Alison Jane Rose (later Davidson, born 18 June 1968) is a Scottish amateur golfer. She won the 1997 Ladies' British Open Amateur Championship and played in the

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in 1996 and 1998.

Golf career

Rose represented Scotland in the 1988

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in Belgium, an under-21 event, where the team were runners-up, losing 6 matches to 1 in the final against to England. Rose won the only Scottish point in the final. She first played for Scotland in the

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in 1990 and in the

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in 1991. She had some successes in the early 1990s, winning the

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at St Andrews in 1991 and leading the stroke-play qualifying at the 1992 Ladies' British Open Amateur Championship at Saunton. In 1994 she won the Welsh Women's Open Stroke Play Championship, a stroke ahead of Emma Fields, and was a runner-up in the St Rule Trophy. The following year she was runner-up in the same two events. She lost to Fiona Brown in a playoff for the Welsh championship and was again a runner-up in the St Rule Trophy. 1995 also saw her selected for British teams for the first time, playing for Great Britain & Ireland in the

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at Ganton in July and for Great Britain in the

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in Australia in September. In April 1996 Rose was selected for the

match, played in June in

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. Great Britain & Ireland won the match by five points to retain the trophy. Rose was the most successful player, winning all her four matches. She played with Lisa Dermott in both foursomes sessions. In the single,s she beat

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6 and 5 on the opening day and Brenda Corrie-Kuehn 5 and 4 on the final day. In May she had lost narrowly to Anne Laing in the final of the

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at Royal Dornoch. In May 1997, Rose beat Hilary Monaghan 3 and 2 in the final of the

at West Kilbride. The following month she won the Ladies' British Open Amateur Championship at Cruden Bay, beating

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4 and 3 in the final. In June 1998 Rose was selected for the

match in

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in August. The Americans regained the cup by 10 matches to 8. Rose played with

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in the foursomes, losing both matches. She played in the singles on the opening day, losing 3 and 2 to Brenda Corrie-Kuehn and was not selected for the final day's singles. She made her final appearances for Scotland in the 1999 European Ladies' Team Championship in France, where the team finished a disappointing 13th, and in the

in 2000.

Personal life

She married Martin Davidson in 1999.

Team appearances

(representing Great Britain & Ireland): 1996 (winners), 1998 *

(representing Great Britain & Ireland): 1995, 1997 *

(representing Great Britain): 1995 *

(representing Scotland):

1991 It was the final year of the Cold War, which had begun in 1947. During the year, the Soviet Union Dissolution of the Soviet Union, collapsed, leaving Post-soviet states, fifteen sovereign republics and the Commonwealth of Independent State ...

1993 The United Nations General Assembly, General Assembly of the United Nations designated 1993 as: * International Year for the World's Indigenous People The year 1993 in the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands had only 364 days, since its ...

1995 1995 was designated as: * United Nations Year for Tolerance * World Year of Peoples' Commemoration of the Victims of the Second World War This was the first year that the Internet was entirely privatized, with the United States government ...

1997 Events January * January 1 – The Emergency Alert System is introduced in the United States. * January 11 – Turkey threatens Cyprus on account of a deal to buy Russian S-300 missiles, prompting the Cypriot Missile Crisis. * January 1 ...

1999 1999 was designated as the International Year of Older Persons. Events January * January 1 – The euro currency is established and the European Central Bank assumes its full powers. * January 3 – The Mars Polar Lander is launc ...

(representing Scotland): 1990 (winners), 1991 (winners), 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000 *

(representing Scotland): 1988

References

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