Wednesday, 7 July 2021

SCOTLAND TOP THE LADIES EUROPEAN TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP QUALIFIER

European Team Championship Qualifier 
Scotland lead the field
Photo Courtesy of Scottish Golf

Scotland's Hannah Darling was again the star of the day at Royal County Down. The Scottish player followed up her Round 1 68 (-5) with a 69 (-4) to claim the honour of lowest individual scorer. 

 

Darling's -9 total was three strokes lower than the next lowest player after two rounds. Her impressive play helped team Scotland finish top of the stroke play qualifying leaderboard and earn the top seed for the Flight A match play bracket. 

Hazel MacGarvie (Royal Troon ) finished tied in 7th position 

Ireland earned the second-seed with a total score of +18. Third to sixth positions, claimed by Sweden (+19), Czech Republic (+19), England (+20) and Denmark (+21), were seperated by just two strokes.

 

Italy (+27) and Spain (+29) will complete the Flight A match play bracket.


Photo Courtesy of Scottish Golf

INDIVIDUAL SCORES
1
-
         -9
    F(1)
-4
68
    69
       137
T5
2
-1
F(1)
+1
71
74
145
T5
2
-1
F(1)
+1
71
74
145
T7
12
Par
F(1)
-2
75
71
146
T7
9
Par
F(1)
-1
74
72
146

In the team section the Scottish Team 2 round scores - 5 out of 6 scores to count each day 
Scottish Scores
Hannah Darling (Broomieknowe) 68,69 
Hazel MacGarvie (Royal Troon) 74, 72 
Shannon McWilliam (Aboyne) 76,76 
Chloe Goadby (St Regulus) 80, 74 
Louise Duncan (West Kilbride) 79, 76 
 Lorna McClymont (Milngavie) 77, 79

TEAM ORDER

1
1
+8
F
-1
374
364
738
2
4
+18
F
+4
379
369
748
3
2
+19
F
+6
378
371
749
4
3
+19
F
+18
366
383
749
5
1
+20
F
+10
375
375
750
6
3
+21
F
+11
375
376
751
7
2
+27
F
+8
384
373
757
8
-
+29
F
+11
383
376
759

For all the results --- and matchplay draws CLICK HERE

Flight A Matchplay Draw Thursday 8th July 
Scotland v Spain
Czech Republic v England
Sweden v Denmark
Ireland v Italy 

Tuesday, 6 July 2021

HANNAH DARLING - STAR OF THE DAY ON DAY 1 OF THE EUROPEAN LADIES' TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP


EUROPEAN LADIES' TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP

Royal County Down, Northern Ireland 


Scotland's Hannah Darling was the star of Day 1 at the European Ladies' Team Championship. A round of 68 (-5) at Royal County Down was two shots lower than any other player in the 114-strong field. "I did quite a lot of things well out there today" said Darling after her round. "The conditions were tough and the course is quite demanding in places so I just had to be sensible." 

 

Darling's round helped Scotland into 2nd position in the stroke play qualifying, setting the team up with an excellent chance of qualifying for Flight A.


Team Sweden, looking for a fourth straight victory in the event, currently find themselves in fifth position on +13. The team is under-practiced on the course compared to the rest of the field however, their golf clubs got stuck at Amsterdam airport during their trip to Northern Ireland, costing them valuable practice time.

 

The Czech Republic are currently sitting in first place. Five scores lower than 75 (+2) put the team on a total +1, eight shots clear of Scotland. Denmark and England, both with totals of +10, are in third and fourth positions respectively.


Ayrshires' Hazel MacGarvie (Royal Troon) finished 1 over par with a 74

TEAM LEADERBOARD CLICK HERE



EUROPEAN TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP BEGINS IN ROYAL COUNTY DOWN

EUROPEAN LADIES' TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP

The European Ladies’ Team Championship will be contested by 19 teams at Royal County Down in Northern Ireland. Sweden will look for a fourth straight victory in the event, which would be a record for any nation in all 62 years of European Team Championship history   

The 2021 European Team Championships are set to take place at five different venues in the coming week from 6 to 10 July.

 

474 golfers representing 30 countries and 79 different teams will compete for six separate European titles this year.

 

Five days of competition await the players. Two rounds of stroke play qualifying followed by three rounds of match play will decide who takes home the 2021 European medals.

 

Tee times and livescoring can be accessed throughout the week on the link below:

 

 

HOW DOES IT WORK?

Each team is made up of six players. Over Day’s 1 & 2 all players complete two individual stroke play rounds. The team’s five best scores out of six from each day count towards their stroke play qualifying totals.

 

Based on finishing position in the stroke play qualifying, the top eight teams from each championship qualify for the medal-contention Flight A bracket.

 

The format for the three remaining competition days is match play. Nations go head-to-head, with two foursomes matches in the morning and five singles matches in the afternoon.

 

SCOTLAND ARE PLAYING - 


  
          Hannah
           Darling
           Scotland

74
Louise
Duncan
Scotland
75
Chloe
Goadby
Scotland

76
Hazel
MacGarvie
Scotland

77
Lorna
McClymont
Scotland

78
Shannon
McWilliam
Scotland

Live scoring  - CLICK HERE

Sunday, 4 July 2021

Midlothian win the East Division County Jamboree

MIDLOTHIAN COUNTY TEAM
Photo courtesy of MLCGA


Result -
East Lothian 3.5 Stirling and Clackmannanshire 4.5




Reult 
Fife 3.5 Midlothian 4.5 

For Day 1 and Day 2 matchplay results -- CLICK HERE

Day 1:
Stirling & Clackmannan 4 Fife 4
Midlothian 4 East Lothian 4

Day 2 :
Stirling & Clackmannan 2.5 Midlothian 5.5
East Lothian 5 Fife 3

Day 3: 
Fife 3.5  Midlothian 4.5
East Lothian 3.5  Stirling & Clackmannan 4.5

Final result
1st - Midlothian ​
2nd - East Lothian 
3rd - Stirling & Clackmannan 
4th - Fife 

MLCGA - East Division County Team Champions
Photo courtesy of MLCGA

For More go to the Midlothian Website -- Click Here  (by Captain Louise Fraser)

The day started off quite exciting and Midlothian players were all full of enthusiasm. Match 1 got underway against Fife who were defending their title and it all became very tense out there as most of our players if not all were all square or down against their opponents.  Team Midlothian dug deep, hung in there and fought well into the back 9. The score line was changing in favour but only slightly. We ended up triumphing in 4 games against Fife with an amazing half at the 18th going via the trees and 3 ‘good’ losses going all the way to the 17th which gave us a satisfying 4 1/2 – 3 1/2 win.

East Lothian Versus Stirling & Clackmannan in Match 2. If East Lothian was to win 5-3, The tournament office were onto the big countback which they had been preparing for updating their stats every day. It was tight most of the way for the majority of their games. Stirling & Clackmannan came through in the end with a 4 1/2 – 3 1/2 win.

Match 2 result today meant Midlothian were out right winners on 5 match points (14 game points). Second was East Lothian 3 match points (12.5 game points), 3rd was Stirling & Clackmannan 3 match points (11 game points) and fourth Fife on 1 match point (10 1/2 game points).