Good luck to Past County Captains Joanne Sharp and Alex Glennie, both Barassie, who are playing in the Scottish Senior Women's Open Championship.
The tournament is being played at Aboyne Golf Club this week.
Congratulations Freya
Freya Russell, Royal Troon, has been selected to represent Scotland in the European Girls Team Championship. The event takes place at the Golf Club d'Hossegor, France from 11 to 15 July 2023.
Congratulations Freya and good luck to the Scottish team.
Kennedy Salver Results
Our junior girls enjoyed a great day at Airdrie GC playing in the annual Kennedy Salver match against Renfrewshire, Lanarkshire and Dunbaron & Argyll.
After the morning foursomes, Ayrshire were tied with D&A for the lead with both teams gaining 2 points. However D&A proved too strong in the afternoon and won the salver with 7 points. Ayrshire tied second with Renfrewshire on 4.5 points and Lanarkshire finished with 2 points.
Kennedy Salver
Good luck to our Junior girls who are taking part in their own West of Scotland Inter County matches at Airdrie golf club tomorrow, playing for the Kennedy Salver.
The Ayrshire team is as follows -
Emerald Rose Bowyer
Tammi Grady
Kirty Howe
Orla Morran
Sandi Rogerson
Katie Ronnie
Mya Wilson
Good luck girls
Inter County Matches
A very exciting Jamboree this year at Williamwood Golf Club with the outcome being decided on a count back after 3 great days of competitive golf.
Our Ayrshire team performed so well given that it was quite a new group of players after 4 changes from the team that went to Stathaven last year.
On day one we played D&A and were unlucky to only get one point out of 3 from the morning foursomes. The singles went our way by 3.5 to 2.5 so a halved match overall. Renfrewshire and Lanarkshire also halved their match so it was all to play for on day 2.
Day 2 and our opponents were last years winners Lanarkshire. It was a disappointing start with a whitewash for Lanarkshire in the foursomes but the girls rallied to to win 3 points out of 6 in the afternoon singles. A loss on the day of 6 points to 3. Renfrewshire beat D&A by 6.5 points to 2.5 points.
The final day saw us take on our hosts Renfrewshire. So many possibilities for the overall outcome with all 4 counties still in with a chance of winning. The girls got off to a fantastic start taking the foursomes by 2.5 to 0.5. Renfrewshire came out strongly in the afternoon and took the singles by 4.5 to 1.5 meaning a win for them by 5 points to 4. It did look at one point that we may have edged the match and 3 of the games went to the 18th but it wasn't to be.
Lanarkshire also won their match against D&A by 5 points to 4 which left them and Renfrewshire with the same number of points for the 3 days. It then went to a count back of games won with Renfrewshire winning with 16 compared to Lanarkshires 15.5. Could hardly have been closer. Ayrshire and D&A also finished on the same number of points but finished third on a countback.
Conditions at Williamwood were very difficult for all the players given the intense heat - we even had a lightning scare on Monday with the players having to be called off the course. Therefore a big thank you has to go to all our trolley pullers who gave up their time to come and help us out.
Thank you to our hosts for all their efforts and endless supply of water!
Congratulations to Donna and her Renfrewshire team and good luck to them at the Scottish Finals at Hilton Park in September.
Portland Results
Eighty five ladies enjoyed another beautiful day at the Portland Golf Club on Wednesday for our June meeting.
There were some excellent scores - all of which can be seen on HowDidiDo - prize winners are as follows -
Best Scratch and winner of the Eleanor Taylor Memorial Trophy, Arlene Sinclair 84
Second Scratch Alex Glennie, 85
Division One
First Jean Capes, 90 - 17 = 73 bih
Second Christine Whitelaw, 90 - 17 = 73
Division Two
First Grace Kennedy, 96 - 26 = 70
Second Sandra Shackleton, 99 - 28 - 71
Winner of the Bronze quaich, Elspeth Howie, 105 - 31 = 74
Runner Up Alyson Hutton, 106 - 26 = 80
Well done ladies, great results
Inter County Foursomes Final
Ayrshire hosted the Inter County Foursomes final this year at Ballochmyle Golf Club on a beautiful sunny day.
Many of the ladies hadn't played the course before and found it to be quite tricky however there were some excellent scores.
Scratch
1st Jennifer Rankine and Jennifer Mack, Renfrewshire, 76
2nd Liz Stewart and Donna Jackson, Renfrewshire, 80
Handicap
1st Fiona McWhirter and Ann Houston, Lanarkshire, 96 - 29 = 67bih
2nd Susan Greenshields and Jennifer Wiles, Lanarkshire, 91 - 24 = 67
3rd Morag Little and Maureen McDevitt, Renfrewshire, 93 - 25 = 68
4th Catherine Alexander and Brenda Orr, Dunbarton & Argyll, 100 - 31 = 69
Full list of scores can be found on HowDidIDo
Many thanks to Ballochmyle for looking after us and for courtesy of the course.