The Stirling golfer, playing in her final year as a junior, wins the historic title after finalist Rosie Maguire retires through injury.
Erin Huskie has been crowned Scottish Women’s Amateur champion after opponent Rosie Maguire was forced to withdraw from the final with a neck injury sustained earlier in the day.
The 2026 championship, played at Southerness Golf Club in Kirkcudbrightshire, had been building towards a highly anticipated final between two of Scottish women’s amateur golf’s most promising players. Huskie, a Scotland girls’ squad member from Stirling, had been in commanding form across three days of competition — qualifying from stroke play as the second seed before navigating three consecutive matches that each required extra holes to decide.
A week that tested every nerve
In the quarter-finals, Huskie faced Scottish Girls’ Amateur and Open champion Carly McDonald. After 18 holes locked at all square, a two-putt par at the first extra hole settled it in Huskie’s favour. The same pattern followed against Jade Potter in the last eight — another par in extra time booked her semi-final place.
The semi-final against Gullane’s Abercrombie Nisbet was the closest contest of the week. Both players birdied the 18th to stay level, and it took three extra holes to find a winner. A precise approach to the par-3 3rd left Huskie with a 15-footer for the match — which she holed to the delight of a large gallery.
Her final opponent, Pollok’s Rosie Maguire — a student at Grand Canyon University — had reached the final having beaten Jen Saxton (6&4), Southerness member Ailsa Brannock (3&2) and Moray’s Ellie Docherty (3&1).
She qualified 12th from stroke play and had been one of the standout performers of the week before the neck injury, sustained during the semi-final, ruled her out of the showpiece match.
A worthy champion
Huskie qualified for match play with rounds of 73 and 68 — one shot behind medallist Abigail May of St Regulus Ladies, who led qualifying on two under par. The 36-hole stroke play performance underlined a consistency that carried through every subsequent round.
With the win, Huskie joins Stirling club mate Alison Davidson — the 1997 champion — on the club’s roll of honour for this championship, which dates to 1903.
Huskie, who will take up a scholarship at Stirling University later this year, paid tribute to her defeated finalist. “It was an unusual set of circumstances when Rosie had to pull out with a neck injury. I feel bad for her and want to wish her a speedy recovery. It’s not the way anyone wanted it to end.”
Maguire was generous in defeat: “Congratulations to Erin who has played really well all week. I’m so disappointed that my week has ended this way because there have been so many highlights, but there was just no way that I could play on.”
Huskie, who is also part of Scottish Golf’s Young Leaders programme, added: “This win will stand me in good stead for going to university at the end of the year and all the other tournaments coming up for me in this, my final year as a junior.”
In the Clark Rosebowl — for players finishing positions 17–32 in stroke play — Bishopbriggs golfer Megan Docherty beat Ponteland’s Louisa Hamilton at the 19th hole.
The 2027 Scottish Women’s Amateur Championship will be held at Royal Dornoch.
