AYRSHIRE, D&A AND RENFREWSHIRE GOLF RANKINGS WEEK 34 / 2018

mygolfranking.net AYRSHIRE LADIES GOLFER of Week 18/34 is CHRISTINE AULD (Kilmarnock (Barassie) Ladies) who re-enters the Top 10 of Ayrshire Ladies MGRanking at No 9.

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AYRSHIRE LADIES

1 Kelly McNee (Loudoun Gowf) 1056 points

2 Emma Thomson (Loudoun Gowf) 1032 

3 Sheena Murchie (Lamlash) 1028 

4 Christine Whitelaw (Largs) 1021 

5 Jean Capes (Largs) 1002

6 Aileen Anderson (Loudoun Gowf) 956​

7 Audrey Thompson (Loudoun Gowf) 948

8 Joanne Sharp (Kilmarnock (Barassie)) 935

9 Christine Auld (Kilmarnock (Barassie)) 916 

10 Lindsay Smith (Troon Welbeck) 909

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AYRSHIRE LADIES - CLUBS

1 Loudoun Gowf 910 points

2 Largs 864

3 Prestwick St Cuthbert 829

4 Skelmorlie 795 

5 Kilmarnock (Barassie) 793

mygolfranking.net DUNBARTONSHIRE & ARGYLL PLAYER of Week 18/34 is CAROL FELL (Douglas Park Ladies) who regains her NUMBER ONE crown on Dunbartonshire & Argyll Ladies MGRanking.

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DUNBARTONSHIRE & ARGYLL LADIES

1 Carol Fell (Douglas Park) 1136 points

2 Lorraine Campbell (Cardross) 1094

3 Katharine Hardman (Dunaverty) 1054 

4 Elaine Provan (Palacerigg) 1049

5 Ashley Duffy (Clober) 1043

6 Lindsay McCubbin (Hilton Park) 1021

7 Elaine McEwan (Douglas Park) 1008

8 Muriel O’Hara (Palacerigg) 1003 

9 Belinda Goldsmith (Hilton Park) 997

10 Karen Haggarty (Dumbarton) 982

DUNBARTONSHIRE & ARGYLL LADIES - CLUBS

1 Palacerigg 982 points

2 Douglas Park 933 

3 Balmore 919 

4 Clober 897

5 Taynuilt 888

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mygolfranking.net RENFREWSHIRE LADIES GOLFER of Week 18/34 is SHEILA BIGGART (Ranfurly Castle Ladies) who enters the Top 10 of Renfrewshire Ladies MGRanking for the first time at No 6.

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RENFREWSHIRE LADIES

1 Linda Ellery (East Renfrewshire) 1068 points

2 Allison Murray (Ranfurly Castle) 1062

3 Jan Macnab (Ranfurly Castle) 1038 

4 Linda McDougall (Greenock) 1017

5 Catherine Goldinger (Bonnyton) 1004 

6 Sheila Biggart (Ranfurly Castle) 991 

7 Brenda Conway (Renfrew) 983 

8 Shirley Bell (Old Course Ranfurly) 960​

9 Jane Ross (Elderslie) 959 

10 Beth Paterson (Eastwood) 941

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RENFREWSHIRE LADIES - CLUBS

1 Renfrew 876 points

2 Ranfurly Castle 854

3 Erskine 826 

T4 Greenock, Old Course Ranfurly 819 

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LORRAINE CAMPBELL WINS CARDROSS LADIES CHAMPIONSHIP

Lorraine Campbell and Rae Strang

Cardross Ladies had their championships today. 

The Silver Championship and club championship match was between Lorraine Campbell and Lori Macdonald. It was a good, very competitive game with the match going to the last putt on the 18th green. Lorraine coming out the winner.

The Bronze Championship was won by Rae Strang, who beat Diana Macintosh 3/2. Again this was a fiercely contested match with Rae emerging as victor - winning the championship for the fourth year in a row.

USA WIN THE ESPIRITO SANTA TROPHY - WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP TEAM CHAMPIONSHIPS

USA TEAM

The United States of America produced a final day flourish to win the World Amateur Championship by 10 shots and take home the Espirito Santo Trophy for the first time since 1998.

