From Wimbledon to Wales...Pamela Pretswell's seven-year road from tennis to British golf title

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Curtis Cup team player Pamela Pretswell, 21, from Hamilton in Scotland won the 2010 Ladies’ British open amateur stroke-play championship in an exciting finish at Tenby Golf Club, South Wales on Friday (August 20)

It was her first domestic national title although she won the 2008 Switzerland women’s open amateur championship and was pipped for the Austrian women’s open amateur title three weeks ago.

Pamela is the fourth Scot in the past seven years to win the British stroke play title, following in the footsteps of compatriots Clare Queen (2004), Heather MacRae (2005) and Roseanne Niven (2008).

Pamela, part of the same squad as Andy Murray, played tennis as a junior for Scotland and Great Britain and once took part in a demonstration with the Great Britain junior team on the Number One court at Wimbledon. She turned to golf just seven years ago after tennis had threatened to take over her life.

Studying business and management, she's a year away from securing an honours degree at Glasgow University. A member at Bothwell Castle, where she plays off plus three, Pretswell secured her first Great Britain and Ireland cap in last year's Vagliano Trophy match against the Continent of Europe. This past June, Pamela made her Curtis Cup team debut in the United States.