Daily Mail Foursomes

Grangemouth Golf Club are delighted to announce that Janice Bridgeman and Fiona Lawless have qualified for the Daily Mail Foursomes Finals at St. Pierre, Chepstow next month. Janice and Fiona have played together for several years in this competition and have never got passed the first round.

Huge congratulations to them both.

Anne Cunningham
Secretary
Grangemouth Golf Club

If only Shannon McWilliam could keep a double bogey 6 off her card!

Shannon McWilliam, for the second day in a row, ran up a double bogey 6 over her last few holes in the British women's open amateur stroke play golf championship at Knock Golf Club.
In the first round, she had a 6 at the 15th. In the second round, the 6 happened at the 17th and saw the Aboyne player finish the day with a repeat 76 (37-39) for 152 over the par-73 course. She had four birdies but too many bogeys - five in all plus the double to be lying joint 18th at the halfway stage of the 72-hole event.
Without the double bogeys, Shannon would be four strokes better off, a glimpse of the obvious, but it underlines how damaging her bad holes have been.
Hannah McCook (Grantown on Spey) improved from an 80 to a 74 (36-38) with birdies at the short fourth and par-4 15th.
Chloe Goadby (St Regulus) and Gabrielle MacDonald) are both on the 157 mark - one shot inside the cut. Chloe had three double bogeys in her round of 81, which was five shots worse than her Day 1 effort. Gabrielle went the other way, 81 in the first, and 76 in the second. The former Scottish champion could have been even better for she had a double bogey 6 at the 15th.
Moffat-based Gemma Batty, English-born but hoping to earn a Scotland cap once she completes residential qualifications, is best placed of all the Scottish-based players in joint seventh position. She has had rounds of 77 and 71 (36-35) for 148, four behind the leader, Italian 14-year-old Alessia Nobilio from the Ambrosiano Golf Club.
Alessiawas a beaten semi-finalist in the recent British girls' open amateur championship at Royal St David's Golf Club, Harlech, since when she has won the Belgian girls amateur international stroke-play title.

BRITISH WOMEN'S OPEN AMATEUR STROKE PLAY CHAMPIONSHIP
Knock Golf Club, Belfast.
LEADING HALFWAY SCORES
144 A Nobilio (Italy) 73 71
145 S Lamb (Clitheroe) 77 68, G Price (Bude and N Cornwall) 73 72
147 J Ross (Clandeboye) 73 74, A C Avanzo (Italy) 74 73, I Mehmet (Royal Mid Surrey) 71 76.
148 A Wilson (Lurgan) 74 74, G Batty (Moffat) 77 71, C Williams (Wrexham) 71 77.
SCOTS' SCORES
152 S McWilliam (Aboyne) 76 76
154 H McCook (Grantown on Spey) 80 74.
157 G Macdonald (Craigielaw) 81 76, C Goadby (St Regulus) 76 81.

Italy pip England for Nations Cup at British women's open amateur stroke-play championship

The Team Award (Nations Cup) at the British women's open amateur stroke play championship at Knock Golf Club, Belfast  was won by Italy with a two-round total of 293, represented by Alessia Nobilio, Caterina Don and Clara Manzalini.
Pipped by one stroke on 294 were England, represented by Gemma Clews, Samantha Giles and Sophie Lamb. 
Third place went to Ireland, represented by Niamh McSherry, Chloe Ryan and Jessica Ross.
Wales were fourth on 300. They were represented by Chloe Williams, Georgia Lewis and Bethan Morris.
Scotland, represented by Shannon McWilliam, Chloe Goadby and Hannah McCook, finished fifth.

Par 73, SSS 76, Slope 140

CSS - Wednesday 31st August - 76
CSS - Thursday 1st September - 76

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SCOTS SENIORS BEAT CZECH REPUBLIC

Match Results  - Click to enlarge

Scotland beat the Czech Republic 4-1 in their opening match-play tie of the European senior women's amateur team championship Flight B competition at Sierra Golf Club in Poland.

Alex Glennie and Mary Smith won the foursomes tie 2 and 1.
Fiona De Vries (2 and 1) and Gillian Kyle (3 and 1) won in the singles and there were halves for Lesley Lloyd and Lorna McKinlay.

