ROYAL ABERDEEN BEAT MURCAR LINKS IN ABERDEEN JUNIOR PENNANT FINAL

Royal Aberdeen won the Aberdeen and District Junior Pennant League Championship today for the first time since 2000.

They beat Murcar Links 3-2 in the Final at Oldmeldrum Golf Club.

Both teams performed well in very wet conditions 

Balgownie team player Cameron Black deserves a mention because he holed two great putts at the 16th and 17th holes, both for birdies, for he and his partner Clark Moore to win their match 3 and 1 and seal the win for Royal Aberdeen.

ROYAL ABERDEEN 3, MURCAR LINKS 2

At Oldmeldrum GC

Royal Aberdeen names first:

Grant Joss and Andrew Carrell bt Chris Somers and Jay Hutton 5 and 3.
Elliot Moore and Finlay McPherson lost to Euan Alexander and Jack Craig 1 hole.
Patrick McKenna and Gavin Elrick bt Blair Milne and Mark Elder 4 and 3
Fintan McKenna and Jonathan Bell lost to Matthew Dick and Matthew Gray 1 hole.
Cameron Black and Clark Moore bt Glen Urquhart and Thomas Burnett 3 and 1

ROYAL ABERDEEN BOYS WITH THE TROPHY
Left to right: Elliot Moore, Grant Joss, Andrew Carrell, Finlay McPherson, Fintan McKenna, Patrick McKenna, Gavin Elrick, Clark Moore, Jonathan Bell . In front holding the trophy is Cameron Black.

CALUM HILL FINISHES TOP SCOT IN COOPER JUNIOR MASTERS

A third-round 79 killed off the title hopes of Calum Hill (Tantallon), second at the halfway stage, in the Sir Henry Cooper Junior Masters at Nizels Golf Club Kent yesterday (Sunday).

Hill, hoping to repeat Craig Howie's 2012 victory in the event, eventually finished joint 17th on 293 with scores of 68-74-79-72 - 11 shots behind the boys' tournament winner, Matty Lamb (Hexham) who had rounds of 73, 71, 70 and 68 for 282 and a two-stroke win from Adam Chapman (Windermere).

Chris MacClean (Clydebank and District0 finished joint 22nd on 296 with scores of 71, 76, 76 and 73.

Alan Waugh (Cowglen) and Ewen Ferguson (Bearsden) tied for 27th place on 298. Waugh scored 70, 77, 78 and 73, Ferguson 69,75,78 and 76.

Connor Sym (Dumfries and Co) shot 73, 73, 80 and 74 for a share of 32nd place on 300.

The other Scottish boys did not qualify for the final day's play:

147 Robert MacIntyre (Glencruitten) 72 78, Euan Walker (Kilmarnock Barassie) 77 73.

152 Alex Wilson (Renaissance) 72 80.

153 Colin Edgar (Cochrane Castle) 78 75, George Burns (Williamwood) 75 78

156 Willem Kerr (Craigielaw) 79 77

157 Ben Kinsley (St Andrews) 70 87

159 Blair Carnegie (Glenbervie) 76 83.

GIRLS FINAL TOTALS

295 Jerri Sewello (Shooters Hill) 72 75 75 73

302 Morgane Metraux (Swi) 75 77 76 74, Chloe Frankish (Chart Hills) 76 76 74 74

MISSED THE CUT

160 Tegan Seivwright (Deeside) 75 85

162 Eilidh Watson (Muckhart) 80 82.

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IRISH LADIES GOLF UNION NAME INTERNATIONAL TEAMS

Irish Ladies Golf Union team selections:

EUROPEAN GIRLS TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP
Linkoping, Sweden: July 9 to 13
 
Ariana Coyle Diez (Elm Park)
Laura Doherty (Howth)
Mary Doyle (The Heath)
Olivia Mehaffey (RCDL)
Niamh McSherry (Lurgan)
Chloe Weir (Shandon Park)
 
1st Reserve – Hannah Henderson (Ballyclare)
2nd Reserve – Niamh Ward (Lurgan)
Captain Darragh McGowan (Ballybofey and Stranorlar)
Coach Gary Madden

EUROPEAN WOMEN'S TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP
Fulford Golf Cub, York: July 9 to 13

Maria Dunne (Skerries)

Paula Grant (Lisburn)
Leona Maguire (Slieve Russell)
Lisa Maguire (Slieve Russell)
Stephanie Meadow (Royal Portrush)
Chloe Ryan (Castletroy)

