UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS GHALLENGE

NEWS RELEASE

Dear Sir/Madam,                               

                                   

Inaugural University of St Andrews Ladies’ Challenge

As part of the University of St Andrews’ 600-year celebrations we are proud to launch a female equivalent event of the Boyd Quaich, the University of St Andrews Ladies’ Challenge.  The Boyd Quaich is a world-famous golf tournament held in St Andrews. Each year, 72 elite-level male golfers compete to win the Quaich which dates back to 1946. The tournament is played in honour of two former St Andrews students who lost their lives in World War 2 and the aim of the event is the same today as when it was launched; that students from around the world should meet through friendly competition on the golf courses of St Andrews. The Boyd Quaich tournament motto is, “To the lasting friendship of all nations”, and this idea is passed on to all competitors each year.

The ambition and spirit for this prestigious event is the same as for men’s event - to welcome international female student golfers from around the world to embrace the concept of friendship and competitive rivalry in the “home of golf”.

This year, the tournament will be held from 9^th to 11^th July 2013. The format is individual strokeplay over 54 holes and your university is invited to enter a maximum of two female students.  In the first year, the starting field will be 36 female golfers, but in future years it is hoped that a full cohort of 72 players will participate, equivalent to that of the Boyd Quaich. This tournament will be played on the prestigious golf courses based at the Links (Jubilee) and the Fairmont Hotel (the Torrance) and will be run as an R&A World Amateur Golf Ranking event.

The handicap limit is 8 and the first 20 places of handicap 4.4 and below will be guaranteed entry based on a first-come, first-served basis. The following 16 available places will be accepted with the lowest handicaps.  Competitors must provide a verified current handicap certificate on their arrival in St Andrews. The closing date for entry is 31^st May 2013.

Accommodation is subsidised and available in a University residence called University Hall. This is located about 0.75 miles from the Old Course and 3.5 miles from the Fairmont Hotel. The launch dinner will be held on Monday 8^th July at the Fairmont Hotel.

Alternative accommodation is available at the Fairmont Hotel. Please contact the Fairmont directly to arrange:

Visit: www.fairmont.com/st-andrews-scotland/

Email: standrews.scotland@fairmont.com

Telephone : +44 (0)1334 837000

Tournament Entries

Please note that online entry and payment of fees is required. There is no paper entry form to complete. All the information we require from each golfer will be gathered online. Practice rounds are not included in the entry fee, but these can be organised and paid for directly, either with the Links (www.standrews.org.uk/) or with the Fairmont Hotel (see above).

The link to the online application is available here.   

·     We will start to accept applications for entry from 18^th March, 2013

·     Applications should arrive no later than 31^st May 2013

Entry Fee                                                                    £95 (payable online)

Player accommodation fee                                         £155 (payable online)

Caddy/coach/supporter accommodation fee             £160 (payable online)

More detailed information will be sent to you within the next few weeks.

For more information, please visit our website at:

www.st-andrews.ac.uk/sport/performance/focus/golf/universityofstandrewsladiesgolfchallenge/

This can be accessed via the University’s home page by selecting “Current Students”, “Sport and Exercise”, “Performance”, “Focus Sports”, and “Golf”.  Alternatively, contact the Convener with questions via email at STAULGC@st-andrews.ac.uk. 

We look forward to welcoming you and/or your students to St Andrews in the summer!

Yours faithfully,

Debby Sargent

Debby Sargent Convener, Ladies’ Golf Challenge University of St Andrews

IRISH WOMEN'S INTER-PROVINCIAL MATCHES

Castle Dargan Golf Resort
3-5 April 2013

Points Table (after day 1)
Munster 1
Ulster ½
Leinster ½
Connacht 0

Draw for Day 2 - Thursday 4th April
Leinster -v- Munster (1st tee)09:00 Karen Delaney & Maria Dunne -v- Emma O'Driscoll & Laura McCarthy
09:10 Amy Farrell & Carla Reynolds -v- Gillian O'Leary & Sarah Cunningham
09:20 Aedin Murphy & Deirdre Smith -v- Chloe Ryan & Sinead Sexton

Ulster -v- Connacht (9th tee)
09:00 Leona Maguire & Lisa Maguire -v- Darragh McGowan & Shannon Burke
09:10 Paula Grant & Jessica Carty -v- Clodagh Hopkins & Suzanne Corcoran
09:20 Lucy Simpson & Jessica Ross -v- Fiona Moclair & Ann Cassidy

