AYRSHIRE, D&A AND RENFREWSHIRE GOLF RANKINGS WEEK 32 / 2018

mygolfranking.net AYRSHIRE LADIES GOLFER of Week 18/32 is AILEEN ANDERSON (Loudoun Gowf Ladies) who rises to No 4 on Ayrshire Ladies MGRanking.

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AYRSHIRE LADIES

1 Kelly McNee (Loudoun Gowf) 1113 points

2 Sheena Murchie (Lamlash) 1025 

3 Christine Whitelaw (Largs) 1003

4 Aileen Anderson (Loudoun Gowf) 983 

5 Jean Capes (Largs) 978 

6 Joanne Sharp (Kilmarnock (Barassie)) 939​

7 Mhairi MacNamee (Loudoun Golf) 935 

8 Emma Thomson (Loudoun Gowf) 919

9 Christine Auld (Kilmarnock (Barassie)) 915

10 Lindsay Smith (Troon Welbeck) 909 

AYRSHIRE LADIES - CLUBS

1 Loudoun Gowf 889 points

2 Largs 859

3 Prestwick St Cuthbert 829

4 Shiskine 806 

5 Skelmorlie 786 

mygolfranking.net DUNBARTONSHIRE & ARGYLL GOLFER of Week 18/32 is ELAINE PROVAN (Palacerigg Ladies) who re-enters the Top 10 of Dunbartonshire & Argyll Ladies MGRanking at No 9.

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DUNBARTONSHIRE & ARGYLL LADIES

1 Lorraine Campbell (Cardross) 1094 points

2 Carol Fell (Douglas Park) 1083 

3 Elaine McEwan (Douglas Park) 1064

4 Katharine Hardman (Dunaverty) 1054 

5 Ashley Duffy (Clober) 1030

6 Lindsay McCubbin (Hilton Park) 1023

7 Karen Haggarty (Dumbarton) 1016

8 Muriel O’Hara (Palacerigg) 1014 

9 Elaine Provan (Palacerigg) 1010

10 Belinda Goldsmith (Hilton Park) 997

DUNBARTONSHIRE & ARGYLL LADIES - CLUBS

1 Palacerigg 970 points

2 Taynuilt 913 

3 Clober 901 

4 Balmore 891

5 Dunaverty 874

mygolfranking.net RENFREWSHIRE LADIES GOLFER of Week 18/32 is LINDA MCDOUGALL (Greenock Ladies) who is upwardly mobile to No 3 on Renfrewshire Ladies MGRanking.

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RENFREWSHIRE LADIES

1 Linda Ellery (East Renfrewshire) 1068 points

2 Allison Murray (Ranfurly Castle) 1049 

3 Linda McDougall (Greenock) 1040 

4 Jan Macnab (Ranfurly Castle) 1038

5 Catherine Goldinger (Bonnyton) 1004 

6 Brenda Conway (Renfrew) 969 

7 Shirley Bell (Old Course Ranfurly) 960

8 Vivien Howe (Ranfurly Castle) 952​

9 Maureen Kemp (Gourock) 946

10 Jane Ross (Elderslie) 935

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RENFREWSHIRE LADIES - CLUBS

1 Renfrew 859 points

2 Ranfurly Castle 847

3 Greenock 833 

4= Elderslie, Old Course Ranfurly 819

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MAUREEN WOODHEAD BOWS OUT AFTER WINNING 25 CHAMPIONSHIPS

Golfer bows out after winning 25th championship

By Paul John Coulter  @paulcoulter89 (The Greenock Telegrapgh)

Maureen Woodhead (pictured above) is retiring with a record haul of ladies' titles at her home town club.

The 60-year-old won her maiden championship in 1993 and has dominated almost ever since, notching title number 25 at the recent 2018 tournament.

Maureen is now leaving on a high to spend more time with her husband Neil at the couple's new base in the Lake District.

She told the Tele: "I've won it now for 25 years so there's a pressure that comes with that.

