Greenock Golf Club

Results 2013

Saturday Sweep - 16 October 2013

Oct 16

Saturday October 16 Sweep

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Entries inc juniors: 48

Section 1 (0 to 9)	Player	Gross	H/Cap	Net	£’s
*Scratch*	John Burns	73			5
	Scores per Hole	4,3,3 5,7,5 4,3,5 = 39 3,4,4 3,4,4 3,5,4 = 34

1st	John Burns	73	5	68	1
	Scores per Hole	4,3,3 5,7,5 4,3,5 = 39 3,4,4 3,4,4 3,5,4 = 34

Section 2 (10 to 15)	Player	Gross	H/Cap	Net	£’s
1st	Ian Wright	83	15	68	15
	Scores per Hole	6,3,4 5,6,4 4,4,5 = 41 4,5,5 4,5,5 4,5,5 = 42
2nd	D J McKirdy	80	11	69	10
3rd	Hughie Lyden	85	15	70	5

Section 3 (16 to 28)	Player	Gross	H/Cap	Net	£’s
1st	Kris Johnstone	89	19	70	17
	Scores per Hole	5,5,5 6,5,4 9,5,4 = 46 4,5,4 5,4,6 3,5,5 = 41
2nd	Lawrie Wilson	99	27	72	10
3rd	Derek Leitch	91	18	73	7

2’s Results	£’s Per 2	Winners
Category A (0 to 5) 2 x 2’s required	-	No winner – John Burns gets his entry back.
Category B (6 to 9) excluding 16th	2	Ian McDermid with 2 @10 & 13 Ian Doak @ 7
Category C (10 to15)	15	James Glover Drew Bryceland @ 16
Category D (16 to 28)	50	John Glen @ 3 Stephen Wilkie @16

Saturday sweep - 12 October 2013

Oct 12

Saturday October 12 Sweep

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Entries inc juniors: 118

Section 1 (0 to 9)	Player	Gross	H/Cap	Net	£’s
*Scratch*	Stuart Gallacher	70			5
	Scores per Hole	5,4,4 5,5,4 3,4,5 = 39 3,4,4 3,3,4 3,4,3 = 31

1st	Stuart Gallacher	70	5	65	20
	Scores per Hole	5,4,4 5,5,4 3,4,5 = 39 3,4,4 3,3,4 3,4,3 = 31
2nd	Owen Gallagher	75	8	67	10
3rd	Mark McCaig	73	6	67	10

Section 2 (10 to 15)	Player	Gross	H/Cap	Net	£’s
1st	Barry Cannon	78	13	65	30
	Scores per Hole	6,6,2 4,6,5 4,5,5 = 43 4,4,5 3,4,5 2,4,4 = 35
2nd	Mark James	78	11	67	18
3rd	Jim Fulton	80	10	70	12

Section 3 (16 to 28)	Player	Gross	H/Cap	Net	£’s
1st	Mick O’Brien	84	16	68	30
	Scores per Hole	5,6,4 6,5,5 4,5,6 = 46 3,5,5 4,4,5 3,4,5 = 38
2nd	Pat Gallagher	88	18	70	15
3rd	Mark Wilkinson	86	16	70	15

2’s Results	£’s Per 2	Winners
Category A (0 to 5) 2 x 2’s required	160	Kenny Roy @ 3 & 10
Category B (6 to 9) excluding 16th	7	Gordon McFarlane & Charlie McDowell @ 3 Stephen Cameron (1) @ 10 Ian Doak & Ian Jamieson @ 13
Category C (10 to15)	7	Barry Cannon with two @ 3 & 16 David Alford @ 6 Don Shields Robert Leith @ 3 Scott Young @ 7 Jim Fulton Jim Docherty @ 10
Category D (16 to 28)	60	No Winner – Rollover of £60 to Wednesday October 16

Kinnaird Trophy - Saturday 5 October 2013

It felt as though we had reached the end of the season with a turnout of 120 members on a reasonable day. Perhaps it actually is the Winter as, surely, Jimmy McAulay must have put the big cups into the greens of the par threes. Nearly thirty members had a two from such a field must mean the greens are in good nick even now. Andy Jamieson will not be complaining as he picked up £150 for his pair of twos which were identical to VC Peter's two on Wednesday which returned £4. Anyone want to bet he will try and "fix" this?

A brilliant round from Paul McFarlane of sixtynine, meant he collected the scratch prize for the second time this season.

In the third section, Archie Essler and Stephen Downie had a real battle for top spot. Archies round was built on having played the par threes in only one over par. Pretty good for a nineteen handicapper. Archie would have a couple of double bogeys and finish on net sixtyseven. Stephen, who is still dining out on our sweep money from last year, was four over par for the first six holes and then went six, nine, five to be out in fortyeight. The twenty handicapper then came home in a superb thirty nine for his own net sixtyseven. Both players share the sweep, but Stephen gets top billing.

In Section two Alex Irving missed out as he had a poorer net sixtyseven against that of Mike Morrod for third spot. Mike had a really consistent round and broke eighty for this first time a while to post a season's best seventynine. In second place was Rab Murphy. The season is ending all too soon for Rab as he is continuing to drive his handicap down week after week and he is also still on a high from the recent Ton result. Two nothing against the mighty Alloa is pretty good these days! Ten handicapper Blaine Jamieson had a great start to his round with three birdies in his first six holes. Getting to the turn in thirty seven is no mean feat and his outward half was slightly spoiled by double bogeys on four and eight. A solid back nine of thirty eight was excellent stuff and results in a single figure handicap for the first time. Well done.

Section one would reveal the winner of the Kinnaird trophy. In third place was Paul McFarlane on net sixtysix. Runner up in the group was Stuart Gallacher who put together halves of thirty six and thirty four in a really good round.
The winner of the Medals finals, if I call it that, was David Carney. Seven man, Davie, hardly ever misses a competition and puts a lot into his game. His reward came on Saturday with a front nine of thirty four which had four birdies. If we excluded the "loop", Davie was actually level par for the fourteen other holes. A best ever round of seventy one meant a net sixty four, a new handicap of six and his first ever silverware at the club. Davie might be in contention for the M & H's team plans for next year at this rate.
The runner up in the Kinnaird was Brian McLean on net sixty nine.

Oct 5

The Kinnaird Trophy

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Entries inc juniors: 120

Section 1 (0 to 9)	Player	Gross	H/Cap	Net	£’s
*Scratch*	Paul McFarlane	69			5
	Scores per Hole	4,4,2 4,5,3 3,5,5 = 35 3,4,4 4,4,4 3,4,4 = 34

1st	David Carney	71	7	64	20
	Scores per Hole	4,3,2 5,5,3 2,5,5 = 34 4,6,4 3,4,4 4,4,4 = 37
2nd	Stuart Gallacher	70	5	65	12
3rd	Paul McFarlane	69	3	66	8

Section 2 (10 to 15)	Player	Gross	H/Cap	Net	£’s
1st	Blaine Jamieson	75	10	65	35
	Scores per Hole	4,4,2 6,4,3 4,6,4 = 37 4,5,4 3,4,6 3,5,4 = 38
2nd	Mike Morrod	79	13	66	21
3rd	Rab Murphy	78	11	67	14

Section 3 (16 to 28)	Player	Gross	H/Cap	Net	£’s
1st	Stephen Downie	87	20	67	23
	Scores per Hole	5,6,3 4,5,5 6,9,5 = 48 3,5,6 4,3,5 3,4,6 = 39
2nd	Archie Essler	86	19	67	23
3rd	David Anderson	92	23	69	12

2’s Results	£’s Per 2	Winners
Category A (0 to 5) 2 x 2’s required	150	Andy Jamieson @ 3 & 7
Category B (6 to 9) excluding 16th	5	David Carney with two @ 3 & 7 Steven Orr @ 3 John McEleny @ 7 Chris Connelly @ 10
Category C (10 to15)	7	Hughie Lyden with two @ 13 & 16 Blaine Jamieson @ 3 Eddie Ptolomey @ 7 Rab Murphy David Alford Jim Maxwell @ 13 Graham Hunter Graham McIntyre Eddie Spence @ 16
Category D (16 to 28)	14	Andy McEwing @ 3 Kris Johnstone @ 10 Matt Stewart Alan Gordon @ 16
The Kinnaird Trophy Winner Runner Up		David Carney (64) Brian McLean (69)

Wednesday Sweep - 2 October 2013

Oct 2

Wednesday Sweep of October 2

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Entries inc juniors: 45

Section 1 (0 to 9)	Player	Gross	H/Cap	Net	£’s
*Scratch*	Peter Gallagher	72			5
	Scores per Hole	4,4,2 6,5,5 2,4,4 = 36 3,4,4 3,5,4 3,5,5 = 36

1st	Peter Gallagher	72	6	66	4
	Scores per Hole	4,4,2 6,5,5 2,4,4 = 36 3,4,4 3,5,4 3,5,5 = 36
2nd	Steven Watt	80	8	72	3
3rd	Jim Orr	82	9	73	1

Section 2 (10 to 15)	Player	Gross	H/Cap	Net	£’s
1st	Ian Wright	83	15	68	13
	Scores per Hole	4,5,4 6,5,4 3,4,5 = 40 4,5,5 4,4,6 2,6,7 = 43
2nd	Jim Docherty	83	13	70	8
3rd	Donny Livingstone	86	14	72	5

Section 3 (16 to 28)	Player	Gross	H/Cap	Net	£’s
1st	John McGregor	87	17	70	10
	Scores per Hole	5,3,5 6,5,4 5,8,6 = 47 4,5,4 4,5,4 3,6,5 = 40
2nd	Kris Johnstone	89	19	70	10
3rd	Adam Brown	94	22	72	5

2’s Results	£’s Per 2	Winners
Category A (0 to 5) 2 x 2’s required	3	No winner – Rollover of £133 to Saturday Oct 5
Category B (6 to 9) excluding 16th	2	Peter Gallagher with 2 @ 3 & 7 Jim Orr @ 3
Category C (10 to15)	9	Charlie Marner Ian Wright @ 16 Robert Johnstone @ 7
Category D (16 to 28)	25	Brian McLean @ 16

Tri Am Trophy - Saturday 21 September 2013

Saturday's competition presented members with the opportunity of playing their way into the annual jamboree which is the GGC Charity Tri Am. Dave Terrey who is the host for this event has been missing in action recently, having lost to Dennis McKelvie in the final of the Whinhill Seniors. A run around the loop of something in the order of 7,6,7,6 from Dennis meant two holes halved and two won! Congratulations to Dennis in securing his first silverware at the club.

A reasonable field of just over 140 saw a course that still looks and plays superbly, even at this time of the year.
Some players took advantage of this and managed their own bit of golfing magic. John Gunn had two 2s, Eddie Ptolomey got his single two at the sixth and surely did not see it coming, having started 8,5,4,6,7? and Bob Hughes achieved a hole in one at the third. This is the second of the year for the club and Bob will see a nice Hugo Boss watch winging its way to him.

Alistair Roy had a scratch sixty nine and has taken a stranglehold on the race for the Robert Spence Trophy for the ten best gross scores. There are only three available rounds to play for this.

In section one we saw the form players coming good. In third place was Chris Connelly. Chris is still celebrating his recent Challenge Cup victory over Peter Gallagher and has managed a nibble at his eight handicap with a net sixty seven. Gerry Donnachie, partnered by John Burns, has just completed a memorable double with wins in both the Provost Trophy and Captains Foursomes. In the final of the Provost they were two down after seven holes to my favourites, Jimmy McAulay and Stevie Lapsley. John Burns then had a terrific run of 3 ,3, 3, 3 from the eighth and also had birdies at fourteen and eighteen to finish the game off in great style.

Against my other favourites for the Captains Foursomes, they also came through to overcome the odds against Hughie Lyden and Owen Gallagher. This meant that they actually successfully defended their title from last year. This has only ever been achieved once before, by Tommy Forbes and Cammy McCallum in 1980 & 81.
Anyway, Gerry has learned from watching John and racked up a net sixty six for second place.

The winner of the section, and also runner up in the trophy, is Tennent Trophy winner, Davie Heron. The nine handicapper had six pars plus a birdie in his front nine of thirtyeight and came home in a superb thirtysix, having dropped shots at ten,eleven and sixteen.

The third section had Mark Taylor, who has finally sobered up from New Years Day, taking third place with a net sixty eight. David Anderson will be pleased with his sixty seven, but the winning score in this group came from Stephen Connelly who took a gross eightyfive less nineteen.

Don Shields and Tommy McShane will look back at excellent scores of net sixty six and wonder if they could be improved upon.

Just like the 64 bus to Auchenshuggle which goes to Parkheid, we wait for ever on one and along comes a few. Jim Gallagher, who already this year has won the Charity Salver has now captured the Tri Am Trophy with a terrific score which turns the clock back. A disappointing double bogey at nine meant an outward half of thirty nine.

Thirteen handicapper Jim would come home in a five over thirty eight for his best score in years.
It is very rare for anyone to win two handicap strokeplay competitions in the one season and the only recollection I have is of Hugh McVey in 2002 and no one else. Perhaps Ian Doak with a freshly allocated generous handicap a number of years ago?

Anyway, well done to Jim and I am sure he will enjoy stepping out with the big guns next Saturday.

On Saturday, Kevin will be running a nine hole competition and members can also use this score against the Murray Cup.

On Sunday we are having an ad hoc Texas scramble for teams of three.

Sept 21

The Tri Am Trophy

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Entries inc juniors: 140

Section 1 (0 to 9)	Player	Gross	H/Cap	Net	£’s
*Scratch*	Alistair Roy	69			5
	Scores per Hole	4,4,3 5,4,4 3,4,4 = 35 3,5,3 3,4,5 2,4,5 = 34

1st	Davie Heron	74	9	65	25
	Scores per Hole	3,6,3 4,5,4 3,4,6 = 38 4,5,4 3,4,4 4,4,4 = 36
2nd	Gerry Donnachie	72	6	66	15
3rd	Christopher Connelly	75	8	67	10

Section 2 (10 to 15)	Player	Gross	H/Cap	Net	£’s
1st	Jim Gallagher	77	13	64	32
	Scores per Hole	5,4,3 5,6,3 3,4,6 = 39 4,5,4 4,4,5 2,5,5 = 38
2nd	Tommy McShane	76	10	66	19
3rd	Don Shields	79	13	66	12

Section 3 (16 to 28)	Player	Gross	H/Cap	Net	£’s
1st	Stephen Connelly	85	19	66	32
	Scores per Hole	4,5,3 6,6,5 4,6,5 = 44 4,5,4 3,6,5 3,6,5 = 41
2nd	David Anderson	91	24	67	19
3rd	Mark Taylor	88	20	68	12

2’s Results	£’s Per 2	Winners
Category A (0 to 5) 2 x 2’s required	20	No winner – Rollover of £120 to Wednesday Sept 25
Category B (6 to 9) excluding 16th	12	Chris Connelly @ 10 Mark McCaig Alan Rodgers John Gunn @ 13
Category C (10 to15)	6	Ronnie Parker Robert Leith Brian Hamil @ 3 Eddie Ptolomey @ 6 Blaine Jamieson @ 7 Tommy McShane @ 10 Alan Moore @ 13 Jim Gallagher Joe Mitchell @ 16
Category D (16 to 28)	60	No Winner – Rollover of £60 to Wednesday Sept 25
Hole in One	80	Bob Hughes @ 3
Tri Am Trophy Winner		Jim Gallagher
Runner Up		Davie Heron

Wed

September Medal & Autumn Meeting - Saturday 14 September 2013

What a difference a week can make as regards weather. From being washed out last Saturday we were presented with an altogether different set of conditions this week.

As well as it being the final round of the Lyle Medal, the 'Unsung Major' in many members eyes, the last four qualifying places for the Kinnaird Trophy were up for grabs.

In section three there were really only four players at the races. Danny Maloney and Robert Campbell would both come home with net seventies. Danny will one day have a real coupon buster of a score as he is playing with a degree of consistency right now. Robert, a club championship semi finalist from the days of black and white telly, is pegging away at his handicap and refuses to use the easy route into the ninth which would knock a shot off immediately. Battling it out for top spot were Vinny Hurrell and Dugald Carmichael.Two excellent halves from Vinny of forty three and forty one would result in a net sixty seven. Dugald's card was a bit more erratic as he had a front nine of ten over followed by a steadier inward half of forty for his net sixty seven which would gain him a place in the medals finals. Dugald might look back on a chance at greater glory as he was only four shots off the Lyle Medal itself.

Section two was not even a fair fight. Coming home with net sixty eights were Kenny Gilmour who marred his card with a seven at fifteen, Stevie McDowall who was only two over par for his first seven holes, James Glover who had two halves of thirty nine and would finish three shots off the Lyle medal and finally Brian Hamill who scored every number between two and seven. With a net sixty seven and a particularly consistent round was Graham Hunter. His gross seventy seven was his best ever round. Jim McNeil had a terrific season last year, winning the 'County' and he has now driven his handicap down to ten with a round of net sixty five. Eleven handicapper, Jim, went to the turn in four over par and retained that after thirteen holes. With a three bogies in his next four holes Jim needed something special at the last for a good cut and a birdie was precisely what he achieved for a scratch seventy six and a net sixty five.

The medal winner, however, was a returning member of long standing. It is always "nice to to be nice" when people come back to the club and the self appointed M & H convenor duly gave David Alford a handicap of fourteen in order that he could ease himself gently into the place again. Starting out with four, four, five and six sent out no ripples of concern. A run of level par to the turn meant David was out in thirty nine. A par at ten started a sequence of scores for the first seven holes of the back nine which he covered in two over. A couple of minor blips at seventeen and eighteen meant a back nine of thirty seven and a total of seventy six less fourteen for a net sixty two.

Section one was a fiercely fought out affair. All three players who shot net sixty nines, Brendan Harley, Alec Cloudsley and John Leslie can look back on very good rounds of golf which only featured a single bad hole or two in it and they were only pipped by a single stroke from getting into the winner's enclosure. There were five players who had net sixty eights. Fraser Gray started like a train, getting to the eighth tee in one under par, before the wheels came off slightly in an outward half of thirty seven. Fraser would give up six shots around the loop and come home in forty for a gross seven seven.Gordon McFarlane continues to push his handicap down and he also had a great first seven holes, parring them all in an outward half of thirty seven.He will be really disappointed to finish his round with two bogies on seventeen and eighteen for a seventy six.

Stevie Lapsley left his fireworks for the back nine. Five handicapper Stevie went out in thirty eight and came home in an excellent two over par for a seventy three.Playing off nine, Al Livingstone would have a reasonable round going until he came to the fourteenth tee where he would finish with a run of four, three, three, six and three for his seventy seven. The method employed to find a winner is by the Standard countback procedure and this was used to separate Paul Mitchell from the others. Yes! He is back to haunt the self appointed one yet again! If we thought David Alford was the one to watch then we were wrong. At first, when the name Mitchell was mentioned in respect to scoring, it was thought that it was Joe, who has now taken to betting on himself not getting a two, that sent shivers down the committee.

Anyway Paul, armed with a handicap of six, used the whole lot of them up in getting to the turn. However, a great back nine of level par meant a gross seventy four and a medal winning round.

Interestingly, Alistair Roy nibbled a stroke from his ten round scratch score to move one shot into the lead over Craig Thomson in the race for the Robert Spence trophy.

Whilst all this excitement was taking place the Lyle medal was being contested. It turned out to be a two horse race and Brian McLean will rue a finish of eight, five, six ,nine (that is thirteen over par for the last four holes to save counting) and he would miss out by two shots. The winner of the Lyle medal went out in the first gae and would post a total of 69 plus 70 for 139 and only Brian would really challenge that. Well done to Robin Goodall for his first major.

Sept 14

September Medal & Autumn Meeting

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Entries inc juniors: 150

Section 1 (0 to 9)	Player	Gross	H/Cap	Net	£’s
*Scratch*	Paul Mitchell	72			5
	Scores per Hole	4,4,3 3,5,3 3,6,5 = 36 3,6,3 4,4,4 3,5,4 = 36

1st	Paul Mitchell	72	6	66	11
	Scores per Hole	4,4,3 3,5,3 3,6,5 = 36 3,6,3 4,4,4 3,5,4 = 36
2nd	Steven Orr	76	6	70	7
3rd	Duncan Maitland	76	5	71	5

Section 2 (10 to 15)	Player	Gross	H/Cap	Net	£’s
1st	Jim Orr	77	10	67	21
	Scores per Hole	5,3,3 5,4,5 4,4,5 = 38 4,5,4 4,5,5 4,3,5 = 39
2nd	Charlie Paul	79	11	68	13
3rd	James Terrey	82	13	69	8

Section 3 (16 to 28)	Player	Gross	H/Cap	Net	£’s
1st	John McGregor	87	17	70	17
	Scores per Hole	5,5,5 7,8,4 3,3,5 = 45 4,6,6 4,4,5 3,6,4 = 42
2nd	Pat McLaughlin	88	18	70	17
3rd	Michael O’Neill	91	19	72	8

2’s Results	£’s Per 2	Winners
Category A (0 to 5) 2 x 2’s required	10	No winner – Rollover of £100 to Saturday Sept 21
Category B (6 to 9) excluding 16th	20	No winner – Rollover of £20 to Saturday September 21
Category C (10 to15)	8	Brian Stevenson Ergate Ayana Alan Currie @ 3 Ian Wright Charlie Marner James Glover @ 16
Category D (16 to 28)	13	Joe Bryant @ 3 Frank McCormick Pat McLaughlin @ 16

Wednesday Medal - 11 September 2013

Sept 11

September Wednesday Medal

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Entries inc juniors: 70

Section 1 (0 to 9)	Player	Gross	H/Cap	Net	£’s
*Scratch*	Stephen Mullan	72			5
	Scores per Hole	4,3,3 7,5,3 4,3,4 = 36 4,4,5 3,4,6 3,3,4 = 36

1st	Alan Hulme	74	7	67	10
	Scores per Hole	5,4,3 5,4,5 5,4,4 = 39 3,4,4 3,4,6 2,5,4 = 35 3,5,4 3,4,5 3,4,5 = 36
2nd	Mark Cannon	73	5	68	5
3rd	Raymond Barr	77	9	68	5

Section 2 (10 to 15)	Player	Gross	H/Cap	Net	£’s
1st	Rab McLaughlin	74	11	63	20
	Scores per Hole	4,3,3 6,4,4 3,5,5 = 37 4,5,4 3,4,6 3,4,4 = 37
2nd	Jim McNeil	77	12	65	12
3rd	Robert Leith	78	10	68	8

Section 3 (16 to 28)	Player	Gross	H/Cap	Net	£’s
1st	George Anderson	83	16	67	16
	Scores per Hole	4,5,3 5,5,5 3,6,5 = 41 3,5,5 4,4,7 3,5,6 = 42
2nd	John McGregor	88	17	71	10
3rd	Michael O’Neill	92	19	73	6

2’s Results	£’s Per 2	Winners
Category A (0 to 5) 2 x 2’s required	9	No winner – Rollover of £59 to Saturday September 14
Category B (6 to 9) excluding 16th	15	Ian Doak @ 10
Category C (10 to15)	6	Jim Gallagher with two @ 10 & 13 JH Duncan James Glover @ 13 Drew Bryceland Kenny Gilmour @ 16
Category D (16 to 28)	80	Mark Wilkinson @ 10

Willow Trophy - 4 September 2013

Congratulations to Charlie McDowell who was finally officially declared the winner of the Willow. Charlie's net 59 earlier in the year destroyed this event as any sort of sport, having followed it up with a net 65.