Ireland entered the closing round with an outside chance of taking a medal but they failed to gain ground and an even par return for the day left them finishing in a tie for 11th place. Japan, second on 19 under, and Republic of Korea, one shot further back in third, filled the medal positions.

Espirito Santo Trophy – Team Leaderboard

Espirito Santo Trophy – Individual Leaderboard

Scotland finished in 24th position and Shannon McWillian was tied in 23rd position  on 1 under par

Scotland	F	+6	148 O	141 M	155 M	142 O	586
			Shannon McWilliam	F	-1	74 O	69 M	74 M	72 O	289
			Connie Jaffrey	F	+8	74 O	72 M	81 M	71 O	298
			Hannah McCook	F	+13	77 O	73 M	82 M	71 O	303

‘The Requisionists’ call for rise in Scottish Golf affiliation fee

A group calling itself “The Requisitionists” is seeking support from the Scottish golf community to resuscitate a much-publicised proposal to increase the annual affiliation fee paid by around 170,000 club members.

The behind-the-scenes development, which is aimed at helping offset cuts in funding, has been in the offing for around six months and is being driven by a belief that a different outcome than a narrow “no” vote would have been likely first time around if Scottish Golf’s stakeholders had been provided with more information before casting proxy votes.

“The Requisitionists” are particularly keen to give Scottish Golf, the unified governing body, a chance to look at how it can raise income from “nomadic” golfers who pay-and-play at courses at cut-price rates at a time when club membership is declining. 

Made up of seven of the Area and County associations around the country, the group already has sufficient support to call a special meeting of Scottish Golf and is proposing to increase the affiliation fee to either £14.05 or £14.50.

A rise of £3.25, the higher figure is just 50p less than the one that was rejected by stakeholders at an agm in March, a decision that was met with “deep disappointment” by the Scottish Golf chair, Eleanor Cannon. She described the vote as “a real setback for all associated with the game in this country”, warning that job losses were likely as cuts of up to £450,000 had to be implemented.

The bigger figure proposed by “The Requisitionists” would not only counter a £505,000 cut in the funding Scottish Golf receives from SportScotland but also raise an additional £76,500, which the group wants to see used effectively for the good of the game at grass-roots level.

“This was triggered by comments from clubs, Areas and Counties at the end of the Scottish Golf agm last March,” said Allan Shaw, secretary to the Requisionist Group, which is made up of Glasgow, Lothians, North East, Perth & Kinross and Renfrewshire out of the men’s Areas and Midlothian and Renfrewshire among the women’s Counties. “We heard a lot more then than in the lead up to the agm that might have influenced the 
voting.

“We (the Lothians) spoke in favour of looking at the per capita issue again, as did Renfrewshire, and we have been talking about this on and off to find out what people are thinking. We also waited until the new CEO (Andrew McKinlay) had settled in and to see how receptive Scottish Golf would be to providing supportive information. 

“We got support for a briefing paper straight away from seven-like minded bodies – five Areas and two Counties – and that has now been made public. By the end of this week, we will review the feedback, which has been mixed so far, and we will be announcing next week if the group want to call a special meeting.”

The aim is for the affiliation fee to be increased next year, but, with Scottish Golf having to provide 21 days’ notice of a special meeting, it will be a race against time for clubs to be given what “The Requisionists” describe as “reasonable warning” before setting their own subscriptions for the 2019 season.

“We already have sufficient support to call the meeting,” added Shaw, a former president of the Lothians Golf Association. “We need five per cent of the voting membership and have 70 votes, which represents nine per cent, between us at the moment.

“We are encouraged by support from different sizes of clubs as well and we have already had some preliminary discussions with Scottish Golf about providing ‘back up’ information to be published with the ‘Call of the General Meeting’, if that goes ahead, which we hope it will.

“It has come out in the first round of the new regional forums that there will be a lot more cutbacks next year if there is no increase in the per capita and we have requested to get information on what they will be and on what any extra funds would be used for. That was something that didn’t happen in the lead up to the agm in March.

“We are particularly keen to see systems developed to draw some income from ‘nomadic’ golfers which in itself will help to contain per capita fees in the future.”

RENFREWSHIRE COUNTY GREENSOMES OVER FERENEZE -- RANFURLY CASTLE PLAYERS TAKE TOP SPOTS

Allison Murray and Jan Macnab - Winners

Renfrewshire Ladies' County Golf Association held their Greensomes Competition over Fereneze today.

