Lochend Golf Club
Ladies Competition Notes 2010
(all scores mentioned are Net unless otherwise stated).
Lochenders have faired well in the recent Midlothian meetings. First at the re-arranged Summer meeting at Baberton Coleen Derighetti was runner up in the Overall handicap competiiton with a 73 despite three-putting the final two holes. Then in the Autumn meeting over the new Swanston course it was Fiona Findlay and Pat Meikle flying the Lochend flag. Fiona taking the 1st Silver Handicap with and excellent 68 and Pat was second in the same category despite one bad hole Pat still managed a 72 for the runner-up spot.
Jaci Moriarty and Diane Crolla take the August Medals
A wild a windy two rounds didn't hinder Jaci Moriarty today. After playing the Kilspindie Mixed open in the morning we'd expect Lochend to be a bit calmer but it was not the case as the blustery conditions were just as tough at Craigentinny (the CSS even went up). However this didn't prevent Jaci Moriarty from carding a 70 to win the Silver medal, one point ahead of Mandy McBain (obviously still going well) runner-up on the better inward half from Diane Moncrieff.
In the Bronze section new member Diane Crolla's 69 won her the medal with Nicola Moriarty taking second place with 71.
CSS for today was 70
Pat appears to be enjoying these summer Stablefords securing another win today with 36 points, three points more than runner-up Pat Hill who in turn was three points ahead of 3rd place Lorna Mackay.
CSS for today was 69 (37 points)
American Stableford fun night
Yvonne Murdoch, Linda Hutchinson and Pat Meikle came together for a fine team performance to win tonight's alternative Stableford.
A score of 64 stableford points (best one counting at holes 1-6, best two scores at 7-12 and all three counting at the final 6 holed) was a fine score, apparently there were not many no scoring spots on their card, well done.
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A very successful Mixed Open season continued today for Jaci Moriarty and Duncan Ireland at Craigmillar Park Mixed Greensomes where they carded an excellent 64 to take the third handicap prize, their fourth Mixed Open prize of the season.
More Lochend success stories on the road
Great to see Lochenders gaining more success on the road. Captain Fiona Findlay won the Bronze Scratch competition at Newbattle Ladies Open with a very impressive 89.
Mandy McBain was also in the prizes at Aberdour when a 70 gave her the 4th Silver handicap prize.
It may not have been a well attended competition but 35 points was never-the-less a fine effort from Pat Meikle who is on a bit of a hot streak at the moment after winning the Anniversary Greensomes with Eunice Reid followed by a fine 67 in the Medal which pushed her well up the championship seedings. Pat wins today by a massive 6 points from Joan Gray who scored 29. Pat Hill was third with 27.
CCS for today was 69 (37 points)
Great scoring again in the final Championship Qualifier
Lorna Mackay and Mandy McBain led the great scoring today in the July Medal, the final Championship Qualifying round.
Lorna's superb 62 gave her a three shot win in the Bronze Section from Carole Owens 65 and Nicola Moriarty 3rd with another impressive round of 66.
And there were more sub-par rounds in the Silver Section as Mandy McBain won her third medal of the year with a score of 66 and firmly secured her second seed spot for the championship. Pat Meikle was runner-up with 67 and move up to fourth in the Championship seeding with Diane Moncrieff 3rd with 71 also improving her Championship position in the process.
CCS for today was 69
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She may not be around for this year's Championship due to work commitments taking her on travels abroad, but Eileen Gillespie signed of with a fine win today. An excellent 68 won her the Lady Captains's trophy today (the first time she has won this trophy) with Mandy McBain still on form the runner-up with a 70 on the better inward half from Helen Borthwick.
CCS for today was 69
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Sheila Munro wins the Fay Allanach
With the Standard Scratch having been reduced to 69 and the new permanent medal tees providing some additional yardage you would have thought tonight's round was going to be pretty tough.
Not the case as it turned out to be a good scoring competition with Sheila Munro winning her first Lochend Trophy carding a 67 one better than runner-up Mandy McBain and 3rd place Kate Jameson (showing no effects of last weeks 5-day Banff competition).
