SCORES FROM THE BRITISH

Scores from all three P&K girls have now been returned and as I posted earlier Emily has returned a second round score of 74 and along with yesterday's 76 is 4 over par for the Championships. Roseanne Niven returned a 74 which along with yesterday's 73 makes Roseanne one over par. Carly returned a 76 today and with her 72 from yesterday is 2 over for her championship.

Carly certainly had a game of two halves today when following two double bogey's, two bogeys and a solitary birdie was 5 over after the front 9 however Carly came back in true style with an eagle on 12 followed by one more bogey and one birdie to be 1 under for the back.

Well done girls and we look forward to the matchplay stages tomorrow.

NEWS FROM THE BRITISH

Just had a text from Emily who has completed her final round and shot a one over par 74! Emily has no completed the qualifying stages 4 over par. Fantastic news Emily.

Other news so far is that Roseanne Niven is level par for her front nine but still no news from Carly.

SECOND DAYS QUALIFYING

Today is the final qualifying round before matchplay commences tomorrow. Emily will have already teed off, her tee time was 7.25, Roseanne was next at 8.42. Carly is the last P&K player teeing off at 9.59.
I will try to keep you updated as play progresses.

The over night leader is Ireland's Aedin Murphy who returned a magnificent 6 under par 67.

There seems to be some confusion regarding Emily's score yesterday and I can confirm it was a 76 not 77 as was reported in the Courier this morning.

NEWS UPDATE

All three P&K girls have now completed their rounds. Carly carded a fantastic 1 under par 72 and is at the moment sitting joint 5th. Roseanne has returned a matching par score of 73 and is sitting joint 11th. As I reported earlier Emily returned a 3 over par 76 and is placed joint 36th.

This is a great start for all three girls and we wish them well tomorrow.

Well done girls!

NEWS SO FAR

Only news I have so far is that Emily is just completed her first round 3 over par. Unfortunately Emily lost all three shots on a double bogey, bogey finish. However what a great start for her.

Still no news of Carly and Roseanne but will try to keep you posted.

GOOD LUCK GIRLS

Our thoughts and best wishes are with team members Carly Booth and Emily Ogilvy also P&K member Roseanne Niven who are taking part in the British Amateur Championship at Royal St. Davids today. Emily is the first of our players out at 11.49, followed by Roseanne at 13.06 then finally Carly at 14.23. I will try to keep you posted of their progress.



Good Luck.

NINE HOLE GIRLS

As promised below is a slide show of Sundays Nine Hole Girls championship at Crieff. Once again many thanks to all who came along to help and to Pat Colquhoun for presenting the prizes.

CENTENARY YEAR

As you are all aware this is P&K L C G A 's Centenary Year and we are planning a centenary event at Glenisla Golf Course on August 17th. This is going to be a great event with lots of fun and spot prizes. We hope you all come along and enjoy the day's fun!

I will provide more details of the day nearer the time!!

Get your entries to me ASAP!!!

SCRATCH LEAGUE...SO FAR

Many thanks to Alison Stockley for forwarding the results of our Scratch League matches so far. Here are the results.

27th April
Craigie Hill 5 Alyth 0
Strathmore 4 Crieff 1
4th May
Dunkeld 5 Auchterarder 0
10th May
Pitlochry 3 Crieff 2
18th May
Dunkeld 3 1/2 Strathmore 1 1/2
Auchterarder 1 Blairgowrie 4
25th May
Auchterarder 0 Craigie Hill 5
Blairgowrie 2 Alyth 3
1st June
Strathmore 3 Craigie Hill 2
Pitlochry 3 Auchterarder 2

So to summerise:
Alyth - played 2 - won 1 - lost 1
Auchterarder - played 4 - won 0 - lost 4
Blairgowrie - played 2 - won 1 - lost 1
Craigie Hill - played 3 - won 2- lost 0
Crieff - played 2 - Won 0 - lost 2
Dunkeld - played 2 - won 2 - lost -0
Pitlochry - played 2 - won 2 - lost 0
Strathmore - played 3 - won 2 -lost 1

So all to play for!

COUNTY GIRLS CHAMPIONSHIP

Our warmest congratulations go to our new Scratch Girl Champion Eilidh Watson (Muckhart) who played brilliant golf over Crieff yesterday. Eilidh returned an excellent 84. In second place was Nicola Robertson (Dunblane) 89 and third was Ailie Burnett (Dunkeld and Birnam) 90. In the handicap section it was a nail biting finish, the winner was Laura Aitken (Killin) (19) who returned an excellent 73 just pipping Lauren Marchbank (Auchterarder) (19) who also returned 73 however Laura lifted the trophy by virtue of best last three. In third place was Patricia Mennie (Auchterarder) (21) 74. The CSS was 73. The play was excellent and I was delighted to walk round and watch the display of golf the girls achieved. Perth and Kinross is certainly safe hands with these girls coming through the junior section and I am sure that in the not to distant future we will be seeing more than a few of these girls names in our senior team.

In the nine hole event the winners were Jennifer Saxton (Milnathort) who returned 45. In second place was Jennifer Duncan (Auchterarder) 47 and third place went to Jennifer Mennie (Auchterarder) 55. A great day for the 'Jennifers'!! Congratulations to all of them and sincere thanks to member Pat Colquhoun who donated a trophy for the 9 hole girls.

The turn out for day was suberb 15 girls played the 18 hole course and 15 played over the 9 hole course. Our sincere thanks go to Crieff Captain Eileen Callander who organised a band of very willing Crieff members to come along and help with the younger 9 hole girls. Also thanks go to Crieff Golf Club for providing courtesy, to Carol Lambie for organising the event and our president Liz Miskimmin for presenting the prizes.

Below is a slide show of the day. Lenore also took photo's of the nine hole girls which I will post soon. Above is a photo of the prizewinners. From left to right they are Nicola Roberson 2nd Scratch, Eilidh Watson Scratch Champion, Laura Aitken Handicap Champion, Lauren Marchbank 2nd Handicap and Patricia Mennie 3rd Handicap.

TEAM ANNOUNCED

The Perth and Kinross County Team have been selected and I am delighted to announce the team who will defend our title at Dornoch. They are:

Carly Booth (Comrie)
Alex Bushby (Strathmore)
Eve Muirhead (Pitlochry)
Annabel Niven (Crieff)
Emily Ogilvy (Auchterarder)
Fiona Ramsay (Crieff)
Laura Walker (Muckhart)
Jane Yellowlees (Murrayshall)

1st reserve Jillian Milne (Craigiehill) 2nd reserve Gwen Lambie (Dunkeld)

My thanks go to all squad members for all their hard work and commitment throughout the winter period.

