Huge congratulations to Honorary member Louise Duncan who today secured her Ladies European Tour playing card for 2023
Having come through qualifying to get to the final stages, Louise was the only Scot to make it through to the 5th and final round at La Manga today. Full playing rights were only on offer for the top 20 in the final field of 60. Louise secured her place with a birdie at the final hole to finish joint 17th.
Congratulations Louise and all the best for 2023
Congratulations to Julie Mackie, Troon ladies, who recorded a hole in one at the 10th hole, Portland, during her recent winter foursomes tie.
This was Julie's second ace having holed out at the 12th hole at Auchterarder a number of years ago.
The AGM was held at Irvine golf club this year where captain Ann Wallace introduced her new Vice Captain, Sara Bottomley. Also coming on to committee are Liz Wilson (President) and Linda Grieve
It was nice to welcome our Junior members for the prize giving and they are pictured below with their prizes. Junior secretary Gaynor Russell, is retiring this year, she will be missed but we have 2 new recruits who will be taking over the role, Lesley Barker and Vicki Cameron
In the picture below our juniors are joined by the other prize winners from the senior events this year
Freya Russell (Royal Troon) has continued her good form by winning the Stephen Gallacher Foundation Fairmont Girls open by 5 strokes. The highlight being an impressive second round 5 under par 69. Congratulations Freya
Eighty seven ladies enjoyed a great day at Western Gailes. The weather was dry but conditions were tough given the cold wind.
The winning team was Elza Chapman, Katherine Eland and Lesley Barker with a great score of 55 points. In second place, on the bih, was Yvonne Park, Joanne Sharp and Jill West with 48 and third was Janette Stark, Sheila Shedden and Jane Gillen.
There were some teams of 2 and the best score from them came from Maria Watson and Linda McDonald with 35 points.
Well done ladies
One or two pictures from the day -
Six girls braved the elements on Sunday at Troon Portland to play for the Junior Championship.
Very well done to Moyra Withycombe and Susan McKenzie who picked up the bronze medal today at the commonwealth spoons.
It was very close at the top with the girls missing out on the overall win by one shot and losing out on the silver medal by a better inward half. Well done to both!
Full results can be found on the scottish golf app/website
Good luck to the following pairings who are playing in the commonwealth spoons competition at Crieff golf club -
Moyra Withycombe and Susan Mckenzie
Debbie Peberdy and Sarah Eckford
The final of the McCall Salver was played on a lovely sunny day at Barassie golf club today. The finalists were Angela Lyden from Skelmorlie and Margaret Dalziel from Loudoun.
Angela (left) and Margaret (right) on the 1st tee
The game started with a friendly half on the first before Angela went ahead winning the 2nd. Both players found trouble at the 3rd but walked off with another half before Margaret had a lovely 2 at the 4th to square the match.
A few more holes changed hands before Margaret took a one hole advantage into the back 9. Wins at 10 and 12 gave her a 3 hole lead, Angela did win 13 but lost 14 then halves at 15 and 16 were enough for Margaret to win 3&2.
It was a lovely game played in a very sporting manner. Thanks go to Kilmarnock Barassie gc for courtesy and well done Margaret
The final of this years McCall Salver will take place at Kilmarnock Barassie Golf Club on Sunday 28 August, tee off 1400
The finalists are Angela Lyden, Skelmorlie and Margaret Dalziel, Loudoun. Good luck ladies
Spectators welcome
Tammi Gray (Irvine GC) obviously enjoys playing at Prestwick St Cuthbert! Having won the ALCGA junior centenary trophy there earlier this season she recently won again at their open day.
On a beautiful summer day 65 ladies enjoyed the weather and the views at Largs Golf Club for our August meeting.
Winners of the coronation medals this year both came from Skelmorlie Golf Club! Well done to Gillian Pollock, silver, with 85 - 10 = 75 and to Elspeth Howie, bronze, with 102 - 32 = 70
The best scratch, from those not already in the prizes, was Jocelyn Faris, West Kilbride
Full results can be found on HowdidIdo
Congratulations to Freya Russell (Royal Troon) on winning the Scottish Girls under 16 championship at Forfar yesterday
Congratulations to Freya Russell (Royal Troon) who represented Scotland this week in the Girls Home Internationals at Downfield Golf Course.
There was a new look this year with a combined team of girls and boys but sadly it was not Scotland's week with losses against Ireland and England and a drawn match with Wales.
Freya played in 6 matches winning 3 points for Scotland
Louise Duncan makes her professional debut today at the Womens Scottish open which is being played at Dundonald links
Well done to Katie Ronnie (Barassie) winning the scratch prize in the West girls medal at Milngavie on Monday
Congratulations to Pat Cairns Smith who had her 100th birthday last Thursday (July 21st)
Pat is pictured here with her fellow team members when Ayrshire won the Scotiish County finals in 1970.