"I wanted to finish sort of unbeaten, if you like.

"Neil doesn't play golf, he enjoys walking and climbed Mount Kilimanjaro in 2010 for Quarriers so I can see myself walking a lot more now."

Maureen started out playing hockey before her late first husband, Nicol Skinner, encouraged her to take up golf.

The sport runs in the family, with her father Dan Hendry, who passed away two years ago, a past captain at Gourock and former Greenock Golf Club champion.

Maureen was persuaded by Nicol to join the Cowal View course in '79.

Nicol, who was himself a multiple championship winner, died in 2001 and the flag pole stands in his memory outside the clubhouse.

Maureen said: "I think he was fed up picking me up from accident and emergency with broken ankles because of hockey and encouraged me to take up golf.

"I won my first championship in '93 and won it every year apart from 2008 when I was beaten in the semi-final.

"Until I recently changed my car and sold the house, I lived in Golf Road, played golf and drove a Golf."

During her competitive career, Maureen also won British and Scottish Civil Service Ladies' titles.

She was Inverclyde's 'champion of champions' five times, enjoyed success with Gourock in the Greenlees Trophy and served as vice-captain of the Renfrewshire team in 2009 before helping them to claim their first national crown the following year - the first in over two decades.

CAN ANYONY HELP SANDRA CANDEIAS FIND AN OLD FRIEND JUNE KEITH

Handicap trophy winners Alness. Left to right - Rhoda Patterson, Elizabeth Fraser, June Keith, Isabel Ross.

This post is for anyone to help seek out an old  friend from Alness Golf Club --  June Keith

I’m hoping that some one out there that reads this post can help me finding a way that Sandra can  contact a lady that she met via her son ( Leslie Keith , who she met  in the Algarve, Portugal) in the early 90’s ) in Scotland a few decades ago.

She is a golfer herself from Alness.  -- Mrs. June Keith is married to Mr ?Keith ( forgot first name but he was then a baker.  I found your contact via the KIRKWOOD PAGE -- CLICK HERE  in June 2015 Tain ladies won the Gordon Salver for 40th time over Alness Golf Course and the Alness players in the above photo won the Handicap Trophy

I’m hoping you can help me with my request. I would love to know how all the Keith family is. I lost contact. Would be wonderful you could pass the word to see if I can get in touch with all of them. My name is Sandra Candeias from Porto, Portugal.

I found her, Mrs. June Keith is the lady with the light pink t shirt with the trophy in her hand. I could recognise her because she hasn’t change and almost 25 years passed by !!

Thank you in advance and my excuses once again if I have disrupt you.

With Kind Regards.
Sandra from Portugal but now in Ireland 🙂 Her email address: smcandeias@gmail.com

BRITISH GIRLS MATCHPLAY -- Emma Spitz wins all-Austrian British girls Final.

SEMI-FINALS
Emma Spitz (Austria) bt Yael Berger (Switzerland) 5 and 3.
Isabella Holpfer (Austria) bt Charlotte Heath (Huddersfield) 4 and 2.

FINAL

Spitz  bt Holpfer 2 and 1.

CLICK HERE BRITISH GIRLS MATCHPLAY RESULTS.  

ANGUS, FIFE AND PERTH AND KINROSS RANKING - WEEK 32/ 2018

mygolfranking.net ANGUS LADIES GOLFER of Week 18/32 is SEONAID FALCONER (PanmureLadies) who re-enters Angus Ladies MGRankingat No 8.

