The hopes of Ayrshire's Rachel Foster (Turnberry) in the Clark Rosebowl competition at the Scottish Womans Amateur Championship, being held this week at West Kilbride Golf Club, were dashed on Friday morning with defeat in the semi final of the competition.
(Scottish Golf news release)
Gabrielle Macdonald and Ailsa Summers will
face each other in the Scottish Women’s Amateur Championship final tomorrow
after tightly contested knock-out stages at West Kilbride.
The Scottish women’s squad players
triumphed in their two matches on the fourth day of competition in glorious
sunshine on the Ayrshire coast.
Craigielaw’s Macdonald started the day by
knocking out the top seed and stroke play winner Jessica Meek from Carnoustie
in their quarter-final tie. Awaiting her in the semi-final was Tara Mactaggart
(Minto) who had beaten Drumpellier’s Susan Wood 4&3.
Macdonald, the 2014 champion, had the
slight edge throughout the match, never going behind after winning the first hole,
and although it went back to all square, she regained the lead at the fourth
and maintained it to the turn.
However, Mactaggart brought it back to
honours even at the 10th hole, holding out until the 15th when Macdonald
birdied to go ahead and then win the match 2&1.
Summers may not have been the Carnoustie
player many would have expected to reach the final after Meek’s impressive
week, but she earned her place after a tough quarter-final against Gillian
Paton from Montrose, eventually winning on the 20th hole. She went on to play
Hannah McCook from Grantown-on-Spey who had eased through her morning
semi-final against Gullane’s Joanne Free 3&2.
The semi-final see-sawed between the two
with Summers one up after five holes before McCook won the next two to go
ahead. However, Summers immediately pulled it back to level the match until she
birdied the 11th and never looked back, with four further birdies to seal the
match 4&2.
The 18-hole championship final will be
played at West Kilbride from 8.30am on Saturday morning.
Also completed at West Kilbride on Friday,
were the last two rounds of the Clark Rosebowl which was contested by the next
16 players outside the top 32 championship qualifiers.
Wendy Nicholson from Baberton beat Lanark’s
Ruth Hunter 2&1 to reach the final against teenager Jennifer Rankine, who
had won her semi-final against Turnberry’s Rachel Foster 5&4. The 15
year-old from Haggs Castle continued her winning form against Nicholson,
maintaining the lead from the second throughout the final, to win the Rosebowl
by 3&1.
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