Despite a last minute scare Renfrewshire's , Eilidh Briggs ( Stirling ) kept her nerve to lift the Scottish students’ championship yesterday and complete an unprecedented clean sweep of the four Scottish universities’ women’s order of merit competition tournaments during 2011-2012.
Fellow Stirling student Hannah McCook (Grantown on Spey) took four shots out of Eilidh's seven shot overnight lead in the morning round and holed a 12ft putt on the last green in her final round but still came up one short of catching the Kilmacolm leader.
Eilidh closed with a 78 for three-under-par total of 293; Hannah a 76 for 294.
Gabrielle MacDonald ( St Andrews and Craigielaw) finished third on 300 with a last-round 77.
Briggs and McCook combined with Harriet Beasley and Jordana Graham to lift the Moray Trophies women’s stroke-play team championship for Stirling ahead of St Andrews .
WOMEN’S FINAL TOTALS
Par 296 (Moray New: 2x72; Moray Old: 2x76)
293 Eilidh Briggs ( Stirling ) 73 68 74 78.
294 Hannah McCook ( Stirling ) 75 73 70 76.
300 Gabrielle MacDonald ( St Andrews ) 75 75 73 77.
301 Gemma Bradbury ( St Andrews ) 76 74 73 78
306 Franzisca Benze ( St Andrews ) 76 74 75 81
316 Jordana Graham (Striling) 76 80 80 80
319 Ashley Smith ( St Andrews ) 75 81 75 88
322 Alisa Theunis ( St Andrews ) 78 82 80 82
324 Zhana Tarasko ( St Andrews ) 8478 76 86
326 Harriet Beasley ( Stirling ) 82 79 80 85.
329 Sam Munro (UHI) 78 84 81 86
331 Mikaela Nordblad ( St Andrews ) 81 82 82 86.
335 Mhairi McKay ( Stirling ) 82 85 77 91.
The Stirling girls won the Scottish universities women's team match-play championship at Lossiemouth today.
The Scottish universities women's match-play team championship was then won by Stirling who beat St Andrews 5 1/2-1 1/2 today.
Details (Stirling names first):
FOURSOMES (2-0)
Hannah McCook beat Gemma Bradbury and Ashley Smith 3 and 2.
Jordana Graham and Eilidh Briggs beat Franzi Benze and Zhana Tarasko 1 hole. SINGLES (3 1/2-1 1/2)
Mhairi McKay halved with Mikaela Nordblad
Beasley lost to Alisa Theunis 1 hole.
Graham beat Benze 4 and 3.
McCook beat Smith 4 and 3.
Briggs beat Bradbury 4 and 3.
