Day one - BLCGA Championships

Thats the first day of the BLCGA Championships over - bring on tomorrow
In the first round Tara Mactaggart and Danielle Ker had good wins against Shiela Leifer and Gillian Oliver respectively, Leanne Wilson won on the 19th hole against Kirsty Inkpen
In the quarters Tara had to work very hard to get through against Sharon Paterson at the final green, Danielle struggled with her game against Leanne eventually losing on the 17th

In the Bronze quarters the youngsters had a brilliant day with Amy Martin beating the no1 seed Lucille Patterson 4&3 and Rhea Middlemass winning 3&2 against the no2 seed Kath Fletcher

Tomorrow Tara plays Leanne in the first semi final of the main championship the winner will meet either Judith Anderson or Ailsa Bain in the final
In the bronze semis Amy plays Alison Fleming, Rhea will play Sammie Barrie
Good luck to the four of you tomorrow and play well

BLCGA Championship

Good luck to all the girls who have qualified for the Border Ladies Championship at The Roxburghe this weekend
Tara, Dani & Leanne all playtheir first round ties on Saturday morning in the main championship.
Amy & Rhea play their first round on Saturday afternoon in the bronze championship.
Hope the weather improves.........

Fairhaven Trophy

Tara MacTaggart is playing in the Nations cup at Fairhaven , Lytham St Annes this weekend.  2 boys and a girl are in each team, Scotland have 3 teams entered.  Scotland are current holders of the cup.

BLCGA - Spring Competition - Kelso 29th April

In brutal conditions at Kelso today, Tara MacTaggart won the Border Ladies championship qualifier with a 78-4=74.  This means that she was leading qualifier for the County Championships to be held at The Roxburghe on 12/13th May, Tara will play Shiela Leifer in the first round, 5th qualifier Danielle Ker will play county captain Gillian Oliver.
Congratulations also go to Amy Martin and Rhea Middlemas who both qualified for the bronze championships, Amy plays no 1 seed Lucille Paterson, Rhea plays Kath Fletcher.
Good luck to all girls at The Roxburghe.

Helen Holm - Troon 26-29th April 12

Good luck to Tara MacTaggart, she tees off at 12.30 on Thursday at the Helen Holm which is being played this week at Troon.

U16's - Strathmore

13th April
England's Gabrielle Cawley has won the U16's at Strathmore on a freezing cold and windy afternoon with a two rounds of 73 (+2)
First Scot past the post was Lauren Whyte with  +6
Clara Young finished with +7
Emma Greenlees +9
Connie Jaffray, Heather Munro  +12
Tegan Seivewright +20
Mirren Fraser +26

Dani had a nightmare this afternoon to post 168 (+24) she finished in 77th position
Leanne has finished 94th posting a total of 177 (+33) this morning

The scores on the doors from yesterday
Par 72
1st.   72  Camilla Mortigliengo (Italy)
2nd   73  Clara Young (Scotland 1)
notable others
8th   75  Heather Munro (Scotland 2)
19th 76  Lauren Whyte (Scotland 1)
31st  78 Danielle Ker (Roxburghe)
35th  79 Emma Greenlees (Scotland 2)
50th  81 Connie Jaffray (Scotland 1)
58th  82 Tegan Sievewright (Scotland 2)
79th  82 Mirren Fraser (Powfoot)
93rd  88 Leanne Wilson (Kelso)

Live scoring available here during competition days

12th April
Dry here at moment - hopefully it will stay that way after the downpour yesterday which caused the practice round to be abandoned. Greenstaff are working extremely hard getting the course ready. Today's start is to be delayed by an hour
Dani now off at 9.50am Leanne at 2.00pm


Good luck to Danielle Ker and Leanne Wilson at the Scottish U16's this week. Hope your final preparations are going well.
See you up there
Fiona x

South Girls Medal - Thornhill

The competitors after the spring medal at Thornhill today

Spring medal winner - Dani Ker

Results for the SOSGGA Spring Medal
Handicap
Danielle Ker 77 (5) 72
Mirren Fraser 84 (10) 74
Scratch
Rachel Walker 79
CSS 74

Slideshow on SOSGGA page