XMAS 2023

Wishing all our members a Merry Christmas and best wishes for good golfing in 2024 !

P&K LADIES HANDICAP LEAGUE AGM

Crieff were presented with the Loch Leven Larder Trophy as the 2023 Perth & Kinross Ladies' Handicap League champions at the P&K Handicap League AGM, held at Muckhart.

Barbara Lynde (Crieff) & Steph Crolla (Muckhart)

The P&K Ladies' Handicap League AGM
The AGM was well attended at Muckhart Golf Club on Sunday 5 November 2023.

Crieff won the 2023 P&K Ladies' Handicap League after they triumphed over Auchterarder by 4 - 1 in the final held at Muckhart Golf Club.

Sarah Faherty (King James VI) is the new administrator for the 2024 season.

You can find full details of all the 2023 matches and results by clicking on the "Handicap League" button to the right hand side of this blog.

PRIZEGIVING - PRESS ARTICLES

Hopefully the news has reached all corners of the P&K County today !

RACE TO KINGSBARNS 2023

Lucy Moran (Milnathort) enjoyed a lovely day at Kingsbarns yesterday at the Scottish Golf Race to Kingsbarns event.

Perfect weather, sunshine and no wind - remarkable for St Andrews.

Great play by all the girls and boys from all over Scotland.

2023 SGM/AGM & PRIZEGIVING

The 2023 Perth & Kinross Ladies' County Golf Association AGM was well attended at Craigie Hill Golf Club yesterday.

The SGM/AGM:

The County President, Lenore Kyle, chaired both meetings, which saw the proposed change to the Constitution, regarding the introduction of an Affiliation Fee, unanimously approved by the 41 members who attended.

There were also a few changes to the Committee: 

Leaving Committee:
Retiring this year was Committee Member Gwen Tate (Kinross).  Our Junior Secretary, Gillian Wallace (Kinross), and Committee Member Susie Gillespie (Aberfeldy) both stepped down this year.

Joining Committee:
We are delighted to announce that Karen Moran (Scottish Golf) has agreed to be our new Junior Secretary and Christine Partridge (Perth Ladies) joined as a new Committee member.

Other changes:
Our President, Lenore Kyle (Milnathort) and Committee Member, Hannah Hislop (Blairgowrie) who had both been co-opted after 2022 AGM, were formally elected to Committee.  Hannah has also volunteered to be our Safeguarding Officer.

Ladies' Fixture List:
Our 2024 Fixture List is still in progress. Full details of the fixtures will be posted on this website as soon as possible.

Prize-winners:
Below is the full list of the ladies' prize-winners. 

It was also lovely to see 2 of our Junior Girls there to pick up their trophies:  Zoe Davidson (Alyth) collected the Scratch Championship and the Order of Merit trophies, while Sophie Goult (Auchterarder) received the 9 Hole Championship trophy.

 

SCOTLAND WOMEN'S REGIONAL POOL

Congratulations to County Team Member, Katy Alexander (Blairgowrie), who has been selected for the Scotland Women's Regional Pool and will be invited to specific training days alongside our High Performance Team members Megan Ashley and Jennifer Saxton.  You're all doing P&K proud.

         

SPECIAL GENERAL MEETING & ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING - INFORMATION

A Special General Meeting will take place immediately before this year’s P&KLCGA AGM on Sunday 29th October 2023 at Craigie Hill Golf Club, Perth.

Registration opens at 10.30am with SGM scheduled for 10.45am, immediately followed by AGM at 11.00am.

SGM Papers:

A Special General Meeting has been called to discuss and approve amendments to the Constitution which must be resolved before the AGM. The details of the amendments can be found below and have also been emailed to members.

1. Amendment to Constitution

AGM Papers:

For a copy of the AGM Papers please click on the documents listed below.
Please bring a copy with you to the AGM.

1. 2023 AGM Agenda

2. 2022 AGM Minutes 

Office Bearer Reports:

A copy of all the Annual Reports from Secretary, Treasurer, Match Secretary etc, will be emailed out to members a week prior to the AGM.

