AILSA PIPS CARNOUSTIE CLUBMATE JESSICA FOR ANGUS TOP SEEDING

Defending champion Ailsa Summers (Carnoustie Ladies) earned the No 1 seeding in this year's Angus women's county championship match-play stages - but it was a close run thing against the back in form clubmate Jessica Meek.
They both went round the Monifieth Links Medal Course in 75 and the contback went to the last six holes before Ailsa prevailed and won the Chalmers Rosebowl.
Jemma Chalmers (Monifieth) will be the third seed after a round of 77.
 MATCH-PLAY DRAW FOR MAY 5
NEW TIMES 
 
09.31  Ailsa Summers (Carnoustie Ladies) v Jane Grubb (Montrose Mercantile).
09.38  Mandy Barlow (Montrose Mercantile) v Susan Arbuckle (Panmure Barry).
09.45 Claire Penman (Carnoustie Caledonian) v Louise Smith (Monifieth).
09.52 Frances Miller (Carnoustie Caledonia) v Heather Munro (Monifieth).
09.59 Kathleen Sutherland (Royal Montrose) v Ashley Alston (Royal Montrose).
10.06 Claire Robertson (Carnoustie Ladies) v Jacqueline Sneddon (Alyth).
10.13 Ashley Smith (Monifieth) v Dawn Dargie (Monifieth).
10.20 Jackie Brown (Monifieth) v Jemma Chalmers (Monifieth).
      
Leading returns at tonight's (Tuesday) Spring Meeting and Championship Qualifier:

SCRATCH
75 Ailsa Summers (Carnoustie Ladies) better last six holes, Jessica Meek (Carnoustie Ladies).
77 Jemma Chalmers (Monifieth).
SILVER DIVISION
Handicaps 0 to 12
1st Alice Leiper (Carnoustie Caledonia) (10) 72
2nd Wendy Edwards (Arbroath) (11) 73
3rd Jen Petrie (Ladies Panmure Barry) (11) 75
Handicaps 13 to 20
1st Mandy Barlow (Montrose Mercantile) (14) 71
2nd Sheila Bradley (Kirriemuir) (16) 76
3rd Anne Hutcheson (Ladies Panmure Barry) (16) 77

BRONZE DIVISION
Scratch
Winner: Susan Baxby (Ladies Panmure Barry) 95
Handicap
1st Lynda Birse (Arbroath) (21) 76
2nd, Pat Bruce (Letham Grange) (24) 78

Chalmers Rosebowl winner: Ailsa Summers
Fenton Quaich winner: Mandy Barlow

PAUL LAWRIE GOLF CENTRE SCOTTISH LADIES OPEN TOUR

SALTIRE ENERGY CLASSIC 2
 @ DEESIDE GOLF CLUB

TUESDAY, MAY 7


Following the withdrawal of several players, late entries will be accepted right up to lunchtime on the day of the event. 
Entries can be made on line at www.scottishladiestour.co.uk
If there are any problems, E-mail Tournament Director Nicola Melville: nicola.melville@live.co.uk 

TEE TIMES
 
14:00 Katy McNicoll (Carnoustie) pro,  Laura Harvey (Yorkshire)
pro.  

14:09 Daisy Dyer (Chigwell, Essex) pro, Karyn Burns (Glasgow
Golf Centre) pro.  

14:18 Michele Thomson (Ellon) pro, Nichola Ferguson (Milngavie) amateur, Meg Seivwright (Keith) amateur.

14:27 Laura Murray (Paul Lawrie Golf Centre) pro, Lisa Shervill (West Kilbride) pro, Kimberley Beveridge (Aboyne) amateur.

14:36 Gemma Webster (Elie Sports Club) pro, Kelly Guthrie
(Oldmeldrum) amateur, Heather Stirling (Dairsie) pro.

14:45 Pamela Feggans (Patna, Ayrshire), Jessica Meek
(Carnoustie Ladies) amateur, Heather MacRae (Gleneagles Hotel) pro.

14:54 Martine Pow (Selkirk) pro, Lisa Ball (Matfen Hall)
amateur.

15:03 Julie Forbes (Murcar Links) pro, Cara Thompson (Royal
Dornoch) amateur,  Sheena Wood (Aberdeen Ladies) amateur.

+Remember there is a brand new £20,000 Kia car, put up by Arnold Clark Aberdeen, for the first player to hole her tee shot at Deeside's first hole.
+First prize in the tournament is £850. 

Competitors will be given free use on Tuesday morning of the facilities at the Paul Lawrie Golf Centre on the South Deeside Road at Ardoe (about 2 miles from the Old Bridge of Dee.
Although Deeside Golf Club has excellent short-game practice facilities, the balls in use on the driving range will fly only half the distance of a "normal" ball so that private houses at the far right hand end of the range are not endangered. 

AMI WITHDRAWS - PLACE AVAILABLE IN PAUL LAWRIE TOUR EVENT AT TRUMP INTERNATIONAL

A place in the field for the Paul Lawrie Ladies Tour event at Trump International Links on Monday has become available. 

Ami Storey (Ponteland GC and Northumbria University) has had to withdraw.
So if any lady pro or single-figure amateur wants to step into the field in place of Ami, pictured right, you can enter online at
www.scottishladiestour.co.uk

Ami hopes to make it up to the PLGC SLOT events at the two St Andrews venues in August.  

