On Tuesday 31st of August, East Renfrewshire Golf Club was delighted to host the Tri-am event and lunch to celebrate the 80th Anniversary of the West of Scotland Ladies Inter Club Leagues that compete for the Greenlees Trophy.
72 ladies from 25 different golf clubs in the West of Scotland were represented, teams ideally having a player from each of the three divisions.
The weather was calm and mild, with the sun appearing intermittently, resulting in almost perfect playing conditions. The golf course was at its best, having recovered its lushness after the long dry month of July.
After their round, ladies enjoyed a lovely lunch in the club lounge which had been decorated with balloons and bunting and were able to chat and catch up with old friends
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Lady Captain, Carole Spy from East Renfrewshire Golf Club spoke before the Prize giving and welcomed everyone, expressing her hope that they had all enjoyed their day. She gave an insight into East Renfrewshire Golf Club’s history of involvement in the Greenlees Trophy leagues. CLICK ON THIS LINK FOR THE -------> VIDEO OF PRESENTATION or watch at end of post
Carole Spy said --
I hope you have all enjoyed playing East Ren in perfect golfing conditions and had fun with the bendy driver and left-handed putter on 18th. Watching on, there certainly seemed to be a lot of laughter, there were even several offers to buy the putter
Val Crawford who organised today’s events has left information leaflets on the history of the Greenlees for you. What you probably won’t know is East Ren’s involvement.
We were invited to take part in the Greenlees Trophy in 1952. It took us four years to win the second division and were then promoted to division one, where we stayed until ’65. The ladies of the day were obviously not satisfied with the demotion and promptly won Division two in ‘66 followed by Division one in ‘67 where the team remained until 1976.
There was more success in winning division 2 in 1978. It’s fair to say that since those ‘glory days’ East Ren has had experience of all 3 divisions taking advantage of playing at a variety of great courses over the years.
No matter which division a team is playing in or wither a player is number one or number 9 or even 7, when we represent our clubs in a Greenlees match, we do it with pride and great determination to get that point for our club.
Thank you, ladies, for your competitive spirit and for taking part in the 80th year celebration of Greenlees golf.
Prizes were then awarded by Carole, with Val Crawford, the club’s Greenlees Secretary announcing the various winners.
A final vote of thanks was given by Maureen Mitchell, West of Scotland Greenlees Convenor.
Prizes were awarded to
Winning Team:
Anne McGillivray - Prestwick St Nicholas
Susan Griffin - Douglas Park
Kay McColl - Hilton Park
Runners Up
Pauline Warlow - Cathkin Braes
Irene Boyd - Bothwell Castle
Barbara Aird - Cathkin Braes
Nearest pin 4th Catriona McHarg – Cathcart Castle
Nearest pin 13th May Hughes – Lanark Golf Club
Longest drive 18th Debbie Watt – Ayr Belleisle
Longest putt 18th June Kerr – West Kilbride
Many thanks go to organiser Val Crawford for the report and all the helpers at East Renfrewshire Golf Club including all who took the Photographsat the event.
The end of the video has the history of Ysobel Greenlees the founder of Greenlees Trophy -- Courtesy to the late Jean Smith and her husband at the 75th Anniversary Celebration
Due to covid restrictions in 2020 the West of Scotland the Greenlees 80th Anniversary Tri-Am and lunch will now take place at East Renfrewshire Golf Club on Tuesday 31st August
The draw has been done by East Renfrewshire's Val Crawford with times from 9.30am until 12.34pm.
Each team will have ladies from 3 different clubs and divisions.
It was a much more comfortable temperature for the Renfrewshire Ladies' County July Medal at Cathcart Castle GC yesterday, with no sign of the forecasted showers.
A smaller field of 29 players saw some good scores being returned from those who managed to avoid the many burns running through the course.
Scratch :
Gillian Kyle (East Renfrewshire) 77
Division 1
1st Carolyn Reuben (Kilmacolm) 87 (17) 70
2nd Jane Alexander (Cathcart Castle) 86 (15) 71 bih
3rd Fiona Armour (Whitecraigs) 87 (16) 71
Division 2
1st Brenda Duthie (Cathcart Castle) 90 (20) 70 bih
30 teams competed in the Renfrewshire Ladies' County Golf Association Greensomes Stableford today at Cowglen Golf Club. The outright winners of the competition and Centenary Trophy with a fabulous score of 42 stableford points was the team of Brenda Duthie, from Cathcart Castle GC and Stella Bowie, from Kilmacolm GC.
2nd : Shirley Back and June Lockhart
3rd: Morag Little and Jennifer MacGregor
The Douglas Park GC duo of Captain June Lockhart and Shirley Back were second with 38 points, and third were Morag Little and Jennifer MacGregor, both from Whitecraigs GC, with 36 stableford points. To read the full report and results go to the RLCGA Website Thanks go to Gillian Kyle for the photographs
Winning Team - Gilly MacRae, Evy MacGregor and Carol Fell
The Ranfurly Castle Ladies Open day Tri-Am was held on Thursday 18th July.
