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| Cathkin Braes celebrate |
VIDEO AND PHOTOGRAPHS
The Annual Greenlees Lunch and prize giving took place today, 17th October, at Douglas Park Golf Club.
This was attended by 57 ladies representing the 25 Clubs that are in the 3 Greenlees Divisions.
Old Ranfurly's Maureen Taggart and Merope Dunlop helped to collect in the Greenlees Fees and Douglas Park had Lindsay Mclean and Gill Hendry welcoming the visitors to the club.
The tables were named after the European Countries were represented in the victorious Solheim Cup and flower arrangements were on all the tables courtesy of D Park's Jeannie Sutherland and Elaine Macewan
SCOTLAND: Lynda Smith, Denise Macnaughton, Maureen Mitchell and Carol Fell (Top Table)
SPAIN: Cathkin Braes, East Renfrewshire and Lanark
NETHERLANDS : Douglas Park, Troon and Old Ranfurly
FRANCE: Milngavie, Loudoun Gowf, Largs and Hilton Park
NORWAY: Erskine, Prestwick St Nicholas, Kilmacolm and Williamwood
SWEDEN: Ayr Bellisle, Kilmarnock Barassie, Cowglen and Cathcart Castle
GERMANY: Whitecraigs, Bothwell Castle and Cardross
ENGLAND: Haggs Castle, Ranfurly Castle, West Kilbride and Lenzie
West of Scotland Greenlees Secretary Maureen Mitchell (Old Ranfurly) opened the proceedings by welcoming everyone to the 79th Anniversary Year of the Greenlees Trophy.
She then introduced the top table guests - Denise Macnaughton , the Lady Captain of Douglas Park , who welcomed everyone on behalf of the Club and announced that if everyone checked behind their seat if they found a card they were invited to take home the flowers after the lunch.
She then introduced Carol Fell and said "Carol does a fantastic job keeping her website CaroFellGolf up to date which includes the Greenlees Results which are available for all to see."
Next introduction was that of Douglas Park's Past Greenlees Secretary Lynda Smith who was there instead of Susan Griffin (DP Greenlees Secretary) who was down in London. Susan had been the main organiser of all the the lunch arrangements and table plans and with the help of a few others enabled the event to be held.
Everyone then enjoyed an excellent lunch and much chat could be heard.
Prior to the presentation of Trophies Carol Fell said a few words --
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| Elizabeth Fazzi and Aileen Wilson (Haggs Castle) - Runners Up Division 2 |
She welcomed Aileen Wilson from Haggs Castle who in her first Greenlees match played for Caldwell in the 1950's and over 60 years on still represented Haggs Castle this year -- a fantastic feat !!
She then read out a piece that past Secretary Fiona Roger had said in 2010 when it was the 70th Anniversary of the Greenlees --
In 1931 ten teams played in one division - Troon, Prestwick St. Nicholas, Douglas Park, Paisley, Drumpellier, Sandyhills, Kilmacolm, Ranfurly Castle, Cathkin Braes and Cardross. At the end of the season Troon and Prestwick St. Nicholas both had 62 points, they had a play off over Western Gailes and Prestwick St Nicholas won by one match. Mrs Greenlees, on behalf of her husband who donated the trophy, presented it to Prestwick.
Cathkin must have found it all too much because they withdrew after year one and were replaced by Balmore!!
Fiona also found a report written after the 1934 matches, I presume by the then Secretary. It read ----- matches have not been so keanly contested this year and certain clubs are lacking in team spirit. ----------. Our recent Secretaries would not dare to write such a report as with the usual close fought matches we have it is right up to the bitter end to decide our winners
Now a great Cathkin Braes Team has won the trophy for the 3rd time in 6 years — Many congratulations
Carol said "I am not too sad to be out of the 1st Division after 41 years (Ranfurly Castle - 40 ) and now playing for Douglas Park— I have enjoyed 100s and 100s of matches and love the camaraderie."
