COUNTY CHAMPIONSHIP QUALIFIER

Weather conditions were not easy over Crieff Golf Course today. Infact so much so that only two players broke 80. One player however really was on form and that was squad member Fiona Ramsay who not only broke 80 but almost broke 70! Fiona returned a scratch 70 which was 4 under the par of the course and 5 under the CSS, amazing golf. Emily Ogilvy was 2nd place with a 77. Fiona also took the handicap place with 66 followed by junior member Nicola Robertson with 73.

Full results are as follows:

Css 75
Scratch
Fiona Ramsay (Crieff) 70
Emily Ogilvy (Auchterarder) 77
Caroline Dunbar (Aberfeldy) 80 (unavailable for match play)
Eilidh Watson (Muckhart) 80
Nicola Robertson (Dunlane) 81
Dawn Butchart (Strathmore) 81
Jillian Milne (Craigiehill) 81
Jane Yellowlees (Murrayshall) 83
Steph Crolla (Muckhart) 83
Hazel Wylie (Comrie) 84
Heather Anderson (Blairgowrie) 84 (unavailable for matchplay)
Laura Walker (Muckhart) 84
Carol Muir (Craigiehill) 85
Gwen Lambie (Dunkeld) 85
Hannah Robb (Strathmore) 86
Fiona Johnston (Alyth) 86
Kay Knight (Pitlochry) 87
Janet Griffiths (Strathmore) 87

The draw for Saturday is as follows:
09:30 Fiona Ramsay v Janet Griffiths
09:37 Steph Crolla V Hazel Wylie
09:45 Dawn Butchart v Gwen Lambie
09:52 Hannah Robb v Nicola Robertson
10:00 Eilidh Watson v Fiona Johnston
10:07 Carol Muir v Jillian Milne
10:15 Jane Yellowlees v Laura Walker
10:22 Emily Ogilvy v Kay Knight


The top qualifier of the Handicap Championship is Dunkeld and Birnam player Carol Lambie who returned a nett 74.

The Gibb Trophy draw is as follows:
10:30 Carol Lambie (Dunkled & Birnam) v Sandra Service (Alyth)
10:37 Helen Payne (Milnathort) v Linda Scott (Alyth)
10:45 Sue Jones (Milnathort) v Alison Walker (Aberfeldy)
10:52 Elaine Davidson (Crieff) v Morag Penny (Crieff)


The

JUNIOR AND ADULT DAY

After torrential rain the day at Strathmore turned out to be lovely. The scoring was also exceptional with the winner scratch score or 78 being returned by Jillian Milne and junior Claire Gadsby, the best nett which was extremely closely fought was returned by Gwen Lambie and Megan Aird with 72.2.

The full scores were as follows:

Scratch
Jillian Milne & Claire Gadsby 78
Heather Anderson & Hannah Robb 80

H/Cap
Gwen Lambie & Megan Aird (7.2) 72.2
Alison Stockley & Jennifier Saxton (15.2) 72.8

Thanks were extended to Strathmore Golf centre for hosting this event and providing courtesy of the course.

JUNIOR AND ADULT DAY

Tomorrow Strathmore Golf Centre once more hosts our annual Junior and Adult day. This competition has been running for more that 5 years and hopes to provide up and coming juniors the chance to play with players who, where possible, are or have been squad / team players or officials.

There has been a great response from both juniors and players and I am sure it is going to be a great day. Players taking part are (Seniors first, juniors second)

Emily Ogilvy & Emily Aird
Laura Walker &Eilidh Watson

Heather Anderson & Hannah Robb
Jillian Milne & Claire Gadsby

Gwen Lambie & Megan Aird
Carol Muir & Rheanna Thom

Gillain Wallace & Kathryn Robertson
Alison Stockley & Jennifer Saxton

Dawn Butchart & Siobhan Teague
Carol Lambie & Elise Henderson

Pat Colquhoun & Jennifer Duncan
Lenore Kyle & Amy Howes

I will report on the results tomorrow.

RAFFLE PRIZES, PLEASE!

We will be holding our annual Raffle at the Championship Qualifier on Monday and would ask if you could please please please bring along a donation on the day. All prizes will be gratefully received.

Thanking you in advance and look forward to seeing you all on the day!  