DUNFERMLINE LADIES OPEN ON SUNDAY, JUNE 2

The Ladies Open at Dunfermline Golf Club (Pitfirrane) is on Sunday 2nd June.
Scratch and handicap prizes, entry fee £12.
If you would like to enter either email the Tournament Secretary  lynwright@aol.com
or send an entry along with a cheque and SAE to
Ladies Tournament Secretary, Dunfermline Golf Club, Pitfirrane, Crossford Fife, KY12 8QW
This is a great oppportunity to play one of the best parkland courses in Fife.

BRITISH SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES NATIONAL FINALS

NEWS RELEASE

A fantastic two days of golf at the Princes Golf Club in Kent for the British Schools and Colleges National Team Finals and Players Championships. 
The team championships were held on the Wednesday with all the top golf schools and colleges in the UK that qualified for the national finals via the UK league. 
The Darren Clarke Golf School from Northern Ireland came out on top, winning  the gross  event with scores of 70, 72, 75 and 76. 
They also won the net event  with a total of 284 with the best four scores from the six-player team to count.
The Golf College ( Denis Pugh's Academy) were runners up in the gross event on countback with Moulton College with a total score of 300. 
Derby College took the runners up spot in the Nett team event with a score of 288.

The Darren Clarke Golf School players, (left to right) James McVicker, Brian Carroll, Karl McCormack, Graham Mackay (coach), Conor Gorevan, Alex Doyle, JR Galbraith.  received the 2 main trophies plus trophies for each of the team gross and nett, they also received their GALVIN GREEN tops as prizes.

BRIDGESTONE Golf were on hand during the day to offer free ball fitting and a sleeve of balls to all that had their ball flight analysed
Most amazing story of the day was Josh Robertson ( Lee Westwood Golf School Essex) scored a hole in one on the 7th on the Himalayas ( 188 yards with a 4 iron)…sadly the hole in one cash prize of £7500 was for the following day…..British Schools Golf are currently organising a prize for him. ( separate press release will be sent out tomorrow)

Harry Woan ( Moulton) also hit a great shot into the par 5 16th holing out from 242 yards with a 3 wood to score a albatross
The Players Championships were played on the Himalayas and Shore courses on Thursday. The weather was fine with a few of the players being caught out with the hot sun. Some great scores with 12 players shooting level par or under. Jack Yule (Lee Westwood Golf School Essex) took the trophy with a 2 under par score of 69, he collected his trophy and GALVIN GREEN prize.

The Girls had their own separate competition and Gee Won Park

(Hartpury) came in with a 75 to take the trophy and a GALVIN GREEN prize…some of the girls pictured below with Gee

Full results and pictures are on the British Schools website   www.BritishSchoolsGolf.com

David Quin

Independent Schools Golf Association

t. 0208 959 2635

m. 07980 658 609

e.davidquin@isga.org.uk

STEPHEN GALLACHER FOUNDATION NEWS RELEASE

 
STUART HUTCHISON TROPHIES 
  at Swanston Golf Club on Sunday 28th April

Stuart Hutchison sadly died over 3 years ago in a tragic car accident on the A7, Stuart was a former Junior Champion of Swanston Golf Club and was a trainee PGA Professional at the time of the accident, he had a great passion for golf especially Junior golf and it was with many thanks to his family that they decided to donate 2 Claret Jug trophies to Clubgolf back in 2010 for boys and girls to compete for. 

The Hutchison family, led my mum Isobel, have kindly donated these trophies now to the Foundation for the children to compete for and they have also kindly donated £2,250 to the Foundation for the benefit of the children. 
We are extremely grateful to all the Hutchison family for all the fund raising they do for Junior golf and we will endeavour to ensure all their monies are used in the right manner for the benefit of the children.
On a cold and showery day at Swanston Golf Club we had 66 boys and girls competing for the Stuart Hutchison Trophies. Congratulations to all the boys, girls and parents for braving the cold conditions at the weekend.
The event was played in a stroke play format over 9 holes and there was excellent scoring in very testing conditions. Special mention must go to our two main winners, Megan Linton won the Girls trophy with an excellent score of 37 while the Boys trophy went to Aamar Saleem with an excellent score of 31, even better as he is still young enough for our under 10 section. Well done to you both.

The overall results for the day were as follows:

STUART HUTCHISON GIRLS TROPHY

Megan Linton Score 37

STUART HUTCHISON BOYS TROPHY

Aamar Saleem Score 31

Under 14 Girls 
1. Carys Irvine Score 40
2. Catherine Milne Score 43
3. Samantha MacGregor Score 44

Under 10 Girls
1. Jessica Thain Score 40
2. Katie Liddle Score 41
3. Annabel Thain Score 43

Under 12 Boys
1. Ben Mace Score 32
2. Josh Hunt Score 33
2. Murray Cannon Score 33

Under 10 Boys 
1. Cameron Adam Score 33
2. Gregor Linton Score 34
2. Aidan O'Hagan Score 34

Once again many congratulations to everyone who braved the elements today.

All pictures from today's event can be found on our Facebook page, Stephen Gallacher Foundation.

Our next Flag Event takes place at Melrose Golf Club on Sunday 12th May. Melrose is an excellent course and I look forward to seeing you all there, you can enter for this event by visiting our website www.sgfoundation.co.uk

Scott Knowles
Manager
http://www.sgfoundation.co.uk/
Mobile 07786540614