THREE UNDER-21 TITLES IN A ROW FOR KELSEY

 Well done to Kelsey MacDonald who has just won the Scottish Under-21 Girls' Open Amateur Stroke-play Golf Championship at Dunfermline Golf Club for the third year in a row.

 

Nineteen-year-old Kelsey who is the Scottish women’s Champion from Nairn Dunbar Golf Club signed off in champion style with a two-under-par 70, the joint lowest round of the tournament, for a one-over-par total of 217.  That gave her a four-stroke winning margin from last year’s Scottish Women’s Champion, Megan Briggs (Kilmacolm).

 

Kelsey is the first player since Kathryn Imrie in 1985-86-87 to complete a hat-trick of wins in this event and she is still young enough to have a tilt at Suzanne Cadden’s four-timer record, set between 1974 and 1977.

 

The older she gets the easier it gets for Kelsey.  She was Under-21 champion for the first time by a single shot from Pamela Pretswell in 2008. Last year, over her home Nairn Dunbar course, she had to beat England’s Lucy Williams in a play-off to make it two in a row.  This week, Kelsey led throughout to follow up her victories in the Scottish Women’s Championship at Craigielaw and the R & A Bursars' Tournament at St Andrews before, reaching the final of the British Women’s Open Amateur Championship at Ganton in June.

She has more than made her point – Kelsey should have been in the GB & I Curtis Cup team last month.

 

Florence Allan

Captain