PERTH AND KINROSS LADIES COUNTY GOLF ASSOCIATION
MURRAYSHALL GOLF COURSE

THURSDAY 11TH JUNE 2009

09.31: J Yellowlees, A Houston, M Lumby
09.38: M McPherson, H Gibson, J Lang
09.45: B Lyburn, A Priestley, C Irving
09.52: A Burnett, L Kyle, A Tannock
09.59: P Colquhoun, S Service, D Doris
10.06: M Brydson, S Lindsay, S Young
10.13: A McGregor, L Fall, S Durward
10.20: V Saville, L McGraw, C Choudary
10.27: S Mitchell, D Whytock, J Gordon
10.34: H Dalgleish, J Proudfoot, N Morrison
10.41: K McAlpine, M Chapman, E Campbell
10.48: C Peebles, E Harrild, M Penny
10.55: M Watson, C Webb, A Hood
11.02: M Macrae, S Black, M McLeod
11.09: H Lang, A Crossland, G Beaton
11.16: D Wildblood, M Forbes, G Paterson
11.23: J Pringle, P Kelly, M Robertson-Lang
11.30: S Jones, S Irvine, K Booth
11.37: A Beeson, J Thom, C Mc Nab
11.44: M Leslie, M Chalmers

EVENING DRAW

5.06: D Butchart, J Griffiths
5.13: C Turner, B Clough
5.20: S Berry, L Pattinson
5.27: J Simpson, M McKay
5.33: G Lambie, C Lambie, S Bushby

Many thanks to Pam for forwarding the draw, let hope the sun shines for us. If you require a late entry please contact Pam

CARLY AND EMILY SHINE AT ST.RULE

P&K members Carly Booth and Emily Ogilvy had a fantastic result this weekend playing over the New and Old courses at St. Andrews in the St. Rule Trophy. Carly finished in 2nd position with rounds of 79,70,71 for a total of 220, 7 shots under par. Emily finished 6th with a level par 227. A fantastic result from both girls and what a boost to our county to have two players in the top 6. When I spoke with both girls last night they were both delighted with their results as was I!

Our congratulations go to Kylie Walker who retained her title. This is only the third time in the tournaments history that this has been done. Christine Middleton was the first in 1988-89. Catriona (Lambert) Matthew was the second with victories in 1993 and 1994.

218 K Walker (Buchanan Castle) 76 71 71.

220 C Booth (Comrie) 79 70 71.

225 P Pretswell (Bothwell Castle) 77 75 73.

226 D McVeigh (Royal Co Down) 81 74 71, K MacDonald (Nairn Dunbar) 80 72 74.

227 E Ogilvy (Auchterarder) 75 78 74.

Above is a photo of Carly and Emily with the County Cup which was won at Downfield last year.

CRIEFF LADIES GREENSOME OPEN

Crieff Lady Captain Eileen Callander has asked if I could post details of the Crieff Ladies Greensome Open. Below is full details of cost, phone and Email contact details.

Crieff Ladies Open Greensomes

Thursday, 2nd July

entry fee £12

scratch & net prizes

times 11.30a.m. to 4.30p.m

entry forms available from the Club Secretary, phone no 01764652397

or E-mail : secretary @crieffgolf.co.uk.

If you would like me post details of your Ladies Open events please contact me and I will be happy to do so.

COMMONWEALTH SPOONS

Our sincere thanks go to Blair Atholl for making us so very welcome yesterday. The course was just lovely however the weather, especially for the evening players, was more than a little wet!! However that did not detract from the golf with the clear winners Margaret Hunter and Sandy Bushby (Strathmore) with 71.5. Four couples will go through to the finals in September they are:

Margaret Hunter & Sandy Bushby (Strathmore) 71.5
Helen Lang & Clara Webb (Pitlochry) 74
Myra MacLeod & Angela Crossland (Dunblane) 75 bih
Sally Crystal & Heddie Straw (Taymouth Castle) 75

Well done to all and very good luck in September!

CALLANDER LADIES OPEN

Pat Colquhoun contacted me and asked us to post a notice regarding the Ladies Open at Callander, details are below:

'LADY OF THE LAKE'

Saturday 20th June 2009

Entry fee £10.00

Contact

Anne Tannock

26 Wallace Road

Dunblane

FK9 HP

Tel 01786 824559

Prizes - Silver and Bronze - 3 Scratch and 3 Handicap in each division plus Seniors Prize

Trophies - Best Scratch and Best Nett Scores

(Scratch takes Precedence)

Other Callander Opens for your diary,

July 4th - Mixed Foursomes

August 31st - Seniors Mixed Open

Sept 7th - Ladies Senior Open

For any of these fixtures contact Clubhouse 01877 3300090

Thanks for the info Pat.

EMILY BOWS OUT

Emily Ogilvy lost her match this afternoon against Laura Murray 5&4. Emily has done so very well to make it to the last 16. I am, as always, very proud of her acheivements.

There has been one other upset this afternoon when the number one seed Pamela Pretswell, was knocked out by Aberdeenshire's Carol Wilson.
So far these are the only results available.

ROUND ONE RESULTS

Emily Ogivly has progressed to the next round of the Scottish this morning. Emily won her match against Sheena Wood 2&1. Many congratulations go to Emily and the very best of luck this afternoon. Emily will play Laura Murray at 2pm.

Unfortunately Jacqueline Sneddon lost her match this morning to Jane Turner 3&2, our commiserations go to Jacqueline.

SCOTTISH LADIES (CLOSE) AMATEUR CHAMPIONSHIP

The qualifying rounds for the Scottish took place on Monday and Tuesday. The playing conditions were awful with wind and rain being the feature on both days. However I am pleased to report that two Perth and Kinross members have qualified through to the matchplay stages which commence today. They are Emily Ogilvy who qualified in 21st place and Jacqueline Sneddon who qualified 25th.

Jacqueline teed off at 8.46 playing against the number 8 qualifier Jane Turner and Emily teed on at 9.10 against the number 12 seed Sheena Wood.

Good luck to both.

COUNTY CHAMPIONSHIPS

Today saw the final day of the 2009 County Championships and we have a new county champion, Carol Muir of Craigie Hill. Carol made her way to the final by winning her semi-final match against Dawn Butchart (Strathmore)5&4 and went on to meet Jane Yellowlees (Murraysall) who claimed her place by winning her semi-final against defending champion Laura Walker(Muckhart) 3&2. Carol won the final match by 1 hole.

Many congratulations got to Carol who is delighted to have won.

In the Gibb Trophy Sandra Service (lyth) lifted the trophy after winning her final against Barbara Lyburn (Blairgowrie) 3&2. Sandra claimed her place in final after winning her semi final against Hannah Robb (Strathmore) 6&4 and Barbaran won her place in final following a Semi Final against Elizabeth Milligan (Dunblane) at the 19th hole.

Well done to both Carol and Sandra below is photos of the day. If you would like any emailed please contact me.

CHAMPIONSHIP FINALS

Following a heavy night of rain it was touch and go whether play would have to be abandoned, however with stalwart efforts by the greenkeeping staff the course was re-opened at 10am. Some great golf was on display and the results were as follows:

FIRST ROUND
Fiona Ramsay (Crieff) bt Lenore Kyle (Milnathort) 3 and 2.
Dawn Butchart (Strathmore) bt Mary Hope (Blairgowrie) 2 and 1.
Jillian Milne (Craigie Hill) bt Gwen Lambie (Dunkeld) at 19th.
Carol Muir (Craigie Hill) bt Sandy Bushby (Strathmore) 1 hole.
Alex Bushby (Strathmore) bt Ailie Burnett (Dunkeld) 4 and 2.
Laura Walker (Muckhart) bt Megan Aird (Strathmore) 4 and 2.
Gillian Wallace (Glenisla) bt Janet Griffiths (Strathmore) 1 hole.
Jane Yellowlees (Murrayshall) bt Emily Aird (Strathmore) 2 holes.

QUARTER-FINALS
Dawn Butchart bt Fiona Ramsay 3 and 1.
Carol Muir bt Jillian Milne 4 and 2.
Laura Walker bt Alex Bushby 4 and 2.
Jane Yellowlees bt Gillian Wallace 1 hole.

HANDICAP CHAMPIONSHIP
Quarter-finals
Hannah Robb (Strathmore) (18) bt Sheila MacDougall (Dunblane) (17) 3 and 2.
Sandra Service (Alyth) (17) bt Alison Stockley (Craigie Hill) (11) 2 and 1.
Barbara Lyburn (Blairgowrie) (15) bt Sally Crystal (Taymouth Castle) (20) 3 and 2.
Elizabeth Milligan (Dunblane) (17) bt Jenny Groom (Strathmore) (27) 10 and 8.


