GIRLS GOLF - Ayrshire beat Renfrewshire at Largs

The teams
Ayrshire (green jerseys) and Renfrewshire (blue jerseys)

(Report from June Kerr)

Largs Kelburn hosted the Ayrshire v Renfrewshire Girls Friendly Match on the afternoon of Sunday 30th October.

The girls played very well on a day with strong winds, squally showers and wet conditions underfoot making the course play a bit longer, but all credit to the greens staff for the course being playable at all given the amount of rain that we have encountered recently.

Ayrshire managed to win by two matches to one in a greensomes matchplay format but with two games going down to the last putt on the last green it was all very close. Results are as follows:-

MATCH DETAILS - (Ayrshire names first)

The winning Ayrshire team

Rachel Irvine and Sophie Love beat Samantha Cowan and Laura Craig by 6 & 4
Lauren Gilbert and Bekki Allan beat Charlotte McCluskey and Lyndsay McCall by 1 holeGillian Love and Louise Duncan lost to Lauren Coventry and Emily Weir by 1 hole

AYRSHIRE GIRLS    2   RENFREWSHIRE GIRLS   1

 

SCOTTISH UNIVERSITIES GOLF - Ayrshire 1 - 2 at St Andrews

Chris Harkins

(Report courtesy of Cal Carson Golf Agency Tel 01224 869782)

Chris Harkins (Strathclyde) and Jack McDonald (Stirling) provided a 1-2 finish of Ayrshiremen in the Scottish universities' men's Order of Merit stroke-play competition No. 2 at Fairmont St Andrews at the weekend. 
Ayr Belleisle member Harkins and McDonald, the 2009 Scottish boys' stroke-play champion from Kilmarnock Barassie, were locked in the lead at four-under-par 140 after the opening rounds over the Torrance and Kittocks courses.

Jack McDonald

In even windier conditions for the third round, over a Torrance course stretched by well over 1,000 yards by using the blue tees which are usually reserved for Open qualifying competitions, Harkins' 76 to McDonald's 77 gave Chris victory by a single shot on level par 216.

So tough were the conditions that the CSS for the final round was 76, four over par.

Harkins, winner of Belleisle Cup amongst other events in Ayrshire, last hit the golf headlines when he was the leading Scot at the halfway stage of the 2010 Scottish open amateur stroke-play championship won by Frenchman Romain Wattel at Glasgow Gailes in 2010.

Mike Howard (Stirling) and Aberdeen's Nick McAndrew finished third and fourth on 218 and 219 respectively.

McAndrew's par-matching 72 was the best third round over the Torrance course. The women's competition was won by Sweden's Emma Henrickson from Vellinge University.

A prolific winner of open events in her native land, Emma had scores of 73 over Kittocks and 74 at Torrance in the half-gale for a very good total of one-under-par 147 (both courses have an LGU par of 74). The CSS was 78 for Kittocks and 76 for the Torrance.

Surging five shots clear of the field with her Kittocks' sub-par 73 despite the wind, Henrickson won by five shots from joint runners-up Eilidh Briggs (Stirling), the Scottish Under-18 girls champion from Kilmacolm, and Welsh international Gemma Bradbury (St Andrews).

Eilidh scored 79 at Kittocks and 73 at Torrance for 152, while Gemma had rounds of 78 and 74.

Fourth-placed on 153, Susan Jackson (Edinburgh) from the Ladybank club had the best Torrance round of two-under 72, nine shots fewer than she had taken for the opening round over Kittocks.

SCOTTISH UNIVERSITIES ORDER OF MERIT STROKE-PLAY COMPETITION No. 2 - Fairmont St Andrews.