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ANGUS LADIES

1 Jane Tough (Brechin) 1135 points

2 Jane Grubb (Montrose Mercantile) 1082 

3 Sakuna Ramsay (Edzell) 1068

4 Gemma Miller (Ballumbie Castle) 990 

5 Georgina Middleton (Edzell) 969 

6 Fiona Hay (Grange GC) 967

7 Dawn Dargie (Grange GC) 956​

8 Seonaid Falconer (Panmure) 952

9 Jackie Brown (Monifieth) 936

10 Linda Ruxton (Brechin) 932 

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ANGUS LADIES - CLUBS

1 Carnoustie 867 points 

2 Montrose Mercantile 866

3 Downfield 855 

4 Ballumbie Castle 848

5 Grange GC 834

mygolfranking.net FIFE LADIES GOLFER of Week 18/32 is JANET WILSON (Anstruther Ladies) who eases up to NUMBER ONE on Fife Ladies MGRanking.

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FIFE LADIES

1 Janet Wilson (Anstruther) 1070 points 

2 Carol Dawson (Elmwood) 1028

3 Sam Burton (Dunfermline) 1027 

4 Fiona Thomson (Elie & Earlsferry) 1015​

5 Carol Carstairs (Lundin Ladies) 1003

6 Jane McDonald (Dunfermline) 990 

7 Terry Mullen (St Michaels) 965 

8 Terry Scott (Lundin Ladies) 961

9 Sue Horne (Thornton) 953 

10 Lorna McKinlay (Dunnikier Park) 950

FIFE LADIES CLUBS

1 Anstruther 890 

2 Elmwood 882

3 Thornton 878

4 St Michaels 877

5 Dunnikier Park 868

mygolfranking.net PERTH & KINROSS LADIES GOLFER of Week 18/32 is GILLIAN WALLACE (Milnathort Ladies) who rises to NUMBER ONE on Perth & Kinross Ladies MGRanking. 

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PERTH & KINROSS LADIES

1 Gillian Wallace (Milnathort) 1074 points

2 Caroline Henderson (Pitlochry) 1069

3 Silvi Brown (Crieff) 1014 

4 Lindsay Kidd (Milnathort) 1003 ​

5 Julie White (Auchterarder) 992 

6 Laura Campbell (Pitlochry) 979

7 Jenny Collins (Pitlochry) 956 

8 Elizabeth Ferguson (Muckhart) 952 

9 Anita Collins (Muckhart) 951

10= Maria Duncan (Milnathort), Ann Smith (Kinross) 947​

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PERTH & KINROSS LADIES - CLUBS

1 Dunkeld & Birnam 891 points 

2 Crieff 848 

3= Alyth, Muckhart 844

5 Dunning 793

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Cara Thompson wins Strathtyrum Tournament at St Andrews

By Colin Farquharson

Cara Thompson (Royal Dornoch) won the prestigious Strathtyrum Tournament at St Andrews today.

In the semi-finals, Cara showed she was in peak form by beating title-holder Lucy Jamieson (Heswall)  6 and 5.

Thompson was given a much closer contest in the final by Marieke Helgers from the Netherlands. The Scot, a scratch player, won by one hole.

Helgers had earlier dashed hopes of an all-Scottish final by beating Wendy Nicholson (Baberton) 6 and 4 in the semi-finals.

Elizabeth Goodwin, who plays off 11 at Glenbervie, lost in the final of the Strathtyrum Salver handicap competition. She went down at the 20th to Sarah Shepherd, a 13-handicapper from Prestatyn Golf Club, Denbighshire in Wales.  

STRATHTYRUM TOURNAMENT

SEMI-FINALS

Marieke Helgers (Netherlands) bt Wendy Nicholson (Baberton) 6 and 4.

Cara Thompson (Royal Dornoch) bt Lucy Jamieson (Heswall) 6 and 5.

FINAL 

Thompson bt Helgers 1 hole.

STRATHTYRUM SALVER (handicap)

SEMI-FINALS

Sarah Shepherd (Prestatyn) (13) bt Catriona Corrigan (Ballybunion) (11) 3 and 1.

Elizabeth Goodwin (Glenbervie) (11) bt Joan Scanlan (Newcastle West) (5) 2 and 1.

