Swanston 9 hole Competition August

Our monthly junior 9 hole competition took place on Sunday on Swanston's Templar course with 11 girls playing, and although there was a little rain at the start it was a dry but slightly windy day. There were some good scores with 4 girls getting some pars on the course. Lisa MacPherson just missed her birdie at the 8th, Emily Rigg had a very good up and down from the side of the 9th, Caitlin Turner had a good two putt 3 on the 7th and Lucy Morrison was best of all with two 3's on her card - not bad for an 8 year old! Although not in the prizes Ella Marshall had a 49 and this is the first time she has beaten 50. Well done all of you girls!

Results:

Handicap

1st Caitlin Turner 40 (18) 22

2nd Lisa MacPherson 56 (21) 35

Non Handicap

1st Emily Rigg 41

2nd Lucy Morrison 43

3rd Georgina Ledingham 47

Thanks to Sharon MacPherson for running the competition and for all her ongoing support for the juniors

Scotland teams announced

Congratulations to Jane Turner (Craigielaw) who has been selected to represent Scotland in the Ladies Home Internationals, Hillside GC, 7-9 September and to Karen Ballantyne (Craigmillar Park) who has been selected for the Seniors team for the Senior Home Internationals, Tramore GC, 28-30 September.

Summer Meeting

The Summer Meeting eventually took place at Craigmillar Park yesterday and we had an altogether different day weather wise than we had on the monsoon hit original date. 57 ladies took part. The early scores were not great and most found the greens tricky and the rough punishing. But the late competitors seemed to find it to their likeing with three gross scores of 72 being posted by Karen Ballantyne (Craigmillar Park), Linda Bain (Lochend) and Wendy Nicholson (Broomieknowe). Wendy took the honours with the better inward half, There were only two 2's recorded by Karen Ballantyne and Morag Wardrop (Turnhouse).



The results were (CSS 71):

1st Scratch (Corstorphine Salver): Wendy Nicholson (Broomieknowe) 72 bih

2nd Scratch: Linda Bain (Lochend) 72 bih

Best overall nett (Dumayne Bowl): Karen Ballantyne (Craigmillar Park) 72 (6) 66

2nd best overall nett: Olivia Fulton (Craigmillar Park) 82 (12) 70

Silver Division 1st handicap: Rita Dee (Kingsknowe) 81 (10) 71 bih

Silver Division 2nd handicap: Jackie Stewart (Kingsknowe) 91 (20) 71

Bronze Division Scratch (Murphy Trophy): Winnie Wilson (Ravelston) 95

Bronze Division 1st handicap: Catriona Shedden (Murrayfield) 97 (21) 76 bih



Thanks to Craigmillar Park for hosting the competition and to all the Craigmillar Park ladies who helped on the desk.

East of Scotland Girls Autumn Meeting

The East of Scotland Girls Autumn Meeting was held at Whitekirk Golf Club on Saturday. Congratulations to Hannah Scott (Broomieknowe) who won the Under 18 prize on the better inward half from Gabrielle Macdonald (Craigielaw), Heather Laing (Glencorse) who won the Under 16 prize and Emily Dalgetty (Glencorse) who won the Under 14 section. Gabrielle was just pipped for the scratch prize by Clara Young (North Berwick) who won with a 75 on the better inward half.

East of Scotland Championship

Just a reminder that the East of Scotland Championship is being held at Gullane Golf Club (No 2) on Sunday 9 October 2011. Click HERE to download an entry form. This competition is open to ALL County members in the East Division.

MCLGA Biennial Tri Am 2011

Well what a pleasant surprise - the Tri Am was played at Newbattle yesterday, the sun shone for most of the day, and nobody got wet!! What a fantastic day we had - great golf and great fun. Everyone seemed to enjoy the new format and were mighty relieved to find out that there was only one ball counting on the last 6 holes. One group, who shall be nameless, decided to give themselves a challenge and counted all 3! How keen were they - especially as it included the challenging 17th hole!



The last few groups did finish in the dark, with captain ready to go out with the search lights. However the pleas of disadvantage from the last group of County team players fell on deaf ears, as they had scooped up two nearest the pin prizes and the Captain's team had earlier been demoted to second place. We will never know if they had the longest drive on the 18th because they couldn't see, but since Louise Fraser's drive earlier in the day, was out of sight anyway, I doubt it!



The results were as follows:

1st Sandra Dickson, Mandy Charters, Jacquelyn Dick (Mortonhall) 81

2nd Mary Richardson, Sal Shepherd, Ruth Wilkojc (Craigmillar Park) 83

3rd Maureen Stewart, Jane Browitt (Glencorse) Karen Elliot (Newbattle)85 bih

4th Michele Lowe, Alison Davies (Deer Park), Irene Adams (Liberton) 85 bih



Sponsored prizes

Nearest the pin at 3 - Kirsten Blackwood (Glencorse)

Longest drive (Bronze) at 6 - Stella Thomson (Swanston New)

Nearest the pin at 8 - Pat Staples (Liberton)

Nearest the pin at 11 - Kirsten Blackwood (Glencorse)

Nearest the pin in 2 at 12 - Amanda Liddle (Ratho Park)

Nearest the pin in 2 at 14 - Zandra Mathieson (Broomieknowe)

Longest drive (Silver) at 18 - Louise Fraser (Kingsknowe)



The main raffle prize was one by Dorothy Wilson (Harburn) - enjoy your day out Dorothy. I'm sure you will have many friends being nice to you just now! Many thanks to Ian Young at the Braid Hills Golf centre for the kind donation and to the Ladies Golf Centre and our President for the runners up prizes. Thanks also to all who contributed to the raffle - we raised a fantastic £550 to support our volunteer caddie's expenses for the forthcoming Scottish County Finals in Dumfries.



Thanks to Newbattle Golf club and to all who helped on the day, especially Barbara Hamilton of Newbattle who made lovely egg sandwiches for the officials (in yummy home made bread!), was out early in her buggy putting out the hole prize markers and making numerous trips the bank to get lots of £5 notes for the raffle, amongst other things.



Captain and Vice captain and their teams below - the only photos we have!

Draw for Re-arranged Summer Meeting 22 August

The draw for the re-arranged summer meeting is now available. Click under DRAWS on the left hand side of this page.