FINAL TOTALS

MEN

Torrance course (par 72) scores first and third below; Kittocks (par 70) second scores listed. CSS 73 74 76

216 Chris Harkins (Strathclyde) 70 70 76.

217 Jack McDonald (Stirling) 68 72 77

218 Mike Howard (Stirling) 70 72 76.

219 Nick McAndrew (Aberdeen) 69 78 72.

222 Zander Culverwell (Stirling) 74 74 74.

226 David Booth (Stirling) 78 71 77.

227 Freddie Edmunds (St Andrews) 77 73 77, Mathias Eggenberger (Stirling) 69 79 79, Danny Kirk (Elmwood) 76 72 79.

228 Patrick Spraggs (Stirling) 74 75 79, Darren Timms (Stirling) 71 77 80.

230 Callum McNeill (Highlands & Islands) 77 74 79.

232 Vincent Blom (St Andrews) 77 76 79, Jason Loughlin (Elmwood) 74 78 80.

234 Ollie Roberts (Stirling) 74 80 80. Euan Brown (Strathclyde) 79 75 80, Filip Brattse (Vellinge) 79 75 80, David Curtis (Glasgow) 72 78 84.

235 Dewi Merkx (Stirling) 72 84 79, Kit Holmes (Stirling) 73 82 80.

236 Ally MacDonald (Strathclyde) 76 78 82.

239 Conor Gask (St Andrews) 80 76 83.

242 Colin Sutherland (Dundee) 75 79 88.

No Show - Finlay White (Stirling) 77 73 DNS.

MISSED THE CUT

156 Varun Varadharajan (Heriot Watt) 76 80

157 Cameron Marr (Elmwood) 81 76, Chris Low (Elmwood) 76 81, Craig Telfer (Edinburgh) 70 87, James Morrison (Stirling) 75 82, Stuart Cochrane (Stirling) 79 78

158 Alex Purdom (St Andrews) 81 77, Callum Beveridge (Elmwood) 80 78, Danny Sommerville (Dundee) 81 77, Donald McAndrew (Robert Gordon) 80 78, Joe Marchbank (St Andrews) 84 74

159 Andrew Cunningham (Strathclyde) 80 79, Conor Finlay (Dundee) 79 80, Duncan Douglas (Stirling) 79 80, Elliot Dodds (St Andrews) 81 78, Malko Schraner (Stirling) 83 76, Steven Kinnaird (Highlands & Islands) 84 75

160 Mike McCarthy (St Andrews) 80 80

161 Angus Carrick (Stirling) 77 84, Donnchadh Dodd (Heriot Watt) 81 80, Euan Paterson (Heriot Watt) 80 81,Gordon Munro (Robert Gordon) 79 82, John Drummond (Aberdeen) 74 87, Sixten Malmberg (Vellinge) 79 82

162 Gavin Bissett (Aberdeen) 80 82

164 Mike Thelwell Jones (Stirling) 82 82

166 Alexander Sward (Heriot Watt) 80 86

173 Dave Fanthorpe (Robert Gordon) 82 91, Joel Nilsson (Vellinge) 90 83

176 Oscar Tallgren (Vellinge) 89 87

178 Richie Tidman (Stirling) 91 87

180 Mark Pearson (Stirling) 89 91

NRs Adrian Malwhinney (Dundee) 87 NR, Ally Leith (Glasgow) 89 NR, Ben Gibson (Strathclyde) NR, Christopher Thewlis (Napier) 85 NR, John Innes (Edinburgh) 79 NR, Mike Ewen (Aberdeen) 87 NR, Scott Webster (Dundee) NR 84.

WOMEN

First round over Kittocks course (par 74), second round over Torrance course (par 74). CSS 78 76.

147 Emma Henrikson (Vellinge) 73 74

152 Eilidh Briggs (Stirling) 79 73, Gemma Bradbury (St Andrews) 78 74.

153 Susan Jackson (Edinburgh) 81 72.

156 Gabrielle Macdonald (St Andrews) 83 73.

159 Hannah Beasley (Stirling) 80 79.

161 Becca Wilson (Stirling) 80 81.

169 Franzisca Benze (St Andrews) 82 87.

MISSED THE CUT

86 Ashley Smith (St Andrews), Alisa Theunis (St Andrews)

88 Zhanna Tarasko (St Andrews)

90 Jordana Graham (Stirling), Sam Munro (Highlands and Islands)

95 Kirsty MacDonald (Edinburgh), Laura Grant (Dundee)

AYRSHIRE GOLF ASSOCIATION ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

The Annual General Meeting of the Ayrshire Golf Association took place at Caprington Golf Club on Monday 24th October.

