MacDonald on track for final push

NAIRN Dunbar's Kelsey MacDonald has led the first two rounds of her title defence in the Scottish Under-21 girls' open stroke-play championship at Dunfermline Golf Club.

Now she will try to make it a wire-to-wire win over the third and last round at the Pitfirrane course today.

With Jane Turner (Craigielaw), a shot behind after one round, falling away to a second-round 83, it looks as if only the Briggs sisters, Megan and Eilidh, lying a close second and third overnight, are the only ones who can stop the 19-year-old Scottish women's champion completing a hat-trick of Under-21 titles.

MacDonald added a 75 to her opening par round of 72 and she would be the first to admit this was not one of her best efforts. She had no birdies and dropped shots at the short fifth, the tenth and long 18th.

Eilidh, the younger of the Briggs girls and the Renfrewshire county champion, took over second place with a 72 to be one shot off the pace on 148. Eilidh birdied the long third and the six but dropped shots at the fourth and 14th in halves of 34 and 36. Megan, Scottish women's champion two years ago, also had a 72.