Beth Coulter leads Irish challenge at Women's Amateur Championship

Also through to the matchplay are Douglas golfer Sara Byrne, Clandeboye’s Rebekah Gardner, Lisburn’s Paula Grant, Kate Lanigan of Hermitage, and Croydon-based exile Canice Screene

Also through to the matchplay are Douglas golfer Sara Byrne, Clandeboye’s Rebekah Gardner, Lisburn’s Paula Grant, Kate Lanigan of Hermitage, and Croydon-based exile Canice Screene

Áine Donegan’s reward for making it through to the matchplay stages of the Women’s Amateur Championship will be a first-round match with strokeplay medalist Ragnhildur Kristinsdóttir of Iceland at Kilmarnock (Barassie) on Wednesday.

Donegan, the Lahinch golfer from Ennis, Co Clare, was the seventh Irishwoman into the knockout stages of the amateur major in Scotland when she claimed the 64th and final spot yesterday after 36 holes of strokeplay.