University of Stirling golfer Lorna McClymont has been crowned Scottish amateur champion after a brilliant performance at Nairn Dunbar Golf Club.
McClymont – Scotland’s second highest-ranked amateur – is making huge strides in the game and her latest success adds to her 2023 Irish and Welsh Women’s Open Championships.
The win at the Scottish Women’s Amateur Championship – which ran from May 24 to May 26 – follows McClymont’s recent win at the R&A Student Tour Series in France, and team victories with the University at the British Universities and Colleges Sport (BUCS) Golf Tour Finals and Scottish Student Sport Championships.
The Scottish Women’s Amateur Championship sees 78 players compete for the national title. After playing 36 holes on day one, the 16 leading players progress to the matchplay stages. McClymont, from Milngavie near Glasgow, knocked out Stirling alumna Jennifer Rankine, Melissa Keay and Carinne Taylor before overcoming Royal Troon’s Freya Russell with a 5&3 victory in the final.
Lorna McClymont lifted the trophy after a 5&3 victory over Freya Russell (Image credit: Scottish Golf).
McClymont, a fourth-year Sports Studies student, said her experience at the 2022 competition – which she narrowly missed out on winning – had helped her across the line at this year’s event.
“From that, I learned to stay in the moment and not get ahead of myself – take it one shot at a time. That definitely helped me,” she told Scottish Golf. “My game feels good and everything is working for me – around this course you also need a bit of luck, so I had that to help me out too.
“Off the tee was consistent; I hit the fairways and put myself in good position for getting on the greens.”
On winning the competition, she admitted she had a “pinch me” moment, adding: “It’s one that I’ve wanted to win for a long time and it feels really good now that I have it.”
Head of Performance Sport, University of Stirling
Lorna is set to graduate from our high-performance programme this summer and I know she will go on to have a bright future in the game.
David Bond, Head of Performance Sport at the University of Stirling, said: “Lorna continues to compete at the pinnacle of the amateur golf game here in the UK – and now has three national titles to her name; the Scottish, Irish and Welsh. I am delighted that her hard work and dedication has resulted in this latest success – it’s a brilliant achievement and we are all very proud of her.
“Lorna is set to graduate from our high-performance programme this summer and I know she will go on to have a bright future in the game.”
The University’s high-performance golf programme provides a wide-ranging package of support to athletes – including training, competition and funding support, alongside their academic studies. It brings together leading coaches, excellence facilities, innovative sports science and performance mentoring. Read more about University of Stirling golf scholarships here.