Lochend Golf Club
Gents Competition Notes 2010
(all scores mentioned are Net unless otherwise stated).
Throughout the season Alan Thompson has usually been there or thereabouts in many of the competitions without actually winning (even last month were he bagged three 2's).
However he put all that right today, carding a 64 (including a lone 2) to win on the better inward half from Graeme Markey with John Williamson taking 3rd place with a 65 on the better inward half from Graeme Stuart who won the B Section. 5th placed Alex Stuart won the C Section with 66.
CSS for today was 67
The Invitational today, a better-ball Stableford, was won by Lochend's Dean Robertson partnered by Andy Crawford from Liberton with 43 points 2 ahead of their playing partners Stevie Meldrum (Lochend) and David Graham (Duddingston). John Williamson (Lochend) and Andy Herriot (Torphin Hill) were 3rd with 40 Points.
There were also prizes for the best outward and inward Alex Ferguson and Robert Grey from Turnhouse were best over the first 9 and Alex Fenwick with C Ratcliffe won the best inward half prize.
Robert Binnie won a closely contested Spence Bowl competition today. His 63 won the trophy on the better-inward-half from Robert Sutherland with Andrew McArthur one stroke back on 64.
CSS for today was 66
Duncan Ireland won the first all-winners competition today. Every winner from this year's Lochend competitions qualified for today's competition and Duncan's 61 was good enough for a 2-stroke win from runner-up Gordon Sutherland on the better-inward half from Alex Young.
Well done to Helen Borthwick and David Harper who won the Ladies Invitational today. A well attended and tightly contested event saw Helen and David card a 62 to win by a two strokes from Jane Maclean and Alan Thompson.
Jaci Moriarty and Duncan Ireland took 3rd place with a 65.
The A Section players dominated today's Medal with the top three all carding 64. It was Bren Ford's better inward half which gave him his first medal of the year, good to see his celebrations after the previous night's matchplay win had no after effect.
Alan Thompson and Robert Kay were the other players who carded 64. And well done to Alan Thompson who managed no less than 3 two's (awesome!!)
Martin Kyles won the B Section with 65 from second place Stuart Mccallum with 67 on the bih from James Markey.
Robert Peebles wins the C Section with 65 by a stoke from Paul Miller
CSS for today was 66
The weather may have scuppered the Ryder Cup play at Celtic Manor today but it didn't prevent Bren ford and Duncan Ireland winning the Summer Pairs matchplay for an impressive third year in succession. In a closely contested final they saw of the challenge from Neil Boyle and Philip Demarco at the 17th.
Draw in Full
The "Young" team take the Alex Urquhart Trophy (and the girls done good too)
A very well attended Alex Urquhart Texas Scramble competition was won by the team of father and son Charlie and John Young along with Martin Kyles and John Walkman with a fine 53.8. And it was good to see the ladies get in on the act as Fiona Findlay, Coleen Derighetti and Jaci Moriarty ensured there was an incentive for Harry Bell to play well and they almost wore out their lippy rewarding him for every good shot and birdie putt. A fine team effort with 6 birdies and one bogie making a round of 54.5 giving them the runner-up spot so close to actually winning with Coleen's birdie attempt at the 17th just lipping-out. Never the less a fun round.
A very well attended Alex Urquhart Texas Scramble competition was won by the team of father and son Charlie and John Young along with Martin Kyles and John Walkman with a fine 53.8. And it was good to see the ladies get in on the act as Fiona Findlay, Coleen Derighetti and Jaci Moriarty ensured there was an incentive for Harry Bell to play well and they almost wore out their lippy rewarding him for every good shot and birdie putt. A fine team effort with 6 birdies and one bogie making a round of 54.5 giving them the runner-up spot so close to actually winning with Coleen's birdie attempt at the 17th just lipping-out. Never the less a fun round.
It was a Lochend 1-2 in the Gents Seniors Open today with Alen Young winning the trophy with a 64 on the better-inward-half from Willie Hamilton.
Another 64 came from 3rd place P Mccafferty from Harrison and Lochenders Alex Ferguson (65bih) and Ian Dey (65) were 4th and 5th respectively.
CSS for today was 66
A double-header Open today and it was the handicap competition were Lochenders swept the board with Robert "Gillie" Sutherland taking the Persevere Trophy with 62, one shot better off than Lochenders Gordon Cook and Colin Farwell (Gordon taking the runner-up spot on the better-inward half). Alex Young completed Lochend's domination of the top four places with a 64. Duddingston's Duncan Rae carded a 65 taking 5th place on the b-i-h from Ravelston's John MacDonald.