This Saturday sees the last round of the Lyle Medal, where, due to weather, the best score anyone has had, to date, is a sixty eight from Davie Bruce, Brian McCracken and Brian McLean. This 'Major', the oldest along with the Challenge Cup, is open to almost anyone this year. I have attached a leaderboard, for what its worth.

This weekend also sees the culmination of most of our matchplay competitions.
In the Whinhill Seniors final we have Dave Terrey and Dennis McKelvie. Looking at his performances over the last two years in both this event and also his excellent run in the Challenge Cup last year, I believe Dennis might just pinch this one.

The Challenge Quaich will have a new winner engraved on it after the match between Davie Robertson and Mark Cannon. Taking into account his excellent form in the strokeplay rounds of the Championship, Mark should come through to win.

A superbly close contest is predicted in the final of the Provost Trophy. I will not bore anyone with their respective routes to the final, but both teams have taken care of excellent partnerships to get there. All four players have won the competition before and all four players are in a good run of form. Indeed one team, Gerry Donnachie and John Burns are also in the semi final of the Captains Foursome. So, a very difficult prediction, but my heart says Jimmy McAulay and Steven Lapsley but my head goes for Gerry and John.

Finally we have the Challenge Cup. Peter Gallagher has come in under the radar to reach the final, whereas Chris Connelly has taken the scalps of past winners and low single handicap players en route. Chris has improved dramatically over the past couple of seasons and Peter has seen his handicap at a consistent level of six. I think that the two shots which Chris receives will be vital but I think that years on the coalface of the Winter League honing his matchplay skills and also the recruitment of the luckiest player ever to win the Challenge Cup of 1998, brother Kevin, as caddy will get him through in a really tight game, which go go to extra holes.

The games are on Sunday at 1030 onwards and we hope all finalists enjoy the experience and prove me wrong / right as it is not always that a player reaches one of our finals.

Sept 4

Willow Trophy - September

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Entries inc juniors: 105

Section 1 (0 to 9)	Player	Gross	H/Cap	Net	£’s
*Scratch*	David MacFarlane	72			5
	Scores per Hole	4,4,3 4,6,4 4,3,5 = 37 4,5,4 3,4,4 4,4,3 = 35

1st	David Carney	75	7	68	20
	Scores per Hole	5,5,3 4,5,5 3,4,5 = 39 4,5,4 3,4,4 3,4,5 = 36 3,5,4 3,4,5 3,4,5 = 36
2nd	Mark Cannon	74	5	69	10
3rd	Mark Scanlan	74	5	69	10

Section 2 (10 to 15)	Player	Gross	H/Cap	Net	£’s
1st	Don Shields	81	14	67	25
	Scores per Hole	4,5,4 8,4,5 3,4,4 = 41 3,6,5 3,6,5 3,5,4 = 40
2nd	James Glover	80	11	69	13
3rd	Brian Stevenson	80	11	69	13

Section 3 (16 to 28)	Player	Gross	H/Cap	Net	£’s
1st	John Riggans	92	25	67	25
	Scores per Hole	5,7,4 5,6,4 5,5,6 = 47 4,6,5 4,5,6 4,5,6 = 45
2nd	John McGregor	87	17	70	15
3rd	Hugh McGarrigle	90	19	71	10

2’s Results	£’s Per 2	Winners
Category A (0 to 5) 2 x 2’s required	20	No winner – Rollover of £50 to Saturday September 7
Category B (6 to 9) excluding 16th	14	Alistair Robertson @ 3 Roddy McArthur @ 10
Category C (10 to15)	6	James Glover with two @ 3 & 16 Ian McFadyen Scott Dunlop @ 16 Mark McDaid @ 13 Rab Murphy Drew Bryceland Robert Johnstone Donny Livingstone @ 16
Category D (16 to 28)	50	No Winner – Rollover of £50 to Saturday September 7

The HG McLennan Trophy reached its conclusion on Saturday with a few players not being intimidated by the first round lead of Rab Murphy and making a decent fist of the competition.

Eventually finishing a long way off the two round total by seven strokes were Jimmy McAulay and Bob Hughes. A net seventy from Jimmy was respectable for the day but there was no real run which could have made the huge inroads require. Bob, on the other hand will rue a six on nine and an eight at eleven, two scores which would normally be considerably better.

Matching his excellent net sixtyeight of the previous week, Stuart Gallacher, playing off five, would have needed to have improved on a number of holes as he did not have the big score on any one individual hole over both rounds in order to eat into the eventual four shot difference.

Ending up only three shots behind was John Burns. It is a strange round for John when he bogies holes two, six and fourteen as usually he would expect to be attempting birdie putts on these greens in particular.

As predicted, Alan Gordon, with the newly allocated handicap, almost followed in the tradition of Alan Rodgers, Ian Doak and the never to be forgotten Paul Mitchell in sweeping up a trophy on the blind side. After a net sixty eight in week one, Alan,playing of sixteen, raced to the turn in afantastic thirty eight, having started with two bogies.

The golfing gods, for once, looked favourably on the self appointed M & H however, and, unfortunately, deemed that Alan should start back with a run of four, seven, six and five. A further seven on fifteen would all add up to a back nine of forty five and a net sixty seven, three shots behind and a whole range of places where improvments could be made.

A player on a real fine run of form is David Casement. Having had a significant cut at the Baxter Trophy at the "Port" only the day after his first round of sixtyseven in last week's round one, David must have felt he still had a real chance. Now playing off five David went out in a superb thirty seven. Dropped shots on ten and eleven were followed by a mixed bag of birdies, pars and bogies. The most significant hole might have been the eighteenth which he birdied to eventually return a scratch seventy three, which was the equal best of the day. This meant a two round total of 134 and a worthy runner up.

The overwhelming leader from week one was Rab Murphy. Rab opened his round with a few wobbles, but would go to the turn in forty shots. At that moment in time he was effectively seven strokes in front of David Casement. He would need a good few of these. A nice par at ten was followed by three lost shots at eleven and twelve. A birdie meant he was unassailable after thirteen. No! Four shots would be dropped at fourteen and fifteen and a finish of three, five, five meant a net seventy, which is still very creditable, off eleven. After all the results were in, Rab was found to have won his six trophy at the club, having previously secured two Captains Trophies, a Laurie Trophy, and, partnered by Frank Bethel, a Navy Cup and a Captains Foursomes. The Navy Cup was in 1986 and,interestingly, Frank Bethel marked Rab's card on week 2. After all these years, surely it is Frank who deserves a medal, not Rab! Frank must be the one doing the social work.

We had a wee raffle on Saturday for some cases of alcohol which were donated by Craig Thomson.
The lucky winners, picked at random by Charlie Marner, who obviously has an aversion to single figure players winning anything, picked the following six members out the section three hat, George Anderson, Ian McFadyen, Pat McLaughlin, Mick O'Brien, Jackie Norman and David Anderson.

	Rd 1	Rd 2	Total
Rab Murphy	62	70	132
David Casement	67	67	134
John Burns	65	70	135
Alan Gordon	68	67	135
Stuart Gallacher	68	68	136
Bob Hughes	68	71	139
Jimmy McAulay	69	70	139
Blaine Jamieson	72	68	140
Davie Heron	66	74	140
Alan Wylie	68	72	140
David MacFarlane	68	72	140
Kenny Piper	66	75	141
John McGregor	73	69	142
Gordon McFarlane	71	71	142
Jim Maxwell	65	78	143
Drew Bryceland	73	70	143
Ian Jamieson	71	72	143
Craig Thomson	71	72	143
Mark McDaid	69	74	143
Kris Johnstone	74	70	144
Hugh Lyden	73	71	144
Dugald Carmichael	72	72	144
Robert Leith	71	73	144
Frank McCormick	70	74	144
Danny Maloney	66	79	145
Davie Docherty	69	76	145
Jim McNeil	69	79	148
Peter Harley	68	83	151

August 31

HG McLennan Rd 2

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Section 1 (0 to 9)	Player	Gross	H/Cap	Net	£’s
*Scratch*	Andy Jamieson	73			5
	Scores per Hole	4,5,3 4,5,3 4,5,5 = 38 3,5,4 3,4,5 4,4,3 = 35

1st	Stuart Gallacher	73	5	68	18
	Scores per Hole	4,4,3 5,4,5 3,5,4 = 37 4,5,5 3,4,5 3,4,3 = 36 3,5,4 3,4,5 3,4,5 = 36
2nd	David Casement	73	5	68	18
3rd	John Burns	75	5	70	9

Section 2 (10 to 15)	Player	Gross	H/Cap	Net	£’s
1st	Blaine Jamieson	78	10	68	33
	Scores per Hole	4,4,4 5,5,6 4,5,5 = 42 3,3,4 4,3,5 3,5,6 = 36
2nd	Drew Bryceland	83	13	70	16
3rd	Rab Murphy	81	11	70	16

Section 3 (16 to 28)	Player	Gross	H/Cap	Net	£’s
1st	Alan Gordon	83	16	67	28
	Scores per Hole	5,5,3 5,5,3 3,4,5 = 38 4,7,6 5,4,7 4,4,4 = 45
2nd	John McGregor	87	18	69	16
3rd	John Glen	87	17	70	11

2’s Results	£’s Per 2	Winners
Category A (0 to 5) 2 x 2’s required	15	No winner – Rollover of £30 to Wednesday September 4
Category B (6 to 9) excluding 16th	11	Martin Orr @ 7 Ian McDermid @ 10 Steven Orr @ 13
Category C (10 to15)	17	Gordon Parker Scott Coulter @ 3 Robert Johnstone @ 10 Rab Murphy @ 13
Category D (16 to 28)	28	Bill Jamieson Peter Harley @ 16

Wednesday Sweep 24 August 2013

August 28

Wednesday sweep of August 28

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Section 1 (0 to 9)	Player	Gross	H/Cap	Net	£’s
*Scratch*	Stephen Mullan	69			5
	Scores per Hole	4,4,3 4,4,5 3,4,5 = 36 3,4,3 3,4,5 2,4,5 = 33

1st	Steven Lapsley	72	5	67	12
	Scores per Hole	4,4,3 5,4,4 4,4,5 = 37 3,4,5 3,5,4 3,4,4 = 35 3,5,4 3,4,5 3,4,5 = 36
2nd	Mark Cannon	73	6	67	12
3rd	Stephen Mullan	69	2	67	12

Section 2 (10 to 15)	Player	Gross	H/Cap	Net	£’s
1st	Brian Stevenson	76	12	64	28
	Scores per Hole	5,4,4 5,6,5 4,3,4 = 40 4,5,3 4,4,4 4,4,4 = 36
2nd	Stan Austin	81	14	67	17
3rd	Richard Terrey	78	10	68	11

Section 3 (16 to 28)	Player	Gross	H/Cap	Net	£’s
1st	Stephen Downie	86	21	65	31
	Scores per Hole	5,6,3 4,6,4 3,6,5 = 42 3,6,4 4,4,7 6,7,3 = 44
2nd	Harry Paton	87	21	66	18
3rd	John Riggans	93	26	67	13

2’s Results	£’s Per 2	Winners
Category A (0 to 5) 2 x 2’s required	15	No winner – Rollover of £15 to Saturday August 31
Category B (6 to 9) excluding 16th	10	Stevie MacDonald @ 3 Mark Cannon Mark McCaig @ 13
Category C (10 to15)	12	Bob Hughes Jim Terrey @ 3 Joe Mitchell @ 6 Robert Johnstone @ 10 Robin Goodall @ 13 Ian McFadyen @ 16
Category D (16 to 28)	60	John Glen @ 3

HG McLennan Round 1 - Saturday 24 August 2013

Taking advantage of perfect conditions, course architect, Jimmy McAulay, set the greens to a year high peak in an attempt to see if the course record could be broken. To no avail, but wonderful scoring all the same. This level of scoring was not to be the case for Ian Doak. With a couple of terrific scores on the last two Wednesdays which took his handicap down to five for the first time, Ian walked off the first green having just birdied it and must have thought that he had cracked the game. 3 double bogeys would follow and a total of eighty strokes and a return to six handicap would follow.

The HG McLennan is one of the highlites of the calendar at the club with its unique back to back two round format. A whole raft of contenders have positioned themselves for a shot at the title next Saturday and, hopefully, we will be blessed with similar conditions.

Although it should not be the case, many players can be put off by the actions of others. Ending up on the fringes of contention with a seventy was Mark McCaig. Unfortunately Mark's score could have been a lot better but he watched playing partner Craig Thomson get a two at the last and then he ran up a seven!
The players on sixty nine will need to hope for a career round next week if they want to overcome those in front. Higher handicappers Archie Essler and Michael Fulton have a few shots in reserve and might feature. Jimmy McAulay, Paolo Spella and Gerry Donnachie will all fancy their chances. Jim McNeil, Davie Docherty and Mark McDaid have absolutely no reason to think so.

The eight players who took sixty eight are a mixed bag as well. The list starts with twentytwo handicapper, Peter Harley all the way down to category one player Stuart Gallacher. Peter can get safely plastered next week without affecting his chances.

Stuart is consistent enough to put another good score together and might have an outside chance. The two who are really worth watching from this group are previous championship runner up in Alan Wylie, now off eight, and new member Alan Gordon off an extremely generous seventeen.

Challenge Cup finalist Chris Connelly, playing off eight, had two superb halves of thirty seven and thirty eight for a seventy five and is obviously on form. Kenny Piper shrugged off an embarrassing defeat in the Challenge Cup quarter finals the night before to record a net sixty seven and will be hugely dangerous off his eleven handicap. Challeneg Quaich contender, Michael O'Neill, has been playing every week and has nibbled away at his handicap successfully. Off twenty he may put another round on the board as could David casement.

Only three shots off the pace are Danny Maloney and Davie Heron. It is nice to see them both record a good round before the season draws to a close and the can content themselves with that. Also on sixty five is Simon Middleton. Simon has had a really good season with a number of excellent rounds. He was quoted precisely as "watch me in the Championship". Unfortunately I blinked and missed it! Stevie Lapsley, who took a disappointing six at the last and Simon will really fancy their chances.

It is quite fascinating that a number of those who scored well are still in the very last stages of the matchplay events and shows that they are still focussed on their game. Jim Maxwell (Reid Rose bowl semi finalist) and John Burns (Provost finalist and still in Captains foursomes) are two to watch. Maxi started with a six and then a five but then covered the next seven holes in level par. Another six on eleven was followed by a five at twelve. He then went three, three, four to be followed by three straight fives for the last three holes and a round of seventy seven (less twelve). Five handicapper John had a level par front nine and a two over return for a seventy. From left field came Richard Terrey. Ten handicapper Richard shot to the turn in two over par and completed his round nicely with a three at eighteen for a career best of seventy five.

Well out in front of all this pack is Rab Murphy. He is three shots ahead of the nearest challenger after his best ever round. Thirteen handicapper Rab had an amazing level par front nine. An inward start of five straight fours should have set Rab up to break net sixty. Eventually, however, the continual pestering from partner, Jim Orr, of "Are you sure you dont want to be my Vice Captain? I can get you a car park spot." eventually took its toll and Rab finished with four fives in a row.

Rab only needs to stay standing to win this competition and only a monumental collapse will see any of the challengers overtaking him. It is impossible to lose from this position. He only needs to play somewhere close to his handicap and his name goes on the trophy. No one in history has lost from this sort of position of strength. the rest of us are playing for second place.

August 24

HG McLennan Round 1

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Section 1 (0 to 9)	Player	Gross	H/Cap	Net	£’s
*Scratch*	David MacFarlane	70			5
	Scores per Hole	4,4,3 5,5,4 3,4,5 = 37 4,4,5 3,3,4 3,4,3 = 33

1st	John Burns	70	5	65	31
	Scores per Hole	3,3,3 6,4,4 3,4,5 = 35 3,4,4 4,4,5 3,4,4 = 35 3,5,4 3,4,5 3,4,5 = 36
2nd	Davie Heron	75	9	66	16
3rd	Steven Lapsley	72	6	66	16

Section 2 (10 to 15)	Player	Gross	H/Cap	Net	£’s
1st	Rab Murphy	75	13	62	36
	Scores per Hole	4,3,3 5,4,5 3,4,4 = 35 4,4,4 4,4,5 5,5,5 = 40
2nd	Richard Terrey	75	10	65	18
3rd	Jim Maxwell	77	12	65	18

Section 3 (16 to 28)	Player	Gross	H/Cap	Net	£’s
1st	Danny Maloney	86	20	66	31
	Scores per Hole	5,4,4 6,6,4 4,5,5 = 43 3,6,6 4,4,6 4,5,5 = 43
2nd	Michael O’Neill	87	20	67	18
3rd	Peter Harley	90	22	68	12

2’s Results	£’s Per 2	Winners
Category A (0 to 5) 2 x 2’s required	50	Craig Thomson @ 3 & 18!!! Calum Gallagher @ 10 & 16
Category B (6 to 9) excluding 16th	12	Robert Leith Stevie Cameron (1) @ 3 Mark McCaig @ 10 Gerry Donnachie @ 13
Category C (10 to15)	12	Richard Terrey @ 3 Donny Livingstone Stevie McDowall @ 7 Robert Johnstone @ 13 Graham McIntyre Drew Bryceland @ 16
Category D (16 to 28)	60	Frank McCormick @ 16

	Rd 1	Rd 2	Total
Rab Murphy	62

Richard Terrey	65
Jim Maxwell	65
John Burns	65

Davie Heron	66
Steven Lapsley	66
Danny Maloney	66
Simon Middleton	66
Kenny Piper	66

Michael O’Neill	67
David Casement	67
Chris Connelly	67

Stuart Gallacher	68
Bob Hughes	68
Robert Campbell	68
Brian Hamill	68
Alan Gordon	68
Graham McIntyre	68
Peter Harley	68
Alan Wylie	68
David MacFarlane	68

Archie Essler	69
Mark McDaid	69
Jim McNeil	69
Jimmy McAulay	69
Michael Fulton	69
Gerry Donnachie	69
Paolo Spella	69
Davie Docherty	69

Allan McDonald	70
Scott Hunter	70
Cameron McLellan	70
Graeme McLellan	70
Frank McCormick	70
Ergate Ayana	70
Alan Hulme	70
Mark McCaig	70

Wednesday Sweep - 21 August 2013

August 21

Wednesday Sweep of August 21

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Section 1 (0 to 9)	Player	Gross	H/Cap	Net	£’s
*Scratch*	Cameron McLellan	69			5
	Scores per Hole	4,4,3 5,5,5 4,5,3 = 38 3,5,3 3,4,4 2,4,3 = 31

1st	Stuart Gallacher	70	5	65	17
	Scores per Hole	3,4,3 4,4,4 5,3,4 = 34 4,3,4 4,4,6 3,4,4 = 36 3,5,4 3,4,5 3,4,5 = 36
2nd	Cameron McLellan	69	3	66	8
3rd	Craig Brown	71	5	66	8

Section 2 (10 to 15)	Player	Gross	H/Cap	Net	£’s
1st	Kenny Parker	76	12	64	33
	Scores per Hole	3,4,3 5,5,7 3,4,6 = 40 4,5,5 3,4,5 2,4,4 = 36
2nd	Jeff Mitchell	79	13	66	16
3rd	James Glover	77	11	66	16

Section 3 (16 to 28)	Player	Gross	H/Cap	Net	£’s
1st	George Boyd	89	23	66	28
	Scores per Hole	5,5,4 8,7,6 4,4,6 = 49 4,6,5 3,5,6 2,4,5 = 40
2nd	Derek Leitch	84	17	67	17
3rd	John McGregor	86	17	69	11

2’s Results	£’s Per 2	Winners
Category A (0 to 5) 2 x 2’s required	15	No Winner. Rollover of £75 to Saturday August 24
Category B (6 to 9) excluding 16th	25	Ian Doak @13
Category C (10 to15)	6	Stevie McDowall @ 3 Brian Stevenson @ 10 Bob Hughes Steven Cameron (2) @ 13 Jim Duncan Jim Gallagher Duncan Cameron @ 16 Kenny Gilmour Kenny Parker Robert Johnstone @16
Category D (16 to 28)	10	Michael O’Neill @ 3 Bob McGill Alan Gordon @13 George Boyd Stephen Downie Donald Petrie @16

Saturday Sweep - 17 August 2013

August 17

Saturday Sweep of August 17

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Section 1 (0 to 9)	Player	Gross	H/Cap	Net	£’s

1st	Mark Cannon	77	5	72	9
	Scores per Hole	5,5,2 5,6,4 4,3,5 = 39 3,5,4 3,3,5 5,5,5 = 38 3,5,4 3,4,5 3,4,5 = 36

Section 2 (10 to 15)	Player	Gross	H/Cap	Net	£’s
1st	Robert Johnstone	83	12	71	7
	Scores per Hole	5,5,3 5,5,4 4,3,8 = 42 4,6,5 4,4,6 2,5,5 = 41
2nd	James Glover	83	11	72	4
3rd	Steve McDowall	85	13	72	4

Section 3 (16 to 28)	Player	Gross	H/Cap	Net	£’s
1st	Alan Gordon	90	17	73	6
	Scores per Hole	4,5,4 5,6,5 4,7,6 = 46 4,6,6 5,4,6 3,5,5 = 44
2nd	Brian McLean	97	24	73	6
3rd	Stephen Downie	95	21	74	3

2’s Results	£’s Per 2	Winners
Category A (0 to 5) 2 x 2’s required	10	No Winner. Rollover of £70 to Wednesday August 21
Category B (6 to 9) excluding 16th	0	No Winner
Category C (10 to15)	7	Jim Long Robert Johnstone @ 16
Category D (16 to 28)	15	Kris Johnstone @ 16

Wednesday Sweep - 14 August 2103

August 14

Wednesday Sweep of August 14

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Section 1 (0 to 9)	Player	Gross	H/Cap	Net	£’s
*Scratch*	Ian Doak	70			5
	Scores per Hole	3,4,3 5,4,4 3,4,6 = 36 3,5,3 3,3,5 3,4,5 = 34

1st	Ian Doak	70	7	63	25
	Scores per Hole	3,4,3 5,4,4 3,4,6 = 36 3,5,3 3,3,5 3,4,5 = 34 3,5,4 3,4,5 3,4,5 = 36
2nd	Scott Hunter	73	6	67	13
3rd	Gordon McFarlane	76	9	67	13

Section 2 (10 to 15)	Player	Gross	H/Cap	Net	£’s
1st	Davie Houston	77	12	65	30
	Scores per Hole	4,5,3 6,6,4 3,4,5 = 40 4,5,4 4,4,5 3,4,4 = 37
2nd	Bob Hughes	79	12	67	14
3rd	Robin Goodall	81	14	67	14

Section 3 (16 to 28)	Player	Gross	H/Cap	Net	£’s
1st	John McGregor	83	19	64	30
	Scores per Hole	5,4,3 5,6,4 3,5,5 = 40 5,6,5 3,4,6 3,5,6 = 43
2nd	Stephen Wilkie	86	19	67	15
3rd	Pat Gallagher	87	17	70	10

2’s Results	£’s Per 2	Winners
Category A (0 to 5) 2 x 2’s required	20	No Winner. Rollover of £60 to Saturday August 17
Category B (6 to 9) excluding 16th	10	Peter Gallagher @ 3 Matt Bonnar @ 10 Alistair Livingstone Scott Hunter @13
Category C (10 to15)	11	George Deveney @ 10 William Bell Robert Johnstone Brian Sutherland 13 Ergate Ayana @ 16
Category D (16 to 28)	55	Harry Paton @ 16

Captains Day - Saturday 10 August 2013

We had the interesting situation yesterday where there were 33 players who had a two! From a field of 160 that is quite impressive. We must have extremely accurate players or else the par threes have been set up too easy. Bring back the the pin position on the back of the seventh I say!