Best wishes from all at ALCGA
Pat seated in the centre
Freya Russell (Royal Troon) is in Finland this weekend as part of the Scottish team playing in the European Young Masters.
More information and scoring can be found on the European Golf Association website -
www.ega-golf.ch
Louise Milligan (Irvine) won the best scratch prize at the West Kilbride junior open!
In the recent Scottish Girls Championship at Auchterarder, Ayrshire had 2 qualifiers after the 36 hole stroke play.
Freya Russell (Royal Troon) had 2 excellent rounds to qualify on 3 over par.
Also joining her in the matchplay was Caitlyn Bilham (Irvine)
Freya lost in the quarter finals but Caitlyn went on to compete in the semi finals. Sadly, both girls lost out to eventual winner Freya Constable but a great tournament nonetheless. Well done girls
Due to call offs there are now spaces in the draw for the annual Betty Singleton trophy at Prestwick St Nicholas Golf Club.
This is a 2 ball foursome event on Friday 29 July. Contact Sheila McDougall for more information -
Sheilamcdougall2@aol.co.uk
Louise Milligan, Orla Moran and Katie Ronnie contested the junior St Nicholas trophy at Ayr Belleisle golf course.
The winner was Katie Ronnie with an excellent score of 84 - 12 = 72
Ballochmyle Golf Club are hosting a 9 hole open competition followed by Afternoon tea on Sunday 10 July from 1300 - 1500
Entry to the event is £12 and can be made via the Scottish Golf App
There will be prizes for 1st and 2nd place in 3 handicap categories - up to 20, 20-36 and 36+
An enjoyable afternoon and good to support one of our Ayrshire Clubs.
A lovely day at Hilton Park on Monday for this years junior Inter County matches.
It wasn't our year this year but the girls had a great day and tried their very best.
Congratulations to the winning Renfrewshire team who were in excellent form.
Thanks to D&A for hosting, to all the junior Secretaries for looking after the girls and making this event happen and especially Gaynor for all her had work with the Ayrshire Juniors.
Good luck to the Ayrshire members playing in the scottish seniors championship at Stranraer golf club - Linda Grieve, Liz Keohone, Lorna Ronnie and Joanne Sharp
Good luck to Louise Duncan (West Kilbride) who starts the defence of her British Amateur title at Hunstanton Golf Club in Norfolk today.
Live scoring is available on the R&A website
Another tense afternoon at Strathaven watching the singles matches against D&A.
The girls pulled through with 3 wins out of 6 to hey an overall win today by 6 points to 3.
Deciding match tomorrow against lanarkshire who have also had 2 wins out of 2
After the morning foursomes on day one of the Jamboree, Ayrshire take a 2-1 lead into the afternoon singers against Renfrewshire.
Two games were halved after a convincing win by Sarah Ramsay and Jenny Linklater.
The final of the Inter County Foursomes took place at Elderslie today. Unfortunately due to illness and to car trouble we didn't have an entry in the scratch event but congratulations to Jocelyn Faris and Jane Gillen who collected 2nd prize in the handicap section with a nett 73
Thanks to Renfrewshire ladies for hosting the event this year.
Fifty five ladies enjoyed a glorious day at Routenburn yesterday, the views were much admired and the scores were very good!
1st Silver Jess Blackwood (Barassie) 86 - 18 = 68 bih
2nd Silver Allison Jarvie (Caprington) 81 - 13 = 68
1st Bronze Elspeth Howie (Skelmorlie) 96 - 28 = 68
2nd Bronze Angela Lyden (Skelmorlie) 92 - 23 = 69
Best Scratch and winner of the Eleanor Taylor Trophy was Linda McDonald (Barassie) 81 bih
Full results on Howdidido
The following ladies have qualified for the McCall Salver, Bronze match play -
Margaret Dalziel (Loudoun)
Margaret Gillies (West Kilbride)
Elspeth Howie (Skelmorlie)
Grace Kennedy (Skelmorlie)
Angela Lyden (Skelmorlie)
Lesley McClain (West Kilbride)
Linda Pearson (Caprington)
Sandra Shackleton (Irvine)
Well done to all and good luck in the knock out
Congratulations to Luisa Gibson (Irvine) on winning the Clark Rosebowl on Sunday at the Scottish Womens Amateur Championship held at Trump Aberdeen.