Draw for tomorrow's semi finals :

Scratch
Dawn Butchart v Carol Muir
Laura Walker v Jane Yellowlees

Handicap
Hannah Robb v Sandra Service
Barbara Lyburn v Elizabeth Milligan

Well done to everyone and good luck tomorrow.

GOOD LUCK

This weekend at Strathmore Golf Centre, our new County Champion and Handicap County Champion will be crowned. I would like to wish all finalist the very best of luck and hope very much for an iprovement in the weather!! Tee times commence at 9.30am so if you can, please come along and support the players.

COMMONWEALTH SPOONS AT BLAIR ATHOLL

Our commonwealth spoons qualifier takes place on Monday 25th May and below is the draw which has kindly been forwarded to me from the meeting convenor Carol Lambie.


09.30: L Kyle & C Lambie - A McGregor & B Pitney
09.37: E Martin & G Wallace - H Wylie & E Bennie
09.45: H Gibson & C Peebles - A Grewar & R McGeoghegan
09.52: M Macrae & D Wildblood - L Laburn & F Johnston
10.00: P Drysdale & J Lang - M Birch & M Penny
10.07: J French & S Irvine - M Ewen & J Jasper
10.15: M Watson & M McPherson - M Middleton & F Anderson
10.22: J Pringle & E Milligan - M Hunter & S Bushby
10.30: P Colquhoun & A Tannock - M Chapman & D Whytock
10.37: H Dalgleish & H Cunningham - J Donaldson & M Walker
10.45: S McNaughton & G Beaton - P Kelly & G Paterson
10.52: A Crossland & M MacLeod - S Fenner & C McNab
11.00: S Jones & B Harley - K McKellar & S Brown
11.15: S Durward & J Gordon - S MacDougall & A Young
11.30: J Gemmell & L Crichton - M Storry & M Carruthers
11.45: H Lang & C Webb - J Proudfoot & A Allan

EVENING DRAW
5.30: J Griffiths & D Butchart - C Dunbar & K Duncan
5.37: G Lambie & A Burnett - L Pattinson & E Millar
5.45: H Straw & S Crystal - L Sharp & M Aitken - J Chisholm & A Duncan


Late entries will be accepted please call Carol.

KILLIN LADIES OPEN

I received an email this morning from the committee organising the Killin Ladies Golf Open which is on Sat 6th June. Unfortunately they have had a cancellation of 12 ladies from the competition and are really struggling for numbers now. They were therefore asking if I could spread the word to you all and hopefully some of you could enter and play in this lovely nine hole course which makes a great day out for a ladies outing. The entry is only £10.00.

Entries including Fee & preferred tee off time to:
Ladies’ Competition Organiser
Killin Golf Club
Killin
FK21 8TX

Tel 01567 820312

If preferred email: ladies@killingolfclub.co.uk

Cheques payable to Killin Golf Club.

If you wish to download the poster which has full details for your club notice board click on the link below which will direct you to mediafile then click 'download' this will download the poster to your computer. Any problems give me a call!

Killin Golf Club poster

I hope the day goes well and that it is well supported. If your club is having an open and would like me to post details on the website just let me know.

WINNING BIDS

Yesterday we held a silent auction for rounds of golf through-out perthshire. The results of the auction are as follows:


Aberfeldy: Annette Grewar, £40.00
Auchterarder: David Douglas, £56.00
Blair Atholl: Pat Colquhoun, £45.00
Blairgowrie: Susan Wood, £120.00
Callander: Catherine Peebles, £48.00
Crieff: Judy Proudfoot, £80.00
Dalmunzie: Sally Crystal, £60.00
Dunblane: Janet Griffiths, £70.00
Dunkeld: Pat Colquhoun, £55.00
Glenisla: Miriam Wilson, £65.00
Kenmore: Pat Colquhoun, £40.00
Killin: Annette Grewar, £35.00
Muckhart: Maya Robertson, £80.00
Pitlochry: Annette Grewar, £60.00
St Fillans: Joan Merry, £50.00
Strathmore: D Flynn C/O J Merry, £ 60.50

Many thanks go to all who bidded and congratulations to the above. Could you all please send your cheques to me made payable to P&K L C G A and I will forward your vouchers on receipt. I still have Craigie Hill, Dunning and Milnathort with no bids if your interested please contact me!

Thanks again to you all as this auction has raised in excess of £950! Many thanks!

STRATHMORE COUNTY QUALIFER

Fiona Ramsay topped the scores at Strathmore today with a scratch 76, best handicap was Morag Brysdon and Shirley Irvine with 68. With Morag winning on virtue of better inward half. Both Morag and Shirley are unavailable for the matchplay this weekend. The CSS was 73.

The draw is as Follows:
9:30 Fiona Ramsay v Lenore Kyle
9:37 Dawn Butchart v Mary Hope
9:45 Jillian Milne v Gwen Lambie
9:52 Sandy Bushby v Carole Muir
10:00 Alex Bushby v Ailie Burnett
10:07 Laura Walker v Megan Aird
10:15 Gillian Wallace v Janet Griffiths
10:22 Emily Aird v Jane Yellowlees

H/Cap
10:30 Sheila MacDougall v Hannah Robb
10:37 Alison Stockley v Sandra Service
10:45 Barbara Lyburn v Sally Crystall
10:52 Elizabeth Milligan v Jenny Groom

Well done to all and many thanks to all the helpers on the day

CONGRATULATIONS JACKIE

Congratulations to Jackie Nisbet who had a 'hole in one' on Tuesday night. Jackie was playing her home course, Dunkeld, when she aced her tee shot at the 11th.

Well done Jackie from all at P&K.

OUR SKIP EVE

Congratulation go to our very own Eve Muirhead who not only has been named in the 2010 Curling Olympic team but has today has been named skip! What a fantastic achievement from someone who is still only 18 years old.

You are a star Eve and we at P&K are very proud!

ROUNDS OF GOLF FOR AUCTION!!

Golf courses in Perth and Kinross have been extremely generous to our Association in our centenary year, by donating rounds of golf for us to auction in aid of funds.

Each Golf course will have its own sheet which we can place a bid on and the highest bidder wins the round. A reserve figure must be met before the sale is made.

Below is a list of all the courses and the reserves, if you are not playing on Monday and want to place a bid please contact me.

Aberfeldy - Value £108 - Reserve £35
Auchterarder - Value £140- Reserve £40
Blair Atholl - Value £88 - Reserve £30
Blairgowrie (Rosemount) - Value £280 - Reserve £75
Callander - Value £140 - Reserve £40
Craigie Hill - Value £108 - Reserve £35
Crieff - Value £156 - Reserve £50
Dalmunzie - Value £56 - Reserve £15
Dunblane (Exc Saturdays) - Value £180 - Reserve £50
Dunkeld (mid week only) - Value £100 - Reserve £30
Dunning (no Thurs or Sat for two only) - Value £40 - Reserve £15
Glenisla - Value £140 - Reserve £40
Kenmore - Value £100 - Reserve £30
Killin - Value £88 -Reserve £30
Muckhart - Value £140 - Reserve £40
Pitlochry (mid-week only) Value £108 - Reserve £35
Strathmore - Value £144 - Reserve £40
St Fillans - Value £100 - Reserve £30

Why don't you get together as a four ball and split the cost or how about a birthday present or gift. Ask your husbands and partners too if they wish to bid! The bidding sheets will all be available on Monday!

See you then!

COUNTY CHAMPIONSHIP

What a super turn out for our County Championship at Strathmore on Monday. With 110 entrants it going to be a great day.

