East Lothian Ladies' County Golf Association

Hello Ohio

We have another transatlantic move planned for later this year when Lauren Lee joins Joanne Free in taking up a golf scholarship at a US college. Lauren will be off to Northwestern Ohio University in August. 

Lauren will be the 4th member of our County team who has gone on to American College golf after leaving school.  Lesley Atkins and Clara Young are currently studying there and we look forward to seeing them when they are back for summer golf in Scotland.

Hello Minnesota

 

Joanne Free flew out to Minnesota to visit the University following the AGM and Prize Giving last week. She liked what she saw and has now signed on the dotted line and formally accepted her scholarship and will take up her place next autumn.

Prize Giving 2016

Joanne Free has been busy playing all over the country and further afield playing as an individual and representing Scotland in the European Girls Team Championship (where she captained the team) and the Girls Home Internationals. This is Joanne's last year as a Junior and will be going to Minnesota University in 2017.

Joanne came along to the Prize Giving and thanked Wendy as Junior convenor and the committee on behalf of the Juniors for  all their support and hard work.

Joanne also brought along her East Lothian Young Sports Person of the year award

 

 

 

Emma Chapman and Grace Crawford carried of all the Junior's silverware.

Grace won the Spring Meeting and with it the Junior Championship, the Summer Meeting  Scratch and the Summer Hole & Hole.

Emma won the 1st handicap at the Spring and Summer Meetings and the prize for the Two best Net Scores.

 

 

There was a good turn out for the AGM and prize giving and after the Prize Giving the prize winners gather on the stairs for the customary group photo.

At the front clutching their prizes are Jane Herd (County Champion), Keren Ward (Runner up in County Championship), Janet Fairweather (winner of the Summer Hole & Hole) and Mary Lou Watkins (Winner of the Connie Lugton Scratch Prize at Spring Meeting and Winter Foursomes).

Also present are Janette Laing (Championship Handicap Quaich), Jean McNeill (Bronze aggregate), Stacey Cameron (Scratch aggregate) and Dianne Brown (Silver net Aggregate).

 

This year the County took over responsibility for the Babe Zaharias Competition which was run jointly with Gullane Ladies GC. The competition was a great success in its revived stroke play format and was over subscribed. With the assistance of Gullane GC who gave us courtesy of the course and Principal & Prosper who sponsored the prizes the magnificent sum of £3,400 was raised for the Macmillan Fund. Barbara Biggart and Nicky Black (Captain GLGC) presented the cheque to Macmillan before the Prize Giving started.

 

Your Digital Notice - Board

As announced previously and at the AGM last week  you will all see changes in the way you book for competitions in 2017.

We must keep pace with the changing world around us and over the last few years we have moved away from clubhouse notices to emails and our website.

This year we took the decision to investigate online booking and payment for competitions and that we would do away with printed subscription notices, fixture cards, entry forms etc saving a considerable amount of time in preparing all the envelopes and posting. All the relevant paperwork was sent out by email and the main fixtures are now on the website. Further information will be posted and updated on a regular basis.

We have now made the decision to move to online entry (and payment) for our 4 main events. We will also be changing the arrangements for entry to our hole & hole and winter foursomes competitions. 

Since the website is now an essential part of the way we stay in touch with all our members we have taken the decision to refresh and update our website and move it onto a more robust platform. These changes will be taking place over the next few months so that we are up and running, the systems all tested as far as they can be, and fully operational well before the start of the new golfing season. Further updates and instructions on the new systems will follow.

The website is your ELLCGA notice board. our website on a regular basis too. Good news for Facebook users - it is intended that as part of the changes to the website all news items posted to the website will automatically go to Facebook too.

 

Joanne receives prestigious award

Congratulations to Joanne Free for being awarded the East Lothian Young Sports Person of the Year. She received the East Lothian Young Sports Person of the Year on Friday 15th October at the Brunton Hall, the venue for East Lothian's Sport Awards ceremony. She was nominated for representing her club, county and country all by the age of 18. Also for representing Scotland at Girls Home Internationals and European Team Championships and for being the Junior Captain at Gullane Ladies Golf Club, whilst in addition being the Scotland Captain at the recent European Team Championships.

Joanne was delighted to have been nominated and coming out top for a well deserved award! ELLCGA are very proud of all her achievements.