The McLean Cup for the scratch players was won by Duddingston's David Miller with the best card of the day (a 66 in very windy conditions was a fine effort). Ian Stewart made it a Duddingston 1-2 with his 68 and Alan Chalmers of Hawick was 3rd with a 69.
CSS for today was 68
Robert Kay warmed up for his Summer Matchplay final with a Medal win today. A Handicap cutting 61 won him, the low-scoring, medal (and the A Section) by 2 strokes from Dean Robertson runner-up on the better inward half from a whole raft of players carding g 63. The B Section was won by S Meldrum with a 63 in the B.I.H from Graeme Stewart and David Bennet. Thomas Reid won his third C Section medal of the year with a 64 two strokes ahead of runner-up Eddie Paul with Eric Cowan 3rd with 67.
CSS for today was 66
Jaci Moriarty and Duncan Ireland continue to be quite a force as a mixed pairing. The latest success for the Lochenders came at Duddingston where they won the Mixed with today with a 69, half a stoke better then the runner-up couple from Pitreavie. It is the second time Jaci's name appears on the trophy, having won it in 2002 with Colin Davidson. well done.
Christie Millar Trophy won by Charlie Thompson & Stevie Meldrum
The Christie Millar Trophy has been played for since 1908 (incidentally the same year Craigentinny first opened to the public) and today is was Charlie Thompson and Stevie Meldrum who became the latest winners with a 62 2/3 (silloth format). Stuart McCallum and Paul Hunter were unluckily a third of a shot behind and Duncan Ireland and Robert Binnie carded the best scratch score of the day, an excellent 63.
Scott Robertson hot round in the Currie Cup
An excellent 59 (by all accounts it could have been even better) from Scott Robertson today won him the Currie Cup with a three stroke win from Graeme Davidson runner-up on the better inward half from David Harper who also carded 62
CSS for today was 66
Full Details
Terry Coyle carded an excellent 59 today to win the September Medal (and the C Section) by a stroke from Ricky Richardson who took the A Section prize on the better inward half from 3rd placed Alan Burns. 4th place went to David Fenwick who also won the B Section.
CSS for today was 65
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.
The latest Thursday Medal was a very close run thing. With three players carding 62 it was Robert Kay who eventually won on the better-inward-half from Alan Young on the b-i-h from Graeme Davidson.
It was also the final counter for the Findlay Cup, and it's well done to David Menzies who confirmed his win tonight. Having won the three previous Medals his winning margin in the combined totals was a massive 12 strokes from runner-up Alan Young
CSS for today was 65
Well done to Paul Miller who won the Lochend Open today with an excellent 60. In fact Lochend swept the board in the Handicap Competition with Tam Owens runner-up with 61, Paul Hunter 3rd with 62, Mike Devine 4th with 63 and Arthur Sinclair 5th with 63 on the better inward half form Charlie Vescoe.
The visitors were more successful in the scratch competition with Duddingston's David Millar, who plays of +2 carding the best scratch score of the day with 68 one stroke better than C. McArthur from Broomieknowe with Lochend's Alan Thompson warming up for the Championship with a 69, the third best scratch score of the day.
CSS for today was 67
Paul Edwards paired up with his son Ross to win the John Batton pairs today. A 59 was good enough to take the trophy with Billy Richardson and Dod Meikle runner up with 60 and Tam Owens and John Binnie coming 3rd with 61.
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.
With one round to go in the Findlay Cup for the best 3 combined scores in the Thursday Medals David Menzies has all but secured the trophy with another Thursday night win.
A 61 tonight gave David a 4 shot win from Arthur Sinclair, runner-up on the better inward half from Michael English.
Good shooting today in the July Medal as Philip Beveridge took the honours with a 61, on the better inward half from Harry Bell. Philip also won the C Section with Harry's 61 the best of the B Section players. Alex Young took 3rd place with a 62 on the b.i.h. from David Oswald. Steven Harper won the A Section with 64.
Today was also the last chance to post a qualifying score for this years Club Championship and David Graham, who's consistent form was rewarded recently when he won the Alliance Trophy for combined results over the early season, has posted the best two-round score of 137 (68/69) to take top qualifying spot, with Steven Harper and Alan Thompson next best with 140 (both 70/70).
Championship details
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.