COUNTY MEETING AT KING JAMES VI

Ladies Please Note:

Our County Meeting at King James Vi which is in the Fixture List as Thursday 4th August has had to be changed to Tuesday 26th July.

Meeting Convener is Gwen Lambie:

We apologise for any inconvenience this causes!

PERTH & KINROSS COUNTY LADIES GOLF ASSOCIATION
Championship Qualifying - Crieff Ferntower
	Monday 9th May 2011
DRAW	Morning
Time	Name	Name	Name
9.30	Emily Ogilvy	Fiona Ramsay	Eve Muirhead
9.37	Jane Yellowlees	Jillian Milne	Gillian Wallace
9.45	Cecelia Kenny	Hazel Wylie	Kathleen Duncan
9.52	Fiona Farquharson	Janice Lang	Liz Fertacz
10.00	Miriam Wilson	Maggi Davidson	Fiona Johnston
10.07	Cathie Irving	Hazel Gibson	Sandra Service
10.15	Morag Brydson	Dot Dorris	Linda Scott
10.22	Margaret McGlashan	Carole Turner	Morag Penny
10.30	Muriel McPherson	Kath McKellar	Ester Martin
10.37	Elizabeth Milligan	Ann McGregor	Pat Colquhoun
10.45	Maya Robertson	Val Purdie	Alison Walker
10.52	Sheila Durward	Judy Proudfoot	Sheila Lindsay
11.00	Joy Gordon	Myra MacLeod	Diane Wallace
11.07	Starters Time
11.15	Michelle McKay	Pat Kelly	Jackie Nisbet
11.22	Sally Crystal	Ann Duncan	Susan Ogg
11.30	Sally Fenner	Judith Clowe	Helen Payne
11.37	Catherine McNab	Susan MacDougall	Marion Forbes
11.45	Rhona McGeoghegan	Moira Robertson-Lang	Helen Lang
11.52	Sue Jones	Angela Crossland	Marianne Carruthers
12.00	Moira Leslie	Denise Wildblood	Francis Anderson
12.07	Grace Paterson	Ella Benzies	Catherine Monks
12.15	Margaret MacRae	Caroline Dunbar	Lenore Kyle
12.30
	Evening
17.00	Laura Walker	Eilidh Watson	Emily Aird
17.07	Hannah Robb	Steph Crolla	Dawn Butchart
17.15	Nicola Robertson	Janet Griffiths	Lynne Sharp
17.22	Brenda Clough	Elaine Davidson	Miggie Mackie
17.30	Kay Knight	Allison Stockley	Alison Aitken
17.37	Pamela Malton	Carol Lambie	Marjorie Clark
17.45	Gwen Lambie	Shona Leighton	Carol Muir
17.52

MUNROSS TROPHY

I have been contacted by Claire Penman, Company Secretary Montrose Golf Links Linited who is trying to revamp the Munross Trophy and make it more attractive to catergory 2 players. Below is a message from Claire

'The Munross trophy is a 36 hole competition held by Montrose Links. This year it's on Sunday 5th June. Although it's an order of merit event, the Links are also keen to attract more category 2 players and have altered the prize fund accordingly.'


Th revamped prize details as follows:

5th June
LADIES MUNROSS TROPHY
Ladies Open 36 holes strokeplay over Montrose Medal

SLGA order of Merit points for Scratch scores
Maximum Handicap – 12

Entry £15

Scratch Prizes
1st £100
2nd £75
3rd £50
4th £25

Handicap Prizes
1st £80
2nd £60
3rd £40
4th £20

To entry this event please click on the link below to download an entry form:

ENTRY FORM FOR MUNROSS

CHAMPIONSHIP AT CRIEFF

A wee gentle reminder that our next County Meeting takes places at Crieff on 9th May and this is our Championship Qualifying competition. To ensure you are included in the draw please make sure you send your entry NOW! The lucky qualifiers will battle it out on the 14th and 15th. Times for both will be posted on the website.
Also we will be having our annual raffle and as always will be most grateful for all donations. Bring them along on the day or hand them to any committee member.

See you on  the 9th!

