Ladies Day at Strathmore raises more than £6,000 for Cancer Research

Over £6,000 was raised at Strathmore Golf Club this week at an annual Ladies Golf Day organised by the local Dundee Committee of Cancer Research Scotland.

Pictured are some of the competitors.

News item supplied by Dawn Butchart, Captain, Perth & Kinross Ladies.

COUNTDOWN TO 2008 GIBSON CUP

Any ladies wanting to play in this longstanding, annual ladies' foursomes
event over the Braid Hills golf course (Edinburgh) who have not yet put in
their entry form, still have time to apply.

With only two weeks to the closing date of 12th September for the 2008
Gibson Cup, this is a good time to get your entry in and make sure of
being included in the draw. If you've not already got an entry form or
want more information regarding the format of the competition over 27th
and 28th September then contact Colin Hutchison, Edinburgh Leisure's Golf
Development Officer by e-mail at ColinHutchison@edinburghleisure.co.uk or
by phoning 0131 6524348.

Entries should be returned to Edinburgh Leisure by 12th September 2008.

CARLY AND KELSEY MAKE GOOD
START IN BELGIUM

Scotland's girls did better than Scotland's boys on the opening day of the Belgian Junior Nations tournament at Royal Golf Club Belgium near Brussels today.
Carly Booth from Comrie shot a one-over-par 73 to be one shot behind the joint leaders, both from Wales, Katherine O'Connor and Amy Boulden.
Curtis Cupper Carly started with an eagle 3 but had to birdie the 16th and 18th after a double bogey at the 15th.
Kelsey MacDonald (Nairn Dunbar) was in joint fifth position with a 74 which included a double bogey at the ninth and bogeys at the 14th, 17th and 18th. Kelsey did birdied the fourth and 11th.
The Scots girls as a team are lying second on 147 to Wales' 144.
David Law from Hazlehead had a four-over-par 76 to be in joint 28th position behind the leaders, Rory McNamara (Ireland) and Denmark's Mads Sogaard, both on 68.
Paul Shields (Kirkhill) had a 78 to be sharing 44th place.
The Scots boys as a team are in joint 12th place on 154 behind joint leaders on 145, Wales and Ireland.

FIRST ROUND SCORES
BOYS
Par 72
68 R McNamara (Ire), M Sogaard (Den).
69 T Sorensen (Den).
Other scores:
72 C Nugent (Wal).
73 R McLister (Wal).
76 D Law (Sco).
77 A Hogan (Ire).
78 P Shields (Sco).
Team: 145 Wales, Ireland. 146 Denmark. 147 Finland. Also: 154 Scotland.
GIRLS
Par 72
72 K O'Connor (Wal), A Boulden (Wal).
73 C Booth (Sco), C Hedberg Bertrand (Spa).
Other scores:
74 K MacDonald (Sco).
Team: 144 Wales. 147 Scotland. 150 Italy, 151 Mexico.

Kylie Walker (78) leading Scot in
European individual championship

The three Scots entries in the quality field for the European women's individual amateur championship were well off the pace at the end of the first of four rounds at Schloss Schonburn Golf Club in Austria.
Kylie Walker (Buchanan Castle), beaten by Roseanne Niven in a play-off for the British women's open amateur stroke-play title last Friday, was in joint 53rd place in a field of 132 with a round of 78 over the par-73 course.
Kylie birdied the seventh and 17th in halves of 39 (three over par) and 39 (two over). She ran up a double bogey 7 at the par-5 last hole.
Majorca-based Scot Lauren Mackin had a 79 (39-40). Her only birdie came at the 12th.
Gemma Webster (Hilton Park)had a 13-over-par 86 with halves of 44 and 42. She had double bogeys at the fourth, the short fifth and the long 13th.
Christel Boeljohn from the Netherlands was the first round leader with a four-under-par 69.
She had a one-shot advantage over four players, including Spanish teenager Carlota Ciganda who won this European title four years ago when she was 14. She also won the British women's open amateur title last year at Leeds and did not defend it at North Berwick in June.
Laura Gonzalez-Escallon, the Belgian teenager who won the British girls' open amateur championship at Monifieth a couple of weeks ago, is in sixth place on 71.

