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From COLIN FARQUHARSON
 TULLIALLAN
teenager Kelly Brotherton shot two rounds of 69 at Baberton Golf Club
on Tuesday to be the surprise leader with an aggregate of six-under-par
138 with one round to go in the BP Scottish Under-21 girls' open stroke-play
championship.
Kelly, only 16 years old with a handicap of two and due to make her debut
for Scotland in the girls' home internationals in Ireland from August
13 to 15, played the best competitive golf of her life in far from easy
conditions.
With thunder and lightning storms raging almost everywhere in Scotland
but at this suburb of Edinburgh, conditions were not easy with visibility
steadily decreasing in the evening fog.
Miss Brotherton had five birdies in the morning and just to show it was
no fluke she went out and repeated her three-under-par score with one
fewer birdie. But for a bogey at the last, her only one of the round,
Kelly would have started the final 18 holes with a two-stroke lead over
the title favourite, Clare Queen (Drumpellier), winner of the British
girls match-play and stroke-play titles last year and bang in form again
as witness her victory in the Mackie Bowl 36-hole open event at Gullane
on Sunday.
Clare, who will make her women's home internationals debut at The Berkshire
next month, had rounds of 70 and 69 for 139.
Miss Queen's second round was a roller-coaster ride of birdies and bogeys.
She had eight birdies and five bogeys, including shots dropped at the
13th, 15th and 17th.
Heather MacRae (Dunblane), last year's BP Scottish girls match-play champion,
had been the first-round pacemaker with a 68 but she slipped back to third
place with a second-round 75.
In fourth place on 142 is the improving Susie Laing (Troon Ladies and
the University of San Francisco). She has been rock steady with a pair
of 71s for two-under-par 142. If Susie can get more putts to drop, she
could get mount a last-day challenge.
LEADER'S SCORECARDS
Kelly Brotherton's first round 69
OUT - 4 4 4 4 3 4 4 3 4 (three under par 34)
IN - 4 4 4 5 3 4 4 3 4 (level par 35)
Kelly Brotherton's second round 69
OUT - 4 5 4 3 4 4 4 3 4 (two under par 35)
IN - 3 3 5 4 3 4 4 3 5 (one under par 34
Clare Queen's second-round 69
OUT - 4 4 3 3 4 3 6 3 5 (two under par 35)
IN - 4 2 4 5 2 5 4 4 4 (one under par 34)
Par for the Baberton women's course (5,489yd) is:
OUT - 4 5 4 4 4 4 5 3 4 (37)
IN - 4 3 5 4 3 4 5 3 4 (35)
LEADING LAST ROUND TEE TIMES AT BABERTON ON WEDNESDAY
10.52 Laura Walker, Claire McNeill, Franziska Blum.
11.00 Sjavon-Dee Wilson, Katrin Degg Hilmarsdottir, Kirsty Wells.
11.07 Louisa Ruane, Elaine Cuthill, Alexandra Bushby.
11.15 Pamela Feggans, Jenna Wilson, Lyndsey Devenish.
11.22 Kate O'Sullivan, Addi Shamash, Nina Bjork Geirsdottir.
11.30 Kristin Elsa Erlendsdottir, Louise Kenney, Sasannah Laing.
11.37 Heather MacRae, Clare Queen, Kelly Brotherton.
Scores
Tuesday night scoreboard
BP SCOTTISH UNDER-21 GIRLS OPEN STROKE-PLAY CHAMPIONSHIP
Baberton GC, Edinburgh
SECOND ROUND TOTALS
138 K Brotherton (Tulliallan) 69 69.
139 C Queen (Drumpellier) 70 69.
141 H MacRae (Dunblane New) 68 73.
143 S Laing (Troon Ladies) 71 71.
143 L Kenney (Pitreavie) 69 74.
144 K Erlendsdottir (Iceland) 72 72.
145 N B Geirsdottir (Iceland) 73 72, A Shamash (Kirkcudbright) 71 74,
K O'Sullivan (Cochrane Castle) 70 74.
148 L Devenish (Cruden Bay) 73 75.
149 J Wilson (Strathaven) 77 72, P Feggans (Barassie) 76 73, A Bushby
(Letham Grange) 72 77.
150 E Cuthill (Lanark) 80 70, L Ruane (Cardross) 77 73, K Wells (Dumfries
& Co) 73 77.
151 K D Hilmarsdottir (Iceland) 79 72, S-D Wilson (Murcar) 78 73, F Blum
(Germany) 77 74.
152 C McNeill (Milngtavie) 77 75, L Walker (Nairn Dunbar) 76 76, A L Johannsdottir
(Iceland) 75 77, D Dewar (Monifieth) 71 81.
154 C Murray (Dumfries & Co) 81 73.
155 D Anisimova (Moscow City) 77 78, A Ramsay (Kirriemuir) 75 80.
156 L Aitken (Falkirk Truyst) 81 75, E Ogilvy (Muckhart) 80 76, K Caithness
(St Regulus) 77 79, V Chueprasert (Germany) 77 79.
157 A Edwards (Liberton) 81 76, J Mainberger (Germany) 79 78.
159 K Harper (Inverness) 81 78, C-M Carlton (Fereneze) 76 83.
160 F Hindshaw (Gullane Ladies) 82 78, G Webster (Hilton Park) 80 80.
161 L Hendry (Routenburn) 80 81.
162 S Main (Moray) 81 81, F Gilbert Carnoustie) 79 83.
164 L Nelson (Saline) 80 84, V Stevenson (Stirling) 79 85.
165 G Davidson (Saline) 81 84, S Crolla (Longniddry) 79 86.
166 L Rolland (Dunfermline) 85 81, L. Williamson (Kilmarnock Barassie)
83 83, K Walker (Buchanan Castle) 81 85.
167 G Barraclough (Hilton Park) 83 84.
168 V Caudwell (Manchester) 84 84, R Niven (Crieff) 84 84, A Mitchell
(Ranfurly Castle) 83 85.
169 K Thomson (Kintore) 90 79, J McNicoll (Longniddry) 85 84, B Copland
(Scotscaig) 85 84, A Stewart (Ballumbie Castle) 83 86.
171 E Fairnie (Minto) 86 85, C Paterson (Longndiddry) 854 86.
172 A Ingram (Fort William) 86 86.
173 C Booth (Comrie) 89 84.
174 S Kettlewell (Dunblane) 93 81.
175 C McLoughlin (Kilspindie) 89 86, I Stubley (Prestwick St Nicholas)
84 91, J Turner (Glencorse) 82 93.
178 H Harvey (St Regulus) 92 75, R Clark (Dumfries & Co) 89 89.
180 S Horsburgh (Dunbar) 91 89.
181 A Forrest (Broomieknowe) 93 86.
, K MacDonald (Nairn Dunbar) 87 94.
182 K Fortune (Haddington) 97 85.
184 M Briggs (Ranfurly Castle) 96 88.
187 F Williamson (Barassie) 95 92, S Heron (Baberton) 92 95.
189 S McCartney (St Regulus) 97 92.
190 E Linn (Bermuda) 95 95.
192 S Heron (Lothianburn) 95 96.
197 A McGarty (Bathgate) 102 95.
200 A McIvor (Biggar) 94 106.
201 F Blair (Monifieth) 104 99.
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