As always we will be holding our annual Raffle in aid of funds for the Jamboree. I have once again got my begging cap on and I am asking if you would kindly bring along a prize for the raffle table on the day.

As I also said earlier we will also have 18 rounds of golf to bid on and I will post more details regarding this later.

See you Monday!

MATCH AGAINST FIFE

Unfortunately our squad did not fair well this weekend against the Scottish Title holders fife when the senior squad went down 3.5 to 0.5. The juniors did better with a 1 - 1 draw.

The players in the senior section were Laura Walker and Eve Muirhead who lost to Louise Kenney and Katrina Milne 4&3, Alex Bushby and Catherine Williams lost to Fiona Hastie and Elaine Moffat 3&2, Jillian Milne and Fiona Ramsay who halved their match against Susan Jackson and Karen Sharp and the final match was Jane Yellowlees and Laura Campbell who lost 6&4 to Ashley Wilton and Linda Dyball.
The juniors taking part were Megan Aird and Eilidh Watson who lost to Rachael Hamilton and Lauren White 4&2 and our only winning partnership was Erin Millar and Ailie Burnett who won 1 up against Shannon MacGuire and Sam Munro.

My thanks as always go to Shona Leighton who organised the event and to Lenore Kyle, Pam Drysdale, Liz Miskimmin and Pat Colquhoun who came along to support the team.

CONGRATULATIONS CARLY

Good news from Squad member Carly Booth as Scotland wins the Nations Cup team event at the weekend's Welsh women's open amateur stroke-play championship at windswept Royal Porthcawl. Carly along with Kelsey MacDonald and Kylie Walker were the Scotland team members. Although the trio did not do as well as they had hoped individualy they are very happy to do Scotland proud by bringing home the Nations Cup Trophy.

Carly finished in joint 12th whilst Kylie Walker finished joint sixth and Kelsey MacDonald 17th.

Well done to them!

CHAMPIONSHIP QUALIFIER

Below is the Championship Qualifier draw which takes place 11th May at Strathmore Golf Centre. As you can see we have spaces left in the draw if you wish a late entry contact me on 01828 633000/633395.


09:30: A Bushby, F Ramsay
09:37: D Butchart, J Yellowlees, J Milne
09:45: C Kenny, C Dunbar, G Wallace
09:52: S Bushby, A Houston, M Hope
10:00: N Morrison, M Lumby, M Marshall
10:07: J French, K Morrison, H Gibson
10:15: V Saville, P Drysdale, C Irving
10:22: J Heaney, G Pennycook, M Middleton
10:37: C Turner, E Millar, M Wilson
10:45: D Doris, A McGregor, M Brydson
10:52: A Grewar, P Colquhoun, J Kennedy
11:00: L Scott, E Milligan, B Lyburn
11:07: S Service, S MacDougal, J Hamilton
11:15: L Fall, M Chapman, Maya Robertson
11:22: J Proudfoot, E Harrild, M Watson
11:37: S Crystal, C Peebles, A Hood
11:45: E Benzies, J Clowe, S Fenner
11:52: J Gordon , S Durward, S Ogg
12:00: M MacLeod, L Crighton, M Robertson
12:07: S McNaughton, E Campbell, C Webb
12:22: J Nisbet, J Pringle, G Paterson
12:30: M Johnston, P Kelly, J Groom
12:37: G Brown, A Crossland, M Robertson-Lang
12:45: G Beaton, M Carruthers, S Jones
12:52: C Monks, D Wildblood, G Thomson
13:07: J Gemmell, J Wivell, E Callander
13:15: S Irvine, E Watson, C McNab
13:22: M Storry, A Beeson, M Chalmers
13:30: L Kyle, M Leslie, I Murray

EVENING PLAYERS
16:15: C Booth, E Ogilvy
16:22: J Griffiths, N Fleming
16:30: M McKay, R McGeoghegan
16:37: A Stockley, C Muir
16:45: A Duncan, J Chisholm, L Pattinson
17:07: A Niven, E Aird
17:15: M Aird, A Burnett
17:30: L Walker, S Leighton
17:37: E Watson, N Robertson, G Lambie
17:45: E Martin, C Lambie, H Robb

On the day we will be having our usual Raffle and I would very kindly ask that you bring some thing along on day. We are also very pleased that as this is our centenary year, 18 golf clubs have donated Rounds of Golf for auction. The golf clubs who have donated are, Dunning, Blair Atholl, Killin, Craigie Hill, Aberfeldy, Dalmunzie, Callander, Pitlochry, Muckhart, Dunkeld, Crieff, Auchterarder, Rosemount, Strathmore, Glenisla, St Fillans, Dunblane and Kenmore. I will post more details on how this auction will be done and hope you are all happy to take part in the chance to win a round for four.

EVE SELECTED FOR OLYMPICS

County Squad player Eve Muirhead has been named in the 5 strong Ladies Olympic Curling Team. Eve along with Karen Addison, Lynn Cameron, Jackie Lockhart, Lorna Vevers and Kelly Wood make up the women’s squad. All have had their share of European and World Championship medals. Eve has two World Junior Curling championships, Jackie Lockhart has already played in two Olympic Games and has won a World gold medal in 2002 and got bronze at the 2007 World Championships and silver at the Europeans in December. Karen Addison has two World Junior gold medals, a World bronze from 2007 and got European silver in the same year. Lynn Cameron and Kelly Wood played in the 2006 Winter Olympics, Kelly skipped the bronze medal

team at the 2007 World Championships and silver team at the Europeans in December 2007.

Eve is the youngest member and is very excited about her selection. We here at P&K wish her well and will follow her progress with great interest.

Well done!

FORTH VALLEY SCHOOLS CHAMPIONSHIPS

The Forth Valley Schools Championship was held at Dunblane Golf Club last Thursday and I am delighted to say Elite Junior and Scholarship recipient Nicola Robertson won 2nd place with a 87.

Well done Nicola all your hard work is certainly paying off. Keep it up!

COUNTY CHAMPIONSHIPS

Lots and lots of you have not yet entered the County Championships at Strathmore on May 11th. To avoid any disappointment, please please have your entries to me by Thursday 30th at the very latest.

Any queries please give me a call.

Helen Holm Scottish Open Stroke Play Championship at Troon.

Irish twin Leona Macguire has finished first at the Helen Holm, two shots ahead of Scottish Under-21 champion Kelsey MacDonald (Nairn Dunbar), with Lisa Maguire sharing third place with England's Emma Brown, another shot behind.

P&K Entrant Carly Booth was 21st and sadly fellow squad member Annabel Niven failed to make Sunday's cut.

For full results log onto SLGA website and click on live scoring for the list scores.

ANNABEL AND CARLY

Annabel and Carly have both completed their first round of the Helen Holm. Carly has returned a 3 over par 78 and Annabel a 10 over 85.

Top of the leader board with three holes still to play is Irish twin Leona Maguire who is presently 5 under par. Tilly Holder and Kym Lawatt have both completed their rounds and are sitting in second position with 3 under par.

To watch live scoring go to www.slga.co.uk and click on the live scoring on the link for live scoring on the left hand side of the page.

Good luck to both girls tomorrow.

GOOD LUCK ANNABEL AND CARLY

Good luck to county Squad members Annabel Niven and Carly Booth who are both participating in the Helen Holm Scottish Open Stroke Play Championship at Troon. The first round teed off at 8am, Carly is off at 11.10 and Annabel at 12.00.

Good luck to you both and I will keep you posted on their progress.

COUNTY CHAMPIONSHIPS HANDICAP ORDER

This years County Championships takes place at Strathmore Golf Centre on May 11th. The knockout rounds will then be held on May 16th and May 17th .

