Golf: Inter-Club experience counts for Baberton

EXPERIENCE triumphed over youth as Baberton beat Broomieknowe in the final to win the Edinburgh Women's Inter-Club tournament for the sixth time in seven years, writes MARTIN DEMPSTER.

Represented by Karen Marshall, Fiona de Vries, Katherine Logan and Fiona Hunter, the Juniper Green club maintained their stranglehold on the title with an impressive performance at Monktonhall.

After surviving a scare when they needed two extra holes to beat Kingsknowe in the quarter-finals, they progressed to the final once again with a 2 and 1 success over Craigmillar Park in the semi-finals.

Broomieknowe, represented by Wendy Nicholson, Hannah Scott, Katherine Anderson and Kate McIntosh, prevented a repeat of the final 12 months earlier when they beat Lothianburn by 6 and 5 in the other half of the draw.

But the Bonnyrigg club were unable to wrest the crown away from Baberton. Marshall and de Vries were three up at the front and Logan and Hunter five up at the back when Broomieknowe's bid ran out of holes.

• VIKKI LAING, who is based at Kings Acre, saved her best for last in the Turkish Airlines Ladies Open at the National Golf Club in Belek. After opening rounds of 80 and 74, Laing closed with a 72 to finish on 226 – ten shots behind the winner, England's Melissa Reid.

• LORETTO'S Julie Yang maintained her good form by finishing second, one shot behind winner Lucie Andre of France, in the German Women's Open Championship in Dusseldorf.