Heather Anderson starts her bid to defend the Scottish Senior Ladies' (Close) Match Play title at Fortrose & Rosemarkie Golf Club today (1 July 2010).  Heather is the number one seed having won the Seniors Stroke Play Championship at the same venue yesterday.

Quarter finals hole by hole live scoring is now available from the link below: 

LIVE SCORING

The line up is as follows:

Heather Anderson, Alyth was the only player to break 80 on a sunny but windy day at Fortrose & Rosemarkie Golf Club.  Her score of 73 allowed her to leap to the top of the leader board and win the Scottish Senior Ladies' (Close) Stroke Play Championship by two shots from Fiona de Vries (St Rule) and the first round leader Anne Ryan (Tain).

Heather is also therefore the top qualifier for the Scottish Senior Ladies' (Close) Matchplay Championship which starts tomorrow.  The draw is below:

SENIORS MATCH PLAY DRAW

STROKE PLAY RESULTS

 
Heather Anderson, Alyth - Seniors Stroke Play Champion

Round 2 CSS: 75

Away score letters are now available to download from the Seniors Championships page (please ensure you only print off the letter for your own club).  Letters will also be posted to Handicap Secretaries on Monday 5th July.

Kelsey MacDonald, who followed her victory in the Scottish Championship by reaching the final of the British Championship, is the new leader at the top of the Scottish Ladies' Golfing Association's Order of Merit.

The Nairn Dunbar 19-year old has overtaken the defending champion, Louise Kenney (Pitreavie), to head the table on 2,595 points.  The other major mover is 18-year old Sally Watson (Elie and Earlsferry).  The two-time Curtis Cup player, who has just completed her first year at Stanford University in California, reached the third round of the British Championship at Ganton and has slipped into fifth place with 1,407 points.

Kenney, who was unable to play in the British Championship, is in second place with 2,280 points, with Alford's Laura Murray (1955) and Craigielaw's Jane Turner (1655) in third and fourth spots.

Play is underway in the second round of the Scottish Ladies' Senior (Close) Championship on another glorious day at Fortrose & Rosemarkie Golf Club.  Live scoring is again underway and can be followed from the link below:

SENIORS LIVE SCORING

Photographs from sunny Fortrose & Rosemarkie

      
Fort George sunset                                        Fortrose & Rosemarkie veranda

Anne Ryan (Tain) leads by one shot from Fiona de Vries, St Rule and by two from Lynne Terry (Cruden Bay) and May Hughes (Lanark) after round one of the Scottish Ladies' Seniors Stroke Play Championship at Fortrose & Rosemarkie Golf Club.  Anne's round of 74 was three over the Par but only one over the CSS for the day and included three birdies at 6, 7 and 15.

The stroke play championship concludes tomorrow with the top 16 scratch scores then qualifying for the match play Championship.

The draw for tomorrow is as follows:

STROKE PLAY ROUND 2 DRAW

ROUND 1 CSS: 73