In the mornings semi final Luisa beat Megan Robb by 3&2 and, in a close final, she beat Carinne Taylor by 2&1
Luisa will be part of the Ayrshire team teeing it up at Strathaven next week in the Inter County Matches, lets hope her great form continues.
Well done Luisa
On a day of high scoring in Aberdeen, congratulations to Freya Russell (Royal Troon) who has qualified for the match play stages of the Scottish Women's Amateur championship.
Freya finished in 9th place out of a field of 78 with rounds of 75 and 77 which left her on 8 over par.
Commiserations to Luisa Gibson who just missed out on a place in tomorrow's first flight match play having finished on 13 over par in 19th place. However she has qualified for the second flight and will play in the Clark rosebowl.
Well done to all the other Ayrshire players for completing the stroke play rounds today.
Good luck to the following members who are playing at the Scottish Women's Amateur Championship this week.
Sarah Ramsay, Luisa Gibson, Joanne Sharp, Lorna Ronnie, Freya Russell, Rachel Foster and Liz Keohone
The event is being held at Trump International, Aberdeen with 2 rounds of stroke play on Friday with the top 16 qualifiers progressing to the match play stages on Saturday and Sunday.
The following have been selected to represent Ayrshire at the West of Scotland Inter County matches at Strathaven on June 13, 14 and 15 -
Rachel Foster (Prestwick St Nicholas)
Luisa Gibson (Irvine GC)
Katy Hill (Prestwick St Cuthbert)
Jenny Linklater (Largs)
Sarah Ramsay (West Kilbride)
Lorna Ronnie (Barassie)
Freya Russell (Royal Troon)
Joanne Sharp (Barassie)
Reserve Roz Purdom (Prestwick St Nicholas)
Congratulations to all those selected and good luck in the matches.
Spectators welcome, especially wearing green and yellow!!
Joyce Cooper, Troon Ladies, sadly passed away on Monday morning after a short illness. Joyce was a Past Captain and President of ALCGA, in addition she was Chairman and President of the Scottish Ladies Golfing Association and also Chairman of the Ladies Golf Union.
Picture here on the far right, Joyce, in her capacity as SLGA President
A presentation was made to Louise Duncan recently at W.K.G.C. in order to publicly recognise the wonderful golfing achievements by Louise in 2021. The Club Captain, for the benefit of any new members, recounted these successes.
Winner of the Women's British Amateur Championship
Top 10 finish and winner of the Smyth Salver in the AIG Women's Open
GB & I Curtis Cup Team Member
Invitation to play in Augusta National Women's Amateur event in Georgia and the US Open in 2022 and added that Louise has been selected once again to represent GB & I in the Curtis Cup this year.
As a past Chairman of the L.G.U. Nancy Chisholm was invited to make the presentation. Nancy was honoured to be asked and alluded to a connection, in that she had a similar presentation to make to Stirling golfer Alison Rose who was the last Scottish winner of the British in 1997 when she was Chairman and, much to Nancy's delight, Alison also won the Scottish Amateur Championship in the same year here at West Kilbride! Nancy added that West Kilbride is very much on the map with talented lady golfers, with Sarah Ramsay from our club being the current Ayrshire Ladies Champion. Nancy thanked Lady Convenor Catherine Garrett who researched to produce this picture and Sarah Ramsay for spending many hours on the computer to put together this lasting memory for Louise. Nancy closed by wishing Louise all the very best in the Curtis Cup matches at Merion Golf Club, U.S in June and indeed with her own golfing career ahead.
Congratulations to Lorna Ronnie (Barassie) winning the 2nd handicap prize at the West of Scotland Championship with a score of 77 - 6 = 71. Lorna only just missed out on a scratch prize.
The winner was Jennifer Rankine (Renfrewshire) with an excellent one over par round of 72
Thanks to all the ladies who played, Jean MacIntyre for running the competition, Ann Mungall (Lanarkshire) and Donna Jackson (Renfrewshire) for their help and to Glasgow Gailes golf club for looking after everybody on and off the course.
Tricky conditions for the Foursomes at Darley yesterday but the weather was perhaps better than forecast other than the evening girls who got quite wet. There was a good turnout of 32 pairs in total and the full list of scores can be found on Howdidido
Qualifiers for the Inter County Final at Elderslie -
Scratch
Linda Grieve (Irvine) and Sara Bottomley (Troon Ladies) 89 bih
Debbie Peberdy and Sarah Eckford (both Barassie) 89
Handicap
Moyra Withycombe (St Nicholas) and Susan McKenzie (Balfron) 93 - 19 = 74
Sheila Adams (Loudoun) and Julie Mackie (Troon Ladies) 95 - 18 = 77
Jane Gillen and Jocelyn Faris (both West Kilbride) 94 - 15 = 79
Liz Wilson (Troon Ladies) and Linda McDonald (Barassie) 91 - 11 = 80
Qualifiers for the Commonwealth Spoons at Crieff -
Moyra and Susan
Sheila and Julie
Debbie and Sarah
Well done ladies and good luck
Here is the link to the draw for the West of Scotland Championship which is being held at Glasgow Gailes Golf Club on Sunday 8 May. The draw is subject to change so all players should ensure they are at the club in plenty of time.