The sunshine brought out the best of the players today in a low-scoring June Medal as Graeme Markey took the honours with a 61 giving him the June Medal (and the A Section) by one stroke from Thomas Reid on the better inward half from John Selcraig. Thomas also won the C Section with his 62..
John Young, one of 4 players who came in with 63, won the C Section.
CSS for today was 66
Lochend's Craig Sinclair secured a home win for at Lochend's Open Quaich by taking the 1st Handicap prize. His 61 may have came in 6 under the CSS score but his win was by a solitary stroke from Michael Aitchison with Ross Fenwick's 64 taking third place. Lochenders Tam Calder, Colin Macpherson, David Harper and Eric Cowan were 4th to 7th respectively.
Duddingston's Stuart Smith won the scratch competition with 69, one stroke better than Lochend's Alan Thompson who took the runner-up spoke from Duddingston's G. Thompson (no relative) on the better-inward-half with Lochend's James Tetlow taking 4th with a creditable 71.
CSS for today was 67
5 stroke win for James Markey in the May Medal
An excellent 59 gave James Markey a 5-stroke win today to take the May Medal and a 2 stroke handicap cut. No less than 5 players came in with the next best score of 64 Michael Devine taking the runner-up spot (and the A Section) on the better inward half from Tam Calder, Jim McArthur, Phil Demarco and David Richardson. Brian Werhun was the C Section winner.
CSS for today was 66
Kenny Ross carded a magnificent 57 to win the Salveson Sheild today. His wonder round ensures he is the latest name on the trophy which has been competed for since 1902. Gavin Glendinning and Craig Sinclair came close with excellent rounds of 59 Gavin taking the runner-up spot on the better inward half.
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Lochend's first Open of the year and the home players did fair well. Ian Houston took the JB Muir Trophy for his 68, the best scratch score of the day with Alan Thompson's 70 making it a Lochend one-two closely followed by the Duddingston trio of Keith Millar (70) Neil Donaldson (72) and Robert Denholm who were 3rd, 4th and 5th.
The handicap competition was a Lochend one-three as James Markey won with 61 and Terry Coyle's 64 giving him third place on the better inward half with Harrison's John Young in between (runner-up with 62)
CSS for today was 68
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.
Craig Sinclair win his first Lochend Medal (and the B Section) today with a 65 on the better inward half to runner-up Steven Meldrum who wins the C Section four players can in with 66. Philip Demarco the best of these on the better back 9 from Robert Kay, Michael Aitchison and David Harper who was the best of the A Section.
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Well done to Tam Reid and Robert Sutherland who won the Alex Gair Winter Pairs today with a winning score of 61. Alan Thompson and Tam Galloway were runners-up with the Fenwick Brothers Alex and David coming in 3rd.
Kenny Saunders wins March Medal
Kenny Saunders followed up his recent Stableford success by winning today's medal with a 65 on the better-inward-half from Andrew McArthur who wins the C Section. Michael Downie was 3rd with 66 on the BIH from Tam Reid and 5th Place D Haining won the B Section also with 66.
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Charlie Lothian's fine 64 was good enough to take the February Medal (and the B Section) by a single stoke from John Young, runner-up with a 65.
Michael Downie won the A Section with a 65 by a single stroke from Colin Farwell and Thomas Reid was the C Section winner with 67.
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Hackenbushes undefeated all the way to win the winter league final
In a closely fought Winter League final the Hackenbushes were the winners by a one-hole victory over the Halfbreeds.
Tam Keenan and Robert Binnie secured a one-up win in the first tie over Bren Ford and Jamie Crisp.
With Duncan Ireland and Chris Reid holding out for a draw in the other tie over Jaci Moriarty and Johan Svard this was enough to give the Hackenbushes the silverware having come through the competition undefeated. It was to the Halfbreeds credit that they came so close to winning the trophy having come back strongly after losing their first two matches in the group stage.
There was also the best-of -the-rest competition today and BMFC took the honours with a combined Stableford score of 95 (helped in no small measure by Kenny Saunders who won the Individual Stableford Competition)
followed by R's Holes, Bros In Arms and Latecomers who all scored 93.
FULL RESULTS
Alex Young wins J B Roche Trophy
Yes some hardy soles braved the icicles to play in the traditional New Years day Competition.
Alex Young made a fine start to the new year by winning the J B Roche Trophy. The C Section Champion also recently won the November Medal so the cold weather obviously has no effect on him. Alex must have good thermals. His wining score today gave him a one stroke win from Tam Reid who took second place on the b.i.h. from Stuart McCallum.
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13-01-2012