European women's individual amateur championship
SCHLOSS SCHONBURN GC, AUSTRIA
FIRST ROUND LEADERS
Par 73
1 BOELJON, CHRISTEL Net 69
2 CIGANDA, CARLOTA Spa 70
3 MOLINARO, GIULIA Ita 70
4 KRING LORENTZEN, CHARLOTTE Den 70
5 HERNANDEZ, MARIA Spa 70.
6 GONZALES-ESCALLON, LAURA Bel 71
7 STEMPFLE, LAURA Ger 72
8 JENNINGS RACHEL Eng 72
9 VAN DE KRAATS, JOAN Net 72
10 VUIGNIER, FANNY Swi 73
11 NIVARD, MARIEKE Net73
12 LARSSON, LOUISE Swe 73
13 HOCHWIMMER, MARTINA Aut 74
14 BENNETT, ELIZABETH Eng 74
15 RIGUELLE, AUDREY Fra 74
16 CHEMARIN, LAURA Fra 74
17 DECHARNE, AUDREY Fra 74
18 WHITTAKER, LEIGH Ger 74
19 URCHEGUI, ANE Spa 74
20 DAFFINRUD, TONJE Net 74
21 LEURQUIN, CHLOÉ Bel 75
22 DREHER, JUSTINE Fra 75.
23 JORGENSEN, MALENE Den 75
24 ROTMISTROVA, GALINA Rus 75.
25 ANDRE, LUCIE Fra 75.
26 ROMINGER, CAROLINE Swi 75.
27 GENUINI, BARBARA Fra 75.
28 ROSCIO ANNA Ita 75.
29 WEILGUNI, SOPHIE-THERESE Aut 76.
30 HALBIG, PIA Ger 76.
31 BONETTI ALEXANDRA Fra 76.
32 ZWANCK ADRIANA Spa 76.
33 HUBER REBECCA Swi 76.
34 ENDSTRASSER STEFANIE Aut 76.
35 WIPPLINGER, JOHANNA Aut 76.
36 NEEF, FRANZISKA Ger 76.
37 EDWARDS,NAOMI Eng 76.
38 PRAT MIREIA Spa 76.
39 MAFFIULETTI, MATIA Ita 76
40 SCHULZ, KATHARINA Ger 77.
41 KNIGHT, ALESSIA Ita 77.
42 AITCHISON, HOLLY Eng 77.
43 DUVERNAY, MARION Fra 77.
44 HASSAN, SAHRA Wal 77.
45 NIKULINA, ELIZAVETA Rus 77.
46 TIDOW ULRIKE Ger 77.
47 GEVERS, VALENTINE Bel 77.
48 PARKER, FLORENTYNA Eng 77.
49 GIDALI MANON Fra 77.
50 HAGEN, CESILIE Nor 77.
51 NIELSEN, DAISY Den 78.
52 VANMOL, MANON Bel 78.
53 TANNÒ, NATALIA Swi 78.
54 STERNEBECK, VALERIE Ger 78.
55 HOFFMEISTER,THEA Ger 78.
56 WALKER, KYLIE Sco 78.
57 HOLLEDER, NINA Ger 78.
58 CONNOR, RACHEL Eng 78.
59 ARDSTRÖM, SARA Swe 78.
60 STRÄNG, ADRIANA Swe 78.
61 MÄTZLER, MELANIE Swi 78.
62 BÖHM, KATHARINA Ger 78.
63 TSCHIDA, MARIE Ger 78.
64 KIRCHMAYR, STEPHANIE Ger 78.
65 FULD, ANNA Aut 78.
Other scores:
74 MACKIN, LAUREN Sco 79.
81 JENKINS, HANNAH Wal 80.
85 JAMES, SIAN Eng 80.
111 THOMAS, RHIAN WYN Wal 84.
119 WEBSTER, GEMMA Sco 86.

PGA GIRLS PLAY IN INSCH PRO-AM

Former British women's amateur stroke-play champion Heather MacRae from Dunblane, now training as a PGA assistant professional at Gullane, and Katie Thomson (Aspire Golf Centre), a past Aberdeenshire women's amateur county champion, are in the field for the £4,500 Acergy Young Professionals' pro-am at Insch Golf Club, Aberdeenshire on Friday, September 12.

+Katie played as a pro in the inaugural Hacienda del Alamo Women's Winter Golf Festival earlier this year. We're hoping that both Katie and Heather will play in the 2009 HDA Festival. Watch this space!

Marc Warren is right - you

need to enter the

Hacienda del Alamo

Festival to get in

Winter Practice

By COLIN FARQUHARSON

Here's an unsolicited advertisement for the 2009 Hacienda del Alamo Women's Winter Golf Festival (February 11 to 17) from a MAN.

Glasgow's Marc Warren, who defends the Johnnie Walker Championship at Gleneagles this week, told Mike Aitken of "The Scotsman" yesterday:

"You can't practise your short game in Scotland in the winter. You don't see the true flight of the ball and it's difficult to see what's actually happening. I want my practice to be more about playing rather than just trying to swing it pretty."

Marc could also have said you can't practise your short game in England, Ireland, Wales, the Scandinavian countries, in fact anywhere in Northern Europe during the winter.

That's why Billy Sim, the director of golf at Hacienda del Alamo, and I started the HDA Women's Winter Festival in February this year.

It was to give female golfers - professionals who can't afford to go Australia and such places, and amateurs (including over-50 seniors and Under-18 girls) with handicaps up to 20 - the chance to put in some sustained practice at Hacienda del Alamo Golf Resort's five-star practice facilities with the bonus of competitive play to put to the test what you have been working on in practice.

There are four events over the long weekend. But you don't need to play in them all.

Don't think because there will be lady professionals playing, that you have no chance of winning any prizes. Each section has its own prize list.

Pringle, Stewart Spence (The Marcliffe at Pitfodels Hotel, Aberdeen) and an oil company who don't want to be named but are delighted to support ladies/girls' golf are our sponsors. But we are always looking to add to the list.

If you want all the details about the 2009 Hacienda del Alamo Women's Winter Festival E-mailed to you or you have questions to ask, E-mail Colin@Scottishgolfview.com

January 15 is the closing date for entries but you can enter now.