1st Reserve – Jessica Carty (Holywood)
2nd Reserve - Amy Farrell (Moate)
Captain Claire Coughlan Ryan (Cork)
High Performance Manager - David Kearney

GRAND PRIX des LANDES 

Hossegor, SW France,  July 18 to 21

Amy Farrell (Moate)
Aedin Murphy (Carlow)
Emma O’Driscoll (Ballybuinion)

EUROPEAN YOUNG MASTERS,

Hamburger GC, Germany, July 25 to 27

Olivia Mehaffey (Royal County Down Ladies)
Niamh McSherry (Lurgan)
Manager - Irene Poynton (The Island)

 

 

PAULA GRANT WINS IRISH WOMEN'S CLOSED TITLE AT AGE OF 19

Paula Grant, a 19-year-old from Lisburn Golf Club, is the new Irish women's closed amateur champion.
She beat 18-year-old Lisa Maguire (Slieve Russell) at the 19th in the final at Ballybunion Golf Club this afternoon.
In a wind gusting up to 40mph, Grant won the first and second but lost the sixth, ninth, 11th and 12th to be two down.
Grant won the 13th and 15th to square the match.
Maguire, the 2009 Irish champion and a GB and I Curtis Cup player in the past, edged ahead again by winning the 17th but Grant squared the match at the 18th.
Both faced putts of approximately 22ft for par at the 19th. Maguire missed hers, Grant holed to win the title.

RESULTS
SEMI-FINALS
Lisa Maguire (Slieve Russell) bt Olivia Mehaffey (Royal Co. Down Ladies) 5 and 4
Paula Grant (Lisburn) bt Jessica Carty (Holywood) 3 and 1
FINAL
Grant bt Maguire at the 19th.

GWLADYS NOCERA WINS FIRST LET EVENT FOR FIVE YEARS

NEWS RELEASE FROM THE LADIES EUROPEAN TOUR
Report by BETHAN CUTLER, LET Media Manager
Brezno, Slovakia:  Former European No.1 Gwladys Nocera gave herself a confidence lift when she won her first Ladies European Tour title for five years on Sunday.
The 38-year-old Frenchwoman, whose last tournament victory was at the 2008 Madrid Ladies Masters, took the Allianz Ladies Slovak Open presented by Respect with a four stroke margin of victory over South African Lee-Anne Pace.
“I’m very, very happy and pretty emotional,” said a tearful Nocera after claiming her 11th LET title. “It’s been a while since I lifted a trophy. It was hard again today. I don’t feel like I’m hitting the ball like I should and I don’t feel that I’m hitting the ball well enough, but I tried to stay patient and draw on my experience.”
Although Nocera started the day with a two-stroke lead over Pace, the win was anything but simple.
Nocera bogeyed the second hole and was caught in a share of the lead after Pace birdied the difficult par-four sixth.
However, the 32-year-old South African immediately double bogeyed the next hole after taking a penalty drop from a lateral water hazard.
Nocera birdied the eighth to go three strokes clear, but then three-putted the ninth.
Pace was only one stroke behind Nocera after she holed a medium length birdie putt on 10, but Nocera pulled two ahead again with a birdie on 11.
There was a two shot swing on the long, downhill 14th hole, which Pace bogeyed and Nocera birdied, to go four clear with as many holes to play.
Nocera made her putt just before the heavens opened and officials called a suspension due to the threat of lightning in the area.
Although there were sunny skies at the clubhouse, black clouds loomed at the bottom of the valley and loud rumbles could be heard from the storms only five kilometres away.
After a 45 minute delay, the leaders returned to the course and Pace picked up a stroke on 15.
At the par-four 16th, after hitting a poor drive behind a tree, Nocera holed a crucial putt of seven metres to save par, while Pace missed her chance for birdie.
“I made probably the best putt of the week on that hole so it made things easier for the last two holes. I knew it was going to be tricky,” Nocera said.
Nocera then sealed a final round of 70 with a chip and tap-in birdie putt on 18 to end nine-under-par after four rounds before being sprayed in champagne by her French colleagues, including Jade Schaeffer, Caroline Afonso, Alexandra Villatte, Julie Greciet and Marion Ricordeau.
Pace also felt that hole was the decider and added: “16 was my last chance realistically. Of course I’m disappointed but Gwladys played well and the truth is, I just didn’t play well enough.
“The putts just didn’t drop. I left a few short and I think the rain also slowed them down a little bit. I couldn’t get them into the hole. A lot were on line and just short. I hit it really good, some good shots, so I’m looking forward to the rest of the year.”
Australian rookie Whitney Hillier recorded a career-best finish of solo third place after making an eagle on the par-five 18th.
The 22-year-old from Perth, West Australia said:  “I had a nice drive on the 18th, a nice 5-wood, it hit the slope and ran up to about five feet. I was like, ‘I’m going to hole this,’ and I did. I was pushing for third place and I did it, so I was quite happy about that.
“Hopefully I’ll get into the (Ricoh Women’s British) Open now. That was my only incentive for the week, really. If I make the Open I’ll bring my parents over. I was really, really keen for this week.”
England’s Liz (Bennett) Young had a chance to tie for third but left a short birdie putt just shy of the hole on 17 and then narrowly missed a 12-foot eagle putt on 18.
She tied for fourth on three-under with Sweden’s Mikaela Parmlid, while Finnish rookie Noora Tamminen recorded a career best finish of sixth, a stroke further behind.
First-round co-leader Nikki Campbell of Australia ended seventh alongside Klara Spilkova of the Czech Republic and England’s Hannah Burke.
England’s Trish Johnson and Denmark’s Malene Jorgensen both earned Solheim Cup points for ending in a share of 10th spot, however, England’s Laura Davies once again just missed out, by tying for 12th place.
England’s Charley Hull finally ended her run of five straight second places with a tie for 40th position and slipped back from first to third place on the ISPS Handa Order of Merit, behind Nocera and Pace.
The next LET event is the Open de España Femenino “Madrid 2020”, taking place at Club de Campo Villa de Madrid, on July 18-21. 