CCS for today was 70
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Many of the Lochend Ladies made the annual pilgrimage up to Banff for the "Duff House Royal" 5-day tournament and they did very well indeed.
Pat Meikle, Jane Maclean Sandra Fairgeieve and Fiona Findlay all qualified for the matchplay events with some very god scoring and handicaps being cut.
Sandra was having the best round ever on the Tuesday until a very bad final hole but still managed to qualify and Jane actually won the second qualifying round with a 69.
Fiona won the consolation medal on the Thursday with a 71 and has now cut her handicap to move back into the Silver Section. Well done all.
Jaci Moriarty and Duncan Ireland capped a very successful few weeks on the Mixed Open circuit by winning the Liberton Mixed matchplay at the 21st hole. Having recently taken the 2nd scratch prizes at Gifford and Murrayfield they again took second scratch at Liberton Mixed strokeplay event and thus qualified for the matchplay event along with another Lochend pairing of Coleen Derighetti and Bren Ford. With Coleen and Bren losing at the first hurdle it was left to Jaci and Duncan to fly the flag for Lochend in the final against the home pairing. And it turned into quite a tussle with Jaci and Duncan eventually winning at the 3rd extra hole. Well Done.
Mandy McBain led the way today with an excellent 65 to win her second Silver Medal of the season today, one better than Coleen Derighetti's 66. They both secure a cut in handicap with Jaci Moriarty taking third place with a 70. The Bronze Medal was just as competitive with three players carding the best score of 68. Eunice Reid came close to making it three wins on the trot but was 3rd on the b.i.h rule. Open Winner Mayte Vaamonde was 2nd on the b.i.h but the best of the 68's came from last years Bronze Champion Yvonne Murdoch who has set her stall out for this years Bronze Championship with today's win.
CCS for today was 69
Today was the first chance to lay a marker and get a decent score in for Championship Qualification and seven-times winner and hot favourite Linda Bain tops the list so far with today's 76. Mandy McBain's 79 is the next best with Coleen Derighetti and Diane Moncreiff both scoring 83 (Coleen just holding 3rd qualifier spot on the better inward 6 holes) and Jaci Moriarty one stroke behind in 5th place. Pat Meikle, Violet Paterson and Myra Law are the other three players in qualifier positions. Positions which may very well change come August.
Eunice Reid kept up her fine form by winning the June Stableford today and cut her handicap too. An excellent 39 points gave her the win by four points with Kate Jameson and Sandra Fairgrieve both scoring 35 points (Kate taking the runner-up spot on the better inward half).
CCS for today was 70
MANY HAPPY RETURNS LADIES
Pat Meikle and Eunice Reid won a special Greensomes event to celebrate 50 years of the Lochend Ladies Section.
The winning Team in the Texas scramble format were Jim McArthur, Malcom Boyd, David Glanville and Michael Downie who scored 52.9, closely followed by the team of Steven and David Harper, Alan Thompson and Terry Paul with 53.5. Fiona Findlay was the only lady in the to be in any of the top-three teams, playing with Graeme and Jim Markey and D. Bennet scoring 53.8 to take third.
Well done new Captain Alex Fenwick for arranging an enjoyable day.
Captain Fiona Findlay is still doing well on her tour of the Opens. Her latest success was at Ladybank Ladies Open were she took the 1st Bronze Scratch prize. The hits just keep on coming !!
Jane Maclean made light of her new lower handicap to card a 66 for a two stroke win tonight to win the Joyce Anderson trophy and take her handicap even lower. We had as many players under par tonight as there was in Sunday's Open. Sheila Munro with a 68 was runner up on the better inward half from Jaci Moriarty with Linda Bain next with 69 the other player to cut her handicap to 5.2 well done all.
CSS for today was 70
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Well done Jacqui McIntosh (sorry no photo yet) playing a blinder at Carrickvale to win the Helen Bruce Competition with a superb 40 stableford points. Jacqui's efforts were rewarded with a couple of strokes of her handicap and she now proudly plays of 26. Well done.
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In the Silver Division it was pretty much Par for the course today as Eileen Gillespie wins the Silver Medal with a 70 on the better-inward half from Jaci Moriarty.
