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CLARE STILL QUEEN OF LANARK GOLF

DOUBLE British girls champion Clare Queen from Drumpellier repeated the victory last year's victory in the Lanarkshire women's county golf championship at Bothwell Castle. Twelve months ago that win set the ball rolling for Clare in a season which would see her win both the British girls' match-play and stroke-play titles.
Clare, only a few days short of her 19th birthday, beat another teenager,17-year-old Jenna Wilson (Strathaven) by 4 and 3 in the morning semi-final and then won the title for the second year in a row with a 2 and 1 win over Lesley Lloyd (Hayston) in the final. Miss Lloyd, the 1997 champion, had the better of the outward half and established a two-hole lead but Miss Queen came back at her after the turn to square the tie and then edge ahead, winning on the 17th green. Lesley had beaten the 1996 champion, Anne Prentice (Bothwell CAstle) by 4 and 2 in the other semi-final.
Clare Queen had established herself as the top seed with a one-over-par round of 73 to lead the 16 qualifiers for the match-play stages by five strokes from Miss Lloyd, Alex Young (Torrance House) and May Hughes (Wishaw), all on 78. Lesley gained the No 2 seed berth on a card countback.

Qualifiers

73 C Queen (Drumpellier).
78 L Lloyd (Hayston), A Young (Torrance House), M Hughes (Wishaw).
81 J Gardner (Drumpellier).
82 F Scott (Bothwell Castle).
83 A Bell (Strathaven).
84 S Wood (Drumpellier), E Cuthill (Lanark), R Rankin (Lanark).
85 P Milligan (Hamilton), J Wilson (Strathaven).
86 J Wiles (Bothwell Castle)
87 A Prentice (Bothwell Castle).
88 M McCabe (Drumpellier).
89 M Anderson (Drumpellier).

Quarter-finals - Queen beat Wood 7 and 6, Wilson beat Hughes 5 and 4, Prentice beat Scott at 19th, Lloyd beat Rankin at 19th.

Semi-finals - Queen beat Wilson 4 and 3, Lloyd beat Prentice 4 and 2.

Final - Queen beat Lloyd 2 and 1.

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