Attendance/Apologies:

Please click on the link below to confirm your attendance at the SGM and/or AGM, or to give your apologies. Please also use this form to indicate if you will be having food afterwards.

1. SGM/AGM Form

 

P & K Champions of Champions - Results

 The results from the Champions of Champions are below.

Well done to the champion - Emily Ogilvy with a score of 77.

Well done to all competitors - an enjoyable day was had by all.

P&K LADIES' CHAMPION OF CHAMPIONS - DRAW

The Draw for the Perth & Kinross Ladies' Champion of Champions, at Gleneagles Queen's Course on Sunday 1 October 2023, is available below.

Competitors' Information:
A copy of the draw has been emailed out to all the competitors.

Please arrive no later than 15mins before your tee time to register. There will be a brief prize-giving following the completion of play.

CRIEFF WIN 2023 HANDICAP LEAGUE

Well done to Crieff beating Auchterarder 4-1 in the Handicap League final at Muckhart.  Matches were played in great spirits despite the wet weather at the end.

ASHLEY & SAXTON SELECTED FOR SCOTLAND SQUAD

Huge congratulations to P&K County Team Members, Megan Ashley and Jennifer Saxton, who Scottish Golf have selected to be part of the Women's High Performance Squad for 2023-24.

You can read all about the 2023-24 Squad Selections here

SENIOR HOME INTERNATIONALS

Spectators welcome to cheer on Scotland, the defending Senior Home Internationals champions, at West Kilbride next week.  Come on Scotland!

COMRIE GREENSOMES PHOTOS

 Some photos from our day at Comrie

Girls Championship

 The girls championship was held today at Dunning GC.

Congratulations to our winners :

Scratch - Zoe Davidson (Alyth) - scratch 73

H’cap - Lucy Robertson (Crieff) - nett  73

9 hole - Sophie Goult (Auchterarder) 

Many thanks to Dunning GC for giving us courtesy of the course and for their help with the competition.

COMRIE GREENSOMES - RESULTS

Comrie Golf Course was in lovely condition for our Greensomes today, with very few wet areas evident after the thundery showers the night before. 

Well done to Caroline Henderson & Susie Gillespie (Aberfeldy) who won with a marvellous nett 67. It was a close competition as you can see from results below:

Caroline Henderson & Susie Gillespie (Aberfeldy)  82 (15) 67

Christine Kinloch & Jean Graham (Kinross)   90 (22) 68 

Alex Glaister & Jo Buchanan-Smith (Muckhart)  86 (17) 69

Next County events:

Champions of Champions Sun 1st October at Gleneagles

AGM Sun 29th October at Craigie Hill GC 10.30am

COMMONWEALTH SPOONS FINAL

Good luck to our 2 qualifying pairs playing in the Commonwealth Spoons National Final at Kings Acre Golf Club, Lasswade on Mon 4 September.

P&K President Lenore Kyle (Milnathort) and Carol Lambie (Dunkeld & Birnam), together with Jean McEwan and Margaret Cairns (both Dunning) are amongst 36 teams competing for the Australian Spoons. 

COMRIE GREENSOMES - DRAW

UPDATE -  space now filled & draw updated.

Draw attached for our next meeting at Comrie on Monday 11 September.

We have a space for one more couple at 11.40am - if you are interested please contact our Convenor, Kathleen Duncan, direct.

Comrie Golf Club would like an indication of numbers for catering purposes.  Please complete this form  if you plan to eat at the club either before or after the golf.

COUNTY FINALS HILTON PARK

Best of luck to Northern Counties who are playing in the Scottish County Finals over the next 3 days.  The finals are taking place at Hilton Park, Milngavie and you can keep up to date with the matches here.

Scottish Women's Medal Grand Final

Well done to County Member Margaret Cairns (Dunning) competing in Scottish Golf's Women's Medal Grand Final at bright and breezy Panmure today.  

Margaret qualified to play at Panmure by finishing 3= in the Qualifying Round at wet & windy Dalmahoy back in July and thoroughly enjoyed it.

P&K LADIES HANDICAP LEAGUE

The round-robin matches have now been completed and the results of all the matches can be found via the link on our website.  

