RISING YOUNG Fife golfer Krystle Caithness is celebrating another major milestone in her career with victory in the Scottish Champion of Champions event held at Glasgow Gailes. This week she will face another massive challenge thousands of miles away in Dubai.

The sixteen-year-old from Cellardyke has received a sponsors’ invitation to the Daily Telegraph Junior Golf Championship champions final, and will be flying out to the world famous Dubai Creek Golf and Yacht Club for an event that will feature the cream of the country’s young golfing talent.

The pupil from Anstruther’s Waid Academy has given herself the perfect springboard with her win in the Scottish event, where she fought off competition from eight other finalists from across the country.

In the last few months Krystle has added to her already impressive list of achievements by reaching the quarter finals of the British Girls’ Championships at Westhill, and she has played for Scotland in both the junior and full home international championships.

The invitation to Dubai will see Krystle take part in the final stages of an event which initially attracted over 40,000 entrants from all over the UK and Ireland.

World-class players such as Justin Rose, Andrew Coltart, Mhairi McKay and Rebecca Hudson have all seen the event help launch their professional careers.

Krystle started playing golf when she was just four, and she has an intensive playing and practice regime organised with the help of her coach Donald McKay.

She makes use of facilities at Kingsbarns Golf Club, and her KZG clubs are specially made by Ed Robertson at Applied Golf Technology in Ceres.

Krystle said yesterday that she loves to compete, and is looking forward to the event in Dubai.

The competition is backed by the Royal Bank of Scotland and Nike, and the tournament hotel is the new Park Hyatt Dubai.

Krystle will be competing alongside one other sponsors’ choice, the top 10 boys and seven girls from the championship leaderboards, and last year’s winners Melissa Reid, from Derby, and Scotland’s Jordan Finlay.