In section one, we had the club champion, Cameron Jones taking a ten at the second. There is hope for us all.
There were seven players who scored equal net sixty eights, but the best of those came from David Casement to take third slot in the section. Turning back the clock in runner up spot was Alex Roy. Bogeys on the sixth and ninth meant an outward half of thirty seven followed by a back nine which included a five at sixteen and two threes to finish in level par for seventy less four for a sixty six.

The best scratch of the day came from Paul McFarlane. A bogey at three was offset by a birdie at four and a front nine of one over par. After a bogey at ten followed by a double at eleven, Paul must have thought it was just another round in the buffer zone. A run over the next seven holes of four under par put paid to that thought. Three birdies in a row from twelve and another at seventeen meant a season's best of scratch sixty eight and a net sixtyfour and a huge chunk off his handicap.

In section three there was really only three contenders for the places and they all play off eighteen. Allan McDonald put together a most consistent round and it would be difficult to pick a hole where he could have improved as it was almost regulation bogeys in his net sixty nine for third spot. Derek Leitch and Vinny Hurrell will both rue having a six, a seven and an eight on their front nines. Derek was out in forty four where he also had five pars! Vinny's front nine of forty seven had an eight at the second and also a par at nine. Strange game sometimes. Coming to the last two holes Derek had a lead of two strokes but ran up a six and a five. Vinny finished the stronger with a five and a four for a back nine of thirtyeight to catch Derek.

Section two had a whole group of players who will be upset at their finish. On sixty nine were Ian Wright (6,3,5,7), Bob Hughes (6,5,3,6,4) and Rab McLaughlin (5 at sixteen). On sixty eight was David Williams (5,5,3,5,6). All potentially really good scores marred at the end. Stevie Cameron, playing with a Pro V for the first time, took advantage of this new technology and went out in forty. Fifteen handicapper Stevie managed to complete his last four holes in seven over par and still have a net sixty seven. Jim Maxwell, who somehow or other managed to win a playoff for a place in the Reid Rose Bowl matchplay whilst on a cruise (who runs these competitions? A madman?) is well on course for a superb season as he is in the semis. Yesterday he went out in forty two and came home in a respectable thirty eight for a net sixty seven also. A reduction of a stroke in handicap will please his next opponent.

In third place on sixty six was Stevie McDowall. Even three sixes on his card did not prevent Stevie from a great back nine of thirty seven and a net sixty six and third place. Jim Mitchell was still celebrating a success at last week's beer tent (£2 for a wee bottle of out of date lager took me back to the days of JHD running this). Well done. A three, four, four start was spoiled by three sixes and an outward half of forty one. Jim began the inward half with a run of only two over par for holes ten through sixteen and will be slightly upset at two bogeys to finish. A resultant net sixty five is still good scoring.

The absolute runaway winner of both his group and also the Captains Day Trophy was Eddie Ptolomey. Fifteen handicapper Eddie will be pleased with a front nine of five over par. A par at eleven was the individual highlite of his back nine where he had pars at thirteen, fourteen, sixteen and eighteen as well to capture his first silverware at the club by two shots.

A wee moan (not unusual at all) from myself. In the past we have presented the winner at the Captains Day Dance and this was always an evening to remember (except if you were one of the more infamous winners who stayed after their round for a few refreshments and then regaled the gathering with some sort of an incoherent speech that sounded as though it was in Japanese). It is the only strokeplay handicap event, for members only, where the trophy is presented on the day and we should not lose this unique situation. This was not to be for Eddie, and I am sure he would have wished to share a round of seventy seven which beat his previous best by five strokes with all members, as the evening was cancelled due to lack of support. Shania Twain, Cher and Tina Turner had all committed to come along but we could only rustle up a lowly 14 male members and their partners and we had to pull the plug at some considerable cost. Surely Jim Orr has not been so bad a Captain? Well, best not answer that one.

Attached is the current situation in the race to be the most consistent scratch player in the club. Really close event this time around.

August 10

Captains Day Trophy

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Section 1 (0 to 9)	Player	Gross	H/Cap	Net	£’s
*Scratch*	Paul McFarlane	68			5
	Scores per Hole	4,4,4 3,5,5 3,4,4 = 36 4,6,3 2,3,4 3,3,4 = 32

1st	Paul McFarlane	68	4	64	32
	Scores per Hole	4,4,4 3,5,5 3,4,4 = 36 4,6,3 2,3,4 3,3,4 = 32 3,5,4 3,4,5 3,4,5 = 36
2nd	Alex Roy	70	4	66	19
3rd	David Casement	75	7	68	12

Section 2 (10 to 15)	Player	Gross	H/Cap	Net	£’s
1st	Eddie Ptolomey	77	15	62	43
	Scores per Hole	4,4,4 6,5,5 4,3,5 = 40 4,4,5 3,4,5 3,5,4 = 37
2nd	Jim Mitchell	78	13	65	25
3rd	Steve McDowall	80	14	66	17

Section 3 (16 to 28)	Player	Gross	H/Cap	Net	£’s
1st	Vinny Hurrell	85	18	67	28
	Scores per Hole	4,8,3 7,5,5 5,6,4 = 47 3,4,5 4,5,5 3,5,4 = 38
2nd	Derek Leitch	85	18	67	28
3rd	Allan McDonald	87	18	69	15

2’s Results	£’s Per 2	Winners
Category A (0 to 5) 2 x 2’s required	20	No Winner. Rollover of £40 to Wednesday August 14
Category B (6 to 9) excluding 16th	8	John Gunn Stevie McCafferty Owen Gallagher Gordon McFarlane @ 3rd Alan Rodgers David Casement John McEleny David Carney @ 13
Category C (10 to15)	8	Bob Hughes Drew Bryceland @ 3 Graham Hunter @ 10 Steven Cameron (2) Jim Orr Jim Mitchell Dennis McKelvie Pat Tinney Stevie McDowall @13 Jim Long Joe Mitchell @ 16
Category D (16 to 28)	20	George Anderson with two (13 & 16) Peter Dolan @16

Wednesday Medal - 7 August 2013

August 7

Wednesday Medal - August

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Section 1 (0 to 9)	Player	Gross	H/Cap	Net	£’s
*Scratch*	Stephen Mullan	70			5
	Scores per Hole	3,5,3 4,6,3 3,3,4 = 34 4,5,4 3,3,5 2,5,5 = 36

1st	Steven Orr	72	7	65	25
	Scores per Hole	3,4,4 5,5,4 5,4,5 = 39 3,5,4 3,4,4 3,3,4 = 33 3,5,4 3,4,5 3,4,5 = 36
2nd	David Carney	73	7	66	15
3rd	Mark Cannon	73	5	68	10

Section 2 (10 to 15)	Player	Gross	H/Cap	Net	£’s
1st	Scott Dunlop	76	13	63	25
	Scores per Hole	3,4,3 7,8,3 4,4,4 = 40 5,5,3 3,4,5 2,5,4 = 36
2nd	Allan Scott	78	14	64	15
3rd	James Harkness	78	12	66	10

Section 3 (16 to 28)	Player	Gross	H/Cap	Net	£’s
1st	Frank McCormick	84	18	66	18
	Scores per Hole	4,5,4 7,6,4 3,4,5 = 42 3,5,5 4,4,6 3,6,6 = 42
2nd	Brian Sutherlnad	83	16	67	9
3rd	George Boyd	90	23	67	9

2’s Results	£’s Per 2	Winners
Category A (0 to 5) 2 x 2’s required	20	No Winner. Rollover of £20 to Saturday August 10
Category B (6 to 9) excluding 16th	8	Mark McCaig Ian McDermid @ 3 Alan Rodgers @ 7 Matt Bonnar Paul Mitchell @ 13
Category C (10 to15)	8	Jim Long Jeff Mitchell @ 3 Jim McNeil Jim Kerr @ 13 Scott Dunlop Ergate Ayana James Glover @ 16
Category D (16 to 28)	35	Stevie Wilkie @ 10

Saturday 4 August - August Medal

August 3

August Medal

CSS: 70

Entries inc juniors: 140

Section 1 (0 to 9)	Player	Gross	H/Cap	Net	£’s
*Scratch*	Stephen Mullan	70			5
	Scores per Hole	4,3,3 4,5,4 3,4,4 = 34 2,5,4 2,5,5 4,4,5 = 36

1st	Alex Roy	71	4	67	25
	Scores per Hole	3,3,3 6,5,4 2,4,4 = 34 3,4,4 4,5,5 4,4,4 = 37 3,5,4 3,4,5 3,4,5 = 36
2nd	Stephen Mullan	70	3	67	25
3rd	Gerry Donnachie	74	6	68	12

Section 2 (10 to 15)	Player	Gross	H/Cap	Net	£’s
1st	Raymond Barr	77	10	67	42
	Scores per Hole	4,5,4 4,5,5 4,4,4 = 39 4,4,5 3,4,5 4,4,5 = 38
2nd	Jim Kerr	80	11	69	21
3rd	Allan Scott	83	14	69	21

Section 3 (16 to 28)	Player	Gross	H/Cap	Net	£’s
1st	Albert Finch	96	28	68	26
	Scores per Hole	5,6,3 7,7,6 4,5,6 = 49 5,7,6 4,6,6 3,5,5 = 47
2nd	Robert Campbell	87	17	70	16
3rd	Jim Duncan	87	16	71	10

2’s Results	£’s Per 2	Winners
Category A (0 to 5) 2 x 2’s required	30	Stephen Mullan @ 10 & 13
Category B (6 to 9) excluding 16th	10	Duncan Anderson Owen Gallagher Alistair Livingstone @ 3 Gordon McFarlane @ 13
Category C (10 to15)	8	Stevie McDowall Allan Scott Ian McFadyen @ 3 Jim Kerr Robin Goodall Alan Currie Sat Patel @ 13 Kenny Parker Hugh Lyden Charlie Paul @ 16
Category D (16 to 28)	50	Peter Harley @ 10

Member & Guest Day 2013

A great member & guest day with the weather being particularly kind. As usual the scoring for the winning places was ferocious but we had an outright winner in John Gunn (his second time winning the event) partnered by Kenny Ross from Gourock.

The winners of the raffle were Colin McCairn (4 ball at Dullatur), Robert Wilkie (Dollar), Francis O'Donoghue (a posh bottle of Jonnie Walker donated by Roy Brabender) and David Barr (Autographed football from St Mirren FC).

Many thanks to the help from Jim Mitchell (Barman extraodinaire), Pat McLaughlin and Ian McDermid (the raffle boys), Stan Austin, Nicol McCloy, Jim Orr and Peter Gallagher for ensuring everything went well at sign in etc.

Player	Guest	Club	Score	4, 9 ,11 ,15	Last 6	Chipping	Par 3
Scott McKellar	Albert Bruce		65	15	19	15	-1
David Speck	Campbell Swan		80	19	24	-	+1
Jim Duncan	Gordon Pairman	Strathendrick	65	15	21	-	+1
Alan Rodgers	Stevie Anderson	Skelmorlie	70	15	23	-	+3
David Casement	Michael Eardley	Whinhill	68	15	22	-	+1
Scott Dunlop	Tommy Gibson	Skelmorlie	71	16	22		+3
Michael O’Brien	Scott Jackson	Kilmacolm	69	16	21	-	0
George Anderson	Alex Hughes	Kilmacolm	63 / 32	17	21	-	0
Gordon McTavish	Rick Thomson	Gourock	73	17	20	5	+1
David Bruce	Gavin McDougall	Gourock	69	15	24	-	+2
John Gunn	Kenny Ross	Gourock	61	14	21	20	-1
Mark Taylor	Neil Docherty	Ralston	77	18	25	-	+4
Graham Knox	Barry Higgins	Gourock	69	15	24	-	+3
Pat McCormick	Tony Buckley	Gourock	71	19	24	-	+1
Jimmy McAulay	Paul McEwan	Whinhill	67	14	22	-	0
Steven Lapsley	Jim Hart	Old Ranfurly	66	12	22	25	+5
Brian Stevenson	Mark McCorkindale	Whinhill	73	17	24	-	+2
Garry Bonnar	Charlie Marner		64	15	19	-	+2
James Glover	Keith Low	Largs	69	15	19	15	0
Adam Brown	Frank Mulgrew	Port Glasgow	77	20	23	-	+1

Danny Maloney	George Harper	Routenburn	67	18	18		-1
David Docherty	Andy Hetherington	Gourock	63 / 31 / 20	16	20	20	-1
Jim Maxwell	Jim Keenan	Whinhill	71	18	23		+1
Paul McFarlane	Davie Dougans	Whinhill	67	16	20		0
Peter Gallagher	Steven Maxfield	Gourock	67	16	21		+2
Ben McGhee	John Doyle	Whinhill	73	17	25		+5
Tom McLoughlin	Joe Blyth	Whinhill	68	18	22	25	0
David Barr	Peter Holt	Hardgate	67	16	23		0
Stuart Munro	Mark McGibben	Hardgate	72	16	22	30	+3
Scott Young	Andy Hendry	Whinhill	74	17	24	20	+3
Tommy McShane	Ian Agnew	Skelmorlie	69	18	25		-1
JH Duncan	Duncan Cameron	Ralston	64	15	20		0
Alan Wylie	Davie McAuslan	Gourock	67	14	23		0
Steven McCafferty	Joe Harkins	Gourock	68	15	23		+1
John McCafferty	Peter Harkins	Gourock	76	19	25	40	+2
Pat Gallagher	Kenny Lever	Whinhill	63 / 31 / 18	17	18		+3
Joe Mitchell	HAZA	Whinhill
Eddie Spence	Ian Smith	Whinhill	70	18	20		0
Stevie Wilkie	Francis O’Donogue	Largs	66	13	22		+1
Robbie Wilkie	Paul Church	Skelmorlie	69	16	22		0

Cameron McLellan	David Bryceland	Millport	73	17	25	15	+3
Duncan Cameron	Alex Black	Gourock	69	17	24	-	0
David Carney	Ellis McFarlane	Skelmorlie	72	15	23	-	+1
Gordon McFarlane	John Shanks	Gourock	68	15	21	-	+3
Bob Hughes	Colin Campbell	Port Glasgow	67	16	20	-	+2
Kenny Parker	David Tolan	Port Glasgow	69	18	23	-	+2
Jim Kerrigan	Ross Kerrigan	Routenburn	80	21	27		+1
Stevie Cameron	Alistair McLeish	Hilton Park	65	18	22		-2
Ian Kerrigan	Ricky Hall		70	19	24		+1
Brian Sutherland	Carlo Tamburini	Whinhill	72	18	22		+1
David Robertson	Jeff Tipling	Gourock	68	18	22		+2
Ian Doak	Pat Cannon	Gourock	67	18	23		-1
Iain Jones	Mark McDonald	Whinhill	70	15	23		0
Stuart Alexander	Fred Ingleby	Whinhill	65	14	21		+1
Derek Leitch	Graham Wylie	Haston	63 / 31 / 21	16	21		-2
Jim Fleming	Ian Hamilton	Eastwood	68	17	20		+2
Charlie McDowell	Mark Coyle	Gourock	67	13	22		+1
Graham McIntyre	Ricky Fullarton	Renfrew	65	16	21		-1
Matt Bonnar	Brian Cabrie	Whinhill	64	13	22	25	+1
Jim Mitchell	Stephen Donald	Whinhill	62 / 29	15	20	20	0

Robert Wilkie	Owen McDade	Gourock	66	18	22	+1
DJ McKirdy	John O’Hare	Whinhill	63 / 36	14	24	+3
Sat Patel	Colin McCairn	Whinhill	70	16	23	+3
Billy Dixon	Ian Wright	Whinhill
Rab McLaughlin
Graeme McLellan	Andy Petrie	Cawder	62 / 31	13	21	0
Alex Roy	Alistair Reaich	Gourock	62 / 30	13	20	0
Michael O’Neill	I McDougall		69	17	26	+3
Liam McBride	R Crawford		84	19	24	+3

Club Championship - Sat 27th July 2013

From the two round qualifier, where Andy Jamieson secured his second ever Syd Montford Trophy as the leading qualifier and Mark Cannon had an impressive runners up position, we had the usual mix of old hands, juniors and relative newcomers who would play in the matchplay stages.

On the first night of games the biggest upset was achieved by Steven Gordon when he defeated seven times winner, Crawford Rae. A sweet victory, indeed.

Graeme McLellan, who had been installed as favourite to win the bottom half of the draw notched up a win against Mark Cannon. Last years runner up, Chris McAulay would win against a tough opponent in Mark Scanlan.
Moving forward to the quarter finals, Steven Gordon found four times winner, Craig Thomson too tough to overcome. Chris McAulay impressed again with a fine win against Paolo Spella.

Having overcome a player in real form in Simon Middleton in the first round, holder, Alistair Roy, found himself one down with one to play against another player trying to peak for the championships in Andy Jamieson. A bogey down eighteen from Andy,however, would see these protagonists going to the fifth extra hole in a quite brilliant match that Alistair won. This would set up a game against Craig Thomson whom Alistair has never beaten in the championship before. This statistic was erased by excellent golf from Alistair as he ran out a five and four winner to reach a second successive final.

Going under the radar whilst all this took place was fifteen year old Cameron Jones. With his handicap having been seven earlier in the month, it is fair to say that Cameron started each game as the unfancied underdog. His first opponent was another junior in Jack Currie and Cameron demonstrated a short game which would serve him well during the week in overcoming Jack. Next up was the aforementioned Graeme McLellan. Graeme,a previous runner up in the championship, had a stranglehold on the game for a long time but just could not see off the determined Cameron and the game went to sudden death with the youngster delivering a body blow on the first hole when he sunk a huge birdie putt.

This would mean a game against yet another junior in Chris McAulay who was trying to return to a final which would be against his opponent from last year. This was a semi final played in a fantastic manner by both players where they demonstrated not only golfing prowess but also superb sportsmanship, which is a real credit to them. There were not too many holes won in a very tight match and, in the end, Cameron would go one up on sixteen and hold this till the end to earn a place in his first final.

Saturday morning saw holder Alistair Roy being matched against a junior again in the final. Alistair is the player in the club who has won most scratch prizes in the sweepstakes this year and has put together some tremendous rounds. Into the bargain, a tougher sequence of opponents on the way to the final could not have been found.
Five handicapper, Cameron, the youngest ever championship finalist, has no such golfing pedigree and might have been intimidated by the whole experience. This was not to be the case.

Cameron would,however, take a little time to settle into the game and he would find himself two down after six holes. Indeed, Alistair would have a putt on the ninth hole from reasonable range which could have taken him three up, but it slipped narrowly past.

Perhaps shaken slightly by this, Alistair would lose the next two holes to pars. After a run of pars and halved holes, the players reached the seventeenth hole all square and Alistair showed true form with a terrific birdie to go one up. This was his third of the round and Cameron was yet to have one. In an uncanny repeat of last year on the eighteenth, Alistair would produce a miraculous escape for a par at the last to retain his one up lead at the end of an excellent morning's play. The main talk amongst members at lunchtime was mainly on Alistair's chance to go three up on nine and would this come back to haunt him.

Remarkably, the afternoon would see even better scoring with the first three holes being halved in pars. A slip from Alistair on four would see Cameron squaring the match. A repeat of his morning birdie at five meant Alistair went back in front. Regulation pars on six were followed by an amazing chip in, from off the green, for a two at seven and his first birdie of the day, from Cameron, who refused to lie down. Alistair, the more powerful player, would par the ninth to regain the lead and be one up after twenty seven holes. Pars for both players on ten would be followed by a bogey from Alistair on eleven and,again, Cameron, found himself all square and putting the champion under real pressure as Alistair was continually finding himself needing to pitch and putt for pars and halves. Holes twelve, thirteen, fourteen and fifteen were halved and the game came down the stretch level. The tension was quite palpable although both competitors seemed to be handling it well outwardly. However, a poor tee shot from Alistair, would only find a bunker and Cameron did not get his on to the putting surface at all. Having chased the match for the best part of six hours, Cameron, unbelievably, holed his shot from off the green for a birdie two which Alistair could not match from the bunker and,for the first time in the game, took the lead.

Both players played superb drives at seventeen and then Cameron found the heart of the green with a great second shot. Incredibly, just a few short minutes after he was on the sixteenth tee all square, Cameron rolled in another tremendous birdie putt to find himself the champion of Greenock GC for the first time. An fantastic finish.
The relevant congratulations and commiserations go to both players for a match played in great spirit.

Fifteen year old Cameron is the youngest ever winner at the club and his winning address at his prizegiving may also have been the shortest on record. If he continues to improve the way he has done recently he may need to spend some time rehearsing a few more longer winded victory speeches.

