European No 1 - Beth Allen's Life in Scotland and Favourite Scottish Golf Courses

Carol Fell, Beth Allen (Ladies European Number One) and Gillian Kirkwood
Photo courtesy of Kenny Smith

Kirkwood Editors --  Gillian Kirkwood and Carol Fell interviewed the LET Number 1 player Beth Allen at the launch of the new Ping Scottish Mixed Foursomes at Gleneagles Hotel on Friday 16th December along with various news correspondents including Nick Rodgers of the Glasgow Herald and Martin Dempster of the Scotsman

Gillian and Carol asked her about her life in Scotland, her favourite Golf Courses, her mental attitude to the game and her plans for 2017.

To hear what she said press the play button or go to the last link to go to the playlist of interviews.

 

All Beth Allen Interview topics by Kirkwood Golf 

By Nick Rodger (The Glasgow Herald Golf Correspondent)

When you’re huffing and puffing around on Scotland’s public transport system, standing in queues at a platform or shoehorned into a jam-packed carriage with a variety of bags and briefcases jutting and stabbing at your squeezed, contorted body, have a peer around and you may see Europe’s No 1 female golfer perched in the merry midst of it all.

“I don’t drive,” said Beth Allen, the Edinburgh-based Californian who won the Ladies European Tour’s order of merit this year during a globe-trotting campaign that involved planes, trains but not many automobiles. “When I’m here I try to play somewhere near a railway which is great in Scotland as most of the links courses are right at them. Maybe I can approach some bus or train company for sponsorship?”

Read More in the Glasgow Herald
and by Martin Dempster in the Scotsman Newspaper