The entries are coming in fast now but could I please remind all players that as this is the County Championship Qualifier, this meeting will be drawn in handicap order. However if you are travelling with someone and require to be close in the draw then the lower handicap player will be moved down the draw rather than the higher handicap moved forward.

The evening players are out in the order they can arrive at the course following their working day. This is to enable all players to get out as soon as possible due to the possibility of lack of light. I would therefore ask you all to write on the entry the earliest time you can play in the evening.

Please please get your entries in as soon as possible.

ADULT AND JUNIOR DAY

What a fantastic day we all had at Strathmore Golf Centre for our annual Adult and Junior day. 24 players took part in the greensome competition on lovely sunny day. Many thanks of course must go to Strathmore Golf Centre for all the support they give us as a County.

The winning scores were very impressive with Emily Ogilvy (Auchterarder) and her junior partner Megan Aird (Strathmore) along with Carly Booth (Comrie) and her partner Emily Aird (Strathmore) both returning one over par scratch 73. Emily and Megan pipping Carly and Emily by virtue of a better inward half. The handicap section was also closely fought with Dawn Butchart (Strathmore) along with partner Nicola Robertson (Dunblane) taking top spot from Laura Walker (Muckhart) and Ailie Burnett (Dunkeld) by .2 of a stroke. Dawn and Nicola returned 70.4 and Laura and Ailie returning 70.6.

Scratch
Emily Ogilvy (Auchterarder) and Megan Aird (Strathmore) 73
Carly Booth (Comrie) and Emily Aird (Strathmore) 73.

Handicap
Dawn Butchart (Strathmore) and NicolaRobertson (Dunblane) 70.4
Laura Walker (Muckhart) and Ailie Burnett (Dunkeld) 70.6,
Meg Marshall (Blairgowrie) and Kathryn Robertson (Auchterarder) 71.8 bih,
Sandy Bushby (Strathmore) and Claire Gadsby (Muthill) 71.8

We also had fun spot prizes, the winners were as follows:

Girls Nearest the Pin
Nicola Robertson (Dunblane)

Adults Nearest the Pin
Meg Marshall (Blairgowrie)

Girls Longest Drive
Laura Aitken (Killin)

Adults Longest Drive
Carly Booth (Comrie)

Well done to all the prizewinners and many thanks to all who came along to support our juniors. Hope you all enjoy the slide show and as always if you want a particular photo please let me know!

JUNIOR AND SENIOR EVENT

Tomorrow will see our highly successful Junior and Senior Event being played over Strathmore. This popular event will have 12 ladies who have either been or are County Team or Squad players or who hold a single figure handicap, play with 12 of our best junior girls. Each senior and junior will be paired and play a greensome competition. There are prizes provided for all winning juniors of the both the best scratch and handicap pairings. Tee time commence from 2.30pm if you wish to come along and support the girls.
The seniors taking part are Carly Booth, Emily Ogivly, Laura Walker, Dawn Butchart, Jane Yellowlees, Gillian Wallce, Kathleen Duncan, Janet Griffiths, Laura Cambell, Sandy Bushby, Meg Marshall and Pam Drysdale. The juniors are Emily Aird, Megan Aird, Ailie Burnett, Nicola Robertson, Erin Millar, Eilidh Watson, Laura Aitken, Siobhan Teague, Hannah Robb, Claire Gadsby, Kathryn Robertson and Roslyn Hall.

We are hoping for a super day of golf and hopefully the girls will all enjoy the experience. Special thanks go to Strathmore Golf Centre who have very kindly provided courtesy for the 2nd consecutive year of this very worthwhile event.

I will post the results as soon as possible.

Good luck every body!

CONGRATULATIONS JACQUELINE

Perth and Kinross squad member Jacqueline Sneddon, a second-year student at Grand Canyon University, Arizona, has notched up her first victory in the United States.

Jacqueline kept her cool after a triple bogey at the final hole in the 36-hole Maverick Invite women's college tournament at Redlands Mesa Golf Club at Grand Junction, Colorado which cost her an out right victory after the regulation distance. That late, late slip meant Jacqueline had to go into a sudden-death play-off with Sadie Peavler (Mesa State College) who had led the Scot by eight shots with a first-round 69 over the par-72, 6452. They tied on 155 at the head of a field of 31 players with Jacqueline scoring 77 and 78 to Sadie's 69 and 86. And the first hole of the play-off was the 18th hole which Jacqueline had had her triple bogey only minutes earlier. But Jacqeline made no mistake this time and beat her opponent with a par to win the title.

"It was really exciting to get a chance to play the last hole again and play it like I knew I could," said Jacqueline whose outstanding display enabled Grand Canyon to win the team title by three shots from Mesa State College in a field of six teams."We all played solid. It's great for our team to get a win under our belt going into our last tournament."

Well done Jacqueline and many thanks to Colin Farquarson so EMailed the news to me and the photo!

LEADING FINAL TOTALSPar 144 (2 x 72) 6452yd

155 Jacqueline Sneddon (Grand Canyon University) 77 78, Sadie Peavler (Mesa State College) 69 86 (Jacqueline won sudden-death play-off at first extra hole).

157 Jennifer Lutz (Grand Canyon University) 74 83.

Field of 31 players.

LEADING TEAM TOTALS

648 Grand Canyon University.

651 Mesa State College.

696 Regis University.

KING JAMES VI RESULTS

What a lovely day we have for our very first meeting of the year and what an extremely good turn out as well. It was super to be able to play golf without any wind or rain!! The results were good to with County Captain Dawn returning the best scratch score of 78 and junior member Emily Aird (Strathmore) returning the best nett with 72. Well done to all.

Many thanks go to King James VI who always make us so very welcome.

Full results below:

CSS 73

Scratch
Dawn Butchart (Strathmore) 78
Laura Walker (Muckhart) 80
Jillian Milne (Craigiehill) 82 bih
Gillian Wallace (Glenisla) 82

H/Cap
Emily Aird (Strathmore) (11) 72 bih
Dawn Butchart (Strathmore) (6) 72
Lenore Kyle (Milnathort) (13) 73
Joyce Thom (King James VI) (27) 73

Well done to all and look forward to seeing you all at Strathmore for our next County Meeting. May 11th.

EMILY SHINES AT CRAIGIELAW

Emily Aird (Strathmore) certainly did P&K proud this week at the Under 16 girls at Craigielaw today when she returned a fantastic nett 67 in the second round!!! She went on to win 4th prize in the aggregate nett total and also best nett return on the 2nd round. Fantastic result not only nett but also scratch.

Emily also returned our best P&K scratch score with +24, Megan Aird was next with +35 closely followed by Eilidh Watson on +36 and Erin Millar on +40.

Well done Emily and all P&K girls who took part we are very very proud of you.

SCOTTISH GIRLS UNDER 16 REPORT

Our girls have done us proud today at Craigielaw. Our top performers are Eilidh Watson and Emily Aird who both posted 86 closely followed by Megan Aird with 87 and Erin Millar with 96.

The leading scores at present are as follows:
73. Hayley Davis (Ferndown) 37-37.
74 Hannah Turland (Tidworth Garrison) 39-35.
76 Ashley Cramond (Warwickshire) 39-37, Bronte Law (Bramhall) 37-39.
78 Olivia Winning (Rotherham) 37-41, Lesley Atkins (Minto) 36-42.
79 Gabrielle MacDonald (Craigielaw) 42-37, Meghan MacLaren (Wellingborough) 41-38, Gemma Clements (Sutdley Wood) 40-39, Bethany Garton (Royal Lytham)39-40, Nicola Haynes (Gosforth Park) 37-42.

Well done to our girls and I will keep you posted!

