AYRSHIRE JUNIOR GOLF LEAGUE - latest results

Six of the eight quarter finalists in the 2012 Ayrshire Junior Golf League Under 16 Knockout Trophy competition are now known, with the remaining results likely to be confirmed this week.

West Kilbride had a 3 - 1 win at Irvine recently to go through whilst Ballochmyle received a walkover from Annanhill.

Caprington, West Kilbride, Loudoun, Prestwick St Nicholas, Ballochmyle and Ayr Belleisle will go into the draw this week, alongside the winners of the outstanding ties involving Ardeer Vs Troon St Meddans and Troon Welbeck Vs Largs.

In the Champion Of Champions competition, Stuart Walsh (Irvine) beat Greg Vernon (Annanhill) at the first extra hole of their tie at Annanhill to go through to the last eight. Also through is Christopher Murray (West KIlbride) who had a home win over Graham Paterson (Loudoun).

With the results of three ties still to be reported, the five players definitely in the draf for the quarter finals this week are Jack Whent (Largs), Christopher Murray (West Kilbride), Staurt Walsh (Irvine) Louis Murray (Troon Welbeck) & Craig Reid (Irvine Ravenspark).

In the Ayrshire Junior Golf League Championship, no results have been reported in sections A, B & C.

In Secttion D, West Kilbride and Kilmarnock Barassie fought out a 3 - 3 draw at West Kilbride whilst the Barassie team followed with a 5 - 1 away win at caprington.

In the other match played recently, Ayr Belleisle had a 6 - 0 win over Caprington in their first home match of the campaign.

Results so far leave West Kilbride, Kilmarnock Barassie and Ayr Belleisle locked together at the top of the section on 6 points, with Caprington still looking for their first points of the year.

AYRSHIRE FOURBALL CHAMPIONSHIP - Ayr Dalmilling pair through to quarter finals

Ayr Dalmilling are the first club through to the quarter finals of the 2012 Ayrshire Fourball Championship.

In their local derby against Derek Yates & Tom Boyd (Braehead), the Ayr Dalmilling pair of Andrew Paton & Charles Bell won through by 2 & 1 to take their place in the last eight where they will face an away match at either Brunston Castle or Ardeer.

AYRSHIRE FUTURES SQUAD - Junior Convenors invited to make nominations

Junior Convenors throughout the county have been invited to make nominations of junior club members for consideration to be included in the Ayrshire Futures Squad this year.

County Coaching Convenor John Nordbo has circulated all Ayrshire Junior Golf league clubs with a letter outlining the concept and inviting nominations for consideration.

The nominations are not however restricted to Ayrshire Junior Golf League member clubs but can be made from any club affilliated to the Ayrshire Golf Association.

The letter circulated is reproduced below and the nomination form is available to download directly from this web page, via the appropriate link on the left of this page under the 'Juniors Info' heading.

THE FUTURES SQUAD: Ayrshire Golf Association 

We are now in the position to start this new phase in our development programme for young, gifted golfers. It is our intention to create a squad of 18 under-14 golfers who will receive coaching from our nominated golf professionals. It is hoped that in doing so many of these youngsters will go on to represent their county and maybe even their country.        

The first step in this process will be to select the boys who will feature in this squad. It is intended to have an assessment day near the end of June/beginning of July and we need your nominations of potentially young gifted golfers to assess. First and foremost they need to be under 14 on the 1^st of January,2012. Secondly, and probably more problematic, we are looking for boys who have exhibited above average skills for their age and who you believe have the ability  to go on and become single figure handicappers in their later teens.

I know it is very difficult to define “potential” particularly over an age group where physical development alone can be so diverse. We will want their handicap record to indicate their development rate but this will only be as a guide and handicap alone will not be used as the determining factor. It will be useful if the boys have performed any of the performance tests and you have records of these tests. We will use these tests in our assessment of the boys, particularly in the short game area.

At this time I will not impose any restrictions on the number of boys you can nominate from one club but if the numbers become too many to be accommodated on one day, some sort of pre assessment may have to be implemented, so while I would expect you to advise the boys and their parents of their nomination please add the above proviso.

I would be grateful if nominations could be forwarded to me no later than the 16^th June and you will find a form attached to this letter, one of which needs to be completed for each nomination. I thank you for your assistance in this matter and hopefully together we can start to prepare our next generation of successful Ayrshire golfers.

John Nordbo,

Coaching Convenor

LADIES GREENLEES TROPHY LEAGUES - Fast start for Loudoun in Division 2

Loudoun Gowf Club, who won promotion last year as Division 3 Champions, have made an impressive start to their Division 2 campaign in the 2012 West Of Scotland ladies inter club league for the Greenlees Trophy.