FINAL

Shepherd bt Goodwin at 20th

HANNAH DARLING KNOCKED OUT OF BRITISH GIRLS CHAMPIONSHIP

Hannah Darling (Broomieknowe), the only Scot still standing after two match-play rounds of the British girls championship at Ardglass, Northern Ireland, was beaten 4 and 2 by Yael Berger (Switzerland) in this morning's third round ties.

Berger has gone on to reach the semi-finals. She followed up her win over the Scot by beating Caterina Don (Italy) by 3 and 2.

Charlotte Heath (Huddersfield) is the only English player in the last four. She beat compatriot Sophie Johnson (Enville) 4 and 3 in the quarter-finals.

CLICK HERE FOR ALL THE RESULTS

WEST VETS HALVE MATCH AGAINST THE EAST VETS

Turnhouse Golf Club was the venue for the East Vets v West Vets Foursomes Match today, playing for the Friendship (Asp)Trophy. - (Handicap 10 and over)

WEST VETS 2.5 EAST VETS 2.5 (West names first)

Karen Maxwell & Pat Syme halved with Frances McFadzean & Susan Cowie

Brenda Conway & Fiona Armour beat Trisha Smith & Dorothy Thomson 5 & 3

Marion Mason & Enid Young beat Pam Townsend & Vivien Mitchell 4 & 2

Ann Shanks & Sandra Littlejohn lost to Jan Laing & Marjory Lawder 1 down

Fiona Roger & Mary Wylie lost to Anne Rorrison & Louise Campbell 2 down

To read the full report and see a photo album more go to the West Vets Website 

HANNAH DARLING THE ONLY SCOT TO REACH THE LAST 16 AT THE BRITISH GIRLS

Hannah Darling, the youngest ever Scottish girls champion at the age of 14 last year, is the only Scot in the last 16 of the British girls amateur championship at Ardglass Golf Club, Northern Ireland.

She won her opening tie by 2 and 1 against Jess Baker (Gosforth Park) and followed that up with a very good one-hole win over the highly-rated twice former Irish girls champion Annabel Wilson (Lurgan).

Louise Duncan (West Kilbride), the only other Scot to make it to the match-play stages, won her opening tie by 2 and 1 against Nina Lang (Germany) but went down by 2 holes to Sophie Johnson (Enville).  

Read more from the R&A WEBSITE

CLICK HERE FOR ALL THE RESULTS

DAY 3 ROUND UP -- WITH HANNAH DARLING

Cara Thompson through to semi-finals of Strathtyrum tournament at St Andrews

By Colin Farquharson

Royal Dornoch's Cara Thompson won twice today (Thursday) to reach the semi-finals of the Strathtyrum tournament for women at St Andrews. Cara beat first Wad Grayson (Ringway) by 3 and 2 and then accounted for Swedish player Helen Platt by 4 and 3. 
Thompson now plays the defending champion, Lucy Jamieson (Heswall) for a place in the final. 
The other semi-final will feature Marieke Helgers (Netherlands) who beat top seed Martine Pow (Selkirk) by 3 and 1 and Wendy Nicholson (Baberton), winner by 7 and 6 against Emily Baxter (Houghton-le-Spring) 

  SECOND ROUND
M Pow (Selkirk) bt L Wilson (Kelso) at 21st
M Helgers (Netherlands) bt M McAuliffe (Ballybunion) 3 and 1.
W Nicholson (Baberton) bt K Marshall (Baberton) 1 hole.
E Baxter (Houghton-le-Spring) bt J Nordgen (Sweden) at 19th.
L Jamieson (Heswall) bt J Mackie (Ladybank) 4 and 2
B Jamieson (Heswall) bt L Church (Henbury) 6 and 4.
C Thompson (Royal Dornoch) bt W Grayson (Ringway) 3 and 2,
H Platt (Sweden) bt Z Ridgway (Crail GS) 4 and 2.