The scores were lower in the Bronze section as Joan Gray carded a 5-under 65 to take the medal.
And a warm welcome to new member Mayte Vaamonde who marked her first Lochend medal with an excellent 68 to take the runner-up spot. Mayte is Spanish and is across in Scotland learning English and has already learned a few choice Scottish words. Joan and Mayte both cut their handicaps and Joan is now well secure in the Silver Division.
CSS for today was All Square
Sandra wins again, this time all by herself.
It's been a very good couple of weeks for Vice Captain Sandra Fairgrieve who picked up her third win of the month by winning today's Stableford competition.
And this time Sandra did the work all by herself carding 35 points, three points ahead of Margaret Richards with Violet Paterson taking third with 25 points.
The result also gave Sandra a cut in her handicap and maybe a cut in her odds for Sunday's Lochend Ladies Open.
CSS for today was 33 points
Another Team Prize for Sandra Fairgrieve
Sandra Farigrieve was part of a prize-winning team at Royal Musselburgh's Charity Texas Scramble today. Along with Royal Musselburgh's Shaun Cunningham, Danny Mack (pictured) and Cameron Johnston they carded a 55.4 to take the runner-up spot and were only a stroke away from winning the competition. A second team prizes in a week for Sandra, now that's bound to increase her appearance fee.
Jane Maclean gives Craigentinny a good beating to win the Tuesday Girls Trophy
Craigentinny certainly took a beating tonight as Jane Maclean won the Par Competition (matchplay against the course) with a fantastic 4-up win and a reduction in her handicap. Nicola Moriarty and Carole Owens both came in at 2-up, Nicola taking the runner-up spot on the better inward half and Mandy McBain also beat the course 1-up to take 4th place.
CSS for today was All Square
Well done our Lady Captain Fiona Findlay who won the Longniddry Ladies Open today.
Her 71 score was 4-under the CSS of 75 and won her the "Dora Sprowl Trophy" and a cut in handicap which takes her into the Silver Section.
And she still made it back to play in the Tuesday Girls competition at Lochend in the evening.
Lochend's first away win of the year, here's to many more.
Carole Owens and Diane Moncrieff took the Coronation Foursomes competition today with 37 Stableford points. This was a second team event win for Carole following her Rab Binnie success last month and the pair will represent Lochend in the area finals later in the year.
Myra Law and Sheila Munro were runners-up with 35 points with Fiona Findlay and Jane Maclean's 34 points giving them third place. Nice to see a different couple winning after two pairings having shared the previous 6 years.
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Another Stableford win for Joan Gray
Joan Gray seems to like the Stableford format as her 33 points today gave her a second Stableford win in as many weeks.
Lorna Mackay was runner-up with 31 points and Sandra Fairgrieve was third with 30 points.
CSS for today was 73 (33 points)
It didn't take long for our Jac to bounce back from the disappointment of just losing out in a place in the Midlothian Championship Final yesterday.
Playing in the HBOS meeting at Liberton today Jaci bagged an ace at the 166 yard 17th with her 7 wood in a round which also included a 2. It is Jaci's second hole in one, the other happened in Australia. And yes she did actually see it disappear into the hole. Well Done.
Once again Lochend had representation in the Ladies Midlothian Championships with three Lochend Ladies making it through to the matchplay stages after the qualifying rounds.
First up our champion Linda Bain made it into the main Championship but was up against top qualifier and eventual finalist Wendy Nicholson from Broomieknowe and went down to a 3 & 2 loss but never-the-less will have gained valuable experience from once again locking horns with one of big guns.
In the B Championship yours truly, Coleen Derighetti, was about to make the 5 minute drive to Prestonfield when she discovered her car had been broken into and the golf clubs stolen. A manic whip-round ensued when a set of clubs was hastily collected from various kindly buddys and the tie went ahead and once I adjusted to the clubs it wasn't too bad and I made a match of it but lost at the 18th to finalist Isobel Halliday (Merchants). Have to say a special thanks to Jaci Moriarty, Bren Ford, Suzanne Ireland and the Vice Captain of the Midlothian County who all lent me various clubs (some of which I might just keep).