In League A, after a close contest and on countback, Crieff came out on top.  In League B, Auchterarder were the winners.

The neutral venue and date for the final between Crieff & Auchterarder has yet to be decided.  

DUNBLANE MEETING - RESULTS

After a cloudy start, the sun shone for our August County Meeting which was held at 100 year old Dunblane Golf Club today.

Well done to Helen Ewen (Muckhart) and Hilary Cunningham (Dunkeld) who both returned the day's best nett score and Isla Moncrieff (Aberfeldy) who recorded the best gross score of the day.

The results were as follows:

Best Nett:
Helen Ewen (Muckhart)            86 (15) 71 bih
Hilary Cunningham (Dunkeld)   88 (17) 71
Jean Graham (Kinross)             96 (21) 75

Best Gross:
Isla Moncrieff (Aberfeldy)             78
Helen Ewen (Muckhart)                86
Caroline Henderson (Aberfeldy)   87 bih

Par 71; Course Rating 71.3

The next County fixture is our Greensomes at Comrie Golf Club on Monday 11 September. 

U16/U14 GIRLS' OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP - CARDROSS

Well done to P&K County Junior Lucy Moran (Milnathort) who enjoyed competing in the Scottish Golf's U14 Girls' Open Championships at Cardross at the weekend.  

Playing amongst an international field, Lucy's first round wasn't as low as she'd hoped but she improved on day 2 and played to her handicap, resulting in her handicap index coming down to 9.5 and helping her to move 10 places up the overall leaderboard.

Good effort Lucy !

 

HOME INTERNATIONALS - FINAL DAY

After an early 7.30am start, the Scotland team rallied to win 4 - 3 against Wales in the morning foursomes.

The afternoon singles were a tight affair with the result being a 7 - 7 draw.   This gave Scotland victory over Wales by an overall score of 11 - 10 to secure 3rd place in the Home Internationals.

The other match between England and Ireland would be the title decider. After England led 5-2 from the morning foursomes, they went on to consolidate their lead by winning the afternoon singles 7.5 - 6.5.  The overall result was a victory for England 12.5 - 8.5.

Congratulations to England who have won the Men & Women's Home Internationals 2023 at Machynys.

England made a clean sweep by winning both the women's and men's competitions.

Full results:

Men's & Women's Combined    

Women's results

Men's results

COMRIE GREENSOMES - MON 11TH SEPTEMBER

Our final County meeting this year is a Greensomes at Comrie on Monday 11 September. 

If you fancy an 18-hole Greensomes on a picturesque wee course, then grab a partner and fill out an entry form by clicking on the link below.  If you don't have a partner, let me know and I'll see if I can match you up with another member.

Comrie Entry Form

The Convenor is our Treasurer, Kathleen Duncan.

The Entry Fee is: £16 per pair and the closing date is Friday 1 September.

Tee times from 11am are available for this meeting. 

HOME INTERNATIONALS - DAY 2

A better start for Scotland on Day 2, halving 1 and winning 4 of the 7 morning foursomes to lead Ireland 4.5 points to 2.5 points going into the afternoon singles.  

After being 2 points behind this morning, the Ireland team came roaring back to win 10 of the afternoon singles matches which gave them an overall 12.5 points to 8.5 points victory over Scotland.

In today's other match, England defeated Wales by 11.5 points to 9.5 points.

Scotland face Wales on the final day of competition with tee times starting at 9am.

We'll be rooting for you Scotland.

Details of all today's matches can be found here

HOME INTERNATIONALS - DAY 1

Following on from last year's inaugural combined team format for the R&A Women’s and Men’s Home Internationals, teams from England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales – made up of 16 players (seven women and nine men) – have now gathered at Machynys, Wales to compete in the new format across three days.

Over 18 holes, each match consists of seven foursomes games (three women and four men) and 14 singles games (six women and eight men). Team positions will be determined by the highest number of match points.

Scotland were drawn against the current trophy holders, England, for the first day's play.  After the morning foursomes, England led by 5 points to 2.  In the afternoon Scotland won 5 of the singles matches and halved 2, with England winning the remaining 7, England won the afternoon session 8 - 6.  