Jan Macnab (Ranfurly Castle) and Allison Murray ( Ranfurly Castle) were worthy winners with 41 stableford points with one birdie and 10 pars in their round. 

Evy MacGregor and Nancy MacGadie

Another Ranfurly Castle pairing -- Nancy MacGadie and Evy MacGregor  were second with 34 points, just beating Morag McGreevy and Maureen Mitchell from Cathcart Castle on a count back.

Some of the Greensomes Teams

Thanks go to June Lockhart Captain for the photos and Vice Captain Sandra Littlejohn for the report

ANGUS, FIFE AND PERTH AND KINROSS RANGKINGS - WEEK 34 / 2018

mygolfranking.net ANGUS LADIES GOLFER of Week 18/34 is JACKIE BROWN (Monifieth Ladies) who climbs to No 3 on Angus Ladies MGRanking.

ANGUS LADIES

1 Jane Tough (Brechin) 1180 points

2 Jane Grubb (Montrose Mercantile) 1113

3 Jackie Brown (Monifieth) 991 

4 Gemma Miller (Ballumbie Castle) 990 

5 Fiona Hay (Grange GC) 985 

6 Sakuna Ramsay (Edzell) 981

7 Anne Middleton (Edzell) 976

8 Georgina Middleton (Edzell) 969 

9 Dawn Dargie (Grange GC) 956 

10 Seonaid Falconer (Panmure) 936

ANGUS LADIES - CLUBS

1 Montrose Mercantile 886 points 

2 Carnoustie GC 865

3 Ballumbie Castle 843 

4 Grange GC 839

5 Downfield 835 

mygolfranking.net FIFE LADIES GOLFER of Week 18/34 is, once again, EILIDH HENDERSON (Kirkcaldy Ladies) who takes over at NUMBER ONE on Fife Ladies MGRanking.

FIFE LADIES

1 Eilidh Henderson (Kirkcaldy) 1249 points 

2 Janet Wilson (Anstruther) 1075

3 Charlene Wilson (St Regulus) 1022 

4 Fiona Thomson (Elie & Earlsferry) 1015

5 Carol Carstairs (Lundin Ladies) 1003

6 Carol Dawson (Elmwood) 997

7 Terry Mullen (St Michaels) 989 

8 Sue Horne (Thornton) 985

9 Elaine Scott (Dunfermline) 974

10 Janice Pirie (St Rule) 971

FIFE LADIES CLUBS

1 Kirkcaldy 911 

2 Anstruther 891 

3 St Michaels 882 

4 Thornton 877 

5 Elmwood 874

mygolfranking.net PERTH & KINROSS LADIES PLAYER of Week 18/34 is JENNY COLLINS (Pitlochry Ladies) who re-enters the Top 10 of Perth & Kinross Ladies MGRanking at No 6. 

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PERTH & KINROSS LADIES

1 Gillian Wallace (Milnathort) 1096 points

2 Caroline Henderson (Pitlochry) 1042

3 Silvi Brown (Crieff) 1014 

4 Lindsay Kidd (Milnathort) 1003 ​

5 Julie White (Auchterarder) 992 

6 Jenny Collins (Pitlochry) 989

7 Ann Smith (Kinross) 987 

8 Anita Collins (Muckhart) 972 

9 Diane Knox (Alyth) 962

10 Margaret Cairns (Dunning) 955​

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PERTH & KINROSS LADIES - CLUBS

1 Dunkeld & Birnam 891 points 

2 Alyth 879 

3 Muckhart 862 

4 Crieff 848

5 Dunning 832

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SCOTLAND LIE IN 12th POSITION AFTER ROUND 2 OF WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS

Espirito Santo Trophy women's world amateur championship  - Venue: Carton House Golf Club, Maynooth, Co Kildare, Ireland

The USA set a 36-hole scoring mark, fueled by matching bogey-free scores of 8-under 65 from Jennifer Kupcho and Kristen Gillman on the O’Meara Course, to take a one-stroke lead over defending champion Republic of Korea and three strokes over first-round leader Japan.

Scotland, who were placed in 13th spot after day one, finished day two in a share of 12th place on a team total of one-under par.