Other results in Flight B:
Germany 4, Poland 1.
Austria 3, Iceland 2.
Italy 4, Denmark 1.

In the Championship flight, the quarter-final results were:
England 4, Netherlands 1
Belgium 3, Spain 2
France 2, Sweden 3
Ireland 3.5, Switzerland.

SEMI-FINALS
England v Belgium
Sweden v Ireland.

NEW EDITORS -- ???? !!!!

I expect you are all wondering what has happened to the top banner,  and why Carol and I are the new Editors of KirkwoodGolf.

As you will know, Colin Farquharson has been our Editor for over 10 years... and has done the most fantastic job keeping you up to date with all that is going on in the world of golf.  Thank you Colin for all your posts ... over 16,000 of them... and all your hard work in keeping the readers so fully informed.  You deserve a medal... maybe even a knighthood!

Colin is going to concentrate on his website ScottishGolfView and all his news is going to go on that site, although news with a female/student slant will still appear of KirkwoodGolf.

I'm sure most of you will know Carol Fell.... she has been involved in websites for nearly as long as I have,  and edits the very popular Renfrewshire, West of Scotland and West Vets websites. 

Carol and I are going to keep KirkwoodGolf going.... but we need your help in doing so......

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Double Trophy Success for Royal Dornoch.

Back row left to right - the Golspie women who were runners up to both trophies, Lesley Cranna, Sheila Robertson, Anne Macrae, Noelle MacKay, fiona More, Caroline Logie and Mairi Orr. Front Row -  left to right, the Royal Dornoch winners - Irene Hart, Lisa Dickenson, Trish Weekes, Alison Bartlett, Claire Riddell, Sandy Jackson Ashley Rose.  Missing from the line ups were Dornoch’s Pam Moscati and Golspie’s Helen Ewan.

By ROBIN WILSON

Represented by four teams of four ladies travelling to Golspie Golf Club for the Caithness and Sutherland women's inter-club competition, it was no surprise that Royal Dornoch repeated their double trophy haul of ten years ago.
Seven clubs were in attendance, putting forward 13 teams, only Durness from Sutherland and Lybster from Caithness were missing, and the biggest club of them all, Royal Dornoch, were able to field a first team composed of four Northern Counties Association team members, spearheaded by one- handicapper Ashley Rose.
She was joined by three-handicapper Alison Bartlett and four-handicappers Sandy Jackson and Claire Riddell. This strong team posted the winning scratch total of 239 from their three best cards to win the Ord Salver for the eighth time since 1981, leaving runners-up Golspie trailing by 27 shots.
The Golspie rough has been troublesome to everyone this year but it was a bunker at the 13th hole that raised Dornoch's non-counting score to 82 from Ashley Rose while Bartlett returned a 79 (39-40). Two 80s came from Jackson (42-38) and Riddell (42-38) for their winning total.
Golspie's second scratch place was confirmed over the Thurso number one team on a countback of the fourth scores. The host club's second place total of 266 came from Anne Macrae 81, Sheila Robertson 91, and Noelle MacKay 94. Fourth team member Helen Ewan scrambled round in 110 but this was 12 better than the 120 that came from Thurso's Moira McBeath that relegated to third place clubmates Eileen Manson 84, Laura Durrand 89 and Angela Williamson 93.
Royal Dornoch's handicap victory for the Beatrice Trophy came from their third team, made up of Trish Weekes (20) 73, Pam Moscati (22) 70 and Irene Hart (23) 78 for 221. The fourth non-counting score was posted by a late substitute into the team, Lisa Dickenson.
Hosts Golspie's second team of Lesley Cranna's (24) 69, Fiona More (21) 74, and Caroline Logie (19) 83 for 226 also finished with a runners up position behind Royal Dornoch (3). Golspie's fourth and discounted card came from team member Mairi Orr.
Next year's competition will be hosted by Wick Golf Club and who is to say that Royal Dornoch will not triumph again if they can hold the marvellous four teenage girls that made up their fourth team at Golspie, Caitlin Boa (18), Ceitidh Aitchison (15) and the Riddell sisters, Rebecca (18) and Hannah (14), who, with 277, were only 11 shots behind their first team's total.