The East Ayrshire club, in only their second season in the event, opened with a 9 - 0 home win over Eastwood and followed this with a 6.5 - 2.5 away win at Erskine in their second match. Loudoun then made it three wins from three with a 8 - 1 home win over Cardross in their latest match this week.

The other Ayrshire club in Division 2 are Prestwick St Nicholas and they opened their campaign with a narrow 5 - 4 away defeat to Old Ranfurly before being defeated 8 - 1 in their second match, away to Douglas Park.

Present positions in Division 2 are :-

23.5 - LOUDOUN
11.0 - OLD RANFURLY
11.0 - DOUGLAS PARK
  9.0 - HAGGS CASTLE
  6.5 - ERSKINE
  5.0 - EASTWOOD
  5.0 - PRESTWICK ST NICHOLAS
  1.0 - CARDROSS
  0.0 - HILTON PARK

There are four Ayrshire teams competing in Division 1 this season and they have had mixed fortunes in their opening fixtures.

Largs began their title bid with a 5.5 - 3.5 away win against near neighbours West Kilbride who suffered a second successive defeat with a 6 - 3 loss away to Whitecraigs in their second fixture.

Kilmarnock Barassie opened with a 5 - 4 home win over Whitecraigs but went down by 8 - 1 in their second match, away to Ranfurly Castle.

Troon had similar contrasting fortunes in their opening two fixtures, losing 8 - 1 in their opener at Milngavie before bouncing back with a 6 - 3 home win over Ranfurly castle in their second match.

Present positions in Division 1 are :-

16.0 - MILNGAVIE
16.0 - RANFURLY CASTLE
10.0 - WHITECRAIGS
  7.0 - TROON LADIES
  6.5 - WEST KILBRIDE
  6.0 - KILMARNOCK BARASSIE
  5.5 - LARGS
  4.0 - KILMACOLM
  1.0 - CATHKIN BRAES

TURNBERRY PRO AM - Fox third as McCreadie wins

(From Cal Carson Golf Agency - Tel 01224 869782)

Jason McCreadie won the Brother International pro-am over the Turnberry Ailsa course on Wednesday 30 May 2012 with a bogey-free round of five-under-par 64 to win the £500 first prize at the invitational event.

The Buchanan Castle pro birdied the first, third, fifth, short 11th, 13th and long 17th in halves of 32 (two under par) and 32(three under). Jason's only bogey came at the par-3 sixth hole.

He won by two shots from Stephen Gray (Hayston) with Graham Fox (Rowallan Castle) and Scott Henderson (Kings Links) sharing third place on 69.

The pro-am team event was played under a Stableford points format and Scott Henderson led the Ireland 1 team of Sean Sheehan (handicap 18), Dave Barry (13) and John Donovan (13) to victory with a total of 90pt.

They won by 7pt from the Ireland 3 team piloted by Stuart Kerr (Strathaven) with Robert Arnott (Bishopbriggs) and the Sweden team third on 77pt.

BROTHER INTERNATIONAL PRO-AM

Turnberry Hotel Ailsa Course.

PRO TOTALS

Par 69

64 Jason McCreadie (Buchanan Castle)

66 Stephen Gray (Hayston)
67 Graham Fox (Rowallan Castle), Scott Henderson (Kings Links)
69 Robert Arnott (Bishopbriggs)
70 David Fleming (Prestwick), Kenny Hutton (Downfield).
71 Alan Tait (Marriott Dalmahoy).
72 Stuart Syme (Dumfries & Co), Greig Hutcheon (Banchory), Nigel Scott-Smith (Palacerigg)
73 Andrew Crerar (Panmure)
74 Stuart Kerr (Strathaven), Euan Cameron (Turnberry Hotel).
76 Ricky Hall (Turnberry Hotel).

AYRSHIRE SCRATCH LEAGUES - correction to league 4 report

Apologies to Moorpark and malky Mckay for the last treport on league 4 of the Ayrshire Scratch Leagues.

Contrary to what was previously reported, Girvan in fact beat Maybole 6 - 0 and not Moorpark in their last match and malky Mckay who scored a hole in one in the match plays for Maybole and not Girvan.
Apologies to all concerned.
Present positions in League 4 are thus :-

	Played	For	Against	Points
Girvan	2	11	1	8
Moorpark	1	5	1	4
Turnberry	0	0	0	0
Ayr Dalmilling	1	1	5	0
Maybole	2	1	11	0

US COLLEGES GOLF - good finish by Robinson

 

(Fron the www.scottishgolfview.com website)

Colin Robinson

Former Ayrshire Boys Champion Colin Robinson (Largs), a sophomore student at John A Logan College, Illinois, finished joint 22nd in a field of 128 players at the NJCAA Division 2 men's championship at Swan Lake Resort, Plymouth in the state of Indiana.

Robinson shot 76, 74, 79 and 74 for a 15-over-par total of 303 over a longish course of 7,112yd (par 72).
Winner by three shots was Ryan Mulvany (Tyler JC) with scores of 69, 72, 74 and 68.