STRATHMORE GOLF CENTRE RESULTS

What a glorious day we had today at Strathmore Golf Centre. Not only was the weather tremendous but the course, the welcome and the food was too. We had some very good scores returned and Carol Lambie has contacted me with the top scores of the day:

Nell Scott Quaich Round 1
CSS 72

Scratch
Jane Yellowless (Murrayshall) 77 bih
Jillian Milne (Craigihill) 77

H/Cap
Pat Kelly (Dunblane) (24) 65 (amazing score!)
Janette Hamilton (Blairgowrie) (19) 68
Helen Payne (Milnathort) (20) 71 bih,
Janet Griffiths (Strathmore) (9) 71,
Elizabeth Milligan (Dunblane) (16) 71

Jane Yellowlees also had a doubly good day when she along with Carol Lambie and Helen Payne were the lucky winners of the raffle for golf balls!
Very well done to all and remember to get your entry's in for the county championship which is being held at Crieff.

PHOTO'S FROM SUNDAY'S ,MATCH



For a full report scroll down

SCOTTISH CLOSING DATE

Just received a reminder from SLGA Championship manager Claire Hargan regarding the Scottish Championship, be good to have some representatives from P&K! 

The closing date is a week today – 12 noon on Monday 18th April. The Championship is being held at Machrihanish Golf Club from 17 – 21 May. More information, including entry forms can be found on the following page of the SLGA web-site:

SLGA Scottish Entry and Info

Entries for the team competitions (Club and County) which are run in conjunction with the stroke play qualifying rounds at the Scottish Championship close at 12 noon on Wednesday 27 April. A list of competitors is available, please use the link below:

Competitors List

MATCH RESULTS FROM GLENBERVIE

Our County Team played their second match of 2011 against Stirling and Clackmannan yesterday and the result was P&K 1.5 Stirling 2.5 our juniors 0 Stirling 1

Pairings and full results are as follows:

Laura Walker/Eilidh Watson halved with Alison Davidson/Elaine Allison
Fiona Ramsay/Gwen Lambie won 2+1 over Jennifer Bryons/Karen Burns
Jill Milne/Hannah Robb lost 4+3 to Linda Allan/Claire Capocci
Jane Yellowlees/Emily Aird lost 3+2 to Melanie Hall/Fiona McArthur

Juniors:
Jennifer Saxon/Laura Aitken lost 4+3 to Tiffany Wood/Jennifer Allan

Match Secretary Carol Muir said 'Now, we are heading in the right direction and this was a much closer match than the previous week. This match being played in superb sunny conditions and the greens at Glenbervie were in excellent condition for this time of year.'

Well done to all who took part, let's now keep the momentum going!

PERTH & KINROSS LADIES COUNTY GOLF ASSOCIATION

MEETING AT STRATHMORE ON TUESDAY,

19TH APRIL 2011

DRAW

9.30am. J Milne, G Wallace, K Duncan,

9.37am. M Hope, D Butchart, G Pennycook,

9.45am. H Gibson, C Lambie, R McGeoghan,

9.52 am. F Farquharson, C Irving, R Brass,

10.00am. M McGlashan, L Kyle, M McPherson,

10.07am. M Watson, E Milligan, J Hamilton,

10.15am. L Fertacz, H Straw, A Priestley,

10.22am. J Proudfoot, S Lindsay, A Walker,

10.30am. A McGregor, M Wilson, J Griffiths,

10.37am. L McGraw, C Dunbar, S Bushby,

10.45am. P Colquhoun, M McLeod, S Mitchell

11.00am. S Durward, J Nisbet, A Crossland,

11.07am. E Harrild, S Jones, J Clowe,

11.15am. M McKay, S Ogg, J Pringle,

11.22am. E Campbell, V Purdie, S Fenner,

11.30am. M Forbes, C McNab, P Kelly,

11.37am. C Monks, C Webb, K Finlay,

11.45am. A Duncan, S Crystal.
11.52am H Payne, H Dalgleish, D Wallace

 

Looking forward to seeing you all at our first meeting. Please remember to put in your entries for the County Championship as soon as possible! Also we will be having the usual Raffle to help funds on the qualifying day of the Championship, all donations will be very much appreciated.

