EMILY IN SEMI-FINAL

Unfortunately Emily Ogilvy and Laura Walker had to play each other after both winning their first round matches in the North of Scotland Championship, after a great match Emily was victorious, she will play Donna Pocock in the semi-final, very best of luck Emily!!

Jane Yellowlees was also unfortunately beaten by Ann Ramsay.

In the Handicap section Hannah Robb did really well to win her first round match against Linda Urquhart, only to be beaten in the second round but it was a great achievement for Hannah.

Sadly Janet Griffiths lost her first round match to Ros Roy. All the girls have done well, congratulations!

COMPLETE RECAP ON TUESDAY'S RESULTS

SCRATCH CHAMPIONSHIP
First roundLaura Walker (Muckhart) bt Hannah McCook (Abernethy) 5 and 3.
Emily Ogilvy (Auchterarder) bt Jessica Meek (Carnoustie Ladies) 4 and 3.
Donna Pocock (Murcar Links) bt Jackie Brown (Monifieth) 4 and 2.
Jane Grubb (Montrose Mercantile) bt Kristina Vannet (Peterculter) 4 and 2.
Laura Murray (Alford) bt Susan Murray (Murcar Links) 3 and 2.
Rebecca Wilson (Monifieth) bt Gill Murray (Cruden Bay) 3 and 2.
Ann Ramsay (Kirriemuir) bt Jane Yellowlees (Murrayshall) 3 and 1.
Katy McNicoll (Carnoustie Ladies) bt Jemma Chalmers (Monifieth) 5 and 4.
Quarter-finals
Ogilvy bt Walker 3 and 2.
Pocock bt Grubb 2 and 1.
Laura Murray bt Wilson 7 and 5.
McNicoll bt Ramsay at 20th.
Wednesday's Semi-finals
9.00 Emily Ogilvy v Donna Pocock.
9.07 Laura Murray v Katy McNicoll.
Final will tee off at 2.15.

Handicap championship First round
Lauren MacCallum (Newburgh) (7) bt Mary Robinson (Murcar Links) (12) 5 and 4.
Ros Roy (Ballater) (10) bt Janet Griffiths (Strathmore) (9) 4 and 3.
Susan Belton (Kirriemuir) (14) bt Jenny Wheeler (Aberdeen Ladies) (11) 1 hole.
Esther Milne (Inchmarlo) (21) bt Lauren Whyte (Hazlehead) (9) at 21st.
Carol Whicher (Aberdeen Ladies) (11) bt Kimberley Beveridge (Aboyne) (9) 3 and 1Claire Prouse (Hazlehead) (6) bt Fiona Fullerton (Meldrum House) (9) 2 and 1.
Lynn Kelly (Newmachar) (16) bt Mandy Roger (McDonald Ellon) (16) 4 and 3.
Hannah Robb (Strathmore) (17) bt Linda Urquhart (Banchory) (4) 3 and 2.
Quarter-finals
MacCallum bt Roy 2 and 1.
Milne bt Belton 2 and 1.
Prouse bt Whicher 2 and 1.
Kelly bt Robb 3 and 2.
Wednesday's Semi-finals
9.15 Lauren MacCallum (7) v Esther Milne 21).
9.22 Claire Prouse (6) v Lynn Kelly (Newmachar) (16).
Final will tee off at 2pm.

NORTH OF SCOTLAND

Laura Does P&K Proud

Laura Walker is the leading qualifier in the North of Scotland at Newmachar today with an excellent 75.
Emily Ogilvy (81) and Jane Yellowlees (82) also qualified for the match play.
Tomorrow Laura plays Hannah McCook, Emily Plays Jessica Meek and Jane plays Ann Ramsey, very best of luck girls!

Janet Griffiths and Hannah Robb, one of our juniors from Strathmore, qualified for the handicap section. So good luck to them as well!

Captain Dawn did not play her usual excellent golf so unfortunately missed the cut.

The event has been very well supported by P & K with twelve of our girls competing. The others are Emily Aird, Sally Fenner, Jenny Groom, Rhona McGeoghegan, Jacqueline and Jennifer Sneddon, well done to them all.

COUNTY MEETING AT KINROSS

Below is the draw for our next County Meeting which is being held at Kinross on Monday 13th July. If you would like a late entry please contact Joan Merry.

See you there.


