MARTINE POW IN SEMI-FINALS WITH JAMIESON, RAMSAY, MARSHALL

Selkirk's Martine Pow, British women's mid-amateur title-winner in 2006, the year she was also Scottish women's amateur champion, is through to the semi-finals of the Strathtyrum Tournament at St Andrews.
She beat Tara Rodenhurst (Ludlow) by 5 and 4 in the morning second round and then won by one hole against Barbara Jamieson (Heswall) in the quarter-finals.
The good run by Royal Dornoch's Cara Thompson ended in the quarter-finals when she was beaten 3 and 2 by Karen Marshall (Baberton), bidding for a seventh win in the tournament since 1997.
Lucy Jamieson (Heswall) is the only English competitor in the last four having KOd former Scotland international Fiona Norris (Hamilton) by 4 and 3 in the second round and then Zoe Ridgway (Tytherington) by 5 and 4 in the round of the last eight.
She will play Pow in the first semi-final. The second tie will be contested by Marshall and Ann Ramsay (Kirriemuir), many times Angus county champion and winner of the "Strathtyrum" in 2014.
Ann beat Sweden's Charlotte Odman by one hole in the quarter-finals.
RESULTS:

SECOND ROUND
L Jamieson (Heswall) bt F Norris (Hamilton) 4 and 3.
Z Ridgway (Tytherington) bt K Elisson (Swe) 5 and 4.
M Pow (Selkirk( bt T Rodenhurst (Ludlow) 5 and 4.
B Jamieson bt C Ryder (Tytherington) 1 hole.
A Ramsay (Kirriemuir) bt M McAuliffe (Ireland) 2 holes.
C Odman (Swe) bt J Allan (Glenbrervie) 4 and 3.
K Marshall (Baberton) bt C Houghton (Notts) 3 and 2.
C Thompson (Royal Dornoch) bt K Karlen (Swe) 1 hole.

QUARTER-FINALS
L Jamieson bt Ridgway 5 and 4.
Pow bt B Jamieson 1 hole.
Ramsay bt Odman 1 hole.
Marshall bt Thompson 3 and 2.

HANDICAP (Strathtyrum Salver)

QUARTER-FINALS
E Doyle (Ire) (25) bt R Wheeler (Broadway) (14) 1 hole.
L Terry (Cruden Bay) (9) bt L Fitzpatrick Burnham Beeches) (8) at 20th.
A Tapia (Spain) (7) bt J Nordgren (Swe) (5) 1 hole.
W Mitchell (Royal Lytham) (10) bt A Knight (Cotswold Hills) (8) 2 and 1.