Ahead of today’s International Women’s Golf Day, a global recruitment drive aimed at encouraging female participation in the game, Carly Booth and Kelsey MacDonald ensured they’ll be participating in this season’s US Women’s Open after successfully coming through the European qualifier at The Buckinghamshire last night.
Booth, who last appeared in the US Open back in 2013, posted rounds of 70 and 73 for a one-under 143 and shared the No 1 qualifying position with Sweden’s Caroline Hedwall.
MacDonald, who qualified for the 2014 US Women’s Open, also grabbed one of just four spots on offer but she had to do it the hard way in a three-way play-off fir the final two places having finished on a 145 after a 71 and a 74.
On the home front, some of the leading lights of the national scene will be in action today in the Scottish Ladies Amateur Championship at Royal Aberdeen.
Clara Young, the champion in 2015, has travelled up the east coast in a buoyant mood following her victory in the St Rule Trophy at St Andrews on Sunday.
The 20-year-old from North Berwick overcame a strong international field at the weekend and she is expecting another stern test from a strictly domestic line-up over the next few days.
“It was really good to see a lot of the Scottish girls up there at the St Rule and it shows that we are getting a little bit deeper as a nation,” said Young ahead of this week’s contest which starts with 36-hole qualifying and concludes with an 18-hole matchplay final on Saturday.
“There were three of us in the top-10 which is a really good result in a fairly strong field. It shows the girls are doing the right things.”
On the Tartan Tour, meanwhile, Alastair Forsyth will look to replicate his profitable one-day, Pro-Am form over 72-holes in this week’s Northern Open at Lossiemouth.
Forsyth, who won the prestigious title back in 1999 before embarking on a European Tour career, joined in the low-scoring feast on the domestic circuit recently when he won the Pollok Pro-Am with a sparkling 10-under 61.
“The standard of golf on the Tartan Tour so far this year has been incredible, with winning scores of 61, 62, 63 and 64 in the last few weeks and a couple of course records falling as well,” said Scottish PGA secretary, Shona Malcolm. “The bar has definitely been raised.”
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