July 27

July Medal

CSS: 69

Entries inc juniors: 129

Section 1 (0 to 9)	Player	Gross	H/Cap	Net	£’s
*Scratch*	David MacFarlane	69			5
	Scores per Hole	4,4,3 4,5,4 3,4,4 = 35 4,4,4 3,4,4 3,4,4 = 34

1st	Neil Delussey	73	9	64	25
	Scores per Hole	4,3,3 4,4,4 3,4,4 = 33 4,4,4 4,4,4 4,5,4 = 37 3,5,4 3,4,5 3,4,5 = 36
2nd	Peter Gallagher	72	6	66	14
3rd	Gerry Donnachie	73	6	67	10

Section 2 (10 to 15)	Player	Gross	H/Cap	Net	£’s
1st	Charlie Paul	73	11	62	25
	Scores per Hole	4,4,3 5,5,4 4,4,7 = 40 3,5,3 3,4,5 3,4,3 = 33
2nd	Jim Fleming	76	14	62	25
3rd	Kenny Gilmour	75	12	63	12

Section 3 (16 to 28)	Player	Gross	H/Cap	Net	£’s
1st	George Anderson	81	17	64	30
	Scores per Hole	5,4,3 4,6,4 3,4,6 = 39 4,5,6 4,4,5 4,4,6 = 42
2nd	Tom Neill	86	20	66	18
3rd	George Boyd	91	23	68	12

2’s Results	£’s Per 2	Winners
Category A (0 to 5) 2 x 2’s required	20	No winner - £60 rollover to Wednesday July 31
Category B (6 to 9) excluding 16th	14	Gerry Donnachie @ 3rd Alistair Livingstone Ian McDermid Scott Hunter @ 13th
Category C (10 to15)	16	Joe Mitchell @ 3rd Mike Morrod Kenny Gilmour Graham McIntyre Tony McKenzie @ 16th
Category D (16 to 28)	30	Chris McCallum @ 3rd Robert Campbell @ 10th

July 13

Championship Qualifying 1st Round

CSS: 69

Entries inc juniors: 168

Section 1 (0 to 9)	Player	Gross	H/Cap	Net	£’s
*Scratch*	Alistair Roy	68			5
	Scores per Hole	343,553,335 = 34 445,333.354 = 34

1st Equ	Neil Dellucey	70	5	65	25
	Scores per Hole
1st Equ	Ian McDermid	72	7	65	25
3rd	Alistair Roy Best last 6	68	5	66	15

Section 2 (10 to 15)	Player	Gross	H/Cap	Net	£’s
1st	Graham Hunter	77	12	65	48
	Scores per Hole	444,464,464 = 40 346,345,354 = 37 54 = 40
2nd	Jim Maxwell	80	14	66	29
3rd	Raymond Barr B.I.H.	77	10	67	19

Section 3 (16 to 28)	Player	Gross	H/Cap	Net	£’s
1st	Stephen Connelly	88	20	68	36
	Scores per Hole	554,575,545 = 45 457,464,454 = 43
2nd Equ	Alex Jasper	86	17	69	18
3rd Equ	William McConn	87	18	69	18

2’s Results	£’s Per 2	Winners
Category A (0 to 5) 2 x 2’s required	25	Roll Over
Category B (6 to 9) excluding 16th	12	Mark McCaig 7th Martin Orr 10th Chris Connelly & James McAulay 13th
Category C (10 to15)	10	R Goodall D Raymond Barr & Ian McFadyen 16th Robert Leith Gordon Parker & JW Docherty 3rd J H Duncan & Jim Gallagher 10th Stewart Reid 13th
Category D (16 to 28)	37	William McConn 10th Alex Jasper 13th

July 10

Willow Trophy July

CSS: 69

Entries inc juniors: 143

Section 1 (0 to 9)	Player	Gross	H/Cap	Net	£’s
*Scratch*	Craig Thomson B.I.H.	70			5
	Scores per Hole	642,454,345 = 37 354,344,244 = 33

1st	Gordon McFarlane	72	9	63	25
	Scores per Hole	444,354,344 = 35 344,355,355 = 37
2nd	Martin Orr	72	8	64	15
3rd	Craig Brown	70	5	65	10

Section 2 (10 to 15)	Player	Gross	H/Cap	Net	£’s
1st	Ergate Ayana	77	14	63	34
	Scores per Hole	444,463,465 = 40 445,345,354 = 37 54 = 40
2nd Equ	Blaine Jamieson	76	12	64	17
2nd Equ	James Glover	75	11	64	17

Section 3 (16 to 28)	Player	Gross	H/Cap	Net	£’s
1st	Adam Brown	86	23	63	37
	Scores per Hole	454,864,346 = 44 565,356,354 = 42
2nd	Colin McDowall	85	21	64	22
3rd	Denis McKelvie B.I.H.	83	16	67	15

2’s Results	£’s Per 2	Winners
Category A (0 to 5) 2 x 2’s required	10	Alex Roy & Craig Thomson 3rd & 16th
Category B (6 to 9) excluding 16th	30	James McAulay 10th
Category C (10 to15)	5	R Goodall W McCorkell Sat Patel D Houston D Livingstone P Tinney 16th D Cameron JW Docherty Robin Terrey D Williams J Glover J Harkness 3rd B Stevenson 13th
Category D (16 to 28)	37	Denis McKelvie 16th Peter Dolan 16th

July 6

Centenary Quaich

CSS: 69

Entries inc juniors: 162

Section 1 (0 to 9)	Player	Gross	H/Cap	Net	£’s
*Scratch*	Simon Middleton	66			5
	Scores per Hole	443,454,245 = 35 443,334,343 = 31

1st	Simon Middleton	66	4	62	35
	Scores per Hole	443,454,245 = 34 443,334,343 = 31
2nd	Neil Delussey		6	65	21
3rd	Gerry Donnachie	73	7	66	14

Section 2 (10 to 15)	Player	Gross	H/Cap	Net	£’s
1st	Simon Harley	76	11	65	42
	Scores per Hole	433,543,446 = 36 454,445,365 = 40
2nd	Steve NcDowall	81	15	66	24
3rd	Donald J McKirdy	78	11	67	16

Section 3 (16 to 28)	Player	Gross	H/Cap	Net	£’s
1st	Stephen Connelly	86	22	64	30
	Scores per Hole	563,664,375 = 45 355,456,355 = 41
2nd	Charles McGartland	89	23	66	18
3rd	Pat McLaughlin B.I.H.	86	18	68	12

2’s Results	£’s Per 2	Winners
Category A (0 to 5) 2 x 2’s required	130	Charlie McDowell 3rd & 10th
Category B (6 to 9) excluding 16th	25	Fraser Gray 7th James Cannon 13th
Category C (10 to15)	30	Jim Maxwell 13th Jim Fulton 16th Jim Long 13th
Category D (16 to 28)	20	Albert Finch 16th Donald Petrie 3rd Tommy McShane 3rd

Wednesday Willow Trophy - 3 July 2013

July 3

Willow Trophy – April

CSS: 69

Entries inc juniors: 138

Section 1 (0 to 9)	Player	Gross	H/Cap	Net	£’s
*Scratch*	Craig Thomson	68			5
	Scores per Hole	4,4,3 5,4,4 3,4,4 = 35 3,4,4 3,4,4 3,4,4 = 33

1st	Simon Middleton	69	5	64	18
	Scores per Hole	4,5,3 4,6,3 4,4,4 = 37 3,4,4 3,4,3 3,5,3 = 32 3,5,4 3,4,5 3,4,5 = 36
2nd	Craig Brown	70	6	64	18
3rd	Charlie McDowell	70	5	65	9

Section 2 (10 to 15)	Player	Gross	H/Cap	Net	£’s
1st	Jim Docherty	78	13	65	38
	Scores per Hole	4,4,4 5,5,4 4,4,5 = 39 4,5,4 3,4,5 3,6,5 = 39
2nd	Sat Patel	79	12	67	19
3rd	Simon Harley	78	11	67	19

Section 3 (16 to 28)	Player	Gross	H/Cap	Net	£’s
1st	Ian Moore	83	16	67	32
	Scores per Hole	5,5,4 6,5,3 5,6,5 = 44 5,5,4 3,4,5 3,5,5 = 39
2nd	Bob McGill	85	17	68	20
3rd	William Erskine	91	21	70	13

2’s Results	£’s Per 2	Winners
Category A (0 to 5) 2 x 2’s required	15	No winner - £105 rollover to Saturday July 6
Category B (6 to 9) excluding 16th	18	Ian McDermid Stephen Cameron (1)
Category C (10 to15)	11	Scott Coulter with two JH Duncan Duncan Cameron Jim Fulton Kenny A Gilmour Andrew Malloch
Category D (16 to 28)	65	Stephen Wilkie

The Fair Saturday Sweep & March Medal (29/06/2013 CSS: 69 Par: 68)

In weather more suited to the March Medal than the Fair Saturday Sweep, we had a good turnout of over 140 members. A quick look at the winners indicated that the best players in the club have gone on a traditional holiday in readiness for the Championship.

Current champion Ali Roy has now won more of the scratch prizes than anyone this year (who decided to donate our cash to this elite group?) with an excellent scratch seventy. He went out in one over par and also had a run of fourteen straight pars before taking a bogey at the last. The Red Bull must have worn off.
Recent Tennent Trophy winner, Davie Heron, secured the first section medal with his usual brand of conservative golf which he models on the Steau Bucharest side of the nineties. Out in forty, ten handicapper Davie, returned home in three over par for a season's best of seventy six. He managed to pip Paul McFarlane who scored his best with seventy one on the countback. Paul is one of the club's nearly men in that he nearly became a contender for the championship over past years.

Chris Connelly and Stewart Munro will be satisfied with net sixty sixes in section two, but the outright winner was Sat Patel. Postman Sat (and his black and white cat?) took some time out from the game recently and has returned with a generous handicap allowance of thirteen. Even completing his round with three bogeys in the last four holes did not dent an excellent gross seventy six.

A close run battle took place in the third section where the ever improving Adam Brown and Peter Harley scored net sixty nines. Peter has been a member of a very long time and has his own brand of 'Spoonerisms'. A favourite of mine was directed to the wee bench on the fourth tee. The bench has a small brass plaque where deceased members of one of the Winter Leagues are immortalised. "No way do I want to see my name on the bench!" is a Harleyism of note. We believe he did not like the design of the plaque.

The winner by a single stroke was Danny Maloney. Two very steady halves meant that Danny had breached ninety for the first time this year with an eighty eight.

The timesheet for this year's Member and Guest Day has been put up in the locker room. It will take place on August 4.

June 29

March Medal & Fair Saturday Sweep

CSS: 69

Entries inc juniors: 143

Section 1 (0 to 9)	Player	Gross	H/Cap	Net	£’s
*Scratch*	Alistair Roy	70			5
	Scores per Hole	4,4,4 4,5,4 3,4,4 = 36 3,4,4 3,4,4 3,4,5 = 34

1st	Davie Heron	76	9	67	23
	Scores per Hole	4,4,4 5,6,4 4,4,5 = 40 4,5,4 3,4,5 2,5,4 = 36 3,5,4 3,4,5 3,4,5 = 36
2nd	Paul McFarlane	71	4	67	23
3rd	Steven Gordon	72	4	68	11

Section 2 (10 to 15)	Player	Gross	H/Cap	Net	£’s
1st	Sat Patel	76	13	63	38
	Scores per Hole	4,4,4 5,4,4 3,5,6 = 39 4,4,4 3,4,5 3,5,5 = 37
2nd	Stewart Munro	81	15	66	19
3rd	Chris Connelly	76	10	66	19

Section 3 (16 to 28)	Player	Gross	H/Cap	Net	£’s
1st	Danny Maloney	88	20	68	30
	Scores per Hole	5,5,4 6,7,4 3,5,7 = 46 4,5,4 4,4,7 4,5,5 = 42
2nd	Peter Harley	90	21	69	15
3rd	Adam Brown	92	23	69	15

2’s Results	£’s Per 2	Winners
Category A (0 to 5) 2 x 2’s required	20	No winner - £90 rollover to Wednesday July 3
Category B (6 to 9) excluding 16th	40	Richie Pickett
Category C (10 to15)	20	Ian McFadyen Jim Fleming Brian Stevenson Robert Leith
Category D (16 to 28)	11	Dugald Carmichael Murdo Parker Jason Gillespie Brian Hamil Peter Harley

Bennett Cup June 2013

	April	May	June	July	Aug	Sept	Total
Robin Goodall		72	64				136
Ian McDermid		64
Mike McCartney		64

Brendan Harley			65
Graham Knox			65
Sammy Macneill		68	65				133
Craig Brown		65

Mark Scanlan			66
Donald Petrie		66
Stevie MacDonald		66

Jim Docherty		69	67				136
Charlie Williams		67
Michael O’Neill		67
Andy Jamieson		67
Dave Terrey		67
Peter Gallagher		67
Graham Hunter		67
Robert Campbell		67
Stephen Mullan	67

2011 Holder – Mark Wilkinson.

Remaining Wednesday Medal Dates:
July – July 17
August – Aug 7
September - Sept 11

June 26

Wednesday Medal – June

CSS: 69

Entries inc juniors: 145

Section 1 (0 to 9)	Player	Gross	H/Cap	Net	£’s
*Scratch*	Brendan Harley	70			5
	Scores per Hole	4,4,4 5,4,3 3,4,5 = 36 4,4,4 3,3,4 4,4,4 = 34

1st	Brendan Harley	70	5	65	28
	Scores per Hole	4,4,4 5,4,3 3,4,5 = 36 4,4,4 3,3,4 4,4,4 = 34 3,5,4 3,4,5 3,4,5 = 36
2nd	Mark Scanlan	71	5	66	17
3rd	Stephen McCafferty	75	7	68	11

Section 2 (10 to 15)	Player	Gross	H/Cap	Net	£’s
1st	Robin Goodall	78	14	64	40
	Scores per Hole	3,4,4 4,5,4 5,5,5 = 39 4,5,4 2,4,6 4,5,5 = 39
2nd	Graham Knox	78	13	65	24
3rd	Jim Docherty	80	13	67	16

Section 3 (16 to 28)	Player	Gross	H/Cap	Net	£’s
1st	Sam Macneill	83	18	65	30
	Scores per Hole	5,5,3 5,7,3 3,7,6 = 44 3,6,4 3,5,5 3,5,5 = 39
2nd	Hugh McGarrigle	87	19	68	18
3rd	Colin McDowall	89	20	69	12

2’s Results	£’s Per 2	Winners
Category A (0 to 5) 2 x 2’s required	20	No winner - £70 rollover to Saturday June 29
Category B (6 to 9) excluding 16th	15	Peter Gallagher Jim Orr David Carney
Category C (10 to15)	26	Robin Goodall Jim Docherty Scott Young
Category D (16 to 28)	50	Harry Paton George Boyd

Lyle Medal 2013

Player	Spring	Summer	Autumn	Total
David Bruce	68	74		142
Brian McCracken	68
Brian McLean		68

Ross McWilliams	69
Stephen Mullan	69
Robin Goodall	69
Andy Jamieson		69

David Carney	70
Eddie Spence	70
Alan Rodgers	70
Dennis McKelvie	70
Graham Knox	70	75		145

Brian Sutherland	71
Mike McCartney	71
Craig Thomson		71
Stuart Gallacher	72	71		143
Frank Molloy		71

David MacFarlane	72
Scott Coulter	72	76		148
John Burns	72
Jim Fleming	72
Cameron McLellan	72
Gordon McTavish	72
Alex Roy	72
Dave Terrey	72
John Ruddy	72

Jim Docherty	73
Chris Connelly	73
Archie Essler	73
Stephen McCafferty	73
Michael O’Neill	73
Murdo Parker	73
Pat Bryceland	73
Kenny Parker	73

June 22

The Charity Salver

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Entries inc juniors: 115

Section 1 (0 to 9)	Player	Gross	H/Cap	Net	£’s
*Scratch*	Alistair Roy	69			5
	Scores per Hole	4,4,2 4,5,3 3,4,5 = 34 4,4,4 3,4,5 3,4,4 = 35

1st	Brendan Harley	73	6	67	21
	Scores per Hole	4,5,2 5,5,3 3,4,5 = 36 4,6,4 5,4,4 2,5,3 = 37 3,5,4 3,4,5 3,4,5 = 36
2nd	Alistair Roy	69	2	67	21
3rd	Paolo Spella	75	7	68	10

Section 2 (10 to 15)	Player	Gross	H/Cap	Net	£’s
1st	Jim Gallagher	77	13	64	30
	Scores per Hole	5,4,4 5,5,4 3,4,6 = 40 3,5,5 3,5,4 3,4,5 = 37
2nd	Pat McCormick	78	12	66	18
3rd	Simon Harley	79	11	68	12

Section 3 (16 to 28)	Player	Gross	H/Cap	Net	£’s
1st	Dennis McKelvie	82	16	66	23
	Scores per Hole	4,5,3 6,5,4 4,5,5 = 41 4,5,5 4,5,5 3,5,5 = 41
2nd	Bob Hossack	86	19	67	13
3rd	Adam Brown	91	23	68	9

2’s Results	£’s Per 2	Winners
Category A (0 to 5) 2 x 2’s required	20	No winner - £50 rollover to Wednesday June 26
Category B (6 to 9) excluding 16th	6	Paolo Spella Alan Wylie David Heron Alistair Livingstone Brendan Harley
Category C (10 to15)	30	David Jamieson Andy White
Category D (16 to 28)	45	No winner – Rollover of £45 to Wednesday June 26

Willow Trophy 19 June 2013
We must start with a congratulations to Charlie McDowell for achieving a lifetime best score which will probably never be repeated.

Last Wednesday saw him have five birdies and an eagle in his round of sixty six. A two at the fourth does not occur very often and I would probably suggest one every ten years or so. I cannot recall the last one.

He has now taken a stranglehold on the Willow Trophy itself with a net fifty nine. Perhaps Lawrie Wilson can give him a run for his money after scoring an excellent net sixty three.

Last Saturday saw the so-called Summer meeting where the weather affected the turnout dramatically. We do not have any rules as to a minimum number before a competition is valid, but, if the weather trend continues perhaps we should. We could allow a sweepstake to take place but not put a trophy up for grabs if less than eighty (half the normal) compete. We did not have fifty seniors playing and ended up with only two net scores in the sixties, sixty eight from Brian McLean and a sixty nine from Andy Jamieson. As you will see from the attachment, the Lyle Medal is absolutely wide open.

Saturday's event was the Charity Salver. Alan Moore has won this handicap competition on the last two years, which is a unique feat in the club, and was chasing a threepeat. Unfortunately it was not to be although he would have been thinking he had a chance after a birdie at the first.

In the third section we had Adam Brown taking some sweep money with a net sixty eight. Adam continues to improve as the months pass and will be well pleased. Second was Bob Hossack who had just returned earlier from a sojourn to Spain where the senoritas were impressed to see Charlie Paul in a Superman outfit. Bob had a nice net score of sixty seven. The winner of the group was Dennis McKelvie. Dennis is on the course every morning just now before going to work and it is good to see the hard work pay off. Two halves of forty one showed a good level of consistency in a score of net sixty six.

The winner of the scratch prize this week goes to Al Roy with a sixty nine. This is the third time he has won the prize this year. One under for the front nine was followed by a two over par inward half and a net sixty seven. This was matched by six handicapper Brendan Harley. who had four birdies in his round which finished four, two, five, three!

The second section featured Simon Harley and Kenny Gilmour with net sixty eights which included double bogeys in the last few holes.Pat McCormick had no such slip up in his net sixty six.
The winner of the Charity Salver is Jim Gallagher. Twelve handicapper Jim is another member who puts a lot into his game and had ten pars in his round of seventy seven. The only previous trophy which Jim has won was the 2007 Turner Quaich, so he will be well chuffed today, particularly with the score.
Next Saturday will be the Fair Saturday Sweep and also the March Medal.

June 19

Willow Trophy – June

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Entries inc juniors: 135

The Willow Trophy is awarded to the player who has the lowest total of 2 net rounds over the 6 Wednesday Willow Competitions. If there is a tie after 2 rounds, the third scores will be used to decide the winner.

Section 1 (0 to 9)	Player	Gross	H/Cap	Net	£’s
*Scratch*	Charlie McDowell	66			5
	Scores per Hole	4,3,4 2,7,3 3,4,4 = 34 4,3,3 3,4,4 3,5,3 = 32

1st	Charlie McDowell	66	7	59	23
	Scores per Hole	4,3,4 2,7,3 3,4,4 = 34 4,3,3 3,4,4 3,5,3 = 32 3,5,4 3,4,5 3,4,5 = 36
2nd	David Casement	74	7	67	13
3rd	Alec Cloudsley	76	8	68	9

Section 2 (10 to 15)	Player	Gross	H/Cap	Net	£’s
1st	James Terrey	82	15	67	28
	Scores per Hole	5,4,4 6,6,4 4,4,5 = 42 4,5,5 4,4,5 3,5,5 = 40
2nd	Alan Currie	77	10	67	28
3rd	DJ McKirdy	79	11	68	14

Section 3 (16 to 28)	Player	Gross	H/Cap	Net	£’s
1st	Lawrie Wilson	91	28	63	35
	Scores per Hole	5,5,3 9,6,4 5,5,5 = 47 4,6,5 3,4,8 3,5,6 = 44
2nd	Jason Gillespie	82	18	64	21
3rd	Sammy Macneill	86	19	67	14

2’s Results	£’s Per 2	Winners
Category A (0 to 5) 2 x 2’s required	20	No winner - £30 rollover to Saturday June 22
Category B (6 to 9) excluding 16th	16	Charlie McDowell @ the 4th!!!!! Alan Rodgers David Casement
Category C (10 to15)	15	Charlie Marner Alan Currie Mike Morrod Davie Houston Pat McCormick Simon Harley
Category D (16 to 28)	70	Sammy Macneill

Wednesday Sweepstake - 12 June 2013

June 12

Wednesday Sweep of June 12

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Entries inc juniors: 120

Section 1 (0 to 9)	Player	Gross	H/Cap	Net	£’s
*Scratch*	Calum Gallagher	69			5
	Scores per Hole	3,4,3 5,5,5 4,4,4 = 37 3,4,4 2,4,5 2,4,4 = 32

1st	Alex Roy	69	4	65	16
	Scores per Hole	3,4,3 3,4,4 3,4,4 = 32 3,4,5 3,6,5 3,4,4 = 37 3,5,4 3,4,5 3,4,5 = 36
2nd	Calum Gallagher	69	4	65	16
3rd	Charlie McDowell	74	7	67	8

Section 2 (10 to 15)	Player	Gross	H/Cap	Net	£’s
1st	Kenny Parker	74	13	61	33
	Scores per Hole	4,3,3 5,7,5 4,4,3 = 38 4,6,4 2,4,4 3,5,4 = 36
2nd	Raymond Barr	76	11	65	16
3rd	Scott Young	78	13	65	16

Section 3 (16 to 28)	Player	Gross	H/Cap	Net	£’s
1st	Scott Hossack	86	21	65	29
	Scores per Hole	5,4,4 8,8,5 2,5,6 = 47 3,6,5 4,4,5 5,4,3 = 39
2nd	Mark Wilkinson	83	17	66	14
3rd	Derek Leitch	84	18	66	14

2’s Results	£’s Per 2	Winners
Category A (0 to 5) 2 x 2’s required	50	Calum Gallagher
Category B (6 to 9) excluding 16th	9	Charlie McDowell Mark Cannon Christopher Connelly
Category C (10 to15)	5	Ergate Ayana Charlie Paul Robert Johnstone Robert Leith Brian Stevenson Jim Long Stan Austin Bill McCorkell Kenny Parker Simon Harley Laurence Deveney Hugh Lyden Jim McNeil
Category D (16 to 28)	18	John McGregor Derek Leitch Scott Hossack

Laurie Trophy - Sat 8 June 2013

With every old folks home in Inverclyde seemingly evacuating on Saturday, it was obvious that the annual Seniors Championship was taking place at Greenock GC. An excellent turnout of almost 170 and a course that was set up for the Inverclyde Championships the following day meant long rounds. On the brighter side, most of those playing will not really know how long they were out.

We have waited years for it to happen, but, finally, Big Donny has got the hang of putting the card in on time. Perhaps a superb round of seventy four less fifteen for a season's best net of fifty nine was the catalyst. There was no one to match this in the competition that is the Laurie Trophy. In the space of a single round Donny had his best ever scratch score and also, incredibly for someone who has been a member for so long and plays every single week, has captured his first ever piece of silverware at the club. Well done on both fronts. It all started in the usual manner for the big chap when he took two bogies and a par at the third. Another couple of pars at the next six holes would have him out in forty one. He has probably done this on numerous occasions. Excellent pars on ten and eleven would set him up nicely for an astonishing run home on a really difficult course playing to its ultimate length. He covered the last six holes with three birdies, one par and two bogies for a back nine of level par thirty three. "Alex Roy (34), David MacFarlane (35), club champions Cammy (36), Kenny Roy (34), Thommo (35) and Al Roy (36)! You boys took a hell of a beating from Donny". Only Crawford Rae's back nine of 31 stopped him having the best of the day. Great stuff.