18 of the 65 member clubs were represented at the meeting, with appologies received from a further 10 clubs. At the meeting the undernoted rerports covering the 2011 season were approved :-

Presidents Report - by AGA President David Miller
Financial Report - by Secretary / Treasurer Alasdair Malcolm
Coaching Report - by coaching convenor John Nordbo
Course Rating Report - by course rating convenor Allan Muir
Ayrshire Junior Golf League Report - by AJGL secretary John Nordbo
Scottish Golf Union Report - by SGU representative Iain Harvey

David Miller & Milton Murray

With President David Miller (Kilmarnock Barasie) and Vice President Milton Murray (Largs) mid way through their two year term of their respective posts, the only elections required were those of Secretary/Treasurer, SGU Representative and five Executive posts, by rotation.

Alasdair Malcolm & Iain Harvey

Alasdair Malcolm (Prestwick St Nicholas) was re elected Secretary / Treasurer whilst Iain Harvey (Kilmarnock Barassie) was re elected as AGA representative to the Scottish Golf Union.

Allan Muir, John Duncan & Ronnie Potts

The three Executive members due to retire by rotation were Allan Muir (Caprington), John Duncan (Troon Portland) and Ronnie Potts (Irvine Ravenspark). having indicated their intention seek re election, all three serving members were duly re elected to The Executive for a further three year term.




With a further two vacancies on the Executive for a three year term available, and a further two nominations received by the due date, the AGA Executive welcome two new members into service until 2014.

John Rushbury

JOHN RUSHBURY is the serving Secretary /Manager at Rowallan Castle Golf Club and a former PGA assistant professional. A member of Kilmarnock (Barassie) and Caprington as well as Rowallan castle, John has served these clubs in a number of positions in the past.

Mike Hazlewood

MIKE HAZLEWOOD is a member of Ayr Neptune Golf Club as well as Glasgow Gailes GC. A qualified accountant, Mike has had a long involvement in hockey administration at national, County and club level and has also had involvement in administration at a number of golf clubs over the years, including his present post as Secretary of Ayr Neptune GC and a previous treasurers position at Swindon GC.






The full list of Ayrshire Golf Association officials for 2011 - 2012 is :-

PRESIDENT - David J. Miller (Kilmarnock Barassie)
VICE PRESIDENT - Milton Murray (Largs)
PAST PRESIDENT - Alasdair J. Malcolm (Prestwick St Nicholas)
HONORARY LIFE PRESIDENT - Matt Lygate (Troon Portland)
HONORARY LIFE PRESIDENT - R. Leslie Crawford (Kilmarnock Barassie)
SECRETARY / TREASURER - Alasdair J Malcolm (Prestwick St Nicholas)

EXECUTIVE
James McMurdo (Ballochmyle)
David McKie (Ballochmyle)
John Nordbo (Largs)
Robert Wilson (Ballochmyle)
Cliff Francis (Troon Welbeck)
Ricky Magee (Caprington)
Iain Harvey (Kilmarnock Barassie)
Allan Muir (Caprington)
Ronnie Potts (Irvine Ravenspark)
John Rushbury (Rowallan Castle)
John Duncan (Troon Portland)
Mike Hazlewood (Ayr Neptune)
Dougie Dempster (Ayrshire Junior Golf League)

US COLLEGES GOLF - Good performances from Ayrshire pair

By COLIN FARQUHARSON
Colin@scottishgolfview.com

Ayrshire Ladies County Champion Rachael McQueen (Troon Ladies), pictured right, a freshman student at McLennan Community College, Waco in Texas), and Anna Carling from Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, a student at Arkansas State University, tied for fifth place on Tuesday 25th October in the Lady Red Wolf Classic women's college tournament at Jonesboro Country Club, Arkansas.
They both hit the seven-over-par 149 mark at the par-71, 5999yd course, Rachael scoring 75 and 74, Anna 78-71.
They finished six shots behind the winner by two, Jennifer Loiacano, one of Anna Carling's Arkansas State team-mates. Jennifer scored 72-71 for one-over 143.