GOOD LUCK GIRLS!

Good Luck to Perth and Kinross Juniors Eilidh Watson (Muckhart), Erin Millar (Pitlochry), Emily Aird (Strathmore) and Megan Aird (Strathmore) who are all taking part in the Scottish Girls Under 16 Open Stroke Play at Craigielaw which starts today.

Good Luck and I will keep you posted of their progress.

KING JAMES VI DRAW

At last its our first County Meeting and Lenore has kindly done the draw. Look forward to seeing you all next Tuesday!

09.30: L Kyle, M Mckay, J Bridges
09.37: L Walker, S Bushby, G Wallace
09.45: C Irving, M Begbie, A Houston
09.52: D Butchart, G Lambie, C Kenny
10.00: M Hope, E Aird, V Saville
10.07: M McGlashan, A Burnett, N Robertson
10.15: M McPherson, A Tannock, M Aird
10.22: P Colquhoun, J Hamilton, M Chapman
10.30: D Whytock, J Proudfoot, K McKellar
10.37: C Choudhary, A McGregor, H Dalgleish
10.45: R McGeoghegan, C Gadsby, H Robb
10.52: M Watson, S Ogg, M Robertson
11.00: M MacRae, S Lindsay, S Fenner
11.07: M Carruthers, J Nisbet, B Harley
11.15: D Wildblood, M Forbes, C McNab
11.22: E Campbell , S Black, J Thom
11.30: H Lang, A Beeson, M Johnston
11.37: C Lambie, P Hebner, C Webb

WELL DONE P&K

Today was the first match for our wonderful P&K Team and Junior squad and I am delighted to say that we had a brilliant over-all win of 4&2. Our senior teams result was 3&1 and the juniors 1 win each.

The pairings for P&K were:
Senior Team
Emily Ogilvy & Fiona Ramsay
Laura Walker & Eve Muirhead
Laura Campbell & Jillian Milne
Jane Yellowlees and Megan Aird.

Junior Team
Nicola Robertson & Eildh Watson
Emily Aird & Hannah Robb

Emily and Fiona were first off and up against Stirling and Clackmannan Captain Linda Allan and her partner Louise MacGregor. Both pairings played well and had a very close and tense match which ended at the 18th with the our girls 2 up. Laura and Eve were second up against Vicki Stevenson and Tricia Chillas. Eve and Laura managed to close out the game early with the best win of the day for the seniors with a 4&3 2win! Next up were Laura Campbell and Jillian Milne who were up against Claire Capucci and Karen Burns who played extremely well and our girls went down 5&4. The last senior pairing was Yellowless and Megan Aird. Megan, a junior member, who was drafted into the senior squad at the last minute following a cancellation, really did not let the occasion get to her when she slotted in two 4 foot putts in the last two holes to place Jane and Megan 2 holes up a the end of play. Well to both.

The junior pairings also were superb. Emily Aird teamed with a new player to our County Events, Hannah Robb, and both players really did us proud. They played extremely well however lost to an excellent Stirling pairing 3&2. The other P&K junior pairing of Nicola and Elidh were awesome. I caught up with them at the seven and they were 7 up and only 2 over par! I then caught up with them thru 9 and again they were 9 up! They went on to win the match with phenomenal 9&8. WOW!

Therefore the overall winners on the day were P&K 4&2. Well done to all our players and what a great start to what I hope will be a fantastic year once again for Perth and Kinross!

KING JAMES VI MEETING

At last after a very long and very cold winter, the season is at last here!! It is now time to dust off your clubs, polish your shoes and most importantly get your entries off for our very first meeting of the season. Lenore is taking your entries for our first meeting which will be held at King James VI on April 14th.

Come on let get this season started!! See you there!

SPORTS PERSONALITY OF THE YEAR



As has already been posted The P&K County Team won the P&K Sports Personality of Year Team Award earlier this month. Again unfortunately I was unable to attend as I was on holiday. Lenore very kindly has passed on the above photos for us to enjoy!

Once again well done to all concerned!

COUNTIES CENTENARY LUNCH

On Saturday 7th March a table of 16 past Captains and Champions attended a luncheon hosted by SLGA to celebrate the Counties centenary year. Unfortunately as I was on holiday I was unable to attend however I believe a good afternoon was had by all who attended. Above are a few snaps Lenore took on the day.

My thanks go to all who attended.

QUIZ NIGHT PRESENTATION

My husband Iain and I were invited to represent Strathmore Golf Centre in the Alyth Quiz League. We along with fellow team members David Douglas and Peter Howell played most of the 18 week long tournament. Patrica Howell, Bob Norman and David Norman also played on the evenings when one or other of us were unavailable. It was great fun and I was very pleased to take part.

Apart from having a sociable evening the object is to raise monies for local charities, clubs and organisations. At the end of the season each team take a share of the monies made and decide whom they wish to benefit from the cheque. I was delighted when the team decided to donate their share to P&K Junior Girls.

Last night Junior convener Carol Lambie and Pam Drysdale came along to accept a cheque for £150 on the counties behalf and my thanks go to them for coming along for the evening.

Presentations also took place for the winners of the trophies and as you can see from the photo below, the Strathmore Team also won a trophy however it was not the one we craved it was indeed the 'wooden spoon'! We were all presented with a wooden log engraved with our names!

Many thanks once again to Strathmore Golf Centre for their fantastic and continued support and especially David Douglas who organised the team so well all winter.

WORLD CLASS EVE

Team member Eve Muirhead was crowned Junior Curling World Champion 2009 in Vancouver yesterday. Eve retained her crown after a nail biting finish against Canada.

This is the third year running Eve has been in the winning Scottish side, the first year as the third man and the last two as skip.

As Eve's team mates make their way home, Eve is traveling on to Korea for the World Ladies Championship with her senior team mates.

Eve, you really are a talent and we are all very proud of you.

We wish you well in Korea!

WELL DONE OUR GIRLS!!

I am just back from my holidays and was over-whelmed when I received a phone call in Tenerife from our Team to tell me that we had won the Perth and Kinross Sports Personality of the Year Team Award.

When I first sent off the nomination I believed our team deserved all the praise and recognition that was available and I am so pleased that I am not the only one who feels this way! The team have been outstanding as both a team and also with their own personal achievements. But what pleases me most is they act as a team both during team events and matches but also during individual events throughout the year in tournaments both home and abroad, I am very very proud of them all.

I also feel credit is due to the hard work of the officials who spend their valuable time organising coaching, matches and of course the Jamboree. The whole committee are fantastic but special thanks must go to Shona who is a brilliant match secretary and of course Lenore who is a great vice. I know the team really appreciate the time and effort involved.

A brilliant start to the year for P&K and I know the start of another great year.

Well done all!

P & K County Team win Sports Council Team of the Year Award

Our girls have done it again, at the Perth and Kinross Sports Personality of the Year Awards they were presented with the trophy for Team of the Year.

The award was sponsored by Perth and Kinross Sports Council and presented by Doug Yeats.

Well done girls first trophy this year, lots more to come!

CARLY AND EMILY MISS THE CUT

The Spanish women's open amateur golf championship at Las Palmas on the Canary Island continues tomorrow minus Carly and Emily. Carly had what was a nightmare 85 in the second round and along with Emily will bow out of the matchplay stages. However I am sure they are both keen to fly back for some home comforts.

SPANISH OPEN

Emily and Carly's first competitive play this season did not start well. Their accommodation seems to be a bit of a nightmare and poor Emily has been effected by sun stroke. Not really the best way to be going into a tournament. After the first days play the lack of sleep and being unwell seems to have reflected in Emily's score.

