CLUB CHAMPIONSHIP AND ROSEBOWL CHAMPIONSHIP

All this week our qualifiers have been battling it out for a place on Finals Day. 8 Ladies qualified in each section. The eight qualifiers for the Club championship were:

Alex Bushby
Dawn Butchart
Sandy Bushby
Sheena Scott
Jane Taylor
Judy Goodfellow
Annette Grewar
Marion Robertson

Quarters Results:
Alex bt Marion, Jane bt Sheena, Sandy bt Judy, Dawn bt Annette

Semi Results
Alex bt Jane & Dawn bt Sandy

Finalists
Alex and Dawn

Rosebowl Finalist
Chris Sturgis
Lesley Haynes
Edith Ralston
Jenny Groom
Sheena Peacock
Sally Fenner
Rhoda Fraser
Mary West

Quarters Results
Chris bt Mary, Jenny bt Sheena, Sally bt Edith, Rhoda bt Lesley

Semi Results
Chris bt Jenny & Sally bt Rhoda

Finalists
Chris and Sally

Well done to all and good luck to the finalists.

Finals day will take place on July 7th where a texas scramble will take place. Please come along for a game of golf and support our finalists. Sign in list in on the mixed board.

IT COULD ONLY HAPPEN TO ERIC!

I know that David was trying to introduce new forms of wild life to the pond at the 5th however I don't think that Eric's golf bag was quite what he had in mind!

Eric Gray and his playing partners Frank Moran, David Robinson and Graham Haynes were on the white tee at the 5th when Eric's bag suddenly took off, it did stop for a moment (bit of a tease) then took off again and even with cries of stop - or words like that- from Eric, it continued on its merry way straight into the new part of the pond. It took a driver to pull it close enough to edge to enable Eric to pull it from its watery grave. Once the bag and trolley were out all that was left in the water was the battery. It took a 3 iron and Graham Haynes fishing prowess to hook that. (No pun intended). However the ball that Eric played from the Tee after the incident is still in the pond!! Even Graham couldn't save that one! Surprisingly after a bit of a cough and a splutter the trolley was in perfect working order.

Alex, Rhoda and myself were playing behind and with the help of Alex and Frank's phone cameras we were able to capture the moment!! Talk about being in the right place at the right time!!

Photos Courtesy of giggling girls and laughing out loud guys!!

ASHFORD TROPHY

Sorry the results were not in the papers today but I forgot to take them home last night and as I didn't get home until after 10pm I couldn't go back. I can only tell you that the winner was Alexandra Bushby with a tremendous score of 71 scratch 68 nett. Fantastic scoring. This score brings Alex down to 2.4, well done! The CSS was 72.

I will do a full report when I get the result sheet.

SCRATCH LEAGUE TEAM RETAIN 100% RECORD

Strathmore Scratch League Team of Alexandra Bushby, Dawn Butchart, Sandy Bushby, Sheena Scott and Jane Taylor held on their 100% record with a win against Pitlochry at home. Unfortunately due to unforeseen circumstances, Pitlochry were one member down which meant Jane did not have to play and was automatically awarded a win and along with 3 further wins from Dawn, Sandy and Sheena, Strathmore won the match 4 - 1. Well done all.

Well done all.

Strathmore have already played 4 of our 7 matches. Our next match is away to Auchterarder on July 2nd.

Best of luck!!

BIRTE AND FANNY LOSE OUT AT PANMURE

Our Daily Mail Foursomes representatives Birte Buckett and Fanny Christie failed to make it to the next stages of the national competition when they lost, away, to Panmure Barry yesterday.

Birte and Fanny have done extremely well to reach the 4th round of the competition which is the furthest Strathmore have achieved to date. Although both are disappointed they should also be very proud of themselves - we are!!

Well done to you both.

LGU MEDAL AND CHAMPIONSHIP QUALIFIERS

Is this really June??? Jumpers and cosy trousers were the order of the day! However there were some good scores returned namely Alexandra with a scratch 75 and Jenny Groom with nett 70. Well done! Full results are as follows

Scratch
Alexandra Bushby 75

Silver
Alexandra Bushby (3) 72
Judy Goodfellow (12) 76
Dawn Butchart (5) 77

Bronze
Jenny Groom (27) 70
Chris Sturgis (25) 71
Jennifer Livingstone (32) 74

Jenny and Chris both had a well deserved cut to their handicap.
Jenny was 27 now 25.8 playing 26
Chris was 25 now 24.0 playing 24

Well done all.
The draw for the Championships will be done very soon. If you do not want to be included in the draw you MUST inform either Jenny or Dawn immediately.

MURRAYSHALL COUNTY MEETING

Perth and Kinross Ladies County Golf Association held a county meeting at Murrayshall yesterday. There were 75 entries and Strathmore players produced the two best scratch scores of the day. Dawn Butchart was the winner of the scratch with a 74 closely followed by Alexandra Bushby with a 76. The par and CSS was 73.

Dawn also won the Silver Handicap section of the King James VI ladies open on Sunday with a net 69. Both these scores have reduced her handicap to 4.9.

Well done to both our players.

SCOTT TROPHY (3)

Fantastic golf conditions on Saturday for the third round of the Scott trophy. First scratch went to Alexandra Bushby with 76 and winner of the handicap was Lesley Haynes with 71 closely followed by Emily Aird with 72.