Mention must be made of Crawford's best of the day sixty seven. A run of eight straight pars was marred slightly by bogies at nine and ten. Two under par for his last six transformed a good round into a great one.

The draw for the Seniors Championship, which is made up of the top sixteen scratch scores, produced a mixed bag of old hands and newcomers and gives more members an interest. There is also a degree of panic emerging as we hear that Crawford and Alex Roy and a few others are fast approaching eligibilty for this event.
First out of the hat was five times winner, Ian McDermid up against Alan Moore. Big Alan has gone into semi retirement and will be grateful that a run in this competition will not mar his taking things easy. He can surely fit in one tie.

Dave Terrey and Raymond Barr will battle out a closely fought match with <and we really needed to toss a coin for this one, Dave sneaking through.
John C Houston, last year's runner up, will be lucky to progress against the people's favourite, Dennis.
Interesting to see the cabin boy sneaking into the matchplay stages for another year, but Alec Cloudsley should see him off.

Last year's winner, Alan Hulme is matched up against Dugald Carmichael in a very one sided affair.
Previous winners Kenny Piper and Alan Young are more evenly matched and the good big one will overcome the good wee one.

Alan Wylie is looking for a decent run in this competition and will be up against Archie. In the event of Alan going behind, then he could always suggest that someone is changing the channel on the telly to put Archie off. Alan to win.

The final game provides Donny with the reward for a marvellous round. A game against JHD! The past captain's handicap has sneaked up to eleven over the past two years and this might be a monitor of how he is playing. Unfortunately, and we hate to do it, we go for the PC to progress.

The dates for the rounds are tight, with a final on July 27 so please been quick to contact opponents for dates.

Members should be aware of a busy day on the course next Friday. There is a Ladies team match , a visiting party from Inverclyde council who are playing at different times through the day and also a team match where the tee is reserved from 1530 till 1700.

June 8

Laurie Trophy & Seniors Championship

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Entries inc juniors: 165

Section 1 (0 to 9)	Player	Gross	H/Cap	Net	£’s
*Scratch*	Crawford Rae	67			5
	Scores per Hole	4,4,3 4,5,4 3,4,5 = 36 4,4,3 4,3,4 2,4,3 = 31

1st	Alex Roy	71	5	66	33
	Scores per Hole	3,4,3 5,5,4 4,4,5 = 37 3,5,4 2,4,4 3,4,5 = 34 3,5,4 3,4,5 3,4,5 = 36
2nd	Crawford Rae	67	1	66	33
3rd	Peter Gallagher	73	6	67	16

Section 2 (10 to 15)	Player	Gross	H/Cap	Net	£’s
1st	Donny Livingstone	74	15	59	45
	Scores per Hole	5,5,3 5,5,4 4,5,5 = 41 3,4,5 2,4,5 2,5,3 = 33
2nd	William Bell	79	15	64	27
3rd	Gordon Macquat	77	12	65	18

Section 3 (16 to 28)	Player	Gross	H/Cap	Net	£’s
1st	Kris Johnstone	85	22	63	33
	Scores per Hole	7,3,4 5,6,5 4,5,5 = 44 3,5,6 3,5,5 3,6,5 = 41
2nd	George Boyd	89	24	65	17
3rd	Dugald Carmichael	84	19	65	17

2’s Results	£’s Per 2	Winners
Category A (0 to 5) 2 x 2’s required	30	No winner – Rollover to Wednesday June 12
Category B (6 to 9) excluding 16th	14	Jim McAulay Jamie Gallacher Ian McDermid John Leslie
Category C (10 to15)	10	Donny Livingstone with 2 George Deveney Drew Bryceland Alan Moore J H Duncan Stewart Munro Allan Gordon Simon Harley
Category D (16 to 28)	13	Bob McGill Pat McLaughlin Charles McGartland George Boyd Bob Hossack

The Laurie Trophy winner (for the over 55s) is Donny Livingstone with Dugald Carmichael runner up.
The final qualifying score for the Seniors Championship is 85.

Wed 5 June 2013

Due to all the greens being under water around 4pm the competition was cancelled. The following members who had a score better than 69 will have their score recorded against the SSS and their handicaps will be adjusted accordingly.
Peter Harley (63 which included 2 twos!)
Stuart Alexander
Stephen Mullan
Mark Scanlan
Frank Bethel
Glenn Greenan
Dougie Allan
Matt Bonnar

Last week saw the Turner Quaich being played for and congratulations go to Jackie Norman in securing this hard fought for trophy.

This year there are 16 players in the draw for the Whinhill Seniors matchplay as, in the recent past, there has been a situation where some players withdraw, leaving a member only playing a single round before the final. The extra numbers will also help to generate a bit more interest in the competition. The winner of the Whinhill Seniors represents the club in the Inverclyde Champion of Champions so is certainly worth making attempt to play in.
For the same reason there will also be 16 qualifiers for this year's Seniors Championship, the qualifying round being played this Saturday.

We had to wait on a playoff to see who went forward to the Reid Rose Bowl. It is a bit clumsy to have a playoff the following week nowadays, particularly with members shift patterns and next year we will go to the countback procedure to determine the qualifiers in the event of a tie for the final places. The draw threw up the following.

Playing for the honour of the car park spot will be past captains Charlie Paul and previous winner Alex Roy. Having gone to a lot of bother to get his handicap up I think Charlie might just win this one. Jim Maxwell should get the jail if he does not see off another ex polis in Murdo Parker.

Its a shame that leading qualifier Gordon McFarlane will be out his depth if the real Calum Gallagher turns up.

In a battle of the protagonists from one of the winter leagues, Raymond Barr pitches up against Peter Gallagher. There are a few shots difference just now and the predictor goes for Raymond. There will be no Gallagher father and son match up in round two.

The bottom half has Alan Young playing Robin Goodall. If anyone has stayed with this, we see that the standard throughout the draw, this year, is on the poor side, but we cannot have a quality field all the time. Anyway, Alan is practicing regularly and Robin is playing a huge number of games in Open competitions. Think the more battle hardened Robin will sneak it.

New member (always got to watch their handicaps!) Craig Sweeney will have 14 shots from another past winner in Craig Thomson. It would be daft to pick an unknown quantity, much as I would like, so we go for Thommo, who will be determined to repair the damage an early exit from the Challenge Cup from Bob Hughes has done to his reputation.

I am convinced that Frankie Bhoy Molloy's tactics used against big Hughie in the final of 2010, which went to three games, will not wash with Mark Cannon and he will blow the slow one away.

Club champion and winner in another century, Al Roy will be worried that he is up against Laurence Deveney, no relation and still a higher handicap than the real one. Larry is another who plays a lot. Ali is another who decided to win the Challenge cup this year and was tossed out even earlier than the other champion. He would like to think that he could meet Alex in the final. Unfortunately he will need to wait for another year. Lets wish him well in Sunday's champion of champions.

The draw has been made for the Challenge Quaich and the rounds are quite tight so its best to make an attempt to get games played as soon as possible.

The timesheet for the upcoming Greenock GC open is available in the locker room. The competition takes place on Sunday June 16.

June 1

Turner Quaich & Whinhill Seniors

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Entries inc juniors: 165

Section 1 (0 to 9)	Player	Gross	H/Cap	Net	£’s
*Scratch*	Stephen Mullan	70			5
	Scores per Hole	4,3,3 4,5,6 4,4,4 = 37 5,4,4 3,4,3 3,4,3 = 33

1st	Alan Rodgers	74	7	67	31
	Scores per Hole	4,5,4 6,5,4 2,4,5 = 39 3,6,3 2,5,4 3,5,4 = 35 3,5,4 3,4,5 3,4,5 = 36
2nd	Stephen Mullan	70	3	67	31
3rd	Simon Middleton	75	6	69	15

Section 2 (10 to 15)	Player	Gross	H/Cap	Net	£’s
1st	Ross McWilliams	79	13	66	50
	Scores per Hole	4,4,3 4,5,6 4,5,6 = 41 3,5,5 3,5,4 4,4,5 = 38
2nd	Robert Wilkie	82	15	67	29
3rd	Alex Irving	83	14	69	19

Section 3 (16 to 28)	Player	Gross	H/Cap	Net	£’s
1st	Jason Gillespie	86	19	67	31
	Scores per Hole	5,5,4 5,5,4 4,7,5 = 44 4,4,4 3,5,6 5,6,5 = 42
2nd	Jackie Norman	92	24	68	19
3rd	Matt Stewart	94	24	70	13

2’s Results	£’s Per 2	Winners
Category A (0 to 5) 2 x 2’s required	50	Graeme McLellan
Category B (6 to 9) excluding 16th	7	Alan Rodgers with 2 Duncan Anderson Owen Gallagher Simon Middleton John McEleny Charlie McDowell
Category C (10 to15)	50	Michael O’Brien Jim Long
Category D (16 to 28)	20	Kris Johnstone Danny Maloney Charles McGartland

The Turner Quaich winner (for the over 65s) is Jackie Norman with Matt Stewart runner up.
The qualifying score for the Whinhill Seniors knockout is 75 with a countback for final places being required

Wednesday 29 May 2013 - May Medal

May 29

Competition: Wednesday Medal - May

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Entries inc juniors: 150

Section 1 (0 to 9)	Player	Gross	H/Cap	Net	£’s
*Scratch*	Alistair Roy	70			5
	Scores per Hole	4,4,3 6,4,4 3,4,5 = 37 3,4,4 3,3,4 3,4,5 = 33

1st	Ian McDermid	71	7	64	30
	Scores per Hole	5,3,4 5,6,3 3,4,4 = 37 3,5,4 3,4,4 3,5,3 = 34 3,5,4 3,4,5 3,4,5 = 36
2nd	Craig Brown	71	6	65	17
3rd	Stevie MacDonald	73	7	66	12

Section 2 (10 to 15)	Player	Gross	H/Cap	Net	£’s
1st	Mike McCartney	75	11	64	40
	Scores per Hole	4,4,3 5,5,4 4,4,4 = 39 3,4,4 3,5,4 4,4,5 = 36
2nd	Graham Hunter	79	12	67	24
3rd	James Glover	79	11	68	16

Section 3 (16 to 28)	Player	Gross	H/Cap	Net	£’s
1st	Donald Petrie	93	27	66	35
	Scores per Hole	55,4 8,5,5 4,5,7 = 48 3,7,5 4,4,6 4,6,6 = 45
2nd	Michael O’Neill	88	21	67	17
3rd	Charlie Williams	84	17	67	17

2’s Results	£’s Per 2	Winners
Category A (0 to 5) 2 x 2’s required	20	No Winner –Rollover of £20 to Saturday June 1
Category B (6 to 9) excluding 16th	6	Peter Gallagher Nicol McCloy Stephen McCafferty Alan Hulme Craig Brown Christpher Connelly Alistair Livingstone
Category C (10 to15)	10	DJ McKirdy Billy Dixon Andrew Malloch Kenny Gilmour James Harkness Hugh Lyden Kenny Parker Simon Harley
Category D (16 to 28)	14	Stephen Wilkie Scott McKellar Pat McLaughlin George Anderson Robert Dolan

Sweepstake Leaderboard - up to 25 May 2013

Player	£	Player	£
Alistair Roy	196	Dennis McKelvie	55
Raymond Barr	134	Steven Gordon	55
Craig Thomson	126	Drew Bryceland	54
Jackie Norman	123	Jim Maxwell	54
James Glover	122	John Burns	53
Robin Goodall	120	Daniel Maloney	52
Andy Jamieson	115	Ian McFadyen	52
Duncan Anderson	115	Charlie McDowell	50
Mark McCaig	112	Steven Cameron (1)	50
Matt Bonnar	111	Alan Young	48
Pat McLaughlin	100	Ian Doak	47
Graeme McLellan	97	Paul McAulay	47
Jason Gillespie	96	Scott Coulter	47
Bob McGill	94	Michael O’Neill	46
Charlie Paul	92	Owen Gallagher	45
Brian Stevenson	91	Rab McLaughlin	44
Ian Moore	91	Brian McCracken	43
Laurence Deveney	91	David Heron	43
Mark Wilkinson	90	Murdo Parker	43
Davie Docherty	88	Duncan Cameron	42
Alex Jasper	86	Murdie Carmichael	42
Peter Harley	86	Allan Gordon	41
Robert Dolan	86	Crawford Rae	40
Gordon McFarlane	82	Stevie MacDonald	40
Scott Hunter	82	George Deveney	36
Colin McDowall	80	Hugh McGarrigle	36
Neil Delussey	78	David Bruce	35
David Scott	77	Alex Roy	34
Charlie Marner	76	Kenny Roy	34
David MacFarlane	75	Paul McFarlane	34
Frank Molloy	71	Stewart Reid	34
Joe Ball	71	Mick O’Brien	33
Iain Jones	70	Glenn Greenan	32
Stuart Alexander	70	Jamie Gallagher	32
Simon Middleton	67	Jim Gallagher	32
Jeff Mitchell	66	Ross Ballantyne	32
Stephen Mullan	66	Steven McCafferty	32
Scott Young	65	Stuart Gallacher	31
David Carney	64	Brian McLean	30
Alan Rodgers	61	Pat Gallagher	30
Donald Petrie	61	Robert Leith	30
Archie Essler	60	Scott Dunlop	30
Jim Mitchell	57	Steven Lapsley	30
Joe Mitchell	57	Jim McNeil	29

John Leslie	29	David Reid	11
Jim Fulton	27	Mike McCartney	11
Mark James	27	Albert Finch	10
Calum Gallagher	26	Alan Moore	9
Ergate Ayana	26	Charlie Williams	9
Jim Elliot	26	Jim Kerrigan	9
William Crawford	26	Craig Brown	8
Blaine Jamieson	25	Graham Knox	8
Steven McDowall	25	Jim Docherty	8
Steven Orr	25	Jim Fleming	8
Hughie Lyden	24	Brendan Harley	7
Mark Scanlan	24	David Casement	7
Ross McWilliams	24	Ian McDermid	7
Donny Livingstone	23	James Harkness	7
Jim Long	23	Mark Cannon	7
Joe Bryant	23	Willie Kemp	7
Jim Orr	22	David Barr	6
John Ellis	22	Stewart Munro	6
Matt Stewart	22	Stuart Barr	6
Alex Irving	21
Robert Little	21
DJ McKirdy	20
John Brennan	20
John McEleny	20
Paolo Spella	20
Peter Gallagher	20
Adam Brown	19
Alec Cloudsley	18
Chris Connelly	18
Gordon Parker	18
John Ruddy	18
Pat Tinney	18
Gordon Irving	17
Gerry Bell	16
Sam MacNeill	16
Sat Patel	16
Tom McGhie	16
Eddie Spence	15
Graham McIntyre	15
Stephen Wilkie	15
Kris Johnstone	13
Pat Bryceland	13
Alistair Livingstone	12
Craig Love	12

Sunday 26 May 2013 - Tenent Trophy Open Competition

	Players	Score	£
1st	Davie Heron Brian Cabrie Whinhill	61	200
2nd	Alan Currie Bob Antonez Saratoga USA	63 Last 9 = 29	150
3rd	Martin Lawrie Helensburgh Mike Lawrie Crossland Heath	63 Last 9 = 30 Last 6 = 19	100
4th	Alex Roy Brian Fitzpatrick Whinhill	63 Last 9 = 30 Last 6 = 20	50
5th	Gordon McFarlane Steven Orr	63 Last 9 = 30 Last 6 = 21	20

Andrew Howell Gourock	Colin McKenzie Whinhill	34	34	68
Brian Litterick Gourock	Joe Donnelly Whinhill	Nr	Nr	Nr

Cameron McLellan	Graeme McLellan	32	31	63
Simon Middleton	Neil Shedden Irvine Bogside	32	32	64

Andy Jamieson	Craig Thomson	31	32	63
Mark McCaig	David Reid	35	37	72

Jim Orr	Alex Jasper	38	28	66
Peter Gallagher	Jim Gallagher	33	33	66

Kenny Gilmour	Charlie Marner	33	31	64
Gordon Parker	Ronnie Parker	35	35	70

Scott McKellar	Craig Ahlfeld Gleddoch	34	32	66
David Speck	David McGrath Beith	36	36	72

Allan Cumming	Charlie Williams	37	34	71
Duncan Cameron	Tom Neill	32	35	67

Alistair Roy	Alistair Robertson	35	32	67
Dennis McKelvie	Davie Docherty	35	34	69

David Carney	Robert Leith	36	30	66
Steven Orr	Gordon McFarlane	33	30	63

Martyn Lawrie Helensburgh	Michael Lawrie Crossland Heath	33	30	63
Charlie Paul	Garry Bonnar	33	33	66

Richie Pickett	Blaine Jamieson	39	33	72
George Anderson	Robert McGregor Gourock	33	32	65

Bob Hossack	Scott Hossack	39	36	75
Stuart Munro Dumbarton	Scott McLean Dumbarton	38	35	73

Stevie McCafferty	Alisdair Stewart	35	37	72
Pat Gallagher	Robbie Wilkie	36	29	65

Eddie Spence	Steven Wilkie	33	32	65
Joe Mitchell	Robert Little	35	30	65

Declan McCulloch Cathkin Braes	Daniel Chapman Cathkin Braes	35	34	69
James Glover Gourock	Paul Lever Cathkin Braes	33	32	65

Stewart Clark Windyhill	Gordon Macdonald Windyhill	34	31	65
Jason Gillespie	Brian McLean	38	31	69

Scott Forrest Gourock	Bob Blackburn Copake USA	38	35	73
David Whiteford	John Recchie Copake USA	38	34	72

Davie Bruce	Peter Currie	37	37	74
Harry Paton	Dave Pells Copake USA	34	38	74

Alan Currie	Bob Antonez Saratoga USA	34	29	63
Stuart Shillibeer Copake USA	John Antonez Saratoga USA	35	37	72

Pat Bryceland	Joe Massa Copake USA	30	38	68
John McKenzie	Steve Sullivan Copake USA	36	36	72

Fraser Gray	John Stickles Copake USA	37	35	72
Sammy Macneill	Mark Farah Copake USA	30	33	63

Campbell Craig Windyhill	David Flavell Windyhill	36	34	70
James Bolling Windyhill	Robert Learmonth Windyhill	35	31	66

Danny Bonnar	Matt Bonnar	38	32	70
Charlie McDowell	James Harkness	Nr	Nr	Nr

Craig Brown	Laurence Deveney	31	33	64
Jamie Gallacher	Ally Gallacher Mar Hall	36	32	68

Raymond Barr	Jim Kerr	34	32	66
Donny Livingstone	Ian Wright Whinhill	37	38	75

Iain Jones	Paul McDonald Whinhill	33	34	67
Dougie Wilson Whinhill	John Buchan Whinhill	33	33	66

Alex Roy	Brian Fitzpatrick Whinhill	33	30	63
Pat McLaughlin	Ian McDermid	35	33	68

Danny Maloney	Brian Stevenson	38	34	72
Jim Mitchell	Steven Donald Whinhill	34	35	69

Robert Johnstone	John Kerr Whinhill	38	33	71
Davie Heron	Brian Cabrie Whinhill	30	31	61

David Casement	Peter Daly Whinhill	32	34	66
Steven Lapsley	Jim Hart Old Ranfurly	31	33	64

Eddie Williamson Hardgate	Angus Mackay Hardgate	34	35	69
Norman Bell Hardgate	Steven Howarth Hardgate	33	36	69

Scott Young	George Docherty	30	39	69
Tommy McShane	Andy Hendry Whinhill	38	38	76

John Gunn	Frazer Macbean	36	32	68
Mark Taylor	Neil Docherty	33	36	69

Billy Dixon	Steven Wright Whinhill	35	33	68
Rab McLaughlin	McPherson	31	38	69

DJ McKirdy	Luke Halbert Irvine Bogside	35	35	70
Michael Eardley Whinhill	Kenny Malcolm Skelmorlie	38	29	67

B Davidson	Kenny Dalgleish Bellshill	Nr	Nr	Nr
Allan Gordon	Steven Downie	38	34	72

Saturday 25 May 2013 - May Medal & Reid Rose Bowl Qualifier

May 25

Competition: May Medal & Reid Rose Bowl

CSS: 69

Entries inc juniors: 170

Section 1 (0 to 9)	Player	Gross	H/Cap	Net	£’s
*Scratch*	Craig Thomson	65			5
	Scores per Hole	4,4,2 4,4,3 3,4,4 = 32 3,4,3 5,4,4 3,4,3 = 33

1st	Calum Gallagher	70	5	65	26
	Scores per Hole	4,6,4 5,5,4 3,4,4 = 39 2,3,3 3,5,3 3,5,4 = 31 3,5,4 3,4,5 3,4,5 = 36
2nd	Alistair Roy	67	2	65	26
3rd	Craig Thomson	65	0	65	26

Section 2 (10 to 15)	Player	Gross	H/Cap	Net	£’s
1st	Gordon McFarlane	73	11	62	50
	Scores per Hole	4,4,3 5,5,3 3,5,5 = 37 3,4,4 3,4,5 4,5,4 = 36
2nd	Laurence Deveney	78	14	64	30
3rd	Robin Goodall	80	14	66	20

Section 3 (16 to 28)	Player	Gross	H/Cap	Net	£’s
1st	Murdo Parker	86	21	65	35
	Scores per Hole	5,4,4 6,6,4 4,4,5 = 42 4,5,6 4,5,6 3,5,6 = 44
2nd	Robert Little	92	24	68	21
3rd	Bob McGill	85	17	68	14

2’s Results	£’s Per 2	Winners
Category A (0 to 5) 2 x 2’s required	85	Alistair Roy (includes rollover)
Category B (6 to 9) excluding 16th	25	Frank Molloy Matt Bonnar
Category C (10 to15)	25	Laurence Deveney with two Jim Mitchell Steve McDowall
Category D (16 to 28)	60	Bob McGill

Reid Rose Bowl Qualifiers:
62 – Gordon McFarlane
64 – Laurence Deveney
65 – Calum Gallagher, Alistair Roy, Craig Thomson, Murdo Parker
66 – Frank Molloy, Mark Cannon, Alan Young, Alex Roy, Robin Goodall,

Play Off on Saturday June 1 between 67s Peter Gallagher, Jim Maxwell, Charlie Paul, Raymond Barr, Craig Sweeney, Eddie Spence for the five remaining places.