Meanwhile, Kilbirnie's Linzi Allan (Newman University, Wichita, Kansas) finished T11 in a field of 87 players at the DBU Classic, played at the Golf Club of Dallas in Texas recently.

The Ayrshire student, pictured left, had rounds of 73 and 80 for 153 over the par-72, 5,865yd course.

Team-mate Megan Birdseye from Bedfordshire finished joint 66th on 171 with scores of 83 and 88. Individual winner by a shot was Sarah Hoffman (Grand Valley State) with rounds of 69 and 77 for 146.

Newman University finished T9 in a field of 16 teams with a total of 636 - 20 shots behind the winners, Dallas Baptist.

WEST OF SCOTLAND LEAGUES - Youths pipped for title in three way tie

Ayrshire completed their fixtures in the 2011 West Of Scotland Inter County Leagues on Sunday 23rd October, with the youths winning at home to Lanarkshire but losing out agonisingly on tie difference for the title, whilst the A team had their third narrow loss away from home in the competition to fnish in second bottom place in their league.

Needing to win against Lanarkshire at Ballochmyle, whilst hoping that Stirlingshire would slip up against Glasgow at Cowglen, the Ayrshire youth side did their bit, with a comfortable 7 - 3 win over their visitors.
Match details (Ayrshire names first) :-

Craig Telfer (Prestwick S Cuthbert) lost to Martin Scott (Hamilton) by 4 & 3
Craig McLaughlin (Largs) beat Declan Dooey (Colville Park) by 1 hole
Greg Vernon (Annanhill) beat Alistair Scott (Lanark) by 2 & 1
Jack McCluskey (Ayr Belleisle) beat Neil fagan (Bothwell Castle) by 4 & 3
Andrew Wright (Kilmanrock Barassie) beat J.R. Turnbull (Airdrie) by 1 hole.
Louis Murray (Troon Welbeck) beat Craig Hughes (Drumpellier) by 4 & 2
Gary Morrison (Annanhill) beat Dominic Dougan (Colville Park) by 3 & 2
Stephen Hill (Prestwick St Cuthbert) beat Callum Harrison (Carluke) by 2 & 1
Danile Forbes (Ardeer) lost to Craig Boyd (Lanark) by by 1 hole
Greg Telfer (Prestwick St Cuthbert) lost to Kevin Prentice (Lanark) by 2 holes

AYRSHIRE YOUTHS     7    LANARKSHIRE YOUTHS    3

The result however was in vain as Stirlingshire edged a narrow 5.5 - 4.5 win over Glasgow to secure the Youth League title for 2011.
The full results list for 2011 in the Youths League is :-

2011 WEST OF SCOTLAND INTER COUNTY YOUTHS LEAGUE RESULTS
AYRSHIRE	8 ½	RENFREWSHIRE	1 ½	Brunston Castle
LANARKSHIRE	3	GLASGOW	7	Bothwell Castle
STIRLINGSHIRE	4 ½	DUMBARTONSHIRE	5 ½	Callander
STIRLINGSHIRE	10	AYRSHIRE	0	Dunblane New
DUMBARTONSHIRE	7	GLASGOW	3	Vale Of Leven
LANARKSHIRE	4 ½	RENFREWSHIRE	5 ½	Airdrie
AYRSHIRE	7	LANARKSHIRE	3	Ballochmyle
GLASGOW	4 ½	STIRLINGSHIRE	5 ½	Cowglen
RENFREWSHIRE	4 ½	DUMBARTONSHIRE	5 ½	Paisley
DUMBARTONSHIRE	2	AYRSHIRE	8	Balmore
GLASGOW	4 ½	RENFREWSHIRE	5 ½	Cathkin Braes
STIRLINGSHIRE	8 ½	LANARKSHIRE	1 ½	Stirling
AYRSHIRE	6	GLASGOW	4	Ayr Seafield
DUMBARTONSHIRE	6 ½	LANARKSHIRE	3 ½	Clydebank & Dist.
RENFREWSHIRE	3 ½	STIRLINGSHIRE	6 ½	Kilmacolm

2011 WEST OF SCOTLAND INTER COUNTY YOUTHS LEAGUE FINAL PLACINGS
	P	W	D	L	F	A	Pts
STIRLINGSHIRE	5	4	0	1	36	15	8
AYRSHIRE	5	4	0	1	29 ½	20 ½	8
DUMBARTONSHIRE	5	4	0	1	26 ½	23 ½	8
RENFREWSHIRE	5	2	0	3	20 ½	29 ½	4
GLASGOW	5	1	0	4	23	27	2
LANARKSHIRE	5	0	0	5	15 ½	34 ½	0

In the corresponding A Team match, played at Colville Park, the senior Ayrshire team ended a frustrating campaign with a third successive defeat by a narrow margin in their away fixtures.