9:30: J Yellowlees, H Wylie, L Walker
9:37: A Houston, E Bennie, L Fertacz
9:45: H Gibson, M, McGlashan, L Kyle
9:52: C Irving, A Tannock, V Saville
10:00: N Morrison, M Begbie, M Macrae
10:07: M McPherson, L Sharp, C Choudrey
10:15: S Service, S Durward, P Colquhoun
10:22: A Speirs, K McAlpine, H Straw
10:37: M Carruthers, C Hill,
10:45: E Milligan, M Ewan, J Proudfoot
10:52: S Young, J Jasper, M Robertson
11:00: E Campbell, C Peebles, A Duncan
11:07: G Beaton, M Mackay, C Webb
11:15: S McNaughton, M McLeod, E Watson
11:22: J Pringle, M Forbes, P Kelly
11:30: J Nisbet, A Beeson, M Storry
11:37: A Crossland, J Wivell, P Hebner
11:45: H Lang, D Wildblood, J Thom
11:52: M Chalmers,

Evening
5:00: C Lambie, G Lambie, C Muir
5:07: D Butchart, J Griffiths, S Leighton
5:15: A Stockley, J Simpson, S Berry

CLUB CHAMPIONSHIPS

Congratulations to Fiona Farquharson who has won the King James VI Club Championship and to Dorothy Whytock who won the Handicap Championship.

Thanks to Michelle for sending me the results.

MISSING KINROSS ENTRIES

The draw will be posted soon for the Kinross County Meeting. A few of our members handed in entries at Murrayshall and our convenors left them with the bar staff to give to me after I played however I was unaware that they had been left and after lots of correspondance with Murrayshall they seem to have been misplaced. Could you please contact Joan Merry ASAP if you left your entry at Murrayshall so we can include you in the draw.

Many thanks

NORTH OF SCOTLAND DRAW

The North of Scotland Championships takes place next week at Newmacher. Qualifying round is on Monday then match play and consolation round Tuesday and finals Wednesday. We have 13 P&K players taking part and I am particularily pleased to see three juniors included in this amount. Good luck to you all and I will see you there.

The draw is as follows:
09.00: L Murray (Alford), E Ogilvy (Auchterarder);
09.08: K McNicoll (Carnoustie Ladies), A Ramsay (Kirriemuir), D Pocock (Murcar Links);
09.16: K Sutherland (Royal Montrose), L Walker (Muckhart), R Wilson (Monifieth);
09.24: M Johnstone (Northern), J Brown (Monifieth), H Anderson (Alyth).
09.32: G Murray ( Cruden Bay ), L Urquhart (Banchory), M Summers (Carnoustie Ladies);
09.40: A Summers (Carnoustie Ladies), A Hunter (Monifieth);
09.48: J Yellowleees (Murrayshall), G Dowling ( Inverness ), F Neish (Moray).
10.00: F Millar (Carnoustie Ladies), H McCook (Abernethy), D Butchart (Strathmore);
10.08: F Blair (Carnoustie Ladies), J Grubb (Montrose Mercantile), S Murray (Murcar Links);
10.16: L Terry (Cruden Bay), B Rivollier (Hazlehead), M Millership (Deeside);
10.24 E Whyte (Aberdeen Ladies), L MacCallum (Newburgh on Ythan), L McGillivray (Banchory).
10.32: J Griffiths (Strathmore), K Stalker (Cruden Bay), C Prouse (Hazlehead);
10.40: L Duncan (Aboyne), A Gowie (Inverness), E Mauchline (Newmachar);
10.48: L Whyte (Hazlehead), K Esslemont (Cruden Bay), M Aird (Strathmore).
11.00: K MacCallum (Newburgh on Ythan), F Fullerton (Meldrum House),V Neish (Inverness);
11.08: J Chalmers (Monifieth), R Roy (Ballater), K Teow (Deeside);
11.16: E Aird (Strathmore), A Hope (Newmachar), J Wheeler (Aberdeen Ladies);
11.24: C Whicher (Aberdeen Ladies), J Meek (Carnoustie Ladies), K Vannet (Pewterculter).
11.32: L Joss (Newmachar), L Webster (Aberdeen Ladies), S Belton (Kirriemuir);
11.40: M Horn (Newmachar), S Bain (Abeerdeen Ladies), M Duncan (Aboyne);
11.48: L Kelly (Newmachar), M Miller (Cruden Bay), S MacDonnell (Inverness).
12.00: Jacqueline Sneddon (Alyth), G Christie (Banchory), M Robinson (Murcar Links);
12.08: Jennifer Sneddon (Alyth), R McLean (Cruden Bay), H Robb (Strathmore);
12.16: M Roger (McDonald Ellon), S Richardson (Inchmarlo), S Bradley (Kirriemuir);
12.24: M Grant (Banchory), F Martin (Kirriemuir), K McNab (Aberdeen Ladies);.
12.32: S Fenner (Strathmore), D Massie (Newmachar), W McNay (Banchory);
12.40: R Keith (Newmachar), E Milne (Inchmarlo), J Groom (Strathmore);
12.48 E Keown (Banchory), J Pritchard (Newmachar), R McGeoghegan (Strathmore).