It was left to Jaci Moriarty, making an appearance in the matchplay stage for a fourth successive year, to take Lochend interest into the final day, having won her quarter final at the 18th it was looking good in the Semi-Final as Jaci found herself 2 up with 6 holes to play but sadly a sudden dip in form allowed Denise Mitchell (Murrayfield) to gain the momentum to overturn this and win the match at the 17th. Still a good showing by Jaci to just lose out to the eventual competition winner, and will be a good bet to go one better next year.
Well done to new members Jacqui McIntosh and Veronica Gordon who did well at Swanson's Ladies Greensomes their 70.4 was a good enough score to give them 3rd place.
Two 68's secure the Medals for Fiona and Mandy
The low scores are beginning to come through and for today it was Lady Captain Fiona Findlay and Mandy McBain who both carded 68 to win the respective Bronze and Silver Medals.
Carole Owens was the Bronze runner-up with 72 and Jaci Moriarty's 71 gave her runner-up in the Silver.
Expectations were high as Fiona and Mandy were to partner each other in the afternoon at Swanston's Open Greensomes and their 73 was a very creditable showing.
CSS for today was 69
It was another enjoyable get-together for the Rab Binnie Competition and for Brian Ross, Carole Owens, Steven Harper and James Markey it was even more enjoyable as they won the trophy with a Texas Scramble score of 54.1. A very close second (54.5) were the team of Paul Edwards, D. Bennet, David Glanville and Linda Hutchison. Charlie Vescoe, Ricky Richardson along with matching pair Eileen Gillespie and Helen Borthwick made up the third place team who scored 56.6. Craig Sinclair and D. Bennett bagged the nearest the pin prizes.
Joan Gray shines in the spring sunshine
It was good to have some spring sunshine today for the April Stableford and Joan Gray's season is definitely off and running. Joan (pictured celebrating a hole in one in Turkey) won today with 34 points.
Nicola Moriarty almost made it two wins in row but her 33 was good enough to take the runner-up spot on the better-inward half from Jane Maclean.
CSS for today was 72 (34 points)
Yes you know when spring is just about here when the Masters dominates the TV and the Lochend Ladies Tuesday nights begin.
The first of the special Tuesday night comps, a two-club and putter over 9-holes was won by Nicola Moriarty with a 37, closely followed by jane Maclean (38) and third place Carole Owens who carded 40.
Very wild and wintry conditions today for the rescheduled February Medal and for Jaci Moriarty the reschedule proved to be a real bonus as she was in Australia on the original date. Low and behold Jaci returned to win the medal today. With three holes to go it was pretty close as Jaci and Mandy McBain were both on the same score but Jaci's steady 4-3-4 finish gave her a three stroke win in the end with a 72, Mandy runner-up with 75.
The Bronze medal was also closely contested with Margaret Richards just winning with 73 by one stroke from new member Jacqui McIntosh.
CCS for today was 72
Carole Owens and Mandy McBain will represent Lochend Ladies in the national Daily Mail Foursomes event after wining today's Lochend qualifier having carded a creditable 74.
Good luck girls.
Sandra Craig and Diane Monrcieff win the January Medals.
The ladies braved the freezing conditions to play the January Medal. Sandra Craig and Diane Moncrieff coped best. Sandra winning the Bronze medal with 73 by two strokes from Fiona Findlay. Diane's 72 won her the Silver Medal, Jaci Moriarty took the Runner-up spot with a 75.
Diane followed this win by sinking the winning putt on Sunday to book The Mooners place in the Winter League Semi Finals.
CCS for today was 72
Jaci keeps her feet on the ice for New Year win.
It didn't take Jaci Moriarty long to bag her first win of 2010. The freezing conditions did make for some crazy golf, in fact putting on certain greens was farcical (more akin to Dancing On Ice than Golf). Never the less it was a fun round and a good way to clear the cobwebs. Jaci's win makes her the first lady to win back to back New Year's Day Competitions her fourth in total.
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CCS for today "You're having a laugh !!" Ladies Prizegiving Pictures