 

Sime Salver 2016

Many of our members were among the 48 teams taking part in the Sime Salver at Gifford recently and once again they had great weather for the event. As is so often the case a "B" team won and indeed this was a very good year for the B teams with four of them securing the first 5 places. 

Congratulations go to Gullane B for winning the trophy ahead of North Berwick B, North Berwick A, The Glen B and Dirleton Castle B.

Click on the link for full details of all the scores and players

Download Sime Salver 2016 Results

East of SCOTLAND CHAMPIONSHIP 2016 RESULTS and Champion of Champions

The East of Scotland Championship was played this year at Elie Golf Club on Sunday 9th October. There were four representatives from ELLCGA - Dianne Brown, Kay Lannin, Grace Crawford and Barbara Biggart. It was a beautiful day and excellent conditions. Well done to  our Junior Grace Crawford for an excellent score of 86 on a strange course and for participating in the competition. Sadly our ELLCGA team of Kay Lannin, Dianne Brown and Barbara Biggart was last in the counties but some of our members were participating in the invitational Champion of Champions at Glasgow Gailes. Well done to Joanne Free in coming 3rd in the Competition and also to Dawn Young for achieving the Order of Merit points to be invited.

Elaine Moffat (St Regulus) won the East of Scotland women's championship at Elie Golf Club with an excellent scratch round of 70.
The former Scottish women's amateur champion won by one stroke from Kate McIntosh (Broomieknowe) with Karen Ferguson-Snedden (Liberton) third with a 72.
The Fife county team of Elaine Moffat, Fiona Hastie and Susan Jackson won the East of Scotland Team Trophy with a total of 220, seven shots fewer than Stirling and Clackmannanshire with Midlothian (230) third and East Lothian (248) fourth.
Brogan Clark (Dunnikier) won the leading handicap award with a net 68 off seven of a handicap.
Mandy Dougal (Baberton), playing off 11, was placed second with a net 69, the same score as Lorna McKinlay, who plays off five at Dunnikier. Mandy had the better inward half.

The CSS was 73

Leading Scores
Elaine Moffat 70
Kate McIntosh 71
Karen Ferguson-Snedden 72
Fiona Hastie 73
Linda ALLAN 74
Lorna McKinlay 74
Brogan Clark 75
Margo Gardner 75
Susan Jackson 77
Karen Marshall 77
Claire CAPOCCI 78
Sarah WALKER 78
ALISON GOODWIN 80
Mandy Dougal 80
Wendy Nicholson 80
Lynn Newton 81
Nicola Glover 82
Lorna Bennett 82
Dianne Brown 82

 

ELLCGA Members TRIUMPH IN GIBSON CUP

North Berwick’s Marie and Jenni lead all the way to win the 2016 Gibson Cup trophy.The 90 entrants for the 2016 Gibson Challenge Cup matched the weekend weather with some great golf. This historic women’s foursomes competition played over The Braid Hills course since 1907 had the worthiest of winners.

Marie Young and Jenni Ray of North Berwick played the best golf from the Strokeplay Qualifier on Saturday, topping the leaderboard with a nett 69.5, two shots ahead of Mortonhall’s Anne Brownie and Mary Stark, all the way to winning the final on Sunday afternoon 5&4 against Anne and Mary.
In the mornings Semis, Marie and Jenni knockout the Peebles pairing of Glynis Read and Denise Richards 2up and Anne and Mary beat Broomieknowe’s Gillian Carter and Moyra Statham 6 and 4.

Congratulations to Marie and Jenni!

News from Missouri

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• Clara Young, our newest honorary member and currently a 3rd year student at Missouri University has been a key member of the University's golf team since she returned to the States after her summer break spending time with the family in North Berwick and golfing in competitions on this side of the pond. Last week the team won its third consecutive Johnie Imes Invitational. Clara shot a great 3 under 69 on the final day which was critical in the teams 3 point win. This week they took part in the Jim West Challenge hosted in Texas and while the team were further down the leader board Clara was a strong contributor within the 5 player team. 

We are sure that there will be much more to report as the year goes on and we all wish Clara every success.

Hole in one

Congratulations to past Captain Dawn Young who had her first hole in one at the 8th hole at Caldy GC While playing in the Senior British Ladies Amateur Championship. She may not have brought back the title but she was delighted with the hole in one and earning £50 for breast cancer as a result. The LGU had promised to donate £50 for every 1or 2 scored at that hole