QUARTER-FINALS
Helgers bt Pow 3 and 1 
Nicholson bt Baxter 7 and 6. 
L Jamieson bt B Jamieson 2 and 1 
Thompson bt Platt 4 and 3

STRATHTYRUM SALVER (Handicap)
FIRST ROUND
W Mitchell (Royal Lytham) (11) bt E Marshall (Baberton) (14) 2 holes.
C Corrigan (Ballybunion) (11) bt V Rogers (Bromsgrove) (11) 6 and 5.
L Terry (Cruden Bay) (10) bt G Roscoe (Penwortham) (12) at 19th.
S Shepherd (Prestatyn (13) bt M Pinheiro (Portugal) (10) 4 and 2.
J Scanlan (Newcastle West) (9) bt C Gallagher (Reigate Heath) (12) 2 and 1.
J Sheargold (Shropshire) (10) bt A Boland (Thurles) (11) 4 and 3.
C Greenup (Hilton Puckrup Hall) (8)  bt J Alexander (Tewkesbury Park) (15) at 19th.
E Goodwin (Glenbervie) (11) bt C McWilliams (Corrstown) (17) 3 and 2. 

SCOTTISH SENIOR TEAMS ARE ANNOUNCED

Scottish Golf has named its teams for the forthcoming European Senior Team Championships and Senior Home Internationals, taking place in September and October.

Former Curtis Cup player and Scotland Women’s International, Alison Davidson, will represent the Senior team for the first time when the European Senior Ladies Team Championships takes place in Belgium, 4-8 September. Also making her senior debut is Elaine Moffat (St Regulus Golf Club), winner of the Scottish Senior Women’s Match Play Championship and current joint leader of the Senior Women’s Order of Merit.

European Senior Ladies Team Championships, Mont Garni Golf Club, Belgium, 4-8 September

• Linda Allan – Glenbervie Golf Club
• Alison Davidson – Stirling Golf Club
• Gillian Kyle – East Renfrewshire Golf Club
• Frances Millar – Carnoustie Caledonia Golf Club
• Elaine Moffat – St Regulus Golf Club
• Sheena Wood – Aberdeen Ladies Golf Club

Senior Ladies Home Internationals, Burnham & Berrow Golf Club, England

• Linda Allan – Glenbervie Golf Club
• Alison Davidson – Stirling Golf Club
• Gillian Kyle – East Renfrewshire Golf Club
• Lorna McKinlay – Dunnikier Park Golf Club
• Frances Millar – Carnoustie Caledonia Golf Club
• Elaine Moffat – St Regulus Golf Club
• Sheena Wood – Aberdeen Ladies Golf Club

To read both more go to the Scottish Golf Website

WEST VETS DRAW FOR AUTUMN MEETING AT DOUGLAS PARK GOLF CLUB

1st Hole at Douglas Park

Draw for Douglas Park - West Vets Autumn Meeting on Monday 3rd September, 

GO TO THE WEST VETS WEBSITE TO READ MORE

HANNAH DARLING AND LOUISE DUNCAN QUALIFY FOR BRITISH GIRLS' MATCHPLAY STAGES

By Colin Farquharson

Hannah and Louise -- point to Clare Queen
who won the British Girls in 2001
Click to enlarge

Only four Scottish girls entered the British girls open amateur championship at Ardglass, Northern Ireland, and two of them - Hannah Darling (Broomieknowe) and Louise Duncan (West Kilbride) - qualified for the match-play stages.

Hannah, was joint 15th among the qualifiers. She had scores of 74 and 73 for 147. Louise was T42 on 152 (77 75).

Sweden's Ingrid Lindblad (Sweden) was the No 1 qualifier with excellent scores of 69 and 68 for 137. She finished three ahead of Mathile Claisse (France) 67 71.
The two Scots who failed to achieve the 36-hole aggregates of 153 and better to reach the match-play stages were:
Jennifer Rankine (Haggs Castle) 160 (76-84) T107.
Lorna McClymont (Milngavie) 167 (89-78) T128

Clare Queen was the last Scot to win the title back in 2001

CLICK HERE FOR ALL THE SCORES

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