MCLGA Squad 2018

The Midlothian squad for 2018 will be

2017 Team at Scottish County Finals
K Marshall, L Fraser, J Burnett (Capt.),  R Livingstone, G MacDonald

A McBride, J Bryans, K Ferguson-Snedden, H Darling.

Jennifer Bryans          Harburn

Hannah Darling          Broomieknowe
Karen Ferguson-Snedden  Duddingston
Louise Fraser              Kingsknowe
Carys Irvine                Baberton
Rachael Livingstone   Kingsknowe
Alison McBride          Harburn
Kate McIntosh            Broomieknowe
Karen Marshall           Baberton
Wendy Nicholson       Baberton
HannaScott                 Broomieknowe
Kate Rorke                  Kingsknowe
Caroline Steedman      Murrayfield

Looking forward to an even more successful year in 2018.

I would like to extend thanks and appreciation to Gabrielle MacDonald and Kirsten Blackwood, who are unable to accept an invitation to join the squad for the coming season.  Gabrielle is joining 'Q' school in a bid to turn professional and Kirsten has personal commitments that prevent her making the commitment required by the County squad at the moment.  They wish us all the best for the coming season as we do them.


Match Players for 2018

In a change from previous years, Club Representatives were invited to invite players with a handicap between 5.0 and 6.5 who would be willing to join our representative teams in their 2018 preparation programme.  We have a busy schedule and players are sometimes unavailable due to work and other golf commitments so we struggle to get a full team at times. 
Many thanks to the following who have accepted the invitation

Julie Douglas                   Merchants GC
Debbie Hay-Smith           Murrayfield GC
Caroline Johnstone          Murrayfield GC
Hilary Laughland               Mortonhall GC
Susan Rennie                      Turnhouse GC
Sal Shepherd                       Craigmillar Park GC
Catherine Stewart             Mortonhall GC 

                          

Hole and Hole winners 2017

Congratulations to Pat Walkingshaw of Murrayfield and Claire Cunningham of Deer Park who won the silver and bronze summer hole and hole competitions for the 2017 season. 

Pat beat Isla McCrone of Turnhouse in the final of the silver division and Claire beat Sally Cownie of Merchants in the Bronze final.

Thank you to all who participated in the competition this year and look forward to entries for the 2018 season.

Scottish Golf East Division Ladies Championship 2017 at The Royal Burgess Golfing Society

Champion - Rachael Livingstone

Scratch

1^st           Rachael Livingstone       Midlothian         74 (bih)

2^nd          Lorna McKinley                 Fife                        74

3^rd           Kate McIntosh                   Midlothian         75

Team Prize

R Livingstone, L Fraser, K Marshall, G MacDonald (missing)

Midlothian

1^st           Midlothian                                         232

2^nd          Fife                                                       239

3^rd          Stirling  & Clackmannanshire           247

4^th          East Lothian                                        258

Handicap

1^st           Lynn Cackett                      Midlothian         74

2^nd          Alison McBride                 Midlothian         76 (bl6)

3^rd           Brogan Clark                      Fife                        76

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Harburn - Team Double Champions 2017

Congratulations to Harburn Golf Club

A successful year as their ladies won both the Midwest Inter Club Title and Midlothian League Championship.

The 8 ladies who won the Midlothian League

left to right, Janet Hardie, Jennifer Bryans, Sheila McEwan, Linda Boyle, Anne Stokes, Dorothy Wilson, Alison McBride and Sharron Marr.caption

The 4 ladies who won the Midwest

left to right, Dorothy Wilson, Anne Stokes, Linda Boyle and Alison McBride 

Report from Junior Girls Event at Swanston today, 15th October 2017.

Eight girls braved the extremely windy conditions today. Scores (remarkably good in the conditions!) were as follows:

Lauren Reid 40
Lara Collings  43
Devon Boyle 43
Brodie Boyle 46
Izzy Branigan 50
Heidi Miller  51
Holly Reed 66
Ruby Keys 70

Well done girls!

Next month is our popular Adult and Girl Competition. Watch this website for details.

Daily Mail Foursomes

Dee Williams & Karen Ferguson-Snedden

Congratulations to Dee Williams and Karen Ferguson-Snedden on winning the Daily Mail Foursomes.  They met Worfield's Sally Weaver and Paulette Morris in the final and found themselves on the back foot only six holes from home.  Displaying typical Scottish fighting spirit they refused to accept defeat and dug their heels in.  Helped by a couple of mistakes by their opponents Karen and Dee took advantage of the errors and  came back to secure a win by one hole.

Well done, Ladies!

Junior Girls event at Swanston, on 15th October 2017.

There will be the usual 9 hole event on the Swanston Templar course, on Sunday 15th October 2017, at 9.30am. If you can let us know in advance that you are coming (email sarah.c.hannay@gmail.com) that would be helpful, but if that is not possible you can just turn up for 9.30am. The cost is £5 payable on the morning.

Race to Dunbar

Ready Steady Go!

Good luck to all our young Midlothian players competing in the final stage of the Race to Dunbar on Sunday 8th October at Dunbar GC.

Play well and enjoy.

East of Scotland Championship - Sunday 15th October 2017

Ladies,

The draw for the East of Scotland Championship to be held at Royal Burgess on Sunday 15th October has now been done and distributed to the various County Secretaries, MCLGA club Reps and the players on the day.


A copy of the draw can be found in the draw section of website on the left hand side.

Lisa Kilpatrick