West Vets Janice Paterson reaches the Scottish Senior Championship Semi Finals

West Vet - Janice Paterson with Caddy Barbara Biggart

Banchory's Linda Urquhart, last of the 16 match-play qualifiers, claimed the scalp of top seed and new Scottish senior women's amateur stroke-play champion Alison Bartlett (Royal Dornoch) in the first round of the over-50s match-play championship at Kemnay Golf Club, near Aberdeen today (Thursday).
Linda Urquhart, Aberdeenshire champion in 1988-98-99, was a 2 and 1 morning winner over Alison Bartlett and then reached the semi-finals by beating Baberton's Pamela Williamson, several times winner of both the stroke-play and match-play titles, by two holes.
In Friday morning's semi-finals (9am and 9.10), Linda will play Janice Paterson (Drumpellier), and Karen Burns (Bathgate), who knocked out the No 5 seed Anne Ryan (Tain) by 3 and 2, will play Heather Anderson (Blairgowrie), a one-hole winner against No 2 seed Alex Glennie (Kilmarnock Barassie),
The final tees off at 1.20pm.
FIRST ROUND
Linda Urquhart (Banchory) beat Alison Bartlett (Royal Dornoch) 2 and 1
Pamela Williamson (Baberton) beat Anna Telfer (Milngavie) 3 and 2
Anne Ryan (Tain) beat Jill Harrison (Cruden Bay) 2 holes
Janice Paterson (Drumpellier) beat Elaine Allison (Stirling) at 19th.
Karen Burns (Bathgate) beat Mary Smith (Tain) 2 and 1
Fiona Hunter (Baberton) beat Helen Faulds (Douglas Park) 6 and 5
Heather Anderson (Blairgowrie) beat Kathleen Sutherland (Royal Montrose) 1 hole
Alex Glennie (Kilmarnock Barassie) beat Margaret Tough (Falkirk) at 19th.
QUARTER-FINALS
Urquhart beat Williamson 2 holes
Paterson beat Ryan 3 and 2
Burns beat Hunter 1 hole
Anderson beat Glennie 1 hole.
HANDICAP MATCH-PLAY
FIRST ROUND
Sandra Littlejohn (Erskine) (11) beat Morag Wardrop (Turnhouse) (9) 4 and 2.
Pamela Cran (Kemnay) (14) beat Yvonne Moir(Kemnay) (10) 1 hole.
Karen Maxwell (Milngavie) (10) beat Caroline King (Clover) (11) 3 and 3.
Karen Ballantyne (Craigmillar Park) (5) beat Barbara Biggart (North Berwick) (8) 3 and 1.
Mary Miller (Cruden Bay) (13) beat Pauline Warlow (Cathkin Braes) (8) 3 and 1.
Gillian Wallace (Blairgowrie) (6) beat Mairi Pollock (Craigmillar Park) (10) 4 and 3.
Leigh Duff (Cathkin Braes) (12) beat Lorraine Campbell (Cardross) (6) at 19th
Sheena McDonald (Buchanan Castle) (6) beat Fiona Farquharson (King James VI) (10) 1 hole.

QUARTER-FINALS
Littlejohn beat Cran 2 and 1.
Ballantyne beat Maxwell 8 and 7.
Wallace beat Miller 3 and 2.
Duff beat McDonald at 20th.