Autumn Meeting 2015 - Change of Date

Please note that the Autumn Meeting 2015 has been relocated from Duddingston to Harburn and is now on Monday 31st August  due winter work commenncing at Duddingston at the beginning of September.

95th AGM of Midlothian Ladies Golf Association

Midlothian AGM and Prize Giving was held on the 12th November at Liberton Golf Club.
There was a great turnout as usual including all the juniors who attended the prizegiving.

Sheila our outgoing Captain ably conducted the meeting and her full report will be published on the website included in the minutes of the meeting. The juniors have grown from strength to strength and there were lots of real achievments by them throughout the season.

She thanked those who had helped her during the year then gave a synopsis of the highlights of her year, Notably amongst these were Hannah Scott winning the Championship for a second year, Alison McBride winning the Champion of Champion, Kate McIntosh gained her first cap for Scotland, Karen Marshall captained the Scottish Team again at the home internationals and  Karen Ballantyne won the East Vets Championship.

A real amazing highlight was for the first time since 1936  a Midlothian County player Gabrielle Macdonald won the Scottish Amateur Championship in its 100th year. She brought along the beautiful and very heavy cup for us all to see. Sheila also recommended that she be given honorary membership of MCLGA. This was hugely supported by all those present.

She also recommended that Janet Wake be given an honorary membership of MCLGA for all the contributions she has made to Scottish golf in her career. This again was very much welcomed.


Two proposals were on the agenda to be discussed.
The first was to consider changing the venue for the Champion of Champions from the Burgess to a club where equality existed. Both Gillian Kirkwood and Louise Fraser spoke very informatively about the history of why it is held each year at the Burgess. It has been held there for the last 40 years and they give us courtesy of the course and  are treated very well by the members.It is a championship course that creates a challenge to players of the top ability.
The proposal was hugely rejected but it was good to have this topic aired at an AGM and the members made aware of the reasons for continuing at the Burgess.

The second proposal was around the selector issue as in 5.9 of the constitution.
It was recommended that the wording  'being a full member' be added after County Champion in this paragraph. This means that should a junior or student member winning the Championship they wouldn't automatically become a selector for the County team.
This proposal won by a small majority.

Sheila passed over the Captain's badge to Zandra Mathieson who is our new Captain for the next two years. Zandra then introduced her Vice Captain Jacky Burnett. Jacky has worked for many years at a the highest levels for hockey in Scotland making her a great asset to Midlothian County .There were no other changes this year in the committee.

Zandra thanked Wendy Nicholson for all the hard work she had done as a selector for the last two years and introduce Ruth Brown as the new selector for this year.


The prize giving followed the meeting with the junior winners followed by the rest. Many congratulations to all the winners this year.

Five-a-side winners 2014: Kingsknowe

Division 2 winners: Mortonhall

Junior prizewinners

Adult Juniors Match at Swanston on Sunday 16th November 2014

What a beautiful November day for our Adult/ Junior match at Swanston and what a great turnout. of 27 couples. Thank you so much to all those taking part. It is just inspiring to see so many juniors playing competitions along with their golfing relatives.  Thanks to Swanston and to all who helped on the day.


Thank you also to David Patrick for coming to work with the development girls and to watch them play.


Some excellent scores were returned as you can see by the following winners:


Scratch with  card play off
Emily Rigg and Julie Rigg  30


1st Handicap and Trophy  Abby and Caroline Steedman  CPO 33-12- 21
2nd Handicap Grace and Stephen Marshall  35-14-21
3rd Handicap Caitlin and Colin Turner 30-8.5 - 21.5


Nearest the pin for Juniors on 4th Emily Rigg
Nearest the pin on 9th for Adults  Julie Rigg
No wonder they had such a good score . Very well played.


Best score for under 9 age group( excluding those in prize list)  Phoebe Massey


Lets hope we get such lovely weather for the next Junior game at Swanston on the 18th January. Please do come along and play in these games.

Draw for Junior/Adult Competition on 16th November

Here is the draw for the Competition on Sunday, 16th November.  Please make sure you arrive at least 10 minutes before your tee-off time.  In the event of any call-offs, please contact Sharon on:  07743 035822.

10.30    Rachael Skillen              Norman Skillen
             Jessica Walker               Vivien Walker

10.36    Georgia Ledingham       Sarah Ledingham

             Ellie Ferguson               Susan Cowie

10.42    Louisa Forman                Liz Henderson
             Phoebe Massey              John Henderson

10.48    Emily Walker                  Andrew Walker
             Ella Marshall                   Karen Marshall

10.54    Grace Marshall               Stephen Marshall
             Erica McIntosh               David Oswald

11.00    Samantha McGregor      Gary McGregor
             Devon Boyle                   Chris Boyle

11.06    Erin Johnston                 Jonathan Johnston
             Larissa Hogg                  Colin Hogg

11.12    Victoria Weir                   Andrew Weir

             Louise Smith                  Gill Smith

11.18    Lisa Macpherson            William Lamb
             Megan Linton                 Angus Linton

11.24    Carys Irvine                    Mandy Irvine
             Emily Rigg                      Julie Rigg

11.30    Emma Watson               Sandy Watson
             Claire Forrester             Colin Forrester

11.36    Lucy Morrison                Ricky Morrison
             Hannah Darling             David Darling

11.42    Caitlin Turner                 Adrienne Turner
             Katie Darling                  Fiona Darling