Wednesday Willow Trophy 22 May 2013

May 22

Competition: Willow Trophy - May

CSS: 71

Entries inc juniors: 145

Section 1 (0 to 9)	Player	Gross	H/Cap	Net	£’s
*Scratch*	Steven Gordon	69			5
	Scores per Hole	3,4,3 4,6,4 2,4,6 = 36 3,4,4 4,4,4 3,4,3 = 33

1st	Steven Gordon	69	6	63	25
	Scores per Hole	3,4,3 4,6,4 2,4,6 = 36 3,4,4 4,4,4 3,4,3 = 33 3,5,4 3,4,5 3,4,5 = 36
2nd	Mark Scanlan	71	5	66	15
3rd	Peter Gallagher	76	7	69	10

Section 2 (10 to 15)	Player	Gross	H/Cap	Net	£’s
1st	Drew Bryceland	76	14	62	40
	Scores per Hole	6,3,3 4,5,4 4,4,6 = 39 3,5,5 3,5,5 3,4,4 = 37
2nd	George Deveney	79	13	66	25
3rd	Gordon McFarlane	79	12	67	16

Section 3 (16 to 28)	Player	Gross	H/Cap	Net	£’s
1st	Michael O’Brien	83	16	67	33
	Scores per Hole	4,5,3 5,6,5 3,6,6 = 43 3,6,4 3,5,6 5,5,3 = 40
2nd	Bob McGill	88	17	71	20
3rd	Pat Bryceland	88	16	72	13

2’s Results	£’s Per 2	Winners
Category A (0 to 5) 2 x 2’s required	11	No Winner - £55 Rollover to Saturday June 25
Category B (6 to 9) excluding 16th	7	David Casement Paul McAulay Alan Rodgers Steven Gordon Ian McDermid Stephen McCafferty
Category C (10 to15)	11	Joe Mitchell with two George Deveney Ian McFadyen Charlie Paul David Reid Mike McCartney Laurence Deveney
Category D (16 to 28)	60	Colin McDowall

Provost Trophy Saturday 18 May 2013

As usual, even though the weather was not at its best, we saw an excellent turnout for a very popular competition in the Provost Trophy. Donated in 1974 by the then Provost , members compete to win this fourball event and, in the process make a donation to the Provost's charity fund.

Over the years we have had numerous examples of players being disqualified with the best coming only a year ago when, and they shall remain nameless, a couple of members got their Nets mixed up with their Grosses. The very first hole was marked out as a four net five, only to be scratched out when they recalled it was really a three net four. You would have thought that a multiple champion of Whinhill and Big Donny would have known better!
Speculation is always rife as to what will qualify and, due to the weather, the cut off score crept up to sixty six. There were eight teams on this mark fighting for five places. Mark Scanlan and Stevie Mullan and Davie Docherty and Jim Maxwell will not be happy about having net fives at fifteen and seventeen to take them out the running. The most unlucky team to miss out were Charlie McDowell and Graham McIntyre who had a net five at the last and this was crucial when they were matched up against others on the same net back nine, followed by best last six, last three and finally last hole.

When the dust had settled and the draw (Ha! Ha!) was made, we were left with an interesting set of matches.
First out the hat was the team of Jim McNeil (Renfrewshire Champion of 2012) partnered by Donny Livingstone (sans Ian Wright). They are up against one of the winners from last year in Andy Jamieson along with Duncan Anderson who had a fantastic back nine of twenty seven. The experience of qualifying will be Jim and Donny's lasting memory of the event.

Stuart Alexander and the sleeping policeman should content themselves with having cleaned up in the sweep and twos as they will fall at the first against the other winner from last year, Craig Thomson along with Mark McCaig. Only a disqualification for their usual tardiness getting to the first tee on time will stop their progress.
2001 winners of the Provost, Gerry Donnachie and John Burns have managed to get to round three in the Daily Mail Foursomes defeating the Whinny earlier this week. Five up at one point ,they found themselves all square on sixteen and their opponents took the gas a tad when they missed a tiddler. It was up to John to knock in a twelve footer on eighteen to win one up. They play Ross McWilliams and Jamie Gallacher in what might be the most difficult game to call, but the young boys will prevail, possibly after a second game.
Gordon McTavish and Davie Bruce had a superb back nine of twenty nine and will feel confident of progressing further. However, they are up against old campaigners in Alex Roy and Cammy McLellan. Cammy has won this event on two occasions, both times partnered by Kenny Roy. We go with the experienced pair to go through comfortably.

The bottom half is slightly weaker of the two and opens up with a game between Scott Hunter and Simon Middleton against Gordon Parker and Jim Long. We can look no further than the fourteenth hole for the result of this game with the two youngsters going through.

Brian McCracken and Eddie Ptolomey are new to qualification and they are pitched against perennial qualifiers in Kenny Piper and Stuart Gallacher. Brian and Eddie had a net sixty six which featured a seven at fifteen and it is this statistic which makes me go for the new boys.

Another partnership which are unaccustomed to qualification are the the past captain's lackeys, cabin boy, Drew Bryceland and first mate, Bob McGill. The rarified atmosphere at this level will deprive them of the oxygen required against FTD (flatters to deceive) Neil Delussey and record holder with three wins the first of which was in 1986,John Houston.

In the final match we have recent Challenge Cup winner Davie Heron and last years Lyle medal winner Robert Johnstone. They are up against the winners of twenty years ago, Stevie Lapsley and Jimmy McAulay in a very interesting match. I would consider qualification this year from Stevie and Jimmy to be only a minor blip in an otherwise steep downward trajectory of their golfing careers and see Davie and Robert progressing.
The winner of the event overall will come from the top half for sure.

Next Saturday is a day where members are asked to donate £1 for CHAS and there will be at least four places in the golf day at Largs up for grabs. Good luck.

Player A	Player B	Front	Back	Total	Twos	Points

Duncan Anderson	Andy Jamieson	34	27	61	7 , 16	4

Scott Hunter	Simon Middleton	30	32	62	3 16	3

Stuart Alexander	Iain Jones	33	30	63	3,13,16	5

Alex Roy	Cameron McLellan	32	32	64
Jim McNeil	Donny Livingstone	31	33	64	7	3

Gordon McTavish	Davie Bruce	36	29	65	10	2
Gerry Donnachie	John Burns	34	31	65
Ross McWilliams	Jamie Gallacher	34	31	65	10	2
Drew Bryceland	Bob McGill	33	32	65
Gordon Parker	Jim Long	33	32	65
Davie Heron	Robert Johnstone	32	33	65	7	3

Stevie Lapsley	Jimmy McAulay	34	32	66	10	2
Neil Delussey	John Houston	34	32	66	10	2
Brian McCracken	Eddie Ptolomey	34	32	66
Charlie McDowell	Graham McIntyre	33	33	66
Craig Thomson	Mark McCaig	33	33	66	16	1
Kenny Piper	Stuart Gallacher	33	33	66
Davie Docherty	Jim Maxwell	32	34	66
Stephen Mullan	Mark Scanlan	32	34	66	16	1

Dave Terrey	Archie Wohlgemuth	35	32	67
Mark James	Matt Stewart	38	29	67
Willie Bell	John McCracken	34	33	67
Alan Wylie	John McGregor	34	33	67
Dennis McKelvie	Jackie Norman	32	35	67	3, 13	4
David Casement	Ergate Ayana	35	32	67
Simon Harley	Graeme McLellan	34	22	67

Stevie MacDonald	Archie Essler	36	32	68	10	2
David Scott	Chris McCallum	33	35	68
Matt Bonnar	James Harkness	33	35	68
John McDougall	Dugald Carmichael	32	36	68
Peter Harley	Duncan Gracie	32	36	68
David Barr	Stuart Munro	32	36	68
Blaine Jamieson	Mick O’Brien	32	36	68	3	2
James Glover	Adam Brown	31	37	68
David Carney	Gordon McFarlane	36	32	68

Hugh Lyden	Alan Hulme	36	33	69	16	1
Stevie Cameron	Jim Kerrigan	36	33	69
Mike Morrod	John Glen	37	32	69
Frank McCormick	Al Livingstone	38	31	69	10	2
Calum Gallagher	Peter Gallagher	35	34	69
Andy White	Graham Hunter	35	34	69
Charlie Marner	Alec Cloudsley	38	31	69	13	2
Joe Mitchell	Robert Wilkie	36	33	69
Stewart Reid	Tom McGhie	32	37	69	3	2

Robert Leith	Steven Orr	35	35	70	3	2
Rab Little	Eddie Spence	37	33	70
Chris Connelly	D J McKirdy	36	34	70
Jason Gillespie	Brian McLean	37	33	70
Paolo Spella	Robin Goodall	35	35	70

Jeff Mitchell	Scott Young	39	32	71	16	1
Sammy Macneill	Harry Paton	39	32	71
Alex Irving	Billy McConn	36	35	71
Frank Molloy	Alex Jasper	36	35	71

Pat Tinney	Mark McDaid	35	37	72
Pat Gallagher	Stephen Wilkie	37	35	72
Brian Stevenson	George Docherty	38	34	72	3	2

Ian McFadyen	Joe Bryant	35	38	73	16	1

David Jamieson	Bill Jamieson	40	34	74	16	1
Lawrie Wilson	Murdo Parker	37	37	74
Raymond Barr	Jim Kerr	35	39	74
George Anderson	John Leslie	39	35	74

Gordon Macquat	Brendan Harley	40	35	75
Kenny Parker	Bob Hughes	38	37	75

Ian McDermid	Bill McCorkell	38	38	76
Donald Petrie	Sammy Ball	41	35	76	16	1
Alan Young	Jim Fulton	39	38	77
Charlie Paul	Terry Dillon	39	39	78
Jim Gallagher	Jim Docherty	NR	NR	NR	NR	NR

Sweepstake	Players	Score	£’s each
1st	*Duncan Anderson Andy Jamieson*	61	50
2nd	*Scott Hunter Simon Middleton*	64	30
3rd	*Stuart Alexander Iain Jones*	64	20

Two’s	Players	£’s each
1st with 5 points	*Stuart Alexander Iain Jones*	50

2nd with 4 points	*Dennis McKelvie Jackie Norman*	25
	*Duncan Anderson Andy Jamieson*	25

Wednesday Sweepstake - 15 May 2013

May 15

Competition: Wednesday Sweep of May 15

CSS: 70

Entries inc juniors: 110

Section 1 (0 to 9)	Player	Gross	H/Cap	Net	£’s
*Scratch*	Graeme McLellan	69			5
	Scores per Hole	5,3,3 4,5,4 4,3,4 = 35 3,5,4 2,4,4 4,4,4 = 34

1st	Graeme McLellan	69	2	67	20
	Scores per Hole	5,3,3 4,5,4 4,3,4 = 35 3,5,4 2,4,4 4,4,4 = 34 3,5,4 3,4,5 3,4,5 = 36
2nd	David Carney	75	7	68	10
3rd	Charlie McDowell	75	7	68	10

Section 2 (10 to 15)	Player	Gross	H/Cap	Net	£’s
1st	Scott Dunlop	80	14	66	30
	Scores per Hole	4,4,3 5,6,5 3,4,5 = 39 4,5,6 4,4,6 3,5,4 = 41
2nd	Scott Young	80	14	66	30
3rd	Jeff Mitchell	79	12	67	14

Section 3 (16 to 28)	Player	Gross	H/Cap	Net	£’s
1st	Hugh McGarrigle	88	19	69	22
	Scores per Hole	7,6,4 5,4,5 5,5,4 = 45 4,5,6 4,6,5 4,5,4 = 43
2nd	Peter Harley	93	23	70	14
3rd	Murdo Parker	92	21	71	8

2’s Results	£’s Per 2	Winners
Category A (0 to 5) 2 x 2’s required	14	No Winner - £44 Rollover to Wednesday May 22
Category B (6 to 9) excluding 16th	10	Charlie McDowell with two Peter Gallagher Ian Doak
Category C (10 to15)	34	Robin Goodall Jeff Mitchell
Category D (16 to 28)	40	Peter Harley

Wednesday Sweepstake - 8 May 2013

May 8

Competition: Wednesday Sweep of May 8

CSS: 71

Entries inc juniors: 65

Section 1 (0 to 9)	Player	Gross	H/Cap	Net	£’s
*Scratch*	Stuart Gallacher	76			5
	Scores per Hole	4,5,3 5,5,5 4,5,5 = 41 4,5,3 4,4,4 3,4,4 = 35

1st	Charlie McDowell	78	7	71	5
	Scores per Hole	4,4,3 6,5,4 3,4,5 = 38 3,5,4 4,6,5 3,5,5 = 40 3,5,4 3,4,5 3,4,5 = 36
2nd	Stuart Gallacher	76	5	71	5
3rd	Mark Scanlan	77	5	72	3

Section 2 (10 to 15)	Player	Gross	H/Cap	Net	£’s
1st	Matt Bonnar	80	10	70	16
	Scores per Hole	4,4,4 7,6,4 4,5,5 = 43 3,5,5 2,4,5 3,5,5 = 37
2nd	Hugh Lyden	85	15	70	16
3rd	Graham Knox	83	12	71	8

Section 3 (16 to 28)	Player	Gross	H/Cap	Net	£’s
1st	Ian Moore	85	17	68	20
	Scores per Hole	4,5,4 5,6,6 6,4,6 = 46 3,5,5 2,5,6 3,5,5 = 39
2nd	Matt Stewart	94	24	70	12
3rd	Jackie Norman	95	24	71	8

2’s Results	£’s Per 2	Winners
Category A (0 to 5) 2 x 2’s required	5	No Winner - £30 Rollover to Saturday May 11
Category B (6 to 9) excluding 16th	10	No Winner - £10 Rollover to Saturday May 11
Category C (10 to15)	20	Matt Bonnar James Glover
Category D (16 to 28)	20	Ian Moore Colin McDowall

April Medal - Saturday 4 May 2013

May 4

Competition: Spring Meeting & April Medal

CSS: 71

Entries inc juniors: 150

Section 1 (0 to 9)	Player	Gross	H/Cap	Net	£’s
*Scratch*	Stephen Mullan	72			5
	Scores per Hole	4,4,3 5,4,5 4,4,5 = 38 3,4,5 3,3,4 3,4,4 = 34

1st	Stephen Mullan	72	3	69	30
	Scores per Hole	4,4,3 5,4,5 4,4,5 = 38 3,4,5 3,3,4 3,4,4 = 34 3,5,4 3,4,5 3,4,5 = 36
2nd	David Carney	78	8	70	16
3rd	Alan Rodgers	77	7	70	16

Section 2 (10 to 15)	Player	Gross	H/Cap	Net	£’s
1st	Brian McCracken	81	13	68	35
	Scores per Hole	5,4,3 7,5,5 4,5,5 = 43 4,4,4 5,4,6 2,5,4 = 38
2nd	David Bruce	79	11	68	35
3rd	Ross McWilliams	83	14	69	18

Section 3 (16 to 28)	Player	Gross	H/Cap	Net	£’s
1st	Dennis McKelvie	87	17	70	30
	Scores per Hole	5,5,3 5,6,6 4,4,5 = 43 4,6,6 4,5,5 3,5,6 = 44
2nd	John Ruddy	89	17	72	18
3rd	Michael O’Neill	94	21	73	12

2’s Results	£’s Per 2	Winners
Category A (0 to 5) 2 x 2’s required	25	No Winner - £25 Rollover to Wednesday May 8
Category B (6 to 9) excluding 16th	20	Alan Rodgers Paolo Spella
Category C (10 to15)	8	Robin Goodall Hugh Lyden Brian McCracken Jim Maxwell Jim Fleming Jim Docherty Robert Leith Gordon McFarlane Scott Coulter Blaine Jamieson Matt Bonnar
Category D (16 to 28)	60	Archie Essler

Wednesday Sweepstake - Wed 1 May 2013

Well done to Graeme McLellan who managed to get 3 twos. Almost the record.

Attached is the latest timesheet for Tennent Trophy.
If anyone wants their name on it, then just let me know if they are unable to get up to club.

George Deveney

May 1

Competition: Wednesday Sweepstake of May 1

CSS: 71

Entries inc juniors: 120

Section 1 (0 to 9)	Player	Gross	H/Cap	Net	£’s
*Scratch*	Graeme McLellan	70			5
	Scores per Hole	4,5,2 3,5,4 4,4,5 = 36 3,5,5 2,4,5 2,4,4 = 34
1st	Mark McCaig	73	5	68	15
	Scores per Hole	4,5,5 4,4,4 3,4,4 = 37 3,5,4 3,4,5 3,4,5 = 36
2nd	Graeme McLellan	70	2	68	15
3rd	John Burns	74	4	70	7

Section 2 (10 to 15)	Player	Gross	H/Cap	Net	£’s
1st	Ian McFadyen	81	15	66	41
	Scores per Hole	5,5,3 6,6,3 3,5,4 = 40 4,5,5 4,5,5 3,5,5 = 41
2nd	Glenn Greenan	80	12	68	25
3rd	Sat Patel	83	14	69	16

Section 3 (16 to 28)	Player	Gross	H/Cap	Net	£’s
1st	Michael O’Neill	91	22	69	24
	Scores per Hole	5,4,3 5,7,6 3,6,8 = 47 3,6,5 4,5,5 5,6,5 = 44
2nd	Hugh McGarrigle	89	17	72	14
3rd	Jim Kerrigan	100	27	73	9

2’s Results	£’s Per 2	Winners
Category A (0 to 5) 2 x 2’s required	45	Graeme McLellan with 3 twos. Includes rollover
Category B (6 to 9) excluding 16th	10	Stephen Cameron (1) Stephen McCafferty Ian Doak
Category C (10 to15)	26	Ergate Ayana William Crawford Raymond Barr
Category D (16 to 28)	45	Jackie Norman

The Tennent Trophy 2013 - 4 Ball Better Ball (Latest Entry Sheet)

Sunday May 26
Entry Fee - £12 for team of 2 players must to paid prior to names going on timesheet.
Prize Fund
1st - £200
2nd - £150
3rd - £100
4th - £50
5th - £20
In event of a tie, the Standard Countback Procedure shall apply.
Prizes shall take the form of Proshop vouchers.

0800	C McLellan	G McLellan	S Middleton	N Sheddden
0810
0820
0830	J Orr	A Jasper	P Gallagher	C Gallagher
0840
0850
0900
0910
0920	D Carney	R Leith	S Orr	G McFarlane
0930
0940	G Knox	G Knox	G Knox	G Knox
0950	J Gunn	J Gunn	J Gunn	J Gunn
1000	Stuart Munro (7) Dumbarton	Scott McLean (11) Dumbarton
1010	D Fulton	D Fulton	D Fulton	D Fulton
1020	A Gordon	S Downie	B Sutherland	C McGartland
1030	M Cafferty	Stewart	S Wilkie	E Spence
1040	Mitchell	M Little	Gallagher	Wilkie
1050
1100	Stewart Clark (14) Windyhill	Gordon Macdonald (6) Windyhill	J Houston	J Perry
1110	P Bryceland	P Bryceland	P Bryceland	P Bryceland
1120	P Bryceland	P Bryceland	P Bryceland	P Bryceland
1130	P Bryceland	P Bryceland	P Bryceland	P Bryceland
1140	P Bryceland	P Bryceland	P Bryceland	P Bryceland
1150	P Bryceland	P Bryceland	P Bryceland	P Bryceland
1200	James Bolling (13) Windyhill	Robert Learmonth (20) Windyhill	Campbell Craig (7) Windyhill	David Flavell (23) Windyhill
1210	C McDowell	G McIntyre	D Bonnar	J Harkness
1220	C Brown	L Deveney	J Gallacher	A Gallacher
1230
1240	I Jones	McDonald	S Alexander	J Burke
1250	I McDermid	P McLaughlin	B McCorkell	M Patterson
1300	B Stevenson	D Maloney	Mitchell	Mitchell
1310	A Roy	B Fitzpatrick	Docherty	Maxwell
1320	D Casement	P Daly Whinhill	S Lapsley	J Hart OR
1330	G Anderson	R McGregor	M O’Brien	M O’Brien
1340	Young	Young	Mc Shane	McShane
1350	McLoughlin	Blyth
1400	Dixon	Wright	McLaughlin	McPherson
1410	DJ McKirdy	Halbert
1420
1430
1440

Crawford Bogey - Saturday 27 April 2013

It was a real pleasure to see 170 members turning up for the Crawford Bogey on Saturday and this figure was only bettered twice in the whole of last year. Invariably, the format seems to bamboozle players even more than the machinations of our local bus company and its subsidiaries.

Arriving from Gourock in the past couple of weeks is new member David Scott and he is not taking any time to settle in. Four down to the course after the first four holes, David would fight back to finish level and be equal second in the third section. The vagaries of the Bogey competition meant that Robert Dolan would score every number between two and eight,have an extremely creditable back nine of forty three, playing off twenty five, run up a net 71, but still finish all square with the course and joint runner up in the section.

There would be a fair number of players who would also finish level in this form of matchplay. John Leslie had a very consistent round, Alistair Livingstone will rue the two fives to finish, John McEleny had a collapse for the last three holes of his front nine but fought back well,Alec Irving had his best round in years with an effective net sixty seven and third place in section two. The Roy Bhoys would always play this format in its purity and Alex missed a real chance by losing the sixteenth and eighteenth holes with bogeys in his level round. Alistair would put together the best scratch score of the day (no prize this week) and, having been three down after five holes fought back well for his level round. Unfortunately, he could not do this in the Challenge Cup against Jeff Mitchell and we have a request from Dennis for anyone looking for a partner for the foursomes to get in touch!

One down after twelve holes, Stevie MacDonald was thinking he was just having an ordinary round. However, a great run of one under par, with the highlight being a birdie at fifteen, for the last six holes meant that he finished one up on the course and would be the best in section one.

The format would obviously suit a player who runs up a big score at a single hole and is relatively consistent thereafter. Jason Gillespie is such a golfer. Aided by two strokes on the fourth, Jason would race to the turn with the equal best of the day, in four up.

A poor back nine and a lack of bottle at the last would result in a two up score and he also would win his section.
Sparks generally fly when Davie Docherty is around and he really got wired in this week, by winning both his first two holes and also his last two. He will be disappointed in not being able to connect them, as the meat in this particular sandwich had four par threes accompanied by too many bogies. Davie's two up result would mean a runners up spot.

As is always pointed out, trophies are not easy to win at Greenock, and James Glover will remember his first for a long time.

Everyone must have a piece of good fortune to capture any event and James' approach to the sixth was spot on. A foot lower and it would have hit the bank and fell back, a foot higher and the best it would have been was a third shot from way behind the green. It actually hit the bank at the front and jumped up onto the green and fell in the hole for a two!

Twelve handicapper James' statistics for the day make impressive reading. One over par for his front nine. One under for his six holes from four to nine, with a run of par, par, eagle, par, par from the fourth hole. 4 up on the course for his front nine, James would try his best to throw away his lead and he would eventually require something from the last two holes to clinch the deal as he was now only two up, with a poor back nine looming. An excellent par net birdie at seventeen and a net par at the last would mean a three up victory and win the "Bogey" by one. His net sixtyfour will mean a substantial cut in handicap.

Congratulations go to Gerry Donnachie and John Burns who have won through to the next round of the Daily Mail Foursomes.

This competition claims to have the highest number of clubs in the UK participating and is extremely prestigious. Somehow the guys are drawn in round two to play Whinhill (Out of all those thousands of clubs? Weird. They must have the same guy who makes our "Draws"). We shall keep an eye on their progress.