Fellow Team member Carly Booth seems to be coping better and has returned a very credible three over par 74 which places her in joint 14th, seven shots behind German, Nicola Rossler. Carly birdied the short eighth and two par-5s, the ninth and 18th in halves of 35 (level par) and 39 (three over). She bogeyed the fourth, fifth, 10th, 11th, 13th and 15th.

Following the first round there are 36 players with scores of 76 or better and eight of them are on 76. The cut off seems be likely to be around 152. Which means that Emily will be unlikely to qualify after returning a 17-over-par 88.

We wish them well today.

CONGRATULATIONS EVE

Huge congratulations go to Squad member Eve Muirhead who made her own piece of curling history on Sunday. Eve won 10-5 over Stirling’s Kelly Wood in the final of the Columba Cream Scottish Ladies Championship. This makes Eve the youngest-ever skip to become national champion – in a season where she already holds the Scottish Junior Crown (not to mention the World Junior title). This is a massive achievement for Eve who was extremely quick to praise her curling team mates.

Eve's performance in the final yesterday will be screened on BBC1 at 11.20pm on 24th Feb (tomorrow).

Eve will now make her way to Vancouver for the World Junior Championships from March 5th to 15th then onto Korea from 21st to 29th March for the World Ladies Championships.

Good Luck from us all at P&K.

CARLY AND EMILY HEAD TO GRAN CANARIA

Team members Carly Booth and Emily Ogilvy (pictured above with the North Divisional Trophy) are flying to what will hopefully be a much warmer climate this weekend to take part in the Spanish Ladies Open Amateur Championship held over the Real Club De Golf De Las Palmas in Gran Canaria. This event is a Ladies European Amateur Ranking event and is also one of only four European Qualification Events for the PING Junior Solheim Cup.

Both girls will travel on Saturday and the program is as follows:

Monday Feb 23rd: First Practice Round

Tuesday Feb 24th: Second Practice Round

Wednesday Feb 25th: First Stroke Play qualifying round (18 holes)

Thursday Feb 26th: Second Stroke Play Qualifying round (18 holes)

Friday Feb 27th: First Match Play Round (16 qualifiers)

Second Match Play round (8 qualifiers)

Saturday Feb 28th: Third Round Matchplay (Quarter Final Match play)

Fouth Round Matchplay (Semi-Finals)

Sunday March 1st: Final over 18 holes. 13.30h approx Prize Giving Ceremony.

We will keep a close eye on Carly and Emily and try as much as possible to keep you up to date with the results.

Carly and Emily are being joined on their trip with fellow Scot Kyllie Walker.

2009 SUBSCRIBTIONS

You should all have now received the mailing inviting you to renew your membership. My thanks go to Lenore who very cleverly produced this years Fixture Card. I also hope you have enjoyed reading the Newsletter and I hope you have all spotted the deliberate mistake!! I stated that the Centenary Event was taking place on Monday 9th August when in fact it should read Monday August 17th!! The fixture card is correct.

As you can see we have a great range of course to play this year and of course with the centenary event we have 9 meetings. It is really nice to have something to look forward to other than fighting your way through snow at the moment.

If you have any queries about new ladies wishing to join I have made available membership forms which you can download. Just click on the download at the right hand side of the page then when you reach the media website click to download. If you have any problems email me and I will be happy to forward this onto you.

Look forward to seeing you all soon.

P&K GLENEAGLES SCHOLARSHIP

Over the last number of years Perth and Kinross Ladies County Golf Association have been very honoured in being granted the privilege of offering a Gleneagles Scholarship to four girls from the Perth and Kinross County squads. This scholarship is open to all our junior girls under 18 years of age on January 1st and provides the four girls with full use of the Golf Academy including additional coaching throughout the year, full membership to all three Gleneagles courses and of course use of the Dormy House and changing facilities. As this scholarship is such a massive privilege and a huge benefit to the girls who are lucky enough to be selected, we do not take the granting of scholarships lightly. We will only select the girls who we feel will not only benefit but take full advantage of this opportunity during the year ahead.



This year the girls who have been selected are:


Emily Aird (Strathmore)
Megan Aird (Strathmore)
Carly Booth (Comrie)
Nicola Robertson (Dunblane)


Emily Aird at the age of only 12 has reduced her handicap from 21 to 13 in a period of only 12 months. She has participated in most of the SLGA Junior Events and has had some very encouraging successes. Emily is extremely enthusiastic and a great team player.


Megan Aird at the age of 15 has a playing handicap of 10 and along with Emily has entered most of the SLGA Events. Megan is a great supporter of county Events and has played in the Ladies Events as well as the Juniors and I know she will take full advantage of her scholarship.


Carly Booth (16) with a handicap of +3 is our lowest handicap female in the county. Carly is now living at home and attending Glenalmond School, therefore this is the perfect time for Carly to take advantage of the facilities Gleneagles has to offer and I know she is very excited about the year ahead.


Nicola Robertson at the age of 13 has reduced her handicap from 26 to 16 in the space of one year. She attends most of our junior events and she works extremely hard on her golf all year round. I know Nicola will take advantage of this award and will enjoy every minute of it!

We hope the girls this year will once again take advantage of the Perth and Kinross Ladies County Golf Associaiton Scholarship and will keep a close eye on their progress.

EMILY MISSES THE CUT

Emily is now home from Spain and we share in her disappointment at not gaining a LET Tour Card. However we are all very pleased with Emily's performance and are very proud to have someone of Emily's standard part of the P&K Squad. Emily is a great inspiration to all the girls and the juniors. Emily along with Laura Walker have very kindly been attending the Junior Elite Coaching to offer advice and encouragement and we thank them both very much for their commitment to the County.

On behalf of P&K I would also like to pass on our congratulations to Fife's Krystal Caithness who finished the event in a fantastic 7th position at 3 under par also to Pamela Feggans who finished in 24th place at +3 for the tournament and to Aberdeen shires Michele Thomson who completed the tournament in 34th place just one shot off obtaining her full tour card. Michelle will however be granted entry to some LET tournaments.

SCORE FROM SPAIN

Emily has scored 11 over par today in La Manga. She is extremely disappointed but we here at P&K are very proud of our Emily and hope she does well in the next two rounds as all is not lost.

Sorry I don't have any other scores at present.

Play well Emily we are all behind you.

NEWS FROM LA MANGA

As you will be aware it was extremely difficult to piece together the results from yesterdays first round from La Manga as the LET website was down and we just couldn't get the results anywhere! However with the help of Laura Walker we did manage to bring you the scores for the Scottish players. To see the results scroll down to the next post. I did get one score wrong which has now been corrected.

My thanks go to Laura for the information and I hope get today's scores asap! Well done to Emily in what seemed to be terrible conditions.

EMILY RETURNS A 78

Emily Ogilvy has returned a very credible 78 in the first round of the Ladies European Tour Pre-Qualifying School. Emily along with all but two Scottish players played over the South Course, the two remaining Scottish players (Krystal Caithness and Jocelyn Carthew) were on the North Course. Kylie Walker also returned 78 and Krystal Caithness and Michelle Thomson took one extra shot returning 79. Vikki Laing and Pamela Feggan returned the lowest Scottish scores with a 75. The lowest score on the North today was 69 and the lowest on the south was 71.

Emily is placed roughly in the middle of the field which is excellent at the stage. We wish her well tomorrow.

The remaining Scottish scores are as follows:

Vikki Laing, Pamela Feggan 75
Emily, Kylie Walker 78
Michelle Thomson, Krystal Caithness 79
Karen Burns 84
Jo Carthew 90

Many thanks go to Laura Walker who is phoning Emily to keep us all up to date with the scores!

Go Emily!!