Aboyne’s Shannon McWilliam carded an impressive three-under 69 with Connie Jaffrey’s level par round of 72 also counting towards the team score.

Espirito Santo Trophy – Team Leaderboard

Espirito Santo Trophy – Individual Leaderboard

In the individual competititon, Shannon McWilliam is the top Scot in T15 on two-under par. Ayean Cho (Republic of Korea) and Yuka Yasuda (Japan) lead the way on thirteen-under par.

LEADERBOARD

132 Ayean Cho (South Korea) 68 64, Yuka Yasuka (Japan) 65 67.
135 Jennifer Kupcho (USA) 70 65.

SELECTED SCORES

143 Olivia Mehaffey (Ireland) 70 73, Shannon McWilliam (Scotland) 74 69 (T14).
146 Connie Jaffrey (Scotland) 74 72, Sophie Lamb (England) 75 71 (T39)
147 Hollie Muse (England) 77 70 (T48)
148 Annabell Fuller (England) 74 74 (T54)
150 Hannah McCook (Scotland) 77 73 (T76)

FIRST ROUND SCORES FROM WORLD AMATEUR TEAM CHAMPIONSHIPS

 

Scotland Team Shannon, Hannah and Connie
With Team Captain Susan Wood

Scots Connie Jaffrey (Troon Ladies) and Shannon McWilliam (Aboyne) both returned one-over-par 74s but Hannah McCook (Grantown on Spey) had a disappointing 77 in the first round of the Espirito Santo Trophy women's world amateur golf  -- 

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CONNIE JAFFREY. HANNAH MCCOOK AND SHANNON MCWILLIAM READY FOR WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS IN IRELAND

Shannon, Hannah and Connie  - Photo courtesy of Susan Wood Team Captain

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By Martin Dempster

A decade after winning the men’s equivalent for the first time, Scotland are heading into this week’s Women’s World Amateur Team Championship with a side that looks capable of making an impact at Carton House in Ireland.

Emulating that success recorded by Wallace Booth, Gavin Dear and Callum Macaulay in the Eisenhower Trophy event in Australia may be a tall order, but getting in the Espirito Santo Trophy medal mix will definitely be a target for a trio comprising of Connie Jaffrey (Troon Ladies), Hannah McCook (Grantown-on-Spey)and Shannon McWilliam (Aboyne).

They have already tasted team success in Ireland this year, having been part of the Scotland side that won the Women’s Home Internationals for the first time in eight years at Ballybunion earlier this month. 

McCook, also won the Irish Women’s Open Stroke Play Championship at Co Louth earlier in the year, claiming that individual success a week after she had also triumphed in the Welsh equivalent.

“We are all excited to be back in Ireland after a very successful week here a couple of weeks ago,” said McCook. “The courses are both in brilliant condition and we look forward to playing in such a prestigious event. Preparations have gone well, so we are excited to get started.”

Jaffrey, the 2017 Scottish Women’s champion, added: “We are feeling well prepared and confidence is at a high leading from a great victory at Ladies Home Internationals. This is one of the best teams we have had for a few years, so we have the chance to make this week special.”

The event, which features a record 57 teams, two more than in Mexico in 2016, sees Korea bid to maintain their recent dominance, having landed the title three times in the last four stagings and also being the defending champions.

Ireland, the hosts this time around, were bronze medallists two years ago, when Olivia Mehaffey and Annabel Wilson were in the team and they are being joined on this occasion by Paula Grant, who played in Japan in 2014.

McWilliam is among eight players from this year’s Curtis Cup competing, the others including Sophie Lamb and Annabel Fuller, two of England’s representatives along with Hollie Muse.

“This is a tremendous opportunity for all these players because, for the most part, it will be the strongest field they will have played in and a world championships is the ultimate test in any sport,” said Scottish Golf’s new performance director, Clare Queen. “We look forward to testing ourselves against the best.”

While the majority of the players taking part are up-and-coming youngsters, that is 
certainly not the case with Guatemala. Easily the oldest competitor in the field, 70-year-old Beatriz Arenasis making her 11th appearance in the biennial event as a player or a captain 

The men’s event takes place at the same venue next week, when Scotland will be represented by Ryan Lumsden (Royal Wimbledon), Euan Walker (Barassie) and Sandy Scott (Nairn).