April 27

Competition: The Crawford Bogey

CSS: 69

Entries inc juniors: 170

Section 1 (0 to 9)	Player	Gross	H/Cap	Net	£’s
*Scratch*	Bogey Comp – No Scratch Prize
	Scores per Hole

1st	Stevie MacDonald	67	7	+1	40
	Scores per Hole	4,4,3 5,6,5 3,3,5 = 38 3,7,5 3,4,3 3,4,4 = 36
2nd	John B McEleny			0	20
3rd	Alistair Roy			0	20

Section 2 (10 to 15)	Player	Gross	H/Cap	Net	£’s
1st	James Glover	76	12	+3	53
	Scores per Hole	4,5,4 4,5,2 3,4,5 = 36 4,5,6 3,5,5 3,4,5 = 40
2nd	Davie Docherty			+2	33
3rd	Alex Irving			0	21

Section 3 (16 to 28)	Player	Gross	H/Cap	Net	£’s
1st	Jason Gillespie	88	20	+2	33
	Scores per Hole	4,4,4 5,7,4 3,5,5 = 41 6,6,5 4,6,7 3,4,6 = 47
2nd	David Scott			0	16
3rd	Robert Dolan			0	16

2’s Results	£’s Per 2	Winners
Category A (0 to 5) 2 x 2’s required	30	No Winner £30 Rollover to Wednesday April 1
Category B (6 to 9) excluding 16th	12	Alistair Livingstone Craig Love John Leslie Davie Heron Chris Connelly Scott Hunter
Category C (10 to15)	18	James Glover @ the 6th! Gordon Parker Stewart Reid James McNeil Rab McLaughlin Pat Tinney
Category D (16 to 28)	60	Robert Dolan
The Crawford Bogey Winner.		James Glover
Runner Up		Davie Docherty with a better inward half than Jason Gillespie

Wednesday Medal - 24 April 2013

April 24

Competition: Wednesday Medal - April

CSS: 72

Entries inc juniors: 110

Section 1 (0 to 9)	Player	Gross	H/Cap	Net	£’s
*Scratch*	Stephen Mullan	70			5
	Scores per Hole	4,4,4 5,5,3 4,4,4 = 37 3,4,5 2,3,4 3,5,4 = 33

1st	Stephen Mullan	70	3	67	20
	Scores per Hole	4,4,4 5,5,3 4,4,4 = 37 3,4,5 2,3,4 3,5,4 = 33 3,5,4 3,4,5 3,4,5 = 36
2nd	Stuart Gallacher	73	5	68	12
3rd	Alistair Roy	72	3	69	8

Section 2 (10 to 15)	Player	Gross	H/Cap	Net	£’s
1st	Joe Mitchell	83	12	71	35
	Scores per Hole	4,4,4 5,6,5 4,3,6 = 41 4,4,5 5,4,5 5,5,5 = 42
2nd	John Brennan	86	14	72	20
3rd	Raymond Barr	83	10	73	14

Section 3 (16 to 28)	Player	Gross	H/Cap	Net	£’s
1st	Joe Bryant	85	16	69	23
	Scores per Hole	6,5,5 5,5,5 3,4,5 = 43 4,5,4 4,5,6 4,6,4 = 42
2nd	Kris Johnstone	94	22	72	13
3rd	Charlie Williams	89	16	73	9

2’s Results	£’s Per 2	Winners
Category A (0 to 5) 2 x 2’s required	15	John Burns
Category B (6 to 9) excluding 16th	26	No winner – Rollover of £26 to Saturday April 27
Category C (10 to15)	35	Charlie Paul Raymond Barr
Category D (16 to 28)	100	Pat McLaughlin (Includes rollover)

Navy Cup Sat 20 April 2013

What a fantastic week for our club. We started last Sunday with the now hugely anticipated Winter League Masters where Charlie sold his soul, if ex cops have such a thing, around noon, to ensure there was reasonable weather to allow the event to go ahead. For anyone who was there, this day just improves with age and there were no winners or losers on the day, only winners, with the highly entertaining prizegiving and apres golf ensuring multiple sore heads on the Monday. Finance convenor Andy Jamieson rubbed his hands in glee at the bar takings.

Having kick-started the season, everyone now looked forward to the Navy Cup on the Saturday. It is always strange how the golfing gods redress any imbalance when the prizes are given out. Last year, Andy Jamieson and Craig Thomson scored 66 to run away with the Cup. This time around the winners would shoot twenty three shots more with an 89!

Last year's winners were definitely the lowest handicapped pairing and I believe this year's might be the highest, but fair play to them in their achievement.
There were really only four contending teams.

An excellent thirty eight out would see Paolo and Robin take a slight lead at the turn from Donald Petrie and Joe Ball who scored forty four. A double bogey at nine would be setback for Big Eck and Franky Bhoy Molloy, who are still recovering from losing their frontrunning reputations after being dragged round the course last week by renowned slowcoach Alex Roy in record time. Totally under the radar came Jackie Norman and Peter Harley who amassed a score of forty eight.

Coming home with a number of bogeys were Robin and Paolo with another thirtyeight. This would eventually mean a net score of 66.8 and would be a full shot away from a victory. Only they will know where this might have been made up.

Interestingly, the Roadrunners would have two 2s in the back nine but these were slighty spoiled by a number of bogeys and they would come home in thirty six, plus forty for a net 66.4 which would also be a shot away from winning. Their five at the last would have come from Ecks approach shot missing the green for sure. Frank should have gone in with the longer shot.

We were now left with four players whose total handicaps come to over ninety and are a testament to what electric trolleys and wee blue pills can do to keep you going. On a net basis the Don and Joe were five shots ahead at the turn. After twelve holes this lead had gone up by one. A six and seven against a three and five at the next two holes would see both teams more or less equal. Peter and Jackie would take a seven at fifteen. However, with the score of the day at a single hole, Donald and Joe took a four up the same hole. Inspector Morse couldnae work out how they managed that one! Their now three shot lead would become one when normal service was resumed with a five at sixteen and their determined opponents took a three. Both team would finish the last two holes with a five and a six to ensure the trophy would be won by only 0.2 of a shot and prove that the game can be exciting at all levels of the game.

Commiserations must go to Peter Harley who has now been runner up two years in a row, last time out with Duncan Gracie. He will probably partner Tommy Murphy next year to close the deal.
Congratulations go to Donald (whose once a year day was recently predicted?) and Joe, who have both won a couple of other trophies over their many years as members but celebrated as though it was their first (or last?).
Super Donald went ballistic, Joe just thought it was all simplistic.

Player A	Player B	Front	Back	Total	H/cap	Net	Twos	Points

Joe Ball	Donald Petrie	44	45	89	23	66	3	2

Jackie Norman	Peter Harley	48	41	89	22.8	66.2
Frank Molloy	Alex Jasper	40	36	76	9.6	66.4	13 16	3
Paolo Spella	Robin Goodall	38	38	76	9.2	66.8

Jim Mitchell	Laurence Deveney	41	39	80	12.8	67.2
Hughie Lyden	Gerry Donnachie	40	38	78	9.6	67.4
Ronnie Parker	Gordon Parker	43	38	81	13.4	67.6
Eddie Ptolomey	Brian McCracken	44	37	81	13.4	67.6	16	1
Brendan Harley	Graeme McLellan	36	35	71	3.2	67.8	3	2
Laurie Wilson	Murdo Parker	47	44	91	23.2	67.8

Alistair Livingstone	Frank McCormick	42	38	80	12	68
Paul McFarlane	Graham Knox	40	36	76	7.2	68.8

Davie Docherty	Jim Maxwell	43	38	81	11.8	69.2
Jason Gillespie	Brian McLean	45	46	91	21.6	69.4
Blaine Jamieson	Mick O’Brien	42	41	83	13.6	69.4
Alex Roy	Kenny Roy	37	37	74	4.4	69.6

Bob Hughes	Steven Cameron	45	37	82	11.8	70.2
Alistair Robertson	Alistair Roy	40	35	75	4.6	70.4
Jim Duncan	Alan Rodgers	38	43	81	10.6	70.5
John McDougall	Dugald Carmichael	43	43	86	15.4	70.6
Paul Mitchell	Kris Johnstone	40	43	83	12.4	70.6
John Burns	Neil Delussey	38	37	75	4.4	70.6
Mark James	Stewart Reid	42	40	82	11.2	70.8
Jamie Gallacher	Ross McWilliams	44	36	80	9.2	70.8
Craig Thomson	Andy Jamieson	41	31	72	1.2	70.8

Raymond Barr	Jim Kerr	42	39	81	10	71
Crawford Rae	David MacFarlane	40	32	72	1	71
Kenny Piper	Stuart Gallacher	40	38	78	7	71
Mike Morrod	John Glen	41	44	85	13.8	71.2
James Glover	Adam Brown	45	43	88	16.8	71.2	3	2
David Barr	Stuart Munro	42	40	82	10.8	71.2
Steven Mullan	Mark Scanlan	38	36	74	3.8	71.2
Brian Stevenson	Pat Tinney	42	40	82	10.8	71.2
Murdie Carmichael	Mark McCaig	39	35	74	2.6	71.4	10	2
Scott Coulter	Danny Maloney	49	39	88	16.4	71.6	13	2
Steven Orr	David Carney	39	39	78	6.4	71.6	16	1
John McCracken	Willie Bell	45	40	85	13.4	71.6

Alan Young	Jim Fulton	41	39	80	7.8	72.2
James Harkness	Matt Bonnar	41	41	82	9.4	72.6	13	2
Rab McLaughlin	Jim Elliott	44	41	85	12.2	72.8	3 16	3
Davie Heron	Glenn Greenan	42	41	83	10.2	72.8	3	2
Pat Gallagher	Robert Little	50	42	92	19.2	72.8

Sam Macneill	Harry Paton	48	44	92	18.8	73.2
Mark Cannon	Willie Kemp	40	40	80	6.8	73.2	3	2
Paddy Bryceland	Michael O’Neill	45	47	92	18.4	73.6

Owen Gallagher	Charlie Paul	43	40	83	9	74	16	1
Robert Leith	Gordon McFarlane	40	45	85	11	74
Billy Dixon	Sat Patel	47	41	88	14	74
Alan Wylie	John McGregor	47	40	87	12.8	74.2	16	1
Alan Currie	Alan Moore	43	41	84	9.8	74.2
Eragte Ayana	Bob McGill	47	42	89	14.6	74.4	16	1
Peter Gallagher	Pat McCormick	42	41	83	8.6	74.4
Ian Doak	Davie Robertson	42	42	84	9.6	74.4
Frank Bethel	Rab Murphy	46	44	90	15.4	74.6
Jeff Mitchell	Scott Young	44	43	87	12.4	74.6
Alan Cumming	Duncan Cameron	44	40	84	9.4	74.6

Stevie Downie	Charlie McGartland	50	47	97	22	75
Stevie Wilkie	Alistair Stewart	51	45	96	20.4	75.6
Duncan Anderson	Scott Hunter	43	39	82	6	76
Graham McIntyre	Charlie McDowell	43	42	85	8.2	76.8
Garry Bonnar	Alec Cloudsley	44	45	89	11.6	77.4
Matt Stewart	John McEleny	47	45	92	14.6	77.4

Mike McCartney	Graham Hunter	45	45	90	11.4	78.6
Duncan Gracie	Dennis McKelvie	50	47	97	18.2	78.8
Alex Irving	Billy McConn	47	47	94	15.2	78.8

JH Duncan	Drew Bryceland	48	43	91	11.8	79.2
Ian McDermid	Pat McLaughlin	45	45	90	10.4	79.6

Allan Gordon	Brian Sutherland	48	47	95	15	80
Stan Austin	Dave Terrey	45	46	91	10.6	80.4

Jim Gallagher	Jim Docherty	N/R
Steven Cameron	Don Shields	N/R

Alistair Campbell	David Bruce	Did	Not	Enter
John Leslie	Vinny Hurrell	Did	Not	Enter
Bob Hossack	Tom Paul	No	Card
Jim Fleming	Derek Leitch	No	Card

Competition: The Navy Cup 2013

	Player	Gross	H/Cap	Net	£’s

1st	Joe Ball & Donald Petrie	89	23	66	54 each
	Scores per Hole	5,4,2 6,5,6 4,5,7 = 44 4,5,3 6,7,4 5,5,6 = 45

2nd	Jackie Norman & Peter Harley	89	22.8	66.2	32 each
	Scores per Hole	6,5,3 6,6,5 5,6,6 = 48 3,5,4 3,5,7 3,6,5 = 41

3rd	Frank Molloy & Alex Jasper	76	9.6	66.4	20 each
	Scores per Hole	4,4,4 4,6,4 4,4,6 = 40 4,5,5 2,4,5 2,4,5 = 36

2’s Results	2’s Points	£’s
Frank Molloy & Alex Jasper Rab McLaughlin & Jim Elliot	3	£26 each

Joe Ball & Donald Petrie Brendan Harley & Graeme McLellan James Glover & Adam Brown Murdie Carmichael & Mark McCaig Scott Coulter & Danny Maloney Davie Heron & Glenn Greenan James Harkness & Matt Bonnar Mark Cannon & Willie Kemp	2	£7 each

Wednesday Sweepstake - Wed 10 April 2013

April 10

Competition: Wednesday Sweepstake of April 10

CSS: 70

Entries inc juniors: 120

Section 1 (0 to 9)	Player	Gross	H/Cap	Net	£’s
*Scratch*	Alan Young	73			5
	Scores per Hole	4,3,4 4,5,4 4,4,5 = 37 4,5,4 4,4,5 2,5,3 = 36

1st	Alan Young	73	7	66	19
	Scores per Hole	4,3,4 4,5,4 4,4,5 = 37 4,5,4 4,4,5 2,5,3 = 36 3,5,4 3,4,5 3,4,5 = 36
2nd	Ian Doak	76	9	67	9
3rd	Stuart Gallacher	73	6	67	9

Section 2 (10 to 15)	Player	Gross	H/Cap	Net	£’s
1st	Scott Young	79	15	64	35
	Scores per Hole	3,3,5 5,5,4 4,5,5 = 39 4,5,6 3,4,5 3,5,5 = 40
2nd	Duncan Cameron	76	11	65	20
3rd	James Glover	79	13	66	15

Section 3 (16 to 28)	Player	Gross	H/Cap	Net	£’s
1st	Ian Moore	84	18	66	30
	Scores per Hole	5,4,3 5,6,5 4,5,5 = 42 4,5,5 3,5,5 4,6,5 = 42
2nd	Alex Jasper	83	16	67	19
3rd	Jackie Norman	93	25	68	13

2’s Results	£’s Per 2	Winners
Category A (0 to 5) 2 x 2’s required	10	No Winner – Rollover of £35 to Saturday April 13
Category B (6 to 9) excluding 16th	10	Jim Orr Jim Fulton Ian Doak
Category C (10 to15)	23	Donny Livingstone Raymond Barr Jim Long
Category D (16 to 28)	16	Sammy Macneill Tom McGhie Gerry Bell Jason Gillespie

Saturday Sweepstake - Sat 6 April 2013

Saturday's competition looked like being frozen out by the weather, but, using a long lost ruling, there was an agreed delay to allow everyone a game, albeit a bit later than expected.

In section 3 it seemed that Donald Petrie was on course for his usual once a year mega score, having gone out in a respectable fortyfive. Twenty six handicapper Donald then managed seven double bogeys in his back nine for a net seventy. Jackie Norman and Danny Maloney both finished their last six holes in eight over par for net sixtynine.

They were all falling like horses in the National. To secure third place in the section it was obvious that something extraordinary was required. Having joined the club only recently and been given an eighteen handicap of what now seems magical proportions, David Scott was quite pleased to reach the turn in a fortyeight which included a nine at six! His first ever round would see a highlite of a two at the thirteenth, which was the only two of the day, followed by three straight pars to finish his round of net sixtyeight.

In second place we had young Jason Gillespie. Jason did not quite reach the predicted heights forecast last year and has been putting in a bit of practice over the Winter. A fairly steady round of net sixtyseven will see him moving in a positive direction towards a handicap in the teens. The winner of the section was Robin Goodall.

Unjustly disqualified last year for a breach of timekeeping (some might say), Robin was a bit bewildered as to when he should tee off yesterday morning. Seventeen handicapper Robin went out in an excellent six over par and came home in seven over. Having honed his matchplay skills in last year's Whinhill Seniors, Robin might be one to watch in the Challenge Cup.

In section two, ten handicapper Pat Tinney displayed some Winter League form, but completed his last four holes in five over par for a net sixty nine. Davie Docherty tried valiantly to squander a good front nine of thirtynine with a couple of double bogeys on the way home. A net sixty eight would keep him out the sweep by a shot.

Quite man, Blaine Jamieson, playing off twelve had an almost great round. A birdie on twelve, which will help his eclectic, was allied to another ten pars. His eight at the fourth hole was never quite shrugged off. With no difference in handicap,Charlie Marner also returned a net sixty seven. Charlie put his together with one of his most consistent rounds and he will be pleased to have broken eighty for the first time in a while. I do not think that Graham McIntyre who had four doubles in his round of net seventy two will be too scared of this in the Challenge Cup, however.

Ten pars for most players constitutes a good round and Matt Bonnar had exactly that. Two halves of thirty eight put a real gloss on Matt's scorecard and he had the most consistent round in the section on the day.
In the first section Stevie McCafferty and Stuart Gallacher get their seasons off to good starts with net sixtynines. A two over par front nine from Stuart was excellent form , but he finished with a five and a six. Stevie had eleven pars or better in his round of seventy six.

In third place came the Capitano ( If you thought the M & H was useless, then you are in for a real treat!). He thought he was auditioning for the job in the same fashion as "The Voice", only, when he spoke, everyone turned their chairs round with their backs to him!

Also can someone please let him know that when he gets a two, it does not need to be circled, starred and then astrerixed as the computer will pick it up. Anyway, two great halves of thirty nine and thirty eight saw his best round in years, but can confidently predict that bubble will be well burst at Archerfield next week.

In second place was Alec Cloudsley. Alec was only two over par for his first thirteen holes, but five over for his final five.

A great front nine of thirty six came from the winner, Davie Carney. With only a couple of minor blips, Davie came home in thirty eight for a superb net sixty six.

April 6

Competition: Saturday Sweepstake of April 6

CSS: 70

Entries inc juniors: 120

Section 1 (0 to 9)	Player	Gross	H/Cap	Net	£’s
*Scratch*	Craig Thomson	70			5
	Scores per Hole	4,4,3 4,5,4 4,4,5 = 37 3,3,3 3,4,3 3,5,6 = 33

1st	David Carney	74	8	66	30
	Scores per Hole	4,4,3 6,5,4 3,4,3 = 36 4,5,5 3,5,4 3,5,4 = 38 3,5,4 3,4,5 3,4,5 = 36
2nd	Alec Cloudsley	75	8	67	18
3rd	Jim Orr	77	9	68	12

Section 2 (10 to 15)	Player	Gross	H/Cap	Net	£’s
1st	Matt Bonnar	76	11	65	35
	Scores per Hole	5,4,4 5,5,4 3,4,4 = 38 4,5,4 3,5,5 3,5,4 = 38
2nd	Blaine Jamieson	79	12	67	17
3rd	Charlie Marner	79	12	67	17

Section 3 (16 to 28)	Player	Gross	H/Cap	Net	£’s
1st	Robin Goodall	83	17	66	28
	Scores per Hole	5,4,4 6,5,5 3,5,4 = 42 4,5,5 3,5,6 4,5,5 = 42
2nd	Jason Gillespie	88	21	67	17
3rd	David Scott	86	18	68	11

2’s Results	£’s Per 2	Winners
Category A (0 to 5) 2 x 2’s required	22	No Winner – Rollover of £25 to Wednesday April 10
Category B (6 to 9) excluding 16th	40	Stephen Cameron (1)
Category C (10 to15)	14	Charlie Paul Drew Bryceland Robert Leith Allan Gordon Charlie Marner
Category D (16 to 28)	50	David Scott

Wed Medal 3 April 201

Good early season form by Duncan Cameron. Big Eck took the gas after a great tee shot on 16 and missed a two footer for a share of £45.

George Deveney M&H Convenor

April 3

Competition: Wednesday Sweepstake of April 3

CSS: 70

Entries inc juniors: 80

Section 1 (0 to 9)	Player	Gross	H/Cap	Net	£’s
*Scratch*	John Burns	74			5
	Scores per Hole	4,4,3 5,4,5 5,4,5 = 39 4,4,4 3,4,4 3,4,5 = 35

1st	Ian Doak	79	9	70	8
	Scores per Hole	4,4,3 4,5,4 4,5,5 = 38 4,4,6 4,5,6 3,5,4 = 41 3,5,4 3,4,5 3,4,5 = 36
2nd	John Burns	74	4	70	8
3rd	Alan Young	78	7	71	4

Section 2 (10 to 15)	Player	Gross	H/Cap	Net	£’s
1st	Duncan Cameron	77	12	65	22
	Scores per Hole	4,4,3 5,5,4 5,6,5 = 41 4,5,3 3,5,5 3,5,3 = 36
2nd	DJ McKirdy	77	11	66	11
3rd	Jim McNeil	77	11	66	11

Section 3 (16 to 28)	Player	Gross	H/Cap	Net	£’s
1st	Ian Moore	85	19	66	21
	Scores per Hole	4,5,3 6,6,4 5,4,5 = 42 4,5,6 4,5,5 4,5,5 = 43
2nd	Alex Jasper	83	17	66	21
3rd	Matt Stewart	91	24	67	10

2’s Results	£’s Per 2	Winners
Category A (0 to 5) 2 x 2’s required	3	No Winner – Rollover of £3 to Saturday April 6
Category B (6 to 9) excluding 16th	20	Alan Young
Category C (10 to15)	9	Alan Moore DJ McKirdy David Houston James Glover Raymond Barr
Category D (16 to 28)	90	Mark Wilkinson (Includes rollover from 2012)

Texas Scramble 30 March 2013

After the previous debacle of a division of eight for the Scramble the self appointed so called M & H convenor made the handicap calculation of six (after he deleted around ninety e mails advising him to do so! Advice on removing this digit was taken on board.)

This time around the top three places were a mid handicap team, the extremely low team and, quite nicely, a team of players all with plus twenty handicaps. A good spread.

Creditable performances were seen throughout the day, but a great front nine of twenty nine was returned by Eddie Spence, Stevie McCafferty and Stevie Wilkie as a threeball. It was a bit too much to hope to keep it going in the back nine.

Two other teams who went out in twenty nine were those of Pat Tinney, Brendan Harley, Graeme McLellan and Cameron McLellan and that of Craig Brown, Mark Scanlan, Stephen Mullan and Chris Conelly. Both teams came home in a four under back nine, but, such is the difficulty of winning one of these scrambles, they were still three strokes off a winning margin.

Brilliantly, in third place were the team of Albert Finch, Robert Dolan, Joe Ball and Michael O'Neill. Their combined handicaps came to ninetyfour, and they actually lost 47 strokes from their total handicap with the runners up losing only five and the winners thirtyeight. For these guys to get reasonable balls in play, with the imposition of a mandatory tee shot every six holes is nothing short of exceptional. They started with a birdie and then had a their best run with a par at the fourth followed by a birdie at five. Absolutely tremendous.

The runners up were the team of Craig Thomson, Mark McCaig and David MacFarlane and, in a strange move which would backfire, they decided to drop Crawford Rae and draft in Murdie Carmichael, who himself had been dumped from his previous group. Undoubtedly, they had the best ever front nine for this event (or any other) with twentysix shots. They were eight under par for the first six holes, with eagles at holes five and six and birdies at all the rest! An inward nine of twentyseven was no less impressive for a record total of fiftythree and also a new high for the number of twos, with five. I am sure Crawford would have got them first place though.