Willeen McCallum took over as West of Scotland Greenlees Secretary in 1988 and in 1990 - the 50th anniversary took place and she organised a Greenlees Jamboree over Troon Portland. A highly successful day. 3 ball best ball competition with 60 competitors. Lunch provided for some 100 people. -- No mean feat of organisation She then retired in 2007
In 2007 I was asked at that time by Isabel Crawford the then West of Scotland Secretary if I would be the Greenlees Secretary — Results were no longer going into the Herald and a real difficulty in communicating the results.
It was also decided to try to make a change of Secretary every 3 to 4 years — I then set up the spreadsheets for the results and Fiona Roger then took over in 2008 - 2011 when the 70th Anniversary was in 2010.
Anne Dunn from 2012 - 2016 (75th Anniversary Tri Am was so well run at Cathcart Castle in 2015 ) and then Maureen who will still be the Greenlees Secretary in 2020 when it will be the 80th Anniversary.
After that Maureen will then step down and we hope to fill the role of West of Scotland Greenlees Secretary for 2021 so that no-one is ever in the job for too long - Maureen is enjoying doing her roll and we thank her for all her hard work during the season.
Also it would be greatly appreciated that with the ever growing age of technology -- I am quite willing to help iron out any communication problems -- and if anyone has ideas they would be most welcome.
East Renfrewshire GC is the next club to hold the lunch and perhaps be able hold an 80th Anniversary Celebration at their club All help will be available.
Finally I would like to congratulate Donna Jackson from Troon who had a hole in one at the 4th hole at Williamwood against Julie Wilson and Julie tells me the same thing happened to her last year when Lenzie’s Evelyn Crosbie had a hole in one at the same hole against her — Julie has been having a hard time --
I was then also reminded that Lindsay Mclean (Douglas Park) had a hole in one against Cathkin Braes in their final match and June Kerr (West Kilbride) also had one in a Greenlees match this year followed by an eagle I think !!!
Well done everyone
Finally, I like to take this opportunity to congratulate the Williamwood Annodata Team who are through to the semi-final in Spain of the Annodata UK Golf Club Classic with a hard fought 3-2 win against Kenwood Park Golf Club in a home match in the quarter finals.They are now off to play their semi finals at the Montecastillo Resort near Cadiz in Spain on 20th and 21st November.
Maureen then informed everyone that the Greenlees AGM would be on Tuesday 19th November at Old Ranfurly -- The exchanging of dates for matches would be first at 10:15 am with the AGM at 11am.
Maureen then invited the Captain Denise to present the trophies to the winning teams - see video. -
Bothwell Castle, Whitecraigs, Troon and Cathkin representatives all said a few words -- Apologies to Bothwell Castle -- I missed hitting the record button - It was an excellent speech !!
Maureen then invited the Captain Denise to present the trophies to the winning teams - see video. -
Bothwell Castle, Whitecraigs, Troon and Cathkin representatives all said a few words -- Apologies to Bothwell Castle -- I missed hitting the record button - It was an excellent speech !!
Whitecraigs winners of Division 2 and runners up Haggs Castle.
The runners up in Division 1 were Troon who were beaten by the overall winners - Cathkin Braes.
PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE DAY CLICK HERE
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| Cathkin Braes - 2019 Greenlees Trophy Winners |
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| Troon Ladies - Beth Paterson and Sara-Ann Bottomley Greenlees Trophy Runners Up |
Cathkin Braes 46 - Greenlees Trophy Winners 2019
Troon 40.5 - Greenlees Trophy Runners Up
Ranfurly Castle 29 - Relegated to Division 2
Douglas Park 28.5 - Relegated to Division 2
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| Division 2 Winners -- Whitecraigs |
Whitecraigs 43.5 - Division 2 Winners
Haggs Castle 43 - Division 2 Runners Up
East Renfrewshire 33 - Relegated to Division 3
Lenzie 30 - Relegated to Division 3
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| Bothwell Castle - Division 3 Winners |
Bothwell Castle 28 - Division 3 Winners
Hilton Park 23 - Division 3 Runners Up
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| Greenlees Divisional Winners and Runners Up - Click to enlarge |
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| Carol, Maureen and Denise
Maureen then concluded by wishing everyone a safe journey home.
After the event Douglas Park Captain Denise and "Greenlees Webmaster " Carol were presented with beautiful flower displays that she had made for the top table
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