90 ladies took part in the event and the weather proved better than expected with only a few showers but a very stiff wind. Two scores from three to count with all three scores at the 18th.
Runners Up: Lilias Lamont, Libby Pow and Alison Templeton
Prize Winners: 1st: Evy MacGregor (Ranfurly Castle), Carol Fell (Douglas Park) and Gilly MacRae (Troon Ladies) 78 points 2nd: Alison Templeton (Ranfurly Castle), Libby Pow (Ralston) and Lilias Lamont (Old Course Ranfurly) 74 bih 3rd: Gillian McGinlay (Troon Ladies ), Jean Sloan (Troon Ladies) and Rona Lockie (Troon Ladies) 74
Past D&A ChampionNikki Ferguson is returning to the PGA National Assistants’ Final after combining the two biggest interests in life - teaching and golf.
The Cathcart Castle Golf Club assistant originally wanted to be a schoolteacher.
But she was also a keen golfer and the Glasgow-based player discovered that PGA training gave her the best of both worlds.
Now she has completed her three year course and will take one last shot at playing in the £32,000 Birdietime-supported Assistants’ final which will be played at Farleigh Golf Club in Surrey between July 3-5.
Ferguson, who has only been at Cathcart Castle since April, earned a place in the event for the second time when she finished eighth in the qualifying competition held at Livingstone’s Deer Park Golf & Country Club in May.
She played in the grand final two years ago at Little Aston Golf Club in Birmingham - but definitely hopes she does better at Farleigh after missing the cut in 2016.
“I wanted to get more into coaching with the chance to play a bit more which is why I joined Cathcart Castle,” she said.
“This will be my second appearance in the final, the first one at Little Aston didn’t go too well. I didn’t really know what it was about and I didn’t play well. But it’ll be a rare visit to play in England for me, it’s hard to justify going there to compete most of the year.
“It’s just a bit too far away so I tend to play mainly in Order of Merit events in Scotland.”
Now she plans to focus on her career in golf after coming through PGA training.
“I always wanted to be a teacher, I’ve always wanted to be on that side of things, but I also had an interest in golf and spoke to quite a few people about doing the PGA course,” she said.
“Everbody recommended doing it. But I also liked the studying aspect and learning about golf, especially the business side. I’ve furthered my knowledge about golf. It’s also giving me a good relationship with the club members as well.”
Other players from Scotland due to play at Farleigh include: Jamie McLeary (Deer Park); Chris Curran (Bathgate Golf Club); Fraser McKenna (Caldwell Golf Club); Anthony O’Donnell (Largs Golf Club); Adam Wills (Lanark Golf Club) and Darryn McBratney (Carnwath Golf Club)
Thursday, 17 May 2018
Nikki and Linzi qualify for the British Assistants Championship
Nikki and Linzi
Past County Champions Nikki Ferguson (D&A) and Linzi Allen (Ayrshire) representing Cathcart Castle and West Kilbride Golf Clubs respectively have qualified for the British Assistants Championship down in Surrey in July
In the Qualifying round at Deer Park, yesterday -- CLICK HERE
Winners: Gill Hendry, Linda McDougall and Sharon Edge
Runners Up: Margaret Gray, Alice Brown and Aileen Donaldson
The Greenlees 75th Celebration Triam was played in excellent weather today and was enjoyed by all the participants - it is a pity that something like this only happens once. Grateful thanks must be given to Sheila Orr and the ladies from Cathcart Castle for their organisation and their decoration of the Dining Room. Special thanks to Jean Smith and her husband for producing such and interesting brochure - I think we all learned from it. Special thanks to our guests, Fiona Butler, Willeen McCallum and not least Carol Fell. I would like to thank all the players who took part in our celebration and made it such a successful day..
Only the second prize winners were there and Greenlees Secretary Anne Dunn is going to ask the others if they can come to the lunch on Greenlees Lunch on the 20th October. Winners: - Gill Hendry ( Douglas Park) Sharon Edge (Lenzie) and Linda McDougall, (Greenock).
2nd: Aileen Donaldson (West Kilbride), Margaret Gray (Old Ranfurly) and Alice Brown, (Bothwell Castle).
3rd: Jill Foggo (Milngavie), Eleanor Inglis (Largs) and Linda Hay (Eastwood). For all the results -- CLICK HERE
To see some Photos --- CLICK HERE -- Courtesy of Anne Dunn's daughter Nikki and Carol Fell
The RLCGA Winter Foursomes Final was played over Cathcart Castle today. Beatrice Orr and Morag Turner (Kilmacolm) won at the 19th against Mary Hardie and Sheila Gray (Ranfurly Castle)
To read the full report go to the Renfrewshire Website and to see larger pictures click on the small picture below
Played April 7th, SSS 69, CSS 72, Entries 61. Silver: S McWhirter (16) 74 bih, J McQueen (18) 74, M Mitchell (9) 76. Bronze: M McMutrie (26) 72, M Deas (23) 73 bih, A Hood (22) 73