FINAL TOTALS
Par 288 (4x72)
279 Gwladys Nocera (FRA)  70 68 71 70
283 Lee-Anne Pace (RSA)  71 70 70 72
284 Whitney Hillier (AUS)  75 70 69 70
285 Liz Young (ENG)  73 74 65 73, Mikaela Parmlid (SWE)  72 70 73 70
286 Noora Tamminen (FIN)  73 71 70 72
287 Hannah Burke (ENG)  72 70 70 75, Nikki Campbell (AUS)  67 78 69 73, Klara Spilkova (CZE)  71 72 70 74
288 Malene Jorgensen (DEN)  75 71 68 74, Trish Johnson (ENG)  69 72 75 72
289 Laura Davies (ENG)  70 76 72 71, Nontaya Srisawang (THA)  74 68 74 73, Daniela Holmqvist (SWE)  70 72 78 69, Veronica Zorzi (ITA)  73 70 76 70
290 Florentyna Parker (ENG)  69 76 76 69, Louise Larsson (SWE)  70 72 74 74, Mireia Prat (ESP)  75 71 69 75, Linda Wessberg (SWE)  71 70 74 75
291 Margherita Rigon (ITA)  73 71 73 74, Diana Luna (ITA)  71 75 72 73
292 Tania Elosegui (ESP)  78 71 75 68, Emily Taylor (ENG)  72 71 73 76, Stacy Lee Bregman (RSA)  71 74 76 71, Camilla Lennarth (SWE)  71 69 79 73, Valentine Derrey (FRA)  73 73 74 72
293 Celine Herbin (FRA)  71 76 71 75, Marianne Skarpnord (NOR)  76 72 74 71, Rebecca Artis (AUS)  73 69 74 77, Stefania Croce (ITA)  76 73 73 71
294 Minea Blomqvist (FIN)  71 76 72 75, Zuzana Kamasova (SVK)  72 73 75 74
295 Melanie Maetzler (SUI)  70 75 77 73, Virginie Lagoutte (FRA)  77 72 70 76, Julie Greciet (FRA)  72 75 75 73, Sahra Hassan (WAL)  75 72 72 76, Eleanor Givens (ENG)  74 75 73 73
296 Maria Hernandez (ESP)  77 71 75 73, Connie Chen (RSA)  70 76 76 74
297 Beth Allen (USA)  73 73 78 73, Isabella Ramsay (SWE)  74 74 71 78, Ursula Wikstrom (FIN)  76 73 74 74, Galina Rotmistrova (RUS)  75 74 76 72, Charley Hull (ENG)  73 74 77 73, Pamela Pretswell (SCO)  75 73 72 77
299 Sophie Sandolo (ITA)  70 77 81 71, Jacqueline Hedwall (SWE)  72 73 78 76
300 Caroline Afonso (FRA)  77 71 76 76, Sophie Giquel-bettan (FRA)  70 78 81 71, Ann-Kathrin Lindner (GER)  76 72 73 79, Rebecca Hudson (ENG)  75 71 77 77
301 Lucie Andre (FRA)  71 72 79 79, Jade Schaeffer (FRA)  71 74 73 83
303 Holly Aitchison (ENG)  74 71 76 82, Jessica Karlsson (SWE)  73 74 79 77
304 Vittoria Valvassori (ITA)  74 75 80 75
306 Marion Ricordeau (FRA)  76 73 77 80
309 Vikki Laing (SCO)  75 73 79 82
310 Elisabeth Esterl (GER)  74 75 78 83

