WEST OF SCOTLAND GIRLS' 60th ANNIVERSARY

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Calling all “old” and “current” West Girls to

The  60^th Anniversary Greensomes at West Kilbride Golf Club

on Thursday, 4^th August 2016

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35th Bridget Jackson Bowl tee times for Tuesday, June 14

Katherine O'Connor, who recently retained the Welsh women's championship, is defending the title in the 35th Bridget Jackson Bowl at Handsworth Golf Club on Tuesday, June 14.
Order of play in the 36-hole event:
8.22 and 12.37
Elizabeth Prior (Burhill) and Holly Langford (Perton Park)
8.30 and 12.45
Elizabeth Haycock (Ladbrook Park) and Mollie Lawrence (Rochester and Cobham).
8.37 and 12.52
Katherine O'Connor (West Byfleet) and Eloise Healey (West Lancs).
8.45 and 13.00
Katie Warren (Wrag Barn) and Emily Coleman (Trentham)
8.52 and 13.07
Sarah Gee (West Wilts) and Megan Lockett (Huddersfield)
9.00 and 13.15ndr
Katrina Gillum (Lilleshall Hall) and Sophie Newlove (Beeston Fields).
9.07 and 13.22
Georgia Lewis (Southerndown) and Alexandra Saunders (Bristol and Clifton).
9.15 and 13.30
Ellie Brown (Barnham Broom) and Bethan Morris (Tenby)
9.22 and 13.37
Angharad Evans (St Pierre) and Jae Bowers (Prestbury)
9.30 and 13.45
Charlotte Taylor (Northamptonshire Co) and Ella Griffiths (The Vale Resort). 
9.37 and 13.52
Rhian Barton (Carden Park) and Lily Downs (Romanby)
9.45 and 14.00
Rhiannon Thomas (St Pierre) and Fiona McCann (Royal Cinque Ports). 
10.00 and 14.15
Jelina Fernando (East Sussex National) and Nicola Wainwright (Rhuddlan)
10.07 and 14.22
Cara Gainer  (Castle Royal) and Emily Brennan (Trentham)
10.15 and 14.30
Fern Clark (Beau Desert) and Shamiso Hatchard (Woburn)
10.22 and 14.37
Rachel Wainwright (Rhuddlan) and Ellie Darnell (Wellingborough)
10.30 and 14.45
Erin Toft (Northop) and Morgan Thomas (Beau Desert)
10.37 and 14.52
Lea-Anne Bramwell (Abergele) and Adelle Middleton (Coventry)
10.45 and 15.00 
Harriet Llewellyn (The Vale Resort) and Lauren-May Drake (Wallasey)
10.52 and 15.07
Georgia Pritchard (Beau Desert) and Amelia Easthope (Rhuddlan).
11.00 and 15.15
Amelia Taylor (Harwood) and Jasmin Pnaiser (Handsworth)
11.07 and 15.22 
Angharad Basnett (Aberdovey) and Ffion Tynan (Minchinhampton)

WEST VETS BEAT MIDLANDS VETS

West Vets Team

West and Midlands

Midlands Team

West Vets Captain is presented with the Trophy by Midlands Captain Sheilagh Quinn

On a glorious sunny day at Kilmacolm Golf Club with no thunderstorms and only a tiny spit of rain, not enough to dampen the players enthusiasm SVLGA West defeated the Midlands team  6 games to 4 .

Thanks go to the greenkeepers who had the course in wonderful condition, to Susan Reid Lady Captain of Kilmacolm Golf Club who started the players off and to the catering staff who produced such an excellent meal.

RESULTS
(West players named first)
Jennifer Mack (Haggs) bt Shona Leighton (Alyth) 4 and 2
Helen Faulds Douglas Park lost to Moira Lunby (King James VI ) 4 and 2
Linda McDougall (Greenock) bt Kathleen Duncan (Pitlochry) 4 and  3
Anabel Kane (Kilmacolm) bt Emma Wilson (Elie and Earlsferry) 3 and 2
June Lockhart (Gleddoch) lost to Winifred McCallum 5 and 4
Karen Maxwell (Milngavie) lost to Mary Hope (Blairgowrie) 1hole
Liz Hale (Caldwell ) bt Lizzie McGraw (Auchterarder) 2 holes
Anne Judge (Ranfurly  Castle) bt Brenda Clough (Blairgowrie) 7 and 5
Lynn McColl (Bearsden) bt Moira Begbie (Ladybank) 2 and 1
Enid Young (Balmore) lost to Liz Fertacz ((Blairgowrie) 2 holes.

