Anderson gets senior status

Published on Friday 3 July 2009 23:13

ALYTH'S Heather Anderson, a former Downfield player, won the Scottish senior women's close amateur match-play golf championship over the Montgomery course at Kinross yesterday.

She beat former Scottish girls champion Moira Thomson (Gullane Ladies) by 5 and 3 in the final with approximately two over par figures.

Thomson led only once in the match, with a par at the first hole, but Anderson then won four of the next five holes. She then captured four holes in a row from the ninth to work herself into an unassailable lead.

Anderson was the last of the 16 qualifiers from the stroke-play championship, but she knocked out the No1 seed, Fiona Hunter (Baberton), by a 7 and 5 margin in her first tie. Thomson claimed the scalp of champion Lorna Bennett (Ladybank) at the 20th hole in the quarter-finals.

&#149 Four Britons were among seven women tied for fifth as Italian Veronica Zorzi took a two-stroke lead in the second round of the SAS Ladies Masters.

Samantha Head had ended the first round joint second at the Larvik Golf Club in Norway, but a level-par 73 saw the Bedfordshire woman finish five shots adrift of Zorzi at seven under. Head was joined by Rebecca Hudson, Melissa Reid and Trish Johnson. Zorzi shot a five-under 68, including four birdies, for a two-round total of 12 under with Lisa Holm Sorensen.

The Italian said: "I just stayed patient and hit the fairways and greens and made some putts. I can read the lines pretty well so I am feeling comfortable."

Sorensen hit a second-round 74 to finish on ten under, one shot ahead of AIB Ladies Irish Open winner Diana Luna with Laura Cabanillas of Spain fourth on eight under.