Day 1 - Wednesday 3rd April
Munster with a clinical short game won all three foursomes matches against Connacht.    Laura McCarthy and Aoife Lowry gave Munster the perfect start winning 6 and 4 while  the young partnership of Sinead Sexton and Chloe Ryan birdied the 2nd, 4th, 6th and 10th to closed out their match on the twelfth leaving the experienced pairing of Gillian O’Leary and Sarah Cunningham who started and finished with birdies to defeat Connacht’s Anne McCormack and Darragh McGowan 4 and 3.
Munster stayed on course to challenge for the trophy with a convincing defeat of Connacht in the singles.  Jean O’Driscoll survived a scare from up and coming Connacht star Shannon Burke(Ballinrobe) who levelled the match on the seventeenth but Jean held a good par putt on the last to win the match.  Emma O’Driscoll who was rested in the morning came out strong to dispatch of Anne McCormack while Laura McCarthy, Chloe Ryan and Sinead Sexton continued to impress Laura winning 1up and Chloe and Sinead both recording 4 and 3 wins.  Darragh McGowan’s win against Aoife Lowry gives Connacht encouragement going forward.

Leinster took a one match  advantage into their singles encounter again Ulster.  Amy Farrell and Carla Reynolds against Ulster’s Paula Grant and Jessica Carty was match of the day with the Leinster pair closing out the match on the seventeenth 4 under par against Ulster’s 2 under.  Earlier in the morning the Maguire twins comfortably beat Karen Delaney and Maria Dunne while the last match was a nip and tuck affair with excellent putting from both sides with Leinster edging ahead to win by 2 and 1.
Ulster staged a comeback in the singles against with Leona Maguire, Lisa Maguire and Paula Grant taking the top three matches and Lucy Simpson following in with a half against Mary Doyle to swing the balance in their favour.  However, Leinster not to be outdone halved the overall encounter with both Aedin Murphy and Deirdre Smith recording crucial wins.

Connacht 1 - 8 Munster
Foursomes
Clodagh Hopkins & Fiona Moclair lost to Laura McCarthy & Aoife Lowry 6&4
Anne McCormack & Darragh McGowan lost to Gillian O’Leary & Sarah Cunningham 4&3
Niamh Kitching & Ann Cassidy lost to Sinead Sexton & Chloe Ryan 7&6
Singles
Shannon Burke lost to Jean O'Driscoll 1up
Suzanne Corcoran lost to Laura McCarthy 1up
Anne McCormack lost to Emma O'Driscoll 6&5
Darragh McGowan beat Aoife Lowry 2&1
Ann Cassidy lost to Chloe Ryan 4&3
Niamh Kitching lost to Sinead Sexton 4&3

Ulster 4½ - 4½ Leinster (9th tee)
FoursomesLeona Maguire & Lisa Maguire beat Karen Delaney & Maria Dunne 5&4
Paula Grant & Jessica Carty lost to Amy Farrell & Carla Reynolds 3&1
Louise Coffey & Victoria Bradshaw lost to Aedin Murphy & Deirdre Smith 2&1
Singles
Leona Maguire beat Maria Dunne 5&3
Lisa Maguire beat Ariana Coyle Diez 2&1
Paula Grant beat Carla Reynolds 2&1
Lucy Simpson halved with Mary Doyle
Jessica Carty lost to Aedin Murphy 2&1
Louise Coffey lost to Deirdre Smith 4&3

Sandra Barnett

Irish Ladies Golf Union

103-105 Q House, 76 Furze Road

Sandyford Industrial Estate

Dublin 18

Tel: 01 2934833 Fax: 01 2934832 W: www.ilgu.ie, E sandra@ilgu.ie

 

MATHIAS AND GEORGIA WIN STUDENTS' TITLES AT LOSSIEMOUTH

      Stirling University - winner of the men's team championship

REPORT FROM ROB MACPHERSON
On a frost affected day the final 36 holes of the 2013 Scottish Student Golf Championship at Moray Golf Club, Lossiemouth there was a nail-biting climax to the Ladies Championship and a tooth-and-nail battle between team mates for the Men's Championship. 
The morning round for the ladies saw the overnight lead of Georgia Gilling closed to one shot, from playing partner Iona Stephen (St Andrews). 
During the afternoon round, the lead between these players and St Andrews Captain, Gabrielle MacDonald, changed hands a number of times and, standing on the eigteenth tee, all was to play for. 
A final hole bogey was enough for Lossie rookie Georgia, pictured below, to lift the trophy with a score of 76, 72, 78, 82 = 308, with Gabrielle and Iona tying on scores of 311. 

