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Scottish County Golf
Scottish County Golf
2002 County Champions - Stirling and Clackmannan
- Sept 22: Stirling keep title on countback
Stirling & Clackmannan retained the Scottish women's county championship
trophy _ but only after a games-won countback with Aberdeenshire at
Portpatrick Dunskey yesterday (Sunday).
Stirling & Clackmannan beat Dunbartonshire & Argyll 6-3 while
Aberdeenshire had a 5 1/2-3 1/2 victory over Borders on the final day
of the three-day programme.
That meant that Stirling & Clackmannan tied with Aberdeenshire with
two wins apiece. On the games-won countback Stirling & Clackmannan
won the day with 15 to Aberdeenshire's 14 1/2.
ABERDEENSHIRE 5 1/2, BORDERS 3 1/2
Foursomes _ S Wood, C Wilson lost to J Anderson, A Hunter 6 and 5; L
Urquhart, L McLardy beat J Birdsall-White, L Fleming 2 and 1; J Harrison,
J Henderson beat C Johnstone, M Morrison 1 hole (2-1).
Singles _ Wood beat Anderson 4 and 3, Urquhart beat Fleming 2 and 1,
L McPherson lost to Morrison 3 and 2, Harrison beat Johnsdtone 4 and
3, Wilson halved with Birdsall-White, G Melvin lost to Hunter 2 and
1 (3 1/2-2 1/2).
STIRLING & CLACKMANNAN 6, DUNBARTONSHIRE & ARGYLL 3
Foursomes _ L Robertson, H Stirling beat A Laing, C McNeil 2 holes;
C Kenny, L Kenny lost to C Hargan, L Ruane 3 and 1; L Aitken, K Mathieson
beat J Galbraith, F McLean 3 and 2 (2-1).
Singles _ Stirling beat Laing 1 hole, L Kenny beat Hargan 2 holes, Robertson
lost to Ruane 5 and 4, Mathieson beat G Webster 6 and 4, Aitken lost
to Galbraith 1 hole, E Allison beat McNeil 4 and 3 (4-2).
Final totals: Stirling & Clackmann 2pts (games won 15), Aberdeenshire
2pts (games won 14 1/2), Dunbartonshire & Argyll 1pt, Borders 1pt.
- Sept 21:
ANY one of the four competing teams could still win the Scottish women's
county championship at Portpatrick Dunskey on the final day tomorrow.
After title-holders Stirling & Clackmannan's 5-4 win over Aberdeenshire
and Dunbartonshire & Argyll beaten Borders 6-3, each county has
a record of one win and one defeat at the end of two days. Report
and full results
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Sept 20:
IT was the day of the underdog as the Scottish women's county
golf championship finals got underway at Portpatrick Dunskey yesterday
(Friday).
Borders, favourites to land the wooden spoon, beat the defending champion
Stirling & Clackmannan 5-4 and Aberdeenshire also won 5-4 against
Dunbartonshire & Argyll, who had been expected to be the title-holders'
strongest challengers. Report
and full results
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Sept 19: County Finals preview
STIRLINGSHIRE & Clackmannan's hopes of repeating their first-ever
triumph in the Scottish women's county championship finals at Portpatrick
Dunskey over the next three days have risen sharply with the unexpected
unavailability of Curtis Cup player and Scottish champion Heather
Stirling.
County skipper Linda Robertson had been resigned to doing without
the services of Heather, a member of the Great Britain & Ireland trio
for the women's world amateur team championship in Malaysia. Heather
had been informed by the Ladies Golf Union that she would be required
to go south for an official team practice weekend for the Espirito
Santo Trophy event, even though it is not being played until the middle
of October. Now, the get-together has been cancelled, releasing Miss
Stirling to play at Portpatrick Dunskey in what will be her last appearances
for Stirlingshire & Clackmannan. She will be attending the European
Ladies Tour Qualifying School in France in November.
Two other notable absentees from the defending champions' line-up
are former Scottish title-holder Linzi Morton, now in the United States,
practising hard for the forthcoming Futures Tour Qualifying School,
and Heather MacRae, last year's Scottish girls champion and winner
of the Munross Trophy SLGA Order of Merit event at Montrose this season.
Heather is also back in America and doing well as a member of the
McLennan Community College women's golf team at Waco, Texas.
Cecilia and Scotland international Lynn Kenny will give Stirling &
Clackmannan a mother and daughter in their team. When did that last
happen at the Scottish women's county finals?
Aberdeenshire will miss North of Scotland champion Lyndsey Devenish
(Cruden Bay) who has returned to San Francisco University.
Dunbartonshire & Argyll, title-winners in 1992, 1993 and 1997, might
just have the strongest team in depth of the four, headed by British
mid-amateur champion Anne Laing and past Scottish cap Claire Hargan.
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Aberdeenshire
Jill Harrison (Cruden Bay)
Julie Henderson (Inverurie)
Gail Melvin (Hazlehead)
Laura McLardy (Murcar)
Lynne McPherson (Deeside)
Linda Urquhart (Banchory)
Carol Wilson (Murcar)
Sheena Wood (Aberdeen Ladies)
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Borders
Judith Anderson (Hawick)
Julie Birdsall-White (Roxburghe)
Liz Campbell (Torwoodlee)
Louise Fleming (Hirsel)
Aileen Hunter (Innerleithen)
Kirsty Inkpen (Duns)
Caroline Johnston (Lauder)
Margaret Morrison (Hawick). |
Dunbartonshire and Argyll
Judy Galbraith (Cowal)
Claire Hargan (Prestonfield)
Ashley Kerr (Windyhill)
Anne Laing (Vale of Leven) Fiona McLean (Hilton Park)
Claire McNeil (Milngavie)
Louisa Ruane (Cardross)
Gemma Webster (Hilton Park). |
Stirling and Clackmannan
Laura Aitken (Falkirk Tryst)
Elaine Allison (Stirling)
Cecilia Kenny (Dunblane)
Lynn Kenny (Dunblane)
Katy Mathieson (Glenbervie)
Linda Robertson (Falkirk Tryst)
Heather Stirling (Bridge of Allan)
Janice Taylor (Alloa) |
ORDER OF PLAY
| Friday, September 20 |
Aberdeenshire v Dunbartonshire & Argyll
Borders v Stirling & Clackmannan. |
| Saturday, September 21 |
Aberdeenshire v Stirling & Clackmannan
Borders v Dunbartonshire & Argyll |
| Sunday, September 22 |
Aberdeenshire v Borders
Stirling & Clackmannan v Dunbartonshire & Argyll |
Scottish Divisional County Golf
East of Scotland
Inter-County Championship winners - Stirling and Clackmannan
 7
July East of Scotland Championship. Winner: Heather Stirling- 24 June Stirling
and Clackmannan 6 1/2 Fife 2 1/2
- 24 June Midlothian
4 1/2 East Lothian 4 1/2
- 25 June Midlothian
4 1/2 Stirling and Clackmannan 4 1/2
- 25 June East
Lothian 4 Fife 5
- 26 June Fife
6 Midlothian 3
- 26 June East
Lothian 2 Stirling and Clackmannan 7
 North
of Scotland
Inter-County Championship winners - Aberdeenshire
 South
of Scotland
Inter-county Championship winners - Borders
 West
of Scotland
Inter-county Championship winners - Dunbarton and Argyll
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