Amy Taylor, just turned 15 years of age and winner of the Kirriemuir Golf Club women's championship.

Too shy Amy Taylor lets her clubs

do the talking at Kirriemuir GC

Two days after her 15th birthday, Amy Taylor, stunned the ladies section at Kirriemuir Golf Club by winning the women's club championship.

The lady members at the Angus club were unaware of just how much this talented young golfer had improved her game as, until several weeks ago, she has been too shy to put her name down for the ladies' medals.

However, her success was no surprise to the junior section of Kirriemuir Golf Club and PGA professional Karyn Dallas. Last year Amy was talked into going along, with the other juniors, to play in some junior opens and by the end of the season she had won the Angus girls' Order of Merit This year after some more persuading from junior convener Jimmy Murray, Amy began playing in the ladies' competitions.
Amy Taylor is pupil of the TG54.com coaching programme run by Karyn Dallas. This programme is producing talented players at all levels. Karyn identifies Amy as a great prospect, saying “Amy has already displayed a great talent for the game and with application and dedication there is no limit to how far this talent could take her.”

Karyn sees Amy as the first to emerge from a group of junior girls currently in the TG54.com programme and feels that within two years the Kirriemuir club's ladies championship will be dominated by juniors.

Professionals Jenna Wilson (Strathaven) and US-based Pamela Feggans from Patna, Ayrshire are both coached by Karyn. So too is Roseanne Niven (Crieff), the female amateur player of the moment in Scotland - she was the only British player to reach the semi-finals of the recent British women's open amateur championship at North Berwick, having toppled the winner of the American women's college championship, Azahara Munoz, in the quarter-finals.

Then Roseanne, 19, finished runner-up to Curtis Cup player Breanne Loucks in the Irish women's open amateur stroke-play championship at Elm Park GC, Dublin last weekend.