In the Ladies Team Championship, Iona and Gabrielle were joined by Gemma Bradbury and Maranda Brain to take the prize of leading team. 
In the Men's Individual Championship, there was a wire-to-wire victory for Swiss international, Mathias Eggenberger (Stirling) who added a one under par afternoon round to a level par 71 morning round for a total of 66, 73, 71, 70 = 280 (-2). 
Mathias, who is a Sports Studies and Marketing student, is the current Belgian International Amateur Champion said that the highlight of his day was his five-under par back nine in the morning round which consolidated his lead after a shaky front nine and set him up for victory. 
Runner-up was Stirling teammate and Scottish International, Jack McDonald and third place also went to a Stirling sports bursar, Kit Holmes. 
These three combined with colleagues Zander Culverwell and Mike Howard to lead Stirling to victory in the team championship with a combined score of 561 ahead of local institutions - University of Aberdeen (596) in second and University of the Highlands and Islands (598). 

MEN'S FINAL TOTALS
280 Mathias Eggenberger (Stirling)  66 73 71 70   
282 Jack McDonald (Stirling) 72 71 69 70   
289 Kit Holmes (Stirling)     71 72 70 76   
292 Dewi Merckx (Stirling)     77 72 73 70
292 Patrick Spraggs (Stirling) 74 68 80 70   
293 Antonio Mendes (Stirling  77 72 75 69   
293 Ross Crummey (Aberdeen)     73     70     70     80
294 Oscar Hein (UHI)     73     74     79     68   
294 Callum McNeill (UHI)     77     69     74     74   
295 Alexander Culverwell (Stirling     71     76     75     73
295 Gordon Munro (Robert Gordon)     77     72     72     74
295 Michael Howard (Stirling)     71     76     74     74   
296 Ben Jamieson (St Andrews)     76     72     71     77   
297 Freddie Edmunds (St Andrews)     72     76     79     70   
297 Tom Beasley (St Andrews)     73     73     77     74   
297 Peter Grant (Aberdeen)     77     74     69     77   
298 Greg Telfer (Glasgow)     74     73     77     74   
300 Jack Walker (Robert Gordon)     76     77     76     71   
300 Michael Boddie (Aberdeen)     79     77     73     71   
300 Craig Chalmers (Strathclyde)     75     76     77     72   
300 Roddy Forgie (Edinburgh)     74     73     79     74
302 Martin Tavoda (Birmingham)     75     75     79     73   
303 Angus Carrick (Stirling)     76     74     80     73   
304 Darren Leith (UHI)     76     76     76     76   
305 Joao Malagueira (Stirling)     82     73     73     77   
305 Cameron Graham (Strathclyde)     76     74     78     77   
306 Andrew Davidson (Adam Smith)     77     79     72     78   
306 John Drummond (Aberdeen)     77     72     76     81   
307 Steven Burn (Northumbria)     78     79     74     76   
307 Tom Spencer (Aberdeen)     77     74     74     82   
308 Scott Simpson (Edinburgh)     74     76     87     71
308 Douglas Maxwell (Aberdeen)     74     73     79     82   
308 Varun Varadharajan (Heriot Watt) 74     77     73     84   
308 Nick MacAndrew (Aberdeen)     73     78     75     82   
309 Oliver Roberts (Stirling)     78     78     78     75   
310 McLaren (Edinburgh) 75 77 81 77   
311 Blair Murphy (Heriot Watt)     73     80     77     81   
311 Jamie Pryde (Robert Gordon)     72     78     78     83   
313 Malo Scullion (Aberdeen)     78     79     81     75   
320 Oli Fowler (Edinburgh) 74 77 80 89
320 Ross Black (UHI) 73 83 83 81
321 Cairn Rae (Stirling) 75 82 81 83
324 Charles Hickling (UHI)     77     78     85     74   
324 Joe Marchbank (St Andrews)     77     79     83     75   
324 Michael Manson (Strathclyde)     72     82     83     77   
324 Jamie Whittet (UHI)     80     76     78     80   
325 Craig Hughes (Strathclyde)     77     79     79     80   
326 Colin Sutherland (Dundee)     76     77     82     81   
326 Derek Ramsey (UHI)     73     82     78     83   
328 Bertie Allison (Glasgow)     80     75     85     78   
329 Niall Fagan (Strathclyde)     78     79     83     79   

WOMEN'S TOTALS
308 Georgia Gillina (Stirling) 76 72 78 82
311 Gabrielle MacDonald (St Andrews) 80 79 74 78
311 Iona Stephen (St Andrews) 78 75 74 84
313 Miranda Brain (St Andrews) 84 74 73 82
317 Amy Chambers (St Andrews) 88 77 76 76
317 Jordana Graham (Stirling) 84 80 74 79
319 Gemma Bradbury (St Andrews) 80 78 86 75
327 Franziax Benze (St Andrews) 88 80 80 79
331 Zhanna Tarasko (St Andrews) 84 83 82 82
332 Kine Wold (Strathclyde) 91 77 75 89
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