2013 FIFE GOLFING ASSOCIATION BOYS ORDER OF MERIT presented by www.MyGolfRanking.net

POSITIONS AFTER SIX EVENTS

1 Niall McMullen (Lundin) 260 pts

2 Greg Forrester (Lundin) 200

3 Ben Kinsley (St Andrews) 170

4 Ewan Scott (St Andrews) 130

5 Keith Bowman (St Andrews New) 125

6 Ryan Brown (Dunfermline) 100

T7 James Anderson (Canmore) 75

T7 Daniel Shaft (Glenrothes). 

The next counting events for the 2013 FIFE BOYS ORDER OF MERIT is the FALDO SERIES QUALIFIER at PANMURE on 26 June and the ELMWOOD BOYS OPEN on 29 June.

SHANNON McWILLIAM WINS ABERDEENSHIRE GIRLS MEDAL AT NEWBURGH on YTHAN

Shannon McWilliam, pictured driving at Trump International, 13-year-old Aboyne prospect, won today's (Sunday) Aberdeenshire girls' medal competition at Newburgh-on-Ythan Club with a first-class round of 75.
Shannon finished eight shots clear of Kimberley Beveridge, also from Aboyne, and Lauren Watson (Deeside).
Shannon, who plays off four of a handicap, also had the best net score of 71 but no player can win two prizes so the handicap award went to Sarah Black (Deeside) with a net 74 off 13 with Jasmine Mackintosh (Hazlehead) runner-up with a net 76 off 10 (better inward half).

SCOREBOARD
Par 72. SS 73. CSS 73
SCRATCH
75 S McWilliam (Aboyne).
83 K Beveridge (Aboyne), L Watson (Deeside).
86 J Mackintosh (Hazlehead).
87 S Black (Deeside).
89 M Stewart (Murcar Links).
96 F Sutherland (Deeside).
117 L George (Aberdeen Ladies).
118 C Griffiths (Aboyne).

HANDICAP
71 S McWilliam (Aboyne) (4).
74 S Black (Deeside) (13)
76 J Mackintosh (Hazlehead) (10) (bih), F Sutherlannd (Deeside) (20), L Watson (Deeside) (7).
81 L George (Aberdeen Ladies) (36)
82 K Beveridge (Aboyne) (1)
83 M Stewart (Murcar Links) (6), C Griffiths (Aboyne) (35). 

 Picture postcard view from the Newburgh on Ythan clubhouse of the 18th green and beyond to the River Ythan and the sands on the far bank. Seals were basking at the mouth of the river. Picture by Cal Carson Golf Agency.

BOTH PAUL LAWRIE BOYS WIN DEESIDE TITLES ON CLUB CHAMPIONSHIP FINALS DAY

Both of Paul Lawrie's sons won titles at Deeside Golf Club's championship finals day on Saturday at the Bieldside course.
Craig beat his younger brother Michael in the Boys' scratch final by 6 and 4 to collect the Angusfield Trophy.
But Michael, who had to play two finals on the same day, won the Littleway Trophy by beating Connor Forbes 3 and 1 in the Boys' handicap chamionship final.
Jack Scott beat Ron Evett 7 and 6 over 36 holes to win the Deeside men's club championship for the Dunriach Cup.
Megan Clyne beat Fiona Hay 5 and 4 in the women's club championship final while Stella Black won the women's handicap championship by beating Karen Robertson 5 and 3 in the final.