HANNAH Turland, the England Girls' Under 13s champion from Tidworth, has been named in England's three-strong team to compete in this spring's Scottish Girls' Under 16s Open Strokeplay championship and Nations Cup at Craigielaw, writes Ernie Newell.

The young Wiltshire county player will contest the championships over 36 holes of the East Lothian course on April 10-11.

Turland is not 14 until June and already has a handicap of 2.2, bursting into prominence in 2005 when, aged 11, she won the South Western Girls' Under 15s Championship.

She has been a member of the full Wiltshire women's team since 2006 and last year claimed the distinguished scalp of six-times Curtis Cup player Vicki Thomas in a league match against Glamorgan.

She underlined her talent later in the season when she took the 54-hole England Girls' Under 13s title at Brickenham Grange in Hertfordshire by three strokes.

Turland is on course to land Wiltshire women's inaugural Winter Scratch Knockout Championship.

She beat Gemma Painter (Cumberwell Park) in the quarter-finals and plays county teammate Emma Breen, 18, from Marlborough, for a place in the final.

The other semi-final is between Tidworth clubmates Sarah Waugh and Di Gritt.

RESULTS Quarter-finals: Hannah Turland beat Gemma Painter, Emma Breen beat Bridget Cartwright (Upavon), Sarah Waugh beat Roxanne Roberts (Wrag Barn), Di Gritt beat Fiona Farrow (Kingsdown).

  • TURLAND was less successful in the Handicap Knockout Championship, going down in the quarter-finals to Rosalind Thomson, from Kingsdown, who plays Alison Lee (Bowood) in the semi-finals.

The other semi is another all-Tidworth affair between Bridget Evers and Caroline Bouwens.

RESULTS Quarter-finals: Rosalind Thomson beat Hannah Turland, Alison Lee beat Jane Bowker-Praed (North Wilts), Bridget Evers beat Janie Sharpe (Chippenham), Caroline Bouwens beat Patricia Phillips (Kingsdown).

  • ANOTHER of Wiltshire's bright young lights, Kyla Horlock, 11, from Hamptworth, has been accepted to play in this season's Faldo Junior Series of tournaments.

Meanwhile, Marlborough's Breen teamed up with Kingsdown youngster Ellena Farrow to win the silver division of the four Wiltshire women's adult/junior greensomes at South Wilts.

The father and daughter partnership of Tim and Jessica Iles, from North Wilts, won the bronze section and another father daughter combination, Philip and Rosie Dixon (Rushmore), won the nine-holer for beginners.

  • CAPTAIN Ginny Harvey's team defeated a line-up led by vice-skipper Venetia Champniss 4-2 in their annual matchplay fixture at Cirencester Golf Club.

Harvey was also among the winners as 30 ladies took part in a Bowmaker Stableford event.

She joined Joyce Hall and June Lamble with 64 points with the runners up being Sally Hadley, Penny Taylor and Deirdre Waddell with 62.