The winning team of Davie Docherty, Jim Maxwell, John Ellis and Brian Stevenson had a more consistent round, starting well with three birdies in the first five holes and eventually being out in thirtyone. After twelve holes they were actually, in net terms, at least two shots behind a team who would finish out their last six holes in five under par. Something special was required. Fantastically, they birdied every hole over the final six and would race across the finishing line, not like some who were crowned champions on the day who coughed and spluttered their way and fell over.

We now move on to some strokeplay golf, staring with the medal on Wednesday, with 'preferred lies' still in operation.

Greenock GC also recently had their first competitive team match in the Mail on Sunday Classic. This is a five man team, playing individual matchplay games.

The team were up against a strong Gourock side, which was chosen by a real M & H organiser, who put out his club's 2012 matchplay winners. Where was Andy Jamieson (Challenge Cup), Paul McAulay (Reid Rose Bowl), even Robert Johnstone (Lyle Medal)? What about most improved player in Jamie Gallacher? What about Stephen Downie who won a shed load of sweep cash and must be able to play under pressure? Spence Trophy winner? Montford Trophy winner? Perhaps the actual club champion, Al Roy, might have got a call? No, none of these were deemed suitable. Absolute madness.

Instead we rolled up with the following assortment of Craig Brown, Chris Connelly, Scott Coulter, Scott Hossack and Peter Gallagher, some of whom had never been to Gourock before except for a bevvy! Under crystal clear instructions regarding the format and the order of play, they also totally ignored these tactics and went out in the order which suited them and this would prove decisive.

Out first was former Gourock member Peter Gallagher who secured a comfortable three and two win. Craig Brown was up next and he also managed an excellent victory of two and one. There are no easy wins when playing away from home and they should be congratulated. Scott Coulter performed admirably by getting a half and even had a chance of the win on the last green but the putt slipped by. This meant, that with three matches gone, we were leading two and a half to a half point. Scott Hossack was unfortunate in losing his game narrowly and now we were only a point ahead. In the last game was Chris Connelly who had never played Gourock before and he was at the receiving end of a bit of a hammering and trotted in from the course and back to the clubhouse not understanding the significance of being the last man out.

In the event of a tied game, the last match plays sudden death to see which club progresses. So, after letting his girlfriend know he was on his way home, Chris was told to get ready to back out. How stressful this must have been, to represent your club and your teammates in the golfing equivalent of a penalty shootout. Not only that, he was on the receiving end of either a text or a call from the girlfriend every two minutes asking how long he would be! An under pressure half at the first, followed by another at the second meant his phone was almost in meltdown. An incredible half at the third resulted in a call from a divorce lawyer. Eventually, when he got as far away from the clubhouse as possible, at the fourth extra, he succumbed to a par. His final interaction with the phone was a call to 'Matchmakers.com'. I am sure Chris will remember this for a long time and he actually done really well under the circumstances.

Player A	Player B	Player C	Player D	Front 9	Back 9	Total	Net	2s
D Docherty	J Maxwell	B Stevenson	J Ellis	31	28	59	51.7	16
C Thomson	M Carmichael	D MacFarlane	M McCaig	26	27	53	52	3,6,10,13,16
M O’Neill	J Ball	A Finch	R Dolan	34	34	68	52.3
G Parker	W Kemp	K Murphy	M Cannon	30	30	60	53.3	3, 16
C McLellan	G McLellan	B Harley	P Tinney	29	29	58	54.5	7, 10
M Scanlan	C Connelly	C Brown	S Mullan	29	29	58	54.5	3, 7, 16
D Carney	S Orr	R Leith	J Gillespie	32	31	63	55.3	3, 13
S Austin	F Bethel	T Paul	R Murphy	32	35	67	55.4	3
R McWilliams	S Barr	S Munro	D Barr	32	31	63	55.5	3, 7, 16
I Doak	D Leitch	P Mitchell	D Robertson	31	32	63	55.7	13
S McCafferty	S Wilkie	E Spence		29	33	62	55.8	3, 7
D McKelvie	D Gracie	P Harley	J Norman	34	36	70	55.8	3, 16
J Glover	B McLean	A Brown	S Downie	36	33	69	55.8	13, 16
C Marner	A Cloudsley	C Paul	K Gimour	32	31	63	55.8	16
P Gallagher	S Lapsley	M McDaid	P McCormick	31	31	62	56.2	3, 13
J Mitchell	S Coulter	R Ballantyne	J Gallagher	30	33	63	56.2
C McDowell	G McIntyre	J Harkness	M Bonnar	32	31	63	57	3
M Wilkinson	A Kinniburgh	I Wright	D Livingstone	34	34	68	57.8
J Duncan	J Glen	A Rodgers	N McCloy	34	32	66	58.3	13
N Delussey	A Stewart	R Little	P Gallagher	35	35	70	58.5
W Dixon	A Gunn	S McDowall	R McLaughlin	34	33	67	58.5
B Jamieson	I Jamieson	R Pickett	M O’Brien	34	32	66	58.7	16
F McCormick	A Essler	A Livingstone	C Love	34	34	68	59.2
J Stark	A Jasper	M Morrod		33	33	66	59.5
D Anderson	P McAulay	S Hunter	A Jamieson	33	29	62	59.6	10
W Bell	G Anderson	J Leslie	V Hurrell	34	35	69	59.7
H Lyden	G Donnachie	K Piper	S Gallacher	32	33	65	59.8
A Wylie	JH Duncan	D Bryceland	R McGill	34	34	68	60.2
D Petrie	J McGregor	M Parker	E Ayana	37	37	74	60.7
S Cameron	D Heron	R Johnstone	D Shields	34	34	68	61.2	16
A Moore	S Macneill	R Goodall		34	35	69	61.5	13
P McLaughlin	J Docherty	J Gallagher		33	36	69	61.6
J Burns	J Mitchell	I Jones	T McLoughlin	DID	NOT	SIGN	IN
G Knox	D Bruce	A Campbell	G McTavish	DID	NOT	SIGN	IN
M James	S reid	T McGhie		DID	NOT	SIGN	IN

Sweepstake	Players	Score	H/Cap	Net	Sweep
1st	*D Docherty J Maxwell B Stevenson J Ellis*	59	*7.3*	*51.7*	22
2nd	*C Thomson D MacFarlane M Carmichael M McCaig*	53	1	52	13
3rd	*A Finch J Ball R Dolan M O‘Neill*	65	*15.7*	*52.3*	10

Card of Winners

1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9		10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18		Total
3	3	3	4	4	4	3	3	4	31	3	4	4	3	3	3	2	3	3	28	59

Card of Runners Up

1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9		10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18		Total
3	3	2	3	3	2	3	3	4	26	2	4	4	2	3	4	2	3	3	27	53

TWOs	Players	Twos @	Points	Sweep
1st	*C Thomson D MacFarlane M Carmichael M McCaig*	*3 6 10 13 16*	12	22
2nd	*C Connelly S Mullan M Scanlan C Brown*	*3 7 16*	6	13
3rd	*D Barr R McWilliams S Barr S Munro*	*3 7 16*	6	10

Saturday 16 March - Texas Scramble

When we have a Texas Scramble it is like Groundhog Day upon examining the winners. It is as common and as expected as the old "Rangers have been awarded a penalty" statement. The low men predictably carve this event up.
The 3 winning teams' handicaps came to a combined 5.2 and that includes Mark McCaig being drafted in to boost the actual winners handicap due to Murdie doing a bit of social climbing and peeheeing with the upper echelons of the club.
Ten out of the 12 players in the first three groups are category one golfers and the other two play off six. The next Scramble will be tougher for them, I predict.
Starting with an amazing seven straight birdies were Duncan Anderson, Scott Hunter, Paul McAulay (Reid Rose Bowl 2012) and Andy Jamieson (Challenge Cup 2012) and looked to have this sewn up. Out in 28 must have been the stuff of dreams. However, the actual dream team (I wonder if a nightmare can be considered a dream?) of Mark McCaig, Crawford Rae, David MacFarlane and Craig Thomson, matched them. It was now a two team race with the Roy Bhoys and Paul McFarlane putting up a great attempt to catch them but their outward half of thirty left them too much to do even though they came home in seven under par . Duncan's team started the back nine with four birdies from the opening five holes, the exception being a par at eleven to be on the fifteenth tee eleven under par. With Duncan's boss' team (which might have been a factor in the final analysis?) matching them, it was all down to the final four holes, albeit Duncan had a handicap advantage of 1.3 strokes, whatever that looks like. A level par finish from the young bucks was never going to be good enough against a team with multiple championships in their locker. Crawford put the icing on the cake by bringing his team home with birdies at 15, 16, 17 and a par at eighteen to win the sweep money by net 0.5. Fantastic stuff.
This week's competition is really hard in that the team of four need to have three counting scores at each hole. Tough.
A gentle reminder regarding the matchplay competitions. The draw will be made very early in April, so please get your name down asap.

Player A	Player B	Player C	Player D	Front 9	Back 9	Total	Net	2s
C Thomson	C Rae	D MacFarlane	M McCaig	28	27	55	54.1	3,7,10,16
D Anderson	S Hunter	P McAulay	A Jamieson	28	29	57	54.6	3,7,10,13
P McFarlane	K Roy	Ali Roy	Alex Roy	30	27	57	55.1	3,10,13,16
H Lyden	S Gallacher	G Donnachie	K Piper	32	28	60	55.5	10, 16
J Fleming	D Robertson	D Leitch	I Doak	32	30	62	55.6	10, 13
Jim Mitchell	R Ballantyne	S Coulter	J Gallacher	31	30	61	55.9
C Brown	L Deveney	C Connelly	J Elliott	32	29	61	55.9	3
S Orr	D Carney	R Leith	G McFarlane	30	31	61	56.2
N McCloy	R Goodall	A Rodgers	P Gallagher	31	32	63	56.5	3, 10
A Brands	G McLellan	P Tinney	B Harley	32	28	60	57	10, 13, 16
G Anderson	V Hurrell	B Jamieson	W Bell	35	30	65	57.4	13, 16
A Currie	J Currie	A Moore	H Paton	31	32	63	57.5	7, 16
M Carmichael	J Orr	J Stark	A Jasper	31	31	62	57.5	3
C McDowell	M Bonnar	G McIntyre	J Harkness	32	30	62	57.5	13
I McDermid	P McLaughlin	J Docherty	J Gallagher	32	32	64	57.7	3, 13, 16
J Gillespie	J Glover	A Brown	B McLean	34	34	68	58	3
M Stewart	T McGhie	M James	J McEleny	33	33	66	58.1	3
G Knox	J Gunn	D Keenan	M Taylor	32	34	66	58.2	3 16
A Wylie	JH Duncan	D Bryceland	B McGill	31	33	64	58.2	3 16
F McCormick	C Love	A Essler	A Livingstone	33	32	65	58.4	10, 16
D Maloney	S Barr	S Munro	D Barr	32	33	65	58.6	3
S Young	J Kerr	A Young	R Barr	33	31	64	58.7	10, 16
L Wilson	D Petrie	M Parker	J McGregor	36	35	71	59
J Long	G Boyd	W Kemp	K Murphy	32	34	66	59.1
D Heron	R Johnstone	F Bethel	R Murphy	34	32	66	59.2
R McLaughlin	S Blue	DJ McKirdy	A Gunn	33	34	67	59.4	16
J Maxwell	B Stevenson	J Ellis	D Docherty	33	32	65	59.5	3, 10
N Delussey	J Burns	T McLoughlin	J Houston	31	32	63	59.9	7
C McCallum	D Williams	R McWilliams	A Scott	33	35	68	60.4	3
J Leslie	R Pickett	M O’Brien		33	33	66	60.8	16
D terrey	A Wohlgemuth	S Austin	C Mclellan	34	32	66	61	3
R Wilkie	S Wilkie	A Stewart	S McCafferty	35	35	70	62.2
D McKelvie	J Norman	D Gracie	P Harley	37	36	73	62.4
J Ball	A Finch	E Ayana		36	37	73	62.8
Joe Mitchell	E Spence	R Little	C Jones	DID	NOT	SIGN	IN

Sweepstake	Players	Score	H/Cap	Net	Sweep
1st	*C Thomson D MacFarlane C Rae M McCaig*	55	*0.9*	*54.1*	25
2nd	*D Anderson P McAulay A Jamieson S Hunter*	57	*2.4*	*54.6*	15
3rd	*Ali Roy Alex Roy Kenny Roy Paul McFarlane*	57	*1.9*	*55.1*	10

Card of Winners

1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9		10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18		Total
3	3	2	4	4	3	2	3	4	28	2	4	3	3	3	3	2	3	4	27	55

TWOs	Players	Twos @	Points	Sweep
1st	*D Anderson P McAulay A Jamieson S Hunter*	*3 7 10 13*	9	25
2nd	*C Thomson D MacFarlane C Rae M McCaig*	*3 7 10 16*	8	15
3rd	*Ali Roy Alex Roy Kenny Roy Paul McFarlane*	*3 10 13 16*	7	10

Saturday March 9 Fourball Event

Having deciphered the cards for this week's competition, we find that almost 120 members took part in the fourball. That equates to 600 attempts at a two at the par threes. We got 9! Anyway, looking at last year's results it came to light that Jim Docherty and Jim Gallagher shot a net 65 to be in fourth place. How they managed to repeat this in 2013 is incredible! Another pair who will be disappointed is that of Jim Orr and John Stark who returned a sixty six but we can only guess about the fives at seven and fourteen.
Looking at one of the joint winners' cards, the immediate thought about S Lapsley and P Gallagher was that it would have been nice to be a fly on the wall after they run up a six at the eleventh! Turns out it was Pat Gallagher.
Danny Maloney and Brian Stevenson had an almost error free round for their 64, barring a five at fourteen, and both will feature heavily this year. Definitely the best round of the day was from Jason Gillespie and Brian McLean who shrugged off losing 11 strokes from their playing handicaps to record their 64.

I would like to point out that the refurbished grass banks at some bunkers are the actual areas where free relief is given if a player's ball lands in them. The bunkers are in play.
If a player lands in a bunker he must play out. If he does so and lands within any painted off embankments then he may take relief or play the ball as it lies. He never drops the ball back into the hazard.

The entry sheets for the Challenge Cup and Captain's Foursomes are posted in locker room. If anyone is totally unable to get up to put their name down then let me know and I will do so.

Player A	Player B	Front	Back	Total	Twos	Points

Pat Gallagher	Stephen Lapsley	33	31	64
Danny Maloney	Brian Stevenson	32	32	64	13	2
Jason Gillespie	Brian McLean	33	31	64

Jim Gallagher	Jim Docherty	32	33	65

Jim Orr	John Stark	32	34	66
Ian McDermid	Pat McLaughlin	34	32	66
Jim Mitchell	Jamie Gallacher	32	34	66
Matt Stewart	Stewart Reid	34	32	66

Allan Young	Scott Young	33	34	67
William Bell	John Leslie	33	34	67
Tom McGhie	John McEleny	33	34	67
Robert Leith	Gordon McFarlane	33	34	67	16	1

Murdie Carmichael	David MacFarlane	34	34	68	16	1
Graham Knox	Alistair Campbell	34	34	68
Jeff Mitchell	John Burns	36	32	68
Steven Gordon	Tom McLoughlin	35	33	68
Brendan Harley	Graeme McLellan	34	34	68
Cammy McLellan	Archie Wohlgemuth	32	36	68
Stuart Gallacher	Kenny Piper	34	34	68
Hughie Lyden	Gerry Donnachie	34	34	68
Charlie Marner	Owen Gallagher	34	34	68	13, 16	3
Matt Bonnar	James Harkness	33	35	68
Graeme McIntyre	Charlie McDowell	35	33	68	13	2

Jim Duncan	Robin Goodall	34	35	69
Craig Thomson	Mark McCaig	35	34	69	10	2
Simon Middleton	Andy Jamieson	31	38	69
Mick O’Brien	Blaine Jamieson	34	35	69

Donald Petrie	John McGregor	33	37	70
Jim Duncan	Drew Bryceland	35	35	70
Albert Finch	Joe Ball	35	35	70
Davie Heron	Robert Johnstone	35	35	70
Mark Cannon	Gordon Parker	33	37	70

Joe Mitchell	Eddie Spence	33	38	71
Frank McCormick	Al Livingstone	33	38	71
David Keenan	Mark Taylor	32	39	71
Alan Currie	Pat Bryceland	38	33	71

Alan Wylie	Bob McGill	35	37	72
Nicol McCloy	John Glen	34	38	72	16	1

Ross Ballantyne	Scott Coulter	40	33	73
Stevie MacDonald	Archie Essler	37	36	73
Dave Terrey	Stan Austin	35	38	73

Steven Orr	David Carney	40	34	74
Andy Gunn	Stevie McDowall	36	38	74

Frank Molloy	Alex Jasper	36	39	75
Lawrie Wilson	Murdie Parker	40	35	75
Raymond Barr	Tommy McShane	37	38	75
Robert Dolan	Mick O’Neil	37	38	75
Harry Paton	Sammy Macneill	33	42	75

DJ McKirdy	Laurence Deveney	40	36	76
Richie Pickett	Vinny Hurrell	37	39	76

Jackie Norman	Duncan Gracie	37	40	77
Stevie Wilkie		35	42	77

Jim Fleming	Derek Leitch	36	43	79	16	1

George Anderson	Ian Jamieson	NR
Ian Doak		NR
Craig Brown	Chris Connelly	NR
Ross McWilliams	David Williams	NR
Alan Scott	Chris McCallum	NR
Jim Elliott	Stuart Blue	NR
Donny Livingstone	Alan Kinniburgh	NR
Ross McWilliams	David Williams	NR
Alan Scott	Chris McCallum	NR
James Glover	Adam Brown	DID	NOT	SIGN	IN
Alex Cloudsley	Dennis McKelvie	DID	NOT	SIGN	IN
Scott Hossack	Bob Hossack	DID	NOT	SIGN	IN

4 Man Strokeplay - Saturday 2 March 2013
Gents,
the season got off to a terrific start last Saturday with a very healthy field taking advantage of the excellent weather. This is exactly the same as last year where we had a good March and slowly disintegrated.
There was no doubt as to the winning team. They had the best front nine of the day and also the best back nine by a mile. On his own, Jamie Gallacher scored a net 61 and that was with a lost ball at the sixth. He took a drive and a wedge down 9. He chipped in from off the green at 13. At the 16th he was within 3 feet but 2 of his team beat him to the punch where Jim Mitchell and Ross Ballantyne got their putts in first.

Another fantastic way to start your season was achieved by Davie Heron. A drive up the first was followed by holing his second shot. He can only go downhill from there!

There will be some photos appearing on the website of a few worthies on the opening day.

Player A	Player B	Player C	Player D	Front	Back	Total	Twos	Points
J Mitchell	S Coulter	J Gallacher	R Ballantyne	60	56	116	13,16,16	4
P McFarlane	Ali Roy	K Roy	Alex Roy	60	62	122	3rd	2
N Delussey	J Mitchell	S Gordon	J Burns	69	60	129	13, 16,16	4
M Cannon	J Long	M Wilkinson	G Parker	67	62	129	-	-
P Gallagher	S Lapsley	M McDaid	P McCormick	64	62	129	-	-
D Docherty	B Stevenson	D Heron	J Maxwell	67	62	129	1st	5
H Lyden	G Donnachie	K Piper	S Gallacher	65	64	129	-	-
G Knox	J Gunn	D Keenan	M Taylor	66	64	130	-	-
J Gallagher	I McDermid	J Docherty	P McLaughlin	68	63	131	-	-
B Jamieson	I Jamieson	J Leslie	G Anderson	67	64	131	-	-
C Love	S McDonald	F McCormick	A Livingstone	66	65	131	16	1
D Maloney	D Barr	S Munro	S Barr	67	65	132	-	-
C Thomson	C Rae	M McCaig	D MacFarlane	65	67	132	-	-
I Doak	A Cloudsley	D Leitch	D Robertson	64	68	132	-	-
C McDowell	M Bonnar	J Harkness	G McIntyre	68	65	133	-	-
J Gillespie	A Brown	J Glover	B McLean	70	64	134	13	2
V Hurrell	R Pickett	D Bruce	M O’Brien	71	63	134	-	-
J Mitchell	E Spence	P Gallagher	R Little	70	65	135	-	-
C Brown	T McLoughlin	C Connelly	S Hossack	67	68	135	-	-
O Gallagher	C Marner	C Paul	K Gilmour	67	68	135	-	-
S macneill	H Paton	A Essler	A Currie	67	68	135	-	-
S McCafferty	A Stewart	S Wilkie	R Wilkie	67	69	136	16	1
J Duncan	J Glen	A Rodgers	N McCloy	70	66	136	-	-
G Leith	A Scott	R McWilliams	D Williams	68	68	136	7	3
G Deveney	J Orr	A Jasper	J Stark	69	68	137	-	-
L Wilson	M Parker	D Petrie	J McGregor	69	68	137	-	-
J Duncan	D Bryceland	B McGill	A Wylie	69	69	138	-	-
A Gunn	J Elliott	R McLaughlin	S McDowall	68	70	138	-	-
M O’Neill	A Irving	W McConn	G Irving	69	69	138	-	-
D McKelvie	J Norman	D Gracie	R Johnstone	72	67	139	-	-
D Carney	G McFarlane	R Leith	S Orr	71	68	139	10, 10	4
M Stewart	T McGhee	M James	J McEleny	70	76	146	-	-
S Young	T McShane	B McGhee	-	76	74	150	-	-
A Young	J Fulton	R Barr	D Livingstone	-	-	-	7	3

Winners Scorecard = 8,6,6 6,7,7 5,8,7 = 60 6,6,6 5,8,7 4,7,7 = 56

Sweep	Players	Front	Back	Total	Sweep £’s
1st	*Jim Mitchell Ross Ballantyne Scott Coulter Jamie Gallacher*	60	56	*116*	24
2nd	*Alex Roy Kenny Roy Paul McFarlane Ali Roy*	60	62	*122*	14
3rd	*Neil Delussey Steve Gordon Jeff Mitchell John Burns*	69	60	*129*	10

Two’s	Players	£’s each
1st with 5 points	*Davie Heron Davie Docherty Jim Maxwell Brian Stevenson*	24
2nd with 4 points	*David Carney Robert Leith Steven Orr Gordon McFarlane*	8
2nd with 4 points	*Neil Delussey Steve Gordon Jeff Mitchell John Burns*	8
2nd with 4 points	*Jim Mitchell Ross Ballantyne Scott Coulter Jamie Gallacher*	8

George Deveney

Saturday Sweepm -

Results 2013

Charlie McDowell

Mark Cannon
Christopher Connelly

Ergate Ayana

Charlie Paul

Robert Johnstone

Robert Leith

Brian Stevenson

Jim Long

Stan Austin

Bill McCorkell

Kenny Parker
Simon Harley

Laurence Deveney
Hugh Lyden

Jim McNeil

John McGregor

Derek Leitch

Scott Hossack

Saturday Sweepm -

Results 2013

Charlie McDowell

Mark Cannon Christopher Connelly

Ergate Ayana

Charlie Paul

Robert Johnstone

Robert Leith

Brian Stevenson

Jim Long

Stan Austin

Bill McCorkell

Kenny Parker Simon Harley

Laurence Deveney Hugh Lyden

Jim McNeil

John McGregor

Derek Leitch

Scott Hossack

Mark Cannon
Christopher Connelly

Kenny Parker
Simon Harley

Laurence Deveney
Hugh Lyden