CSS was 72 and the scissors were out for Lesley whose handicap has been reduced by another shot.

Well done.

LGU Medal/Qualifier Club Championship & Rosebowl
Wednesday 13th June
The draw is as follows
08.52J. Goodfellow A. Grewar
09.00J. Merry J. Douglas
09.07S. Peacock C. Tinker S. Fenner
09.15 M. Menzies G. Allardice C. Sturgis
09.22 F. Christie L. Haynes A. MacLachlan
09.30 R. Fraser R. Wight W. Nicoll
09.37 M. McDiarmid J. McCouig C. McNab
09.45 M. Strachan J. Livingston E. Ralston
09.52 M. Nicol M. Woodcraft M. Knight
10.00 G. Gray L. Ross H. Ross
Lunchtime
12.00 S.Bushby M. Robertson
12.00 M. West J. Groom
Evening
5.15A. Bushby D. Butchart
5.22 S. Scott D. Tinker R. McGeoghegan

NO LATE ENTRIES ALLOWED FOR THIS COMPETITION

GOOD LUCK MEGAN

The best of luck to junior member Megan Aird has been selected for North Division team to compete in the Girls Inter Divisional Matches at Ballumbie Castle Golf Club this weekend. Megan was nominated by Perth and Kinross Ladies County Golf Association - play well Megan! The girls selected must have a handicap of no lower than 8 and then over the weekend will play against the other Scottish divisions.

The full team is:
Megan Aird (P & K)
Samantha Leslie (Aberdeenshire);
Chloe McLeod (Northern Counties)

Kirsty Moss, Heather Peebles and Ashley Smith (all Angus)

LADIES OPEN

What a glorious day we had for our ladies open yesterday. The weather was fantastic, one of the best days of the year so far. There certainly was no excuse at all as was proved by some very low scores.

The winner of the Silver scratch and the overall winner of the Turner Trophy was Susan Arbuckle (Panmure Barry) with 77.

The winner of 'Best Strathmore Lady Trophy' was Jane Douglas with a magnificent score of nett 65. Jane also won the best Bronze Scratch Score of 86.

Hot on Jane's heels was Joan Merry with a nett 66. Joan went on to win the Silver

Handicap Section. Well done Joan.

Strathmore ladies Wilma Nicoll and Mary Menzies also scored well. Wilma had a nett 70 and won 2nd place in the Bronze handicap section. Mary scored a scratch 94 and won 3rd place in the Bronze scratch section. Lesley Haynes and Dawn Butchart won the Bronze and Silver nearest the pins respectively and Sally Fenner won Bronze longest driver.

Well done.

The full results were as follows:

CSS 72

Silver Scratch

Susan Arbuckle (Panmure Barry) 77

Gillian Wallace (Glenisla) 79

Caroline Dunbar (Aberfeldy) 80 bih

Silver Handicap

Joan Merry (Strathmore) (19) 66

M Ferguson (Bonnybridge) (15) 72bih

Barbara Lyburn (Blairgowrie) (18) 72

Bronze Scratch

Jane Douglas (Strathmore) 86

M Aitken (Dunning) 93

Mary Menzies (Strathmore) 94

Bronze Handicap

J Blair (Dunning) (24) 64

Wilma Nicol (Strathmore) (28) 70 bih

C Simpson (Bridge of Allan) (25) 70

Longest Drive (Silver)

Caroline Dunbar (Aberfeldy)

Longest Drive (Bronze)

Sally Fenner (Strathmore)

Nearest The Pin (Silver)

Dawn Butchart (Strathmore)

Nearest the Pin (Bronze)

Lesley Haynes (Strathmore)

Well done to everybody and many thanks to all our lady members who came along and helped on the day, without this help we could not have had such a successful day, also Pete Tinker and his senior gents who gave up their morning to help with the starting and parking. Many thanks also go to the Centre Staff who coped extremely well with a very unexpected power cut. Which lasted from 1pm until 6.30pm. Such a pity for the kitchen staff who were then limited to the food they could prepare. Thanks also to the Green Keeping Staff who had the course in beautiful condition for our day.

Our Captain, Jane, put a lot of work and effort into the day and our thanks also go to her for arranging such a sucessful day. (You can now relax for a week or two Jane!)

Scott Trophy Round (3)
Saturday 9th June
The draw is as follows
12.00L. Ross D. Butchart C. Sturgis G. Allardice
12.07A. Grewar J.Groom R. Fraser E. Aird
12.15 S. Fenner M. Robertson A. Bushby R. McGeoghegan
12.20L. Haynes J. Moran S. Bushby C. McNab

LADIES OPEN

The Ladies Section will be running a raffle tomorrow during our Ladies Open and we would very much appreciate any prizes that you can donate. Either leave them with Jane in the office or bring them along on the day.

Thank you all very much.

AREN'T THEY GORGEOUS!!

Couldn't resist taking these picture of our latest addition to 'the pond'! Unfortunately could only see 3 chicks yesterday and I have counted 4 before. I can only hope he was camera shy!!

Hope you like to the photo's.

KINPURNIE CUP

The Mixed Kinpurnie Cup took place this Sunday and with another large turnout it was a super day. The winners of the trophy by virtue of a better inward half was Sandy Busbhy and her brother Ian Elvers with 39 points. Well done both. In second place was Iain and Dawn Butchart also 39.

Many thanks once again to Marion and Iain for organising the day and also the centre for a lovely menu.