Final score West 6     Midlands.   4

 Three Captains at Dun Laoghaire Golf Club

 Today's picture of GB and Ireland's Curtis Cup team captain Elaine Farquharson-Black (Deeside) flanked by Judy do Valle Ribeiro, the Dun Laoghaire Golf Club ladies' captain, and Norman Burns, the men's club captain, writes Colin Farquharson. 
"It's a great course with great facilities - and officials and members too! Everyone has been so welcoming," said Elaine who is pleased with the way her team have bonded since they arrived in Ireland last week.
It's a beautiful wooded, parkland course with three nine-hole circuits and towering hills in the background.
A press corps of more than 40 golf writers, the majority from Ireland, but two from the Czech Republic, who have checked in early, have registered their intention to attend.
The Curtis Cup record home attendance of 12,000 for a three-day match was set at  Nairn Golf Club four years ago but with this week's match at a venue close to a major city - Dublin had a population of 527,612 at the 2011 census - it is a fairly safe bet that that record will go by the boards here at Dun Laoghaire Golf Club.
There are reports of golf clubs all over Ireland, and north of the Border too, organising busloads of members to make the trip to cheer on a team that contains three Irish players - LeGona Maguire (Slieve Russell and Duke University), Olivia Mehaffey (Royal Co Down Ladies) and Maria Dunne (Skerries) - and five English, Bronte Law (Bramhall), Alice Hewson (Berkhamsted), Charlotte Thomas (West Surry), Meghan MacLaren (Wellingborough), Rochelle Morris (Woodsome Hall).
So a new record "gate" for a home Curtis Cup match is well nigh a certainty, even though it rains every Friday, Saturday and Sunday, as is forecast.
The three-day match against the Curtis Cup holders, the United States, begins on Friday with three morning foursomes and three afternoon four-ball matches.
That will be repeated on Friday followed by the singles shoot-out that was decisive in GB and I's favour at Nairn.
"The speed of the greens are about 10.5 on the stimpmeter," said Elaine. "We had rain today and the forecast is for rain over the weekend so, if anything the greens will get slower."
GB and I last won at the 2012 match at Nairn with a final-day, come-from-behind surge in the Sunday singles.
On paper, this is a stronger GB and I team than the 2012 line-up.
A Curtis Cup match is as much a social as a sporting occasion.
Past GB and I captains seen so far include Diane Bailey, Ita Butler, Tegwen Matthews, Jill Thornhill, Belle Robertson, Claire Dowling and Irish legend Mary McKenna is sure to be along any day now. Same goes for Ada O'Sullivan, another Irish past Curtis Cup skipper.

Claire Robertson and Kristy Brodie win team honours for Angus

Jennifer Rankine wins weather-hit PLG 

Scottish schoolgirls' title

left to right: Shannon McWilliam (3rd), winner Jennifer Rankine, Alan Reid (Murrayshall Hotel operations manager) and Kirsty Brodie (2nd).

By COLIN FARQUHARSON
Everything's coming up roses for 15-year-old Jennifer Rankine. Last week she won the Clark Rosebowl match-play competition at the Scottish women's champioship at West Kilbride and today (Tuesday), she won the Paul Lawrie Foundation Scottish schoolgirls championship with a one-under-par round of 70.
The tournament at Murrayshall Hotel golf course near Perth was scheduled for 36 holes but was cut to one round when play was suspended for "imminent thunder and lightning."
Rankine  had a mixed bag of figures - an eagle 3 at the par-5 ninth, birdies at the third, 11th, 15th and 18th plus a double bogey 6 at at the 13th and bogeys at the first, 12th and 17th in halves of 35.
 Local hope Kirsty Brodie (Strathmore) finished second, two behind with a 72 (36-36) with Shannon McWilliam (Aboyne) third with a 73 which included a double bogey 6 at the 10th in halves of 36-37.
Defending champion Emma Morrison (Craigmillar Park) finished tied 23 with a 91. 
Angus (Claire Robertson and Kirsty Brodie) won the team title with a 151 total. Dumbarton West (Jillian Farrell and Lorna McClymont) were runners-up with 153.
South Lanark were third with 157.

