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| Eilidh Briggs - Courtesy of Colin Farquharson Click to enlarge |
Renfrewshire County Champion Eilidh Briggs is the 2011 Scottish Girls' Champion after a high quality final at Glenisla Golf Club.
After a significant amount of overnight rain the greenstaff at Glenisla Golf Club work extremely hard to ensure the course was playable for the final of the 2011 Scottish Girls Championship. With heavy rain forecast for throughout the day the finalists (and official) were delighted to watch the heaviest of the clouds circle the golf course during the morning, allowing the final to be played without delay.
Eilidh raced in to an early lead when she won the first two holes with pars and extended that lead to three holes when she won the 6th hole by chipping in for a birdie three. Gemma reduced the deficit to two with a winning par at the 7th hole before the next five holes were halved in pars. Gemma once again cut in to Eilidh's lead at the 14th hole when she hit her tee shot at the par three to 10 feet and sunk her birdie putt to win the hole.
Gemma had found her stride and put her approach shot at the 365 yard 15th hole to less than 8 feet, but Eilidh rose to the challenge and sunk her 12 foot birdie putt first. Gemma duely holed her putt to match Eilidh's birdie three to leave Eilidh one up with three holes to play. Both players put their tee shots at the par three 16th hole to less than five feet, however Gemma missed her birdie putt and Eilidh made no mistake in holing from three feet to go two up with only two holes to play.
The match was not over, however as Eilidh's approach shot to the 17th clipped a tree and dropped 50 yards short of the green. She did not manage to make her par from there and Gemma took the two putts she needed to win the hole. At the par four 18th hole Eilidh's put her approach shot to 8 feet leaving Gemma knowing she had to hole her 15 footer to have any chance of staying in the match. Unfortunately for Gemma, her putt just slid past the hole and Eilidh duely took the two putts required to give her the title.
Eilidh was approximately level par to Gemma's one over par figures.
To read the Colin Farquharson report on the final ---- CLICK HERE
MANY MANY CONGRATULATIONS EILIDH FROM ALL IN RENFREWSHIRE
Thanks go to Colin Farquharson and Claire Hargan for the photographs
