Thank you Caddies

Caddies were invited to Broomieknowe today to join Midlothian team players and officials in a fun game.



The weather was kind to us and the course was looking glorious in its autumn colours.

  Thank you to Broomieknowe for granting us coutesy of the course







 There were 5 teams of 3 competing in a TexMex Scramble that proved to be very competitive with only 4 strokes dividing the first and last places. 

Congratulations to the winning trio.

Annual General Meeting - 11th November 2015

Please note that the Annual General Meeting is of course Wednesday, 11th November 2015 and not Wednesday 13th (which is the 2016 date).  Apologies.

Gabrielle - Champion of Champions Winner

'St Andrews student Gabrielle MacDonald (Craigielaw) scored one of her biggest successes since she won the Scottish women's amateur championship two years ago when she was crowed the SLGA's Champion of Champion 2015 at Glasgow Gailes Golf Club today (Sunday).

Gabrielle headed a field of 21 - more than double the size of last year's field - by two strokes with a round of 71 which matched the women's par and was six shots below the CSS of 77.' (courtesy of Kirkwood Golf)

Midlothian were well represented having four other members playing

Hannah Scott (Broomieknowe) 77

Kate McIntosh (Broomieknowe) 82

Fiona DeVries (St Rule) 83
Emma Morrison (Craigmillar Park) 91

I am sure you would like to join me in offering Gabrielle our congatulations.

Gibson Cup

The Gibson Cup took place over the Braids last weekend in glorious sunshine . Quite a change from last year when we couldn't even see the 1st tee never mind the green.

Some of our Midlothian ladies did exceptionally well in the comp with Sue Cowie and Pam Townsend taking the Trophy beating Anne Brownie and Mary Stark at the 17th.

Pam Townsend and Sue Cowie with the Trophy that was first presented in 2006 

 

 

It was Anne Brownie's last time of organising the event on behalf of Edinburgh Leisure . I am sure there are many Midlothian players in this event who would like to join me in thanking her for all the hard work that makes this competition such a great event.

Sal Shepherd is going to be taking over from Anne. We wish her good times in the future with the running of the competition.

East of Scotland Championship at Luffness on Sunday 27th Sept

The 2015 East of Scotland Championship hosted by East Lothian was played at Luffness New Golf Club.The competition was well supported by all the Counties involved (Fife, Midlothian, East Lothian and Stirling and Clackmannanshire) with the result that many hopeful competitors were unfortunately balloted out. There were 48 competitors and everyone played in glorious sunshine with no wind, very unusual for a Links Course. 

We now have the East of Scotland champion , Hannah Scott.   She won with an excellent scratch score of 70 - a new Ladies course record at Luffness New, beating the previous record of 75, held by Keren Ward (East Lothian) in the 2013 ELLCGA Spring Meeting. Very well done Hannah. Brilliant golf.

Hannah also helped our Midlothian team to win the County team cup with a score of 219. 

Our team consisted of Hannah Scott, Gabrielle Macdonald, Karen Marshall and Wendy Nicholson. Very well done to you all. 

 A big thank you to the East Lothian for organising this event this year. 

Results: CSS 73

Scratch

1 Hannah Scott, Broomieknowe (Midlothian)       70

2 Elaine Moffat, St Regulus (Fife)                        72

3 Susan Jackson, Ladybank (Fife)                        73

Handicap

1 Karen Burns, Bathgate (S&C) (6)                      68

2 Karen Ferguson, Liberton (Midlothian) (4)        71

3 Susan Penman (GLGC) (East Lothian)(6)           73 (b.i.h.)

Our Hannah with the EOS Championship Trophy

Our winning team of Hannah Scott, Gabrielle Macdonald, Karen Marshall and Wendy Nicholson with an amazing 219

Final Day at Stranraer

Amazingly although cooler today and overcast we managed to stay dry until around the 12th and then it became a not nice afternoon especially as we lost today by 3.5 to 5.5.

We won 2 out of the three foursomes matches in the morning but the singles though very hard fought were lost 1.5 to 4.

                                 Our foursomes teams. Great two wins out of three.

Great buzz on the final day singles in more seasonal weather than the first two days of beautiful sunshine.

 

 

 

What an exciting afternoon of singles. They were a strong team to beat but the girls certainly gave it there best shot. We lost the first two matches and won the third so only had to win two out of three to regain the trophy.

Wendy was 5 down at the 5th.. 2 lost balls and 3 birdies . But then came the great Wendy fight back to end up one down by the 15th. she was still only one down going down the 16th but great putting by Claire won the match for Angus. So two matches left and we needed them both.

Karen Marshall had a birdie two at the 15th to go 1 up in her match against Jemma Chalmers. Unfortunately a slightly miss aimed drive at the 16th put it back to A/S. An amazing putt by Angus on the 17th sadly put us one down and that was the end of our chances to win. But Karen's magic hands and a fantastic shot out of the bunker onto the green, to be shot of the day,  meant a halved match.

Hannah our backstop again, was 1 down going up the 18th and managed to half the last hole to end up just one down after a very exciting match.

Kate earns the title of 'woman of the match' as she won 5 out of her 6 matches. She is very attached to her new driver. Not surprising as she  was hitting it over 250yds!

So a great final day played in the best of spirits. Thank you team for your wonderful efforts.

Many congratulations to Angus for their win today.

The second day at Stranraer playing against Ayrshire

What another magnificent day with wall to wall sunshine. Better than over there in Heidleberg!!

Our Happy team below did us proud by winning 7.5 to 1.5. Some tense matches but we really have such a tenacious team that even when you think the tables have turned they manage to fight back.

We were out again at 09.30 and although there was a lot of dew on the ground the sun soon dried the course out.

Kate and Wendy led out our foursomes and romped round the course winning hole after hole to finish 6/5

Karen and Hannah followed but never quite got totally in the groove. They were one down going up the 18th which meant  a bit of nail biting but an excellent shot to the green and good put let them half the match .

Gabrielle and Louise were going really well in the first few holes to take them to 4 up by the 5th. They maintained this lead until the 10th when their opponents really started to put on the pressure. Again down to the wire with a win on the 18th.

Pressure on now to see what our singles players could achieve on a glorious afternoon.

Kate seems to have a tiger in her tank this week. She played briliantly to win 5/3.
Karen Marshall found her form again in the afternoon and was soon 4 up. Pressure from her opponent meant she ended up going up the 18th to win us another point.
Alison had a shaky start playing with water in the first few holes . She was 4 down coming down the 14th and won the next four holes to half the match. Brilliant come back.
Karen Ferguson was up for most of her round only having a hiccough towards the last few holes and ending up halving the match on the 18th.
Wendy was on great form this afternoon against a formidable opponent going three up at the 15th then winning the 16th . Winning the match 4 and 2.
Hannah was our backstop this afternoon and coped really well with that pressure. She was up from hole one and completed a great match on the 16th to win 3 and 2.

Overall another great day with lots of smiles on faces. A huge thank you to all our caddies who are doing a great job looking after the players.

Kate's shot of the day today was unfortunately her provisional when she hit it close to the pin with her drive on the 5th!

Another shot was a carefully thrown banana skin which may take some time to come down from where it is hanging in the trees!

Hope the forecast is wrong tomorrow but know our team will fight every inch of the way to bring home the trophy.