INTER COUNTY CHAMPIONSHIPS AT DORNOCH

Arrived home late last night from a very successful weekend at Dornoch. Our girls did us all proud and although it has not been confirmed I think we have the two top point scorers of the tournament with Emily Oglivy and Carly Booth both scoring 5 out of a possible 6 points.

The first day we played Northern and had a very close game, eventually losing by a very narrow margin of 3.5 to Northerns 5.5. With four of the 6 singles matches finishing on the 18th green it could have went either way. The full results are below:

Foursomes:

Emily Ogilvy & Carly Booth bt Sammy Vass & Kelsey MacDonald 4 and 3;

Eve Muirhead & Laura Walker lost to Cara Gruber & Pam Mackay 2 and 1;

Annabel Niven & Alex Bushby lost to Alison Bartlett & Mary Smith 5 and 4 (1-2).

Singles -

Carly lost to Kelsy MacDonald 4 and 3,

Emily bt Cara Gruber 1 hole,

Laura bt Pam Mackay 1 hole,

Alex lost to Sammy Vass 1 hole

Jane lost to Alison Bartlett 3 and 2

Fiona Ramsay halved with Mary Smith (2.5-3.5).

On Sunday we had a very hard fought match against Aberdeenshire where the match ended halved. with 4.5 points each. The full results are below:

Foursomes –

Emily Ogilvy & Carly Booth bt Laura Murray & Carol Wilson 5 and 4;

Annabel Niven & Alex Bushby bt Sammy Leslie & Sheena Wood 2 and 1;

Eve Muirhead & Laura Walker lost to Mhairi Johnstone & Laura McLardy 5 and 4 (2-1).

Singles –

Carly bt Laura Murray 7 and 5,

Emily bt Sheena Wood 4 and 2,

Alex halved with Carol Wilson,

Annabel lost to Laura McLardy 7 and 5,

Fiona Ramsay lost to Sammy Leslie 4 and 2,

Laura lost to Donna Pocock 4 and 3 (2 ½-3

Yesterday we knew that we could no longer win the tournament but if we won the match against Angus then we would be placed a very credible 2nd. The girls played their hearts out, each and every one of them and I was delighted when the pairings of Carly & Emily, Alex & Annabel and Eve and Laura all won their morning matches giving us a 3-0 win in the morning which meant all we required was 2 more wins in the afternoon to secure 2nd position and I am delighted to say the girls provided P&K with 3 wins out of 6 to win overall by 6-3. The afternoon results were as follows:

Carly bt Ailsa Summers 7 and 6

Emily lost to Rebecca Wilson 3 and 2

Fiona lost to Ann Ramsay 1 up

Jane lost to Katy McNicol 4 and 2

Alex bt Fiona Blair 5 and 4

Laura bt Shonnagh Raitt 1up

The final results of the weekend are as follows:

Northern Counties Played 3, Won 3, Pts 3.
Perth & Kinross, Played 3 Won 1, Drawn 1 Lost 1 Pts 1.5
Angus Played 3, Won 1, Lost 2, Pts 1
Aberdeenshire Played 3. Won 0, Drawn 1, Lost 2. Pts 0.5

I am very proud of all the girls and had the most glorious time as their Captain and I was extremely touched when the girls presented me with a beautiful framed picture of the winning team from 2008. It will have pride of place in my house as a superb memento of my time as County Captain. Below is picture of a very happy Captain with the picture.

