Bartlett takes Scottish title for second time.
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ROYAL Dornoch’s lady club champion, Alison Bartlett, has been leaving her mark on the Scottish senior women’s golf circuit since moving into the county in 2008 and settling in Dornoch.
Two years after arriving in Dornoch and becoming an eligible senior golfer, she won the Scottish Women’s senior strokeplay championship at Kemnay in Aberdeenshire to establish herself in Scottish senior teams alongside Tain sisters, Anne Ryan and Mary Smith, and last season she captured the Scottish Veteran’s women’s title.
This season she was elected secretary of the Northern Counties Women’s Golfing Association but her administration duties have certainly not affected her play out on the golf course. She became Northern Counties Champion on her home course in May then played for Scotland in the senior home internationals in Ireland.
But two weeks ago, the retired globe-trotting chartered accountant who was born in Dundee and has spent 15 years working in the United States and London, enjoyed her greatest achievement when she won for a second time the Scottish Senior women’s strokeplay championship which was played over Elgin’s Hardhillock golf course.
Bartlett went on to win the matchplay title which followed for the leading 16 scratch qualifiers and in doing so became only the second person to complete this double feat since the matchplay element was introduced in 2005.
Bartlett’s rounds at Elgin were 75 and 79 for a total of 154 won by two shots over four players one on which included Tain’s Anne Ryan who shot 79 and 77.
