After a gap of 20 years Renfrewshire Ladies' County Golf Association has a new Scottish Champion ---- MEGAN BRIGGS from Kilmacolm. (pictured right)Renfrewshire County Champion Megan Briggs (Kilmacolm) is the 95th Scottish women's closed amateur champion.
She beat Louise Kenney (Pitreavie) by 4 and 3 in the 18-hole final at Southerness Golf Club on the north shore of the Solway Firth this morning.
Megan, one down after two holes, took a grip on the final by winning four holes in a row from the fifth.
At the turn, Megan was three up on her Scotland international team-mate, Louise Kenney, a 26 year old schoolteacher
FIGURES FOR FIRST NINE HOLES
Par ..........4-4-4-3-5-4-3-4-5--OUT 36
BRIGGS: 4-5-5-3-5-4-3-4-4--OUT 37 (one over par) Three up KENNEY:4-4-5-3-6-5-4-5-4--OUT 40 (three over par)
Louise Kenney scored her first success since the second hole with a par at the short 10th but fell back to three down again by bogeying the par-4 11th.
The 12th was halved in bogey 5s and the long 13th in birdie 4s to leave Megan three up with five to play.
Megan made it back-to-back birdies with a 4 at the long 14th to go four up and a half in par 3s at the short 15th ended the final in her favour by 4 and 3.
Megan, with three birdies to her credit, was one over par approximately for the holes play. Louise, who had two birdies. was roughly five over par at the finish.
FIGURES FOR SECOND NINE HOLES
Par-------3-4-4-5-5-3
BRIGGS: 4-4-5-4-4-3
KENNEY 3-5-5-4-5-3
Thanks go to Colin Farquharson for the report
Shirley Huggan (nee Lawson) who was our last champion in 1989 when she won at Lossiemouth and in 1988 where the championship was also played at Southerness.
THE HALL OF FAME
RENFREWSHIRE SCOTTISH CHAMPIONS SINCE 1950
Dorothea Sommerville at Elie, 1958
Heather Anderson at West Kilbride, 1969
Dr. Aileen J. Wilson at Nairn, 1974
Shirley Lawson at Southerness, 1988
Shirley Huggan (nee Lawson) at Lossiemouth, 1989
Megan Briggs at Southerness 2009
