Refreshing balance...
The draw for the Championship Qualifier at Erskine GC on Wednesday 4th May has been done. The draw can be found here.
We have additional tee times for the Spring Meeting at Caldwell. There is no longer a waiting list for this competition. Booking closes on Sunday 15th May.
Photograph courtesy of Fiona Armour.
The morning reserved time of 1000 until 1200 is now full for the Spring Meeting at Caldwell GC on Monday 23rd May. Any morning entries from today until the closing date of Sunday 15th May will be put on a waiting list. There are places available at 1630 and 1730 until 1746.
If you need to withdraw from the competition, please do this at the earliest opportunity to allow the place to be offered to a member on the waiting list.
Our first competition of 2022 was played today at Greenock GC in bright and sunny weather. 29 pairs participated in the County Foursomes.
The winners in the scratch category were Donna Jackson and Liz Stewart with a gross score of 79 including a 9 at the par 3 10th! They quickly bounced back with 2 twos at the 13th and 16th holes. The winners in the handicap category were Sandra Macdougall and Mo Neilson with a great nett score of 70.
The top scratch and handicap scores were as follows:
SCRATCH
1st Donna Jackson (Troon Ladies) and Liz Stewart (Greenburn) 79
2nd Alyson McGinnigle (Douglas Park) and Carol McNally (Williamwood) 83 (bih)
3rd Gillian Kyle and Fiona Miller (East Renfrewshire) 83
HANDICAP
1st Sandra Macdougall (Kilmacolm) and Mo Neilson (Greenock) 70
2nd Fiona Armour and Brenda Mulholland (Whitecraigs) 72 (bih)
3rd Margaret Haggarty and Russell Crawford (Erskine) 72
Full set of results – CLICK HERE
QUALIFIERS – INTER-COUNTY FOURSOMES AND COMMONWEALTH SPOONS
The Inter-County Foursomes take place at Elderslie GC on Thursday 9th June. The Commonwealth Spoons take place at Crieff GC on Monday 29th August. The qualifying teams (and reserves), based on their availability will be notified shortly. Good luck to all our competing teams.
Thanks to Greenock GC for hosting the competition, their bar and catering staff. Thanks also to the ballot officials Donna Jackson, Liz Stewart, Marianne McKelvie with assistance from Pearl Orr.
Due to a very high demand for places in the West of Scotland (closed) Championship, at Glasgow Gailes on 8th May, the closing date for entries has been brought forward to Sunday 25th April.
The Co-ordinator and point of contact for this competition is Jean McIntyre, West of Scotland Secretary.
Our RLCGA VMS Development and Webmaster Fiona Armour was delighted to be asked by our SG VMS Customer Account Manager Gary Hamilton (pictured with Fiona on the putting green) to be one of his three invited guests at the VMS Golf Day on St Andrews Old Course on Thursday (14th April). The other two members of the team were Joe O’Neil, Club Secretary at Cochrane Castle GC and William Fleming, Vice Captain and Match and Handicap Secretary at Ballochmyle GC. The other teams comprised of Accounts Managers and their invited representatives from VMS Clubs and Associations under their responsibility and members of the SG VMS Team.
First visit for Fiona to the Old Course and it is indeed a challenging course hence the Women’s Green Tee Course Rating of 75.5 and Slope Rating 138. It has tight fairways and is littered with bunkers, especially those deadly pot ones, that you don’t see until it’s too late ! While Fiona managed to miss most of the bunkers the mile long putts on the huge greens were her downfall with too many three putts so had to settle for 27 Stableford points. Fellow team mate Joe O’Neil played very well coming first with 39 points so it was good to bring home the eventual winner of the event.
Here are some views from the course including the scary drive that faces you at the 17th Road Hole. Big hitters cut the corner by going over the adjacent hotel property. Fiona took the conservative ‘chicken’ route and landed on the fairway avoiding the bunkers.
Fiona had a thoroughly enjoyable day and a big thank you to Gary Hamilton not only for inviting her to represent the County at this event, and the hospitality extended by SG to all the invited guests, but also for the invaluable assistance and ongoing support that Gary provides to the County in our use of VMS to manage our membership and run competitions.
The draw for the County Foursomes at Greenock GC on Thursday 21st April has been done.
The draw can be found here.
Congratulations to 13 year old RLCGA Junior Jayla Kepler (Greenock GC) for coming first in the Bronze Handicap category of the West Girls Medal at Troon Portland today with a magnificent net 70 on what was a very difficult course (slope rating 134) in the windy conditions. Jayla only joined the County last year and this was her first West Girls medal so way to go Jayla what a great start and score.
(Jayla is in the middle of the featured photograph – photo courtesy of GILLIAN KYLE)
For further photographs and winning scores see the West Girls Facebook Page
Booking is open for the Spring Meeting at Caldwell GC on Monday 23rd May.
The tee is reserved from 1000 until 1200 and 1730 until 1746 with an additional time at 1630. You can enter this competition on the Scottish Golf app or in the Members Login area of our new website. Booking closes on Sunday 15th May.
This competition is a qualifying round for the Challenge Cup (Rosebowl).
After 19 years our stalwart member and golf news reporter extraordinaire Carol Fell announced yesterday on her Carol Fell Blog Site that following the launch of our new County Website she is retiring from reporting on Ladies and Girls golf across the West of Scotland and further afield.
In her announcement post (CLICK HERE) she relates how she got into golf reporting and creating websites over the years for so many golfing organisations.
We pay homage to Carol’s reporting and pioneering IT achievements for the County and other Ladies golf organisations in the History sub-menu of our website and provide links to the comprehensive and fascinating RLCGA Centenary Book she authored in 2009 as part of the County celebrations upon reaching this significant milestone.
It is because of Carol’s extensive reporting that we can provide our News Archive sub-menu and Gallery of photographs and videos going back to 2003 that record so many significant events and bring back great memories.
We are all indebted to Carol for the sterling work she has done for the County and the support and enthusiasm she has shown as a matter of course for all Scottish Ladies and Girls golf. She has, however, well and truly earned her retirement and can now spend more time enjoying her golf, socialising and following our County News and Facebook Posts.
Thank you very much Carol from all of the current and past RLCGA members. You will most definitely be missed but your legacy lives on.
Renfrewshire’s Liz Stewart has had a great start to the 2022 season by winning the SVLGA West Division’s Spring Meeting at Lanark.
In typical Scottish weather conditions, four seasons in one day, Liz shot a gross 80 (net 76) to win Division One.
Super Vet of the day was Irene Papworth (Ayrshire) winning Division 2 with a net 76.