What are the girls up to ?

Midlothian, Stirling and Clackmannan first-day winners

at East Division team championship
Midlothian made a winning start to the defence of the East Division women's inter-county team championship at Royal Musselburgh Golf Club today (Monday) but it was a close-run thing against Fife.
Midlothian, winners by a 5-4 margin, were grateful in the end for the one-point lead they established in the morning foursomes because it proved decisive at the after the singles were shared 3-3.
The experienced Karen Marshall and improving teenager Rachael Watton, pictured by Cal Carson Golf Agency, won twice for Midlothian.
Fife's two former Scottish champions, Elaine Moffat and Fiona (Lockhart) Hastie), both won in the singles.
The other match was also a tight encounter with Stirling and Clackmannan edging a 5-4 victory over East Lothian.
Stirling and Clackmannan gained that vital one-point foursomes lead and could afford to settle for a 3-3 share of the singles.
East Lothian county champion Emma Fairnie finished the day with a 100 per cent success record ( in one of her final amateur events ) through a lead-off foursomes partnership with Fiona Priot and a 6 and 5 win in the top singles tie against Louise MacGregor, the Stirling and Clackmannan county champion
Day 1 results:

EAST LOTHIAN 4, STIRLING and CLACKMANNAN 5
Foursomes (1-2)
Fiona Prior and Emma Fairnie bt Vicki Stevenson and Linda Allan 3 and 2.
Mary Lou Renton and Ruth Carroll lost to Louise MacGregor and Alison Goodwin 4 and 3.
Clara Young and Keren Ward lost to Karen Burns and Jennifer Bryans 1 hole
Singles (3-3)
Fairnie bt MacGregor 6 and 5.
Ward lost to Goodwin 5 and 3.
Carroll halved with Burns
Jillian McNicoll lost to Bryans 3 and 2.
Linda Grieve bt Lesley Gibb 1 hole
Young halved with Claire Capucci.

MIDLOTHIAN 5, FIFE 4
Foursomes (2-1)
Karen Marshall and Wendy Nicholson beat Fiona Hastie and Elaine Moffat 5 and 4.
Kate McIntosh and Rachael Watton beat Susan Jackson and Karin Sharp 1 hole
Louise Fraser and Claire McDonald lost to Lorna Fury and Lynda Dyball 5 and 4.
Singles (3-3)
Watton bt Jackson 3 and 2.
Nicholson lost to Hastie 5 and 4.
Kirsten Blackwood lost to Sharp 2 and 1.
Gabrielle MacDonald lost to Moffat 2 and 1.
Fraser bt Rachel Hanlon 4 and 3.
Marshall bt Lorna Fury 4 and 2.


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LA fresh from Faldo triumph has been banished to Shropshire on army manouevres - marching , abseiling, gorge walking etc - all part of a Golf Scholarship !! 


Future East Lothian Champ ( 2013 ? ) Charlotte takes on William in the Gullane Primary Honour Bright Final tomorrow - could we have a first time girl winner ?!