Overall match score England 13  Scotland 8.

A long, hard day for the players and they have to do it all over again from 9am tomorrow against Ireland, who were victorious over Wales by 13.5 points to 7.5 today. 

Full results of all of today's matches can be found  here

We wish the best of luck to the Scotland Team for tomorrow.

DUNBLANE MEETING - DRAW

 

Draw for the Dunblane Meeting (Strokeplay) on Thursday 17th August.

Convenor is our Competitions Secretary, Alex Glaister.

Late Entries are available, please contact Alex direct if you are interested.

DUNBLANE MEETING - REMINDER

 A reminder that the closing date for our next P&K County Meeting at Dunblane is Monday 7th August 2023. 

If you would like to play Dunblane on Thursday 17th August, please click on the link below to enter:

Dunblane Entry Form

The Convenor is our Competition Secretary, Alex Glaister. 

THE NORTH OF SCOTLAND - FINAL DAY RESULTS

Commiserations to Kirsten Miller who lost out in this morning's semi-final to the eventual Champion.  A great effort to progress this far in the North of Scotland Championships at Arbroath.

Congratulations to Ellie Docherty (Moray), the 2023 North of Scotland Champion.  She beat Robyn Fowlie (Murcar) by 1 up in the final.

Congratulations also to Karen McGuinness (Newmachar) who won the Handicap Championship.  She beat Wendy Edwards (Forfar) by 1 up in the final.

Semi Final Results (morning):

Final Results (afternoon):

The 2024 North of Scotland Championships will be hosted by Northern Counties at Nairn Dunbar from 22nd - 24th July.

SAXTON & ASHLEY SELECTED for HOME INTERNATIONALS

Many Congratulations & Good Luck to County Team members Jen Saxton & Megan Ashley who have been selected to play for Scotland in the Home Internationals at Machynys Golf Club, Wales from 9th - 11th August.

The Scottish Women's Team:

Megan Ashley, Blairgowrie Golf Club

Ailsa Brannock, Castle Douglas Golf Club

Penelope Brown, Auchterarder Golf Club

Carmen Griffiths, Aboyne Golf Club

Jasmine Mackintosh, Murcar Links Golf Club

Lorna McClymont, Milngavie Golf Club

Jennifer Saxton, Dunfermline Golf Club

The Scottish Men's' Team:

Angus Carrick, Craigielaw Golf Club

Andrew Davidson, Crail Golfing Society

Conor Graham, Blairgowrie Golf Club

Gregor Graham, Blairgowrie Golf Club

Jack McDonald, Roxburghe Hotel & Golf Course

Oliver Mukherjee, Lorretto School

Niall Sheils Donegan, Mill Valley Golf Club

Gregor Tait, Aldeburgh Golf Club
Matthew Wilson, Forres Golf Club

The Girls & Boys Home Internationals will take place at Lindrick, South Yorkshire, from 8th - 10th August.

THE NORTH OF SCOTLAND - DAY 2 RESULTS

Congratulations to Kirsten Miller (Blairgowrie) who, with the last putt on the 18th after a superb bunker shot, has won through to tomorrow's North of Scotland Scratch semi-final v Ellie Docherty.

In the other semi-final, it's Robyn Fowlie v Claire Prouse at the Ladies' Championship at Arbroath.

In the NORTH OF SCOTLAND Ladies' handicap championship semi-finals it's Wendy Edwards v Sarah Murray and Karen McGuinness v Catherine Kyle.


Ladies Championship Match-play: 1st Round

Ladies Championship Match-play: Quarter-finals

Ladies Handicap Match-play: 1st Round

Ladies Handicap Match-play: Quarter-finals 

Ladies' Championship Consolation Round: Results

Well done to Committee Member, Catherine Peebles, who was runner-up in the Consolation Round today. 

Handicap
1st: Carol Littlewood  92 (20) 73 bih
2nd:  Catherine Peebles  99 (26) 73 

Selected Others:  Lucy Moran 87 (13) 74