the
youngest ever Champion of the Ladies Section at Haggs Castle GC.
In the men's championship final
Craig Morrison, champion in 2010, played Chris Dunbar, champion in 2013.
Both players are members of the Haggs Castle GC winning 2015 Brand
Putter Team and both were keen to add to their Championship wins.
Neither player could establish a dominant lead and the momentum swung
back and forth. All square with two to go and still all square going
down the 36th Chris was on the putting surface in two with Craig on the
fringe in 3. Chris just missed his putt and Craig holed to take the
match into extra holes.
Craig made a very good birdie at the 37th to
become 2015 Champion.
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