FINAL TOTALS
Par 71 SSS 71 CSS 72
70 Jennifer Rankine (Haggs Castle)
72 Kirsty Brodie (Strathmore)
73 Shannon McWilliam (Aboyne) 
74 Jillian Farrell (Cardross), Louise Duncan (West Kilbride)
75 Molly Richmond (Strathaven)
78 Megan Ashley (Strathmore), Evanna Hynd (Balbirnie Park),  Jasmine Mackintosh (Hazlehead)
79 Lorna McClymont (Milngavie), Claire Robertson (Carnoustie Ladies), Joanne Free (Gullane), Megan  Linton (Craigmillar Park).
82 Susan Woodhouse (East Kilbride)
85 Carys Irvine (Craigielaw), Maria Cowan (Wigtownshire)
86 Zoe Morton (Auchterarder), Charlene Wilson (St Regulus).
88 Anna McKay (Crail GS) 
89 Eilidh Crawford (Kingsfield), Jodie Taylor (Downfield).
90 Anna Mackenzie (East Renfrewshire)
91 Porscha Wilson (Burntisland), Emma Morrison (Craigmillar Park)
92 Emily Usner (unatt)
94 Shannon Pook (Auchterarder)
95 Claire McLoughlin (West Kilbride), Katriona Taylor (Crieff).
96 Karla Klostermann (unatt), Lucy Buckley (Huntly).
97 Hannah Braidwood (Huntly)
99 Lucy Morrison (Craigmillar Park)
106 Samantha McKay (Loudoun Gowf).
Withdrew: Mirren Fraser (Powfoot), KirstenWatson (Deeside)
No show: Justine Fulton (Hayston)
 

PLG Scottish schoolgirls championship reduced to 18 holes

Paul Lawrie Foundation Scottish schoolgirls championship at Murrayshall Hotel golf course near Perth reduced to one round after thunder and lightning caused a suspension play.

Longest Day Challenge at Mortonhall Golf Club

FROM CAROL BROWN
On June 22, four of us lady members at Mortonhall Golf Club in Edinburgh (Lynn Manson, Carol Brown, Viv Curran and Catherine Stewart) are looking forward to taking part in the Longest Day Challenge of playing 72 holes in a day in aid of Macmillan Cancer Support.
https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/WeMayBeSomeTimeMortonhall" target

You can donate to our page by clicking above link

Carol Brown

Maguire ready to embrace 3rd Curtis Cup appearance

Leona Maguire – Player Profile

 

Maguire ready to embrace 3^rd Curtis Cup appearance

 

7 June 2016

 

World number 3 ranked amateur golfer, Slieve Russell member and Duke University sophomore Leona Maguire, will lead the GB&I Curtis Cup team at Dun Laoghaire Golf Club from 10-12 June. Maguire has a wealth of experience at elite level golf, and at the young age of 21 she is one of two players to make a third Curtis Cup appearance. Maguire shared her thoughts on why this will add value to the GB&I side, commenting “It helps to have people on the team who have played before. This event is different to others and it’s a long week with four practice rounds so it helps that we can share with others what we have learned from previous experiences.”

 

The GB&I team of which Maguire was a member, took home the Curtis Cup at Nairn Golf Club in 2012. A positive omen for the team approaching the 39^th test in three days’ time, and Maguire agrees “We were trailing the US team for most of the week in 2012. We kept fighting and odds turned in our favour just when we needed them too. We know it’s not over until the last day and being on GB&I soil always helps.”

 

Dun Laoghaire Golf Course is a fantastic venue for the 39^th match but some might say the Americanisms will favour the away team. However Maguire doesn’t seem to think so, “It will suit whoever plays the best. The greens are big so you have to be accurate. Whichever team putts the best will win. The golf course is quite exposed so a little wind might benefit us as well.”

 

Curtis Cup embraces the spirit of team golf and player support and its extra special for Maguire being at home, “I get excited rather than nervous when playing such high profile tournaments. Junior Solheim Cup in 2011 was great as it was in Ireland and there’s no support like home support. I always thrive off that.”

 

The season is all year round for the talented 21 year old; September-May playing collegiate golf and straight into competitive golf in GB&I and further afield when the college year ends.  Maguire plans on preparing for the US Open after Curtis Cup and will hopefully switch focus to Rio thereafter. “I am going to head out to the US Open a little early to get used to the grass and rough. I am going to get as much practice in on tight courses and fast greens before that as I can,” said the world number 3. “The US Open will play a big role before the Olympics so I am just going to try and secure as many points as I can.”

 

It seems to be all golf for the 21 year old but life at Duke University can be quite diverse, as Maguire explains “Lisa and I have a lot of friends in other sports over there so we try and support them too. There is an amusement park nearby, which we go to quite often and we like to go bowling and to the cinema as well. We just try to keep busy with other activities, when we’re not playing golf.”

 

Upcoming Schedule
June	July	August
Curtis Cup	US Women’s Open (Professional event)	Home International Matches (Dependent on schedule)
British Women’s Amateur Championship	RICOH Women’s British Open (Professional event)
	European Ladies Individual (Dependent on schedule)

 

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