I must also thank all of you for for kind wishes and cards and to Pat Colquhoun, Carol Lambie, Gwen Lambie and my husband Iain who gave up their own time to come along to support, caddie and help over the whole weekend. It really is fabulous to have such support. As you can see from the photo below it was very hard work and the caddies went through a lot of pain!! Poor wee legs!

Also a huge thank you to my Vice Captain Lenore Kyle who was a great support all weekend and even managed to show she wasn't to frightened by my 'buggy driving'. Although I have suspicions that I was given the very slowest one each day!! Also to Shona Leighton who has a very calming influence on us all. She has a great deal of County and Team experience and is a massive asset to the county. Also to Liz Miskimmin who came along for the weekend and supported the girls brilliantly. Liz is just the best President we could ask for.

Below is a slide show of all the weekends action. I will post more later.

Good Luck to all our team members this weekend at Royal Dornoch where we will be defending our North Division Team Championship title. We will all make our way to Dornoch tomorrow where the girls will have a practice round at 2.30pm. The competition begins in earnest on Saturday when we play hosts Northern Counties. On Sunday we play Aberdeenshire and Monday, Angus. We are all well prepared and looking forward to what we hope will be a great weekend of golf.

I will try to keep you all posted with the daily results however if we can not get internet access then please keep an eye to Kirkwood Golf for the results. A link is on the right of the page.

Our team for the weekend is as follows:

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)

GOOD LUCK TO ALL!!

CLUB CHAMPIONSHIPS

Another up date for our club championships. Congratulations go to Allison Houston who won Milnathort Championship. Please keep me up date with your championships!!

Well done Allison.

SCRATCH LEAGUE UPDATE

My thanks go to Alison Stockley for an update of the results so far in the P&K Scratch League. Scratch League is a very important part of County Golf. It provides competitive golf for the best players of each club and the individual results also help in the selection of coaching squads, so my thanks to you all for taking part.

Below is an update of games played recently:
Dunkeld 1.5 Blairgowrie 3.5
Crieff 2.5 Dunkeld 2.5
Blairgowrie 4.5 Pitlochry 0.5

Summary of games so far:
Alyth Played 2 won 1 lost 1
Auchterarder Played 4 won 0 lost 4
Blairgowrie Played 4 won 3 lost 1
Craigie Hill Played 3 won 2 lost 1
Crieff Played 3 won 0 lost 2 halved 1
Dunkeld Played 4 won 2 lost 1 halved 1
Pitlochry Played 3 won 2 lost 1
Strathmore Played 3 won 2 lost 1

FINAL PRACTICE

Yesterday the P&K Team had a final get together and practice day. Strathmore Golf Centre were once again very generous hosts for the event and it proved to be a great day.

We held skill challenges at the Driving and Practice range in the morning then played 18 holes in the afternoon. All the team enjoyed the day and felt it was very worthwhile. My thanks go to Shona who came along to help and of course to David Norman of Strathmore Golf Centre for once again being a great supporter of County Golf.

The team will be making there way to Dornoch on Friday and I will try to keep you posted of the weekend events as much as possible.

CLUB CHAMPIONSHIPS

Quite a few clubs have now played their Club Championships. Below is the results I have received. If your clubs result is missing please contact me and I will be happy to publish!

Alyth - Jacqueline Sneddon
Blairgowrie - Sandy Bushby
Craigie Hill - Carol Muir
Dunkeld - Gwen Lambie

Congratulations to all the above and please keep me posted with news of your club championships!

IMAGES FROM THE BRITISH
All images are courtesy of Cal Carson Golf Agency

Above is some of the images of Emily and Roseanne taken by Colin Farquarson at the British. I thought you would like to see them.