Match details (Ayrshire names first ):-

Euan Brown (Kilmarnock Barassie) lost to Steven Rennie (Drumpellier) by 4 & 3
Scott Brown (Turnberry) halved with Callum McLean (Hamilton)
Stuart Miller (Kilmarnock Barassie) lost to Colin Kerr (Cambuslang) by 2 & 1
Gordon Boyle (Ayr Dalmilling) beat Robbie Main (Airdrie) by 3 & 2
Ian Walker (Turnberry) beat Scott Douglas (Drumpellier) by 2 holes
Chris Bone (Loudoun) lost to David Davidson (Colville Park) by 3 & 2
David Cook (Caprington) lost to Alistair Reid (Bothwell Castle) by 4 & 3
Scott Gilchrist (Loudoun) beat Stefan Fisher (Colville park) by 3 & 2
Barry McDonnell (Caprington) lost to J J Smith (Cambuslang) by 1 hole
David Miller (Kilmarnock Barassie) beat Derek Loudon (Hamilton) by 5 & 4

LANARKSHIRE A     5.5     AYRSHIRE A    4.5

Having completed their two home matches this year with comfortable winning margins of 7.5 - 2.5 and 8 - 2, the Ayrshire side lost their three away matches narrowly, by 6 - 4 , 6 - 4 and 5.5 - 4.5.

With only one outstanding fixture, to be played next Sunday (30th), the destiation of the 2011 West League title will be fought out in a winner takes all battle between Defending Champions Renfrewshire and Glasgow at Gourock. Glasgow need only a draw to take the championship crown whilst a win for Renfrewshire would see them keep hold of their title for another year.

The full list of results and current standings  in the A League are :-

2011 WEST OF SCOTLAND INTER COUNTY A LEAGUE RESULTS
RENFREWSHIRE	6	AYRSHIRE	4	Erskine
GLASGOW	7	LANARKSHIRE	3	Haggs castle
DUMBARTONSHIRE	6	STIRLINGSHIRE	4	Cardross
AYRSHIRE	7 ½	STIRLINGSHIRE	2 ½	Irvine
GLASGOW	8	DUMBARTONSHIRE	2	Pollock
RENFREWSHIRE	5	LANARKSHIRE	5	Cochrane castle
LANARKSHIRE	5 ½	AYRSHIRE	4 ½	Colville Park
STIRLINGSHIRE	6	GLASGOW	4	Grangemouth
DUMBARTONSHIRE	2	RENFREWSHIRE	8	Douglas Park
AYRSHIRE	8	DUMBARTONSHIRE	2	Troon Darley
RENFREWSHIRE		GLASGOW		Gourock
LANARKSHIRE	5	STIRLINGSHIRE	5	Drumpellier
GLASGOW	6	AYRSHIRE	4	Cawder
LANARKSHIRE	6	DUMBARTONSHIRE	4	East Kilbride
STIRLINGSHIRE	7 ½	RENFREWSHIRE	2 ½	Falkirk

2011 WEST OF SCOTLAND INTER COUNTY A LEAGUE LATEST PLACINGS
	P	W	D	L	F	A	Pts
GLASGOW	4	3	0	1	25	15	6
LANARKSHIRE	5	2	2	1	24 ½	25 ½	6
STIRLINGSHIRE	5	2	1	2	25	25	5
RENFREWSHIRE	5	2	1	1	21 ½	18 ½	5
AYRSHIRE	4	2	0	3	28	22	4
DUMBARTONSHIRE	5	1	0	4	18	34	2