South Mountain (1163) won the team title ahead of joint runners-up John A Logan and Tyler JC, both on 1194, in a field of 19 teams.l

SCOTTISH STROKEPLAY CHAMPIONSHIP - Nine Ayrshire players in field for Barassie

Ayrshire will have nine players in the 144 strong field for the Scottish Open Amateur Strokeplay Championship which takes place at Kilmarnock (Barassie) this coming weekend.

The Ayrshire players will be bidding to become the third player from the county to win the premier national strokeplay title since its inception in 1967, following on from the wins by Colin Montgomerie (Royal Troon) in 1985 and Alan Reid (Kilmarnock Barassie) in 1993.

Ayrshire's challengers for the Scottish Strokeplay Trophy
Top - Euan walker, Stuart Robin, Jack McDonald, Scott Brown
Bottom - Michael Smyth, Keith hamilton, David Wilson, Charlie Macneal, James Bunch

Host club member and Scotland Boys internationalist Euan Walker gets the championship under way at 7.00 a.m. on Friday morning, hitting the first tee shot of the 2012 competition.

The oepning two rounds will be played on Friday and Saturday with a cut in the field following and the final 36 holes being completed on Sunday.

The first round tee times of the Ayrshire players on Friday are :-

0700 - Euan Walker (Kilmarnock Barassie)
0710 - Stuart Robin (Prestwick St Nicholas)
0820 - Jack McDonald (Kilmarnock Barassie)
0920 - Scott Brown (Turnberry)
1030 - Michael Smyth (Royal Troon)
1100 - Keith Hamilton (Ayr Belleisle)
1140 - David Wilson (Troon Welbeck)
1310 - Charlie Macneal (Troon Welbeck)
1440 - James Bunch (Prestwick)

AYRSHIRE JUNIOR GOLF LEAGUE - Latest results

West Kilbride lead Section D in the 2012 AYRSHIRE JUNIOR GOLF LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIP after the first results were posted recently.

The West Kilbride team opened with a 3 - 3 draw at caprington and followed with a 4 - 2 home win over Ayr Belleisle in their second match.

In the UNDER 16 KNOCKOUT TROPHY competition, 2011 runners up, Prestwick St Nicholas, are through to the quarter finals after coming out on top by 3 - 1 in their tie against local rivals Prestwick St Cuthbert last week.

AYRSHIRE SCRATCH LEAGUES - Ace by McKay helps Girvan to top League 3

One of the stories of the latest matches to be played in the 2012 Ayrshire Scratch leagues was the 6 - 0 home win by Girvan over Moorpark in Division 4 which included a hole in one by Girvan's Malky McKay at the 3rd hole of the South Ayrshire course.

The win maintained Girvan's 100% record as they bid for back to back league titles after winning Division 5 last year

latest positions in Division 4 are :-

	Played	For	Against	Points
Girvan	2	11	1	8
Moorpark	2	5	7	4
Maybole	1	1	5	0
Ayr Dalmilling	1	1	5	0
Turnberry	0	0	0	0

In Division 5, Rowallan Castle and Brunston Castle both opened their accounts with home wins by 4.5 - 1.5 and 5 - 1 over Doon Valley and Crosshouse respectively.

Present positions in Division 5 are :-

	Played	For	Against	Points
Brunston Castle	2	7.5	4.5	4
Rowallan Castle	1	4.5	1.5	4
Doon Valley	2	5	7	4
Crosshouse	1	1	5	0

In Division 3, Largs made it two wins from two with a 4 - 2 away result at tam O Shanter.

Present positions in Division 3 are :-

	Played	For	Against	Points
Largs	2	7.5	4.5	8
Kilbirnie Place	2	6.5	5.5	4
Troon St Meddans	2	6	6	4
Prestwick St Nicholas	1	2	4	0
Tam O Shanter	1	2	4	0

Ardeer lead Division 2 after a 4.5 - 1.5 home win over Ayr Belleisle.

Present positions in Division 2 are :-

	Played	For	Against	Points
Ardeer	2	8	4	8
West Kilbride	1	4	2	4
Ayr Belleisle	2	5	7	4
New Cumnock	1	2.5	3.5	0
Caprington	1	2.5	3.5	0
Prestwick St Cuthbert	1	2	4	0

In Division 1, Kilmarnock (Barassie) gained their first points of the season in a 3 - 3 home draw with near neighbours Troon Welbeck.

Present positions in Division 1 are :-

	Played	For	Against	Points
Irvine	4	16	8	12
Loudoun	3	11.5	6.5	10
Kilmarnock Barassie	3	5.5	12.5	2
Irvine Ravenspark	1	5	1	4
Troon Welbeck	2	6	6	4
Ballochmyle	3	4	14	0