TEAM ANNOUNCED FOR NEXT MATCH

Match Secretary Carol Muir has announced her Team for Sunday's match against Stirling & Clackmannan at Glenbervie G.C. they are as follows:

Emily Aird (Blairgowrie)
Gwen Lambie (Dunkeld and Birnam)
Jillian Milne (Craigihill)
Fiona Ramsay (Crieff)
Hannah Robb (Strathmore)
Laura Walker (Muckhart)
Eilidh Watson (Muckhart)
Jane Yellowlees (Murrayshall)

Junior Team:
Jennifer Saxon / Laura Aitken

WE WISH YOU ALL THE VERY BEST OF LUCK.

PCITURES FROM THE WEEKEND MATCH

Many thanks to our Captain Lenore Kyle who was our photographer for the day!

MATCH RESULTS

Our team of new pairings were, unfortunately, beaten fairly comprehensively by Fife, the full results were as follows:


Seniors 4-0
Juniors 1-1

Using these matches is the ideal time to try out new pairings however Fife were just too strong for us on the day in very blustery conditions over the PGA Course at Gleneagles:

Pairings were:

Emily Ogilvy/Steph Crolla lost 4+3 to Fiona Hastie/Susan Jackson.
Laura Walker/Eilidh Watson lost 2+1 to Elaine Moffat/L Whyte
Gwen Lambie/Emily Aird lost 2+1 to Lorna Fury/R Hanlon
Fiona Ramsay/Hannah Robb lost 5+4 to Karin Sharp/Linda Dryball

Juniors

Claire Gadsby/Elise Henderson won 6+5 to Alexandra Tait/Chloe Goadby
Megan Aird/Rheanna Thom lost 4+3 to Shannon Maguire/Rebecca Todd

Congratulations to Juniors Claire and Elise who had a fantastic win.

This Sunday's match is against Glenbervie.

TEAM MATCH v FIFE

Match Secretary Carol Muir has contacted me today with details of our first inter-county friendly match of the season which is against Fife on Saturday over the Gleneagles' Centenary Course starting at 1.30pm.


The team selected to play are as follows:

Emily Aird (Blairgowrie)
Steph Crolla (Muckhart)
Gwen Lambie (Dunkeld and Birnam)
Emily Ogilvy (Auchterarder)
Fiona Ramsay (Crieff)
Hannah Robb (Strathmore)
Laura Walker (Muckhart)
Eilidh Watson (Muckhart)

Reserve- Jill Milne. (Craigiehill)

We will also have a junior match and the players selected are:

Megan Aird
Claire Gadsby
Elise Henderson
Rheanna Thom

Good Luck to all, I will post the results as soon as I have them

NORTH OF SCOTLAND 2011

This years North of Scotland is being hosted by Northern Counties at the most wonderful venue of Nairn Golf Club. The tournament is open to all P&K, Angus, Aberdeenshire and Nothern County Members with both a Scratch and Handicap championship. 

The tournament takes over three days, first day is the qualifying round when the top qualifiers for scratch and handicap go on to a matchplay competition over the next two days, all other players receive a consolation round on the Wednesday.

This is sure to be a very popular venue so please get your entries off as soon as possible. They are available on the right hand side of the page under DOWNLOADS.

JUNIOR WORLD CURLING CHAMPION

Team member Eve Muirhead has made her way into the Curling World Record Book after becoming the Junior World Curling Champion for an unprecedented FOUR times in a row.
Eve's team of  third -Anna Sloan, second - Vicki Adams, lead- Rhiann Macleod, Alternate - Alice Spence and coached by one very proud dad - Gordon Muirhead won this afternoon in the final against Canada when Canada conceded after the 8 ends when Eve and her team had a commanding lead of 10-3.

Well done to you Eve from all at P&K.

2011 SUBSCRIPTIONS

Well believe it or not the 2011 season is almost upon us YEAH!! So just thought I would give all who have not sent your annual subscriptions a wee reminder to do so ASAP!

If you have not received your letter regarding your renewal please contact Lenore or Catherine.

Looking forward to seeing you next month!

ENTRIES ARE BEING TAKEN FOR OUR FIRST EVENT! SEE RIGHT HAND SIDE OF WEBSITE FOR THE FIXTURES! YOU CAN ALSO DOWNLOAD THE ENTRY FORMS!