GOOD LUCK EMILY

Team member Emily Ogilvy will take part in the Ladies European Tour Pre-Qualifying School. The pre-qualifying round takes place over the North and South courses at La Manga Club in Los Belones, Murcia, Spain, from tomorrow. Emily will be one of 107 players representing 32 different countries will contest Stage I, Pre-Qualifying, over four rounds from Wednesday to Saturday, January 7 to 10.

The leading 60 players and ties from Stage one will join 30 others who are already exempt to make a field of 90 players and ties at Stage 2 Final Qualifying, which will be played on the South course from Monday to Thursday, January 12 to 15.

The Final Qualifying School, also over 72 holes, will be contested over the South course from Monday to Thursday the next week players are hoping to earn one of the 30 cards available to compete on the LET throughout the 2009 season.

Emily has been a fantastic representative of P&K golf and we wish her the very best of luck.

I will try to keep you posted of her progress.

I would very much like to wish you and yours a very Merry Christmas and a happy, healthy and very successful 2009!

Merry Christmas (hope Santa's good too!)

GOOD LUCK CARLY

Perth and Kinross Team member Curtis will be one of only only two British and Irish entrants for the Arizona Silver Belle junior women's golf tournament next week.

The Arizona Silver Belle Tournament will be played from December 28 to 30 over the Arizona State University's Karsten course at Tempe. It will be over three stroke-play rounds and is open to female amateur competitors from ages 13 to 23 years. All Golfers must walk and carry their own bags which is no great problem to Carly but in America, where very few golfers actually walk between shots, such an instruction might not go down well!

We wish Carly the very best of luck next week, will try to keep you up to date! (Picture courtesy of CalCarson)

WINTER COACHING

The 2008/2009 P&K Senior squad have been announced they are Squad A, Alexandra Bushby (Strathmore), Carly Booth (Comrie), Eve Muirhead (Pitlochry), Annabel Niven (Crieff), Roseanne Niven (Crieff) (USA), Emily Ogilvy (Auchterarder), Jacqueline Snedoon (Alyth) (USA) and Laura Walker (Muckhart). Squad B is Laura Campbell (Pitlochry), Gwen Lambie (Dunkled), Jillian Milne (Criagiehill), Fiona Ramsay (Crieff), Sal Shepherd (Blairgowrie), Catherine Williams (Dunblane), Jane Yellowlees (Murrayshall)

As you can see we have a tremendous wealth of talent in our squads. P&K are in a fantastic position in that we had 20 girls with a handicap of 6 or less hoping for a place, but unfortunatley the places are limited and as you can imagine it is a major headache for the selectors. and one which It was a very difficult decision to select the sdqua and a great bunch of girls who are all out to do the very best they can for P&K.

Our coaching sessions will take place over the winter and Shona Leighton our match secretary is in the process of arranging practice matches against other counties and perhaps against Scratch League teams! So if you have a Gents of Ladies Scratch Team who would like to offer a practice match with the girls please contact Shona or myself and we would be delighted to arrange a date!

We have had one coaching session at Gleneagles already on what was a rather cold day, however the girls concentrated on the long game and coaches Andrew and John gave the girls a talk on the psychological side of the game.

Below are a few photos of the girls in action!

Our winter coaching has started in earnest for our Juniors, with our Elite Squad going along to Gleneagles on Sunday and enjoying some short game coaching and some tips on how to prepare themselves for play both in terms of your game and your metal attitude. Very interesting!

The Elite squads for this year are:

Group 1. Emily Aird (Strathmore), Megan Aird (Strathmore), Ailie Burnett (Dunkeld), Erin Millar (Pitlochry), Nicola robertson (Dunblane) and Eilidh Watson (Muckhart)

Group 2. Laura Aitken (Killin), Caitlin Bartrop (Whitemoss), Claire Gadsby (Muthill), Hannah Robb (Strathmore), Kathry Robertson (Auchterarder), Siobhan Teague (Auchterarder)

A huge thank you also go to Senior Squad girls Emily Ogilvy and Laura Walker who came along on Sunday to offer support and encouragement to all our girls. They were great.

I will post photos of the juniors soon, I completely forgot on Sunday!!

OUR ROSEANNE TOP BRIT IN THE EUROPEAN GA

Huge congratulation go to Squad member Roseanne Niven who has been ranked 8th in top 20 for 2008 by European Golf Association. Scotland had two players - Roseanne Niven and Kylie Walker - in the top 20 of the final 2008 European Golf Association female amateur rankings for the year. Roseanne was not only the highest ranking Scot but also the highest ranking Brit. Fantastic Roseanne!

2008 was a phenomenal year for Roseanne. It saw her win the British women's open amateur stroke-play championship and she was the only British or Irish player to reach the last four of the British women's open amateur championship at North Berwick. We at P&K are very proud of all she has achieved. Well done Roseanne.

Two Spanish players were placed 1st and 2nd they were Carola Ciganda and Maria Hernandez with Sweden's Anna Nordqvist placed third.

The top 20 European Golf Association female amateur rankings for 2008 are:

1 CARLOTA CIGANDA (Spain) 267.50pt.

2 MARIA HERNANDEZ (Spain) 242.50.

3 ANNA NORDQVIST (Sweden) 205.00.

4 CHRISTEL BOELJON (Netherlands) 182.60.

5 CAROLINE MASSON (Germany) 180.50.

6 BARBARA GENUINI ( France) 180.00.

7 CAROLINE HEDWALL (Sweden) 168.00.

8 ROSEANNE NIVEN (Scotland) 153.17.

9 AZAHARA MUNOZ (Spain) 150.00.

10 STEPHANIE KIRCHMAYR (Germany) 148.50.

11 THERESE KOELBACK (Denmark) 135.00.

12 VALENTINE DERREY (France) 127.50.

13 BREANNE LOUCKS (Wales) 125.50.

14 TARA DELANEY (Ireland) 122.50.

15 BENEDICTE TOUMPSIN (Belgium) 121.50.

16 JACQUELINE HEDWALL (Sweden) 116.63.

17 KYLIE WALKER (Scotland) 114.63.

18 SAHRA HASSAN (Wales) 114.40.

19 CAROLINE WESTRUP (Sweden) 110.00

20 PIA HALBIG (Germany) 108.75.

CARLY TAKES THE TELEGRAPH TITLE

First of all I apologise for being so late in posting the fantastic news that team member Carly Booth regained her Daily Telegraph Junior Championship Title in the oppressive heat of Abu Dhabi. With temperatures over 30 degrees she beat the par of 72 in all three rounds, leading by two shots after 18 holes and by six after two rounds. She scored 70, 68 and 70.

A clearly delighted Carly stated “It feels good. I’m really pleased and it’s been a hard week but I played well. I had a big lead and knew it was there for the taking but you never know until the last pin. I creamed a three-wood approach into the 18th and I knew for sure then. I took a deep breath and knew it was done – I did what I came to do.The National Course is very open and wide here in Abu Dhabi. It is also quite short and I have a good long game so it’s been perfect for me – I’m really happy,”

And so you should be Carly, well done you!!

The rest of the girls scores were as follows:

208: Carly Booth (Comrie) 70 68 70.

214: Alex Peters (Notts Ladies) 72 72 70.

218: Kelsey MacDonald (Nairn Dunbar) 75 71 72, Hannah Barwood (Knowle) 73 71 70.

222: Gina Brown (Mere) 76 73 73, Heidi Baek (Felixstowe Ferry) 73 72 77, Katherine O'Connor (Tadmarton Heath) 71 74 77.227 Nikki Dunn (Harrogate) 75 75 77.

243: Rachael McQueen (Troon Ladies) 83 79 81.