Good luck to all the Ayrshire ladies playing
https://us.docs.wps.com/l/sIJ6TldkhxvrEkwY
Congratulations to Louise Duncan on being selected for her second Curtis Cup appearance.
After making her debut in the event at Conwy, Wales last year Louise will join fellow Scot, Hannah Darling, at Merion Golf Club, Pennsylvania in June to represent GB&I against the American team.
Congratulations Louise and good luck to the team.
Luisa Gibson, Irvine, has won the Athlete of the week at her Iowa Community College. At the recent 36 hole Susie Benning Maxwell Tournament she hit every green in regulation! With rounds of 71 and 73 Luisa finished at level par for the event and tied second, only one shot behind the winner. She led the field in scoring on the Par 4s and tied with 2 others for the lead in Pars having 26 in total.
Well done Luisa, look forward to seeing you when you get home for the summer
Due to the high demand for places at this years West of Scotland Championship the closing date for entries has been brought forward to Sunday 25 April
For anyone who is still thinking of entering, copy and paste the link below to complete your entry -
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdt42p9e1Y0wn6hVG50nNBwe8Df5MohPZ6hEp7KOlMfxIX1SA/viewform?usp=sf_link
The final of the Winter Foursomes was played on a reasonably calm, dry day at the Irvine Golf Club.
Both teams were up for the challenge although nerves were evident in the first couple of holes. Audrey and Liz got off to a great start going 2 up after 2 but Ann and Susan managed to win the 3rd to go back to 1 down. It was nip and tuck and the game stayed at 1 up to Liz and Audrey at the turn.
Susan and Ann found their putting strokes on the inward half, making it very difficult for Liz and Audrey to match their opponents form. Gradually momentum began to swing in favour of Ann and Susan. Liz and Audrey weren’t helped by having some unfortunate bounces from good shots. In the end some lovely shots to the green and great putts meant the game finished at the 15th.
Well played both teams and congratulations to Ann and Susan for going one better than last year when they were the beaten finalists.
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Thank you to the ladies who came to support our finalists, Irvine Golf Club for courtesy of the course and Helen Craig for refereeing
It is with great sadness that news came of the death of Past Captain, Ella Aitken.
Ella, a member of West Kilbride Golf Club, was 93 years old and a long time supporter of the County. She enjoyed catching up with all her golfing friends including the Past County Captains lunch while she was still able. A lovely lady who will be sadly missed.
Ayrshire are hosting the West of Scotland closed championship at Glasgow Gailes GC on Sunday 8th May 2022 this year.
If you have a handicap of 20.4 or less then you can enter.
Entry Fee is £10, payable by cheque or BACS transfer (information will be sent to entrants).
For Conditions of the competition and paper entry form click on the link below
https://us.docworkspace.com/d/sIIeTldkhg6bpkQY
For the Online Entry copy and paste the following -
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdt42p9e1Y0wn6hVG50nNBwe8Df5MohPZ6hEp7KOlMfxIX1SA/viewform?usp=sf_link
A great Championship at Prestwick this year with a new Champion, Sarah Ramsay, winning at the 15th hole yesterday against Roz Purdom.
Roz and Sarah on the 1st tee with Club Captain Pete Graham
The conditions were trying all week but at least it was dry for the most part on the final day. In the morning semi final matches top qualifier Joanne Sharp lost out to Roz Purdom on the 16th hole and Sarah Ramsay overcame 2017 champion Liz Keohone at the 15th.
Both girls found bunkers on the first hole of the final and walked off with a half, a nice par 3 at the 2nd put Roz one up but Sarah won the next 2 holes to go ahead. Sarah then won 6 and 8 to go 3 holes up at the turn. A couple of halves at the start of the back 9 before the girls reached the long tricky 12th hole. Playing particularly long into the wind Sarah hit a superb third shot onto the green to stretch her lead to 4. Roz then got a hole back at 13 but found the bunker on 14 which allowed Sarah to go 4 up with 4 to play. A half at the tricky 15th was enough for Sarah to win her first County Championship.
Sarah receiving her trophy from the Club Captain
Top left Joanne Sharp and right Liz Keohone losing semi finalists with Roz, bottom left, and Sarah