CARLY SELECTED FOR EUROPEAN LADIES TEAM

P&K Team member Carly Booth has been named in the 6 strong European Ladies team which takes place 7th to 11th July at Bled GC, Slovenia. Carly was also yesterday named as 3rd reserve for the Vagliano GB&I team.
Well done Carly!
Below is both the Ladies and Girls teams:

European Ladies', Bled GC, Slovenia, 7-11 JulyTeam:
Carly Booth (Comrie), Louise Kenney (Pitreavie), Kelsey MacDonald (Nairn Dunbar), Pamela Pretswell (Bothwell Castle), Kylie Walker (Buchanan Castle), Sally Watson (Elie & Earlsferry Ladies)
Reserves: 1 Megan Briggs (Kilmacolm), 2 Roseanne Niven (Crieff), 3 Jane Turner (Craigielaw)Captain: Fiona de Vries (St Rule)

European Girls', Kokkola GC, Finland, 7-11 JulyTeam:
Lesley Atkins (Minto), Sammy Leslie (Westhill), Ailsa Summers (Carnoustie Ladies), Rachael Watton (Mortonhall)
Reserves: 1 Eilidh Briggs (Kilmacolm), 2 Jill Meldrum (Dullatur)
Captain: Margaret MacNaughtan (Aberdeen Ladies)

GIRLS INTER-DIVISION MATCHES

This weekend was the Girls Inter-division Matches played at Ballumbie Castle Golf Club. 6 girls from each of the four divisions played foursomes matchplay. Two P&K girls were selected to play in the North Division they were sisters Megan and Emily Aird.

On Saturday our first match was against South. Hannah McCook and Louise McGillvary had a very tough match which ended in South's favour by 1 hole. Katie Reid and Amily Aird won their match convincingly 4&3 and Jemma Chalmers and Megan Aird won their match 1up. In the afternoon we played East where Hannah and Louise won their match 1 up however Katie and Emily lost by one hole and Jemma and Megan lost 6&4. On Sunday we played West where we lost the over all match by 2-1. All matches were well fought and the girls play was fantastic. Hannah and Louise lost their match 3&2 as did Jemma and Megan. However Katie and Emily provided a grand stand finish when their opponents put their ball out of bounds and the next shot was placed in the bunker. Katie then played a 165 yard up hill shot to an elevated green 6 ft from the pin!!! A fantastic finish to a wonderful weekend.

The final scores were

East 7 points

West 5 points

North 4 points

South 2 points

Well done to all and a very big thank you to Lenore who stayed with the girls all weekend. Below is some photos taken by Lenore during the weekend.

MURRAYSHALL MEETING

What a super day we had yesterday at Murrayshall, our thanks go to Pam and Catherine who made sure the day went off without a hitch. Unfortunately they could not arrange the weather and we did have some very heavy bouts of rain later in the day. However that did not detract from some super scoring. The best scratch was from Murrayshall Club Champion Jane Yellowlees who returned 79. Alison Stockley also had a great game and returned a nett 69. Well done to both. The full results are as follows:

CSS 72,
Scratch,
Jane Yellowless (Murrayshall) 79,
Alison Stockley(Craigie Hill) 80,
Dawn Butchart (Strathmore) 82bih,
Brenda Clough (Blairgowrie) 82,

Handicap
Alison Stockley (Craigie Hill) (11) 69,
Moira Leslie(Dunblane) (29) 71,
Elizabeth Campbell (Pitlochry)(19) 72 bih,
Anne Beeson (Taymouth Castle) (26)72,
Susan Ogg (Dunkeld) 22) 72,
Kate McAlpine(Dunblane) (19) 72

Please note that although the card did state the SS as 73 it has been re-assessed at 72. Remember and get your entries in for our next meeting at Kinross on July 13th. The convener is Joan Merry. Also put August 17th in your diary for the Centenary Day at Glenisla, entries to myself.

CARLY AND EMILY BOW OUT

Team members Carly Booth and Emily Ogilvy have both lost out in the first round of the British Matchplay stages. Carly lost 3&2 to french player Marion Ricordeau. Carly said that she putted badly but was 5 under par through the last 7 holes so she certainly played great golf. Emily lost to English player Alexandra Peters 5&4. Emily is obviously disappointed but I think she did a fantastic job this week and I am very proud of her.

Roseanne Niven is the only P&K player remaining. Roseanne made a tremendous come back after being 3 down went on to win her match against English player Nikki Foster 1 up.

MATCHPLAY DRAW

The match play stages of The British Amateur Match Play commences this morning and our girls are playing at the following times:

10.18: Carly Booth (22) v Marion Ricordeau (FRA) (43)
11.14: Roseanne Niven (15) v Nikki Foster (ENG) (50)
11.30: Emily Ogilvy (31) v Alex Peters (ENG) (34)

I have placed in brackets where the players finished following the qualifying stages and also the countries of the opponents.

Good Luck!

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.