Following the First Minister’s latest update on COVID-19 restrictions, please note that there is no change to the current position for golf. This means we are having to delay the start of the Summer Hole and Hole competition. The draw will be published as soon as the restrictions are eased.
Entries for our Summer Hole & Hole competition are now being taken. Can you please send your entry to kathleeen.lannin@icloud.com I will reply to each email received. The closing date for entries is Sunday the 28th February the draw will be published shortly after this date. Fingers crossed we are able to play this competition without disruption from any more restrictions.
I have contacted East Lothian Clubs with a view to showing the Ladies Open Competitions on our website. If you are a member of a committee and would like your Opens to be advertised on the ELLCGA site please contact us and let us know the details.
Along with Annika Sorenstam and Gary Player, Babe Zaharias was presented with the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
This came after a request from the Zaharias Foundation backed by a dozen Texas congressmen, and provides an acknowledgement to a trailblazer once barred from competing and mocked as a “Muscle Moll”.
More information can be found about the “Babe Zaharias Trophy” and about the remarkable Babe herself, by following this link:
On Thursday night we held our first of three Golf Fit Sessions for the Squad with Vharri McMinn. Vharri put us through our paces incorporating cardio, strengthening and stretching all focused on improving our golf fitness. The session was suitable for all ages and levels of fitness and a huge success, even Saffy the dog took part! It was so nice to see everyone and we shall look forward to the next one in February.
Those of you who won trophies this year haven’t been able to see them yet. Now thanks to Helen Bruce you will be able to see photographs of the trophies and lists of their past winners.
If you follow this link it will take you to a little bit of the history of the trophies: Trophies
Thanks to Elaine Dick for her History of the ELLCGA.
Follow the links to find a list of 2020 trophy winners:
Now that the winter is upon us the squad were due to have their first foursomes practice in December, unfortunately due to current restrictions we have had to postpone this until further notice. However the squad have their own winter league and it’s well and truly underway. The Squad League Table can be seen under the County Team section on the website. We are also planning to have GolfFit on Zoom for the squad, this will take place during the early months of 2021. All being well we hope to be able to get them together in January at Gullane and have some foursomes practice prior to our first match against the Gullane men in February.
After breaking the course record at Winterfield, Grace Crawford has gone on to set a new ladies record at Longniddry. Her 6 under par score in the final round of the ProDreamUSA UK Junior Open has been confirmed as the record for the course. This is the same course where Grace won the USKids Golf European Championship when she was 8 and where she won the ELLCGA Championship when she was 13.
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A big thank you from Macmillan Thank you so much for holding your Golf event and raising an incredible £3,900.00 for Macmillan Cancer Support. We hope you enjoyed it, and that you’ll pass on our thanks to everyone who helped make it a success. Your enthusiasm and generosity will allow us to help everyone with cancer live life as fully as they can, providing physical, financial and emotional support.
£3,700 could fund the conversion of a small hospital office into a quiet room for cancer patients to have private and sensitive conversations with healthcare professionals.
Support every step of the way At Macmillan, we understand that cancer can impact a person’s whole life – health, money, family, work; everything. We can help people with managing symptoms and offer advice and benefits for things like keeping the cost of heating down during treatment. We can also provide training for employers to support people back to work. With your support, people get the energy and inspiration to feel more like themselves.
Gift Aid raises more Did you know that Macmillan Cancer Support can claim an extra 25p for every £1 donated from UK tax-payers at no extra cost? If you do hold an event for Macmillan in the future, would you be so kind to ask your supporters to Gift Aid their donations by filling in your sponsorship form, which can be downloaded at: be.macmillan.org.uk/sponsorship-form.
Thank you once again for being a part of Team Macmillan. We have attached a certificate for you to display.
With best wishes,
Emma Peeling Supporter Donations Team Tel: 0300 1000 200 Email: fundraising@macmillan.org.uk
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A Zoom AGM was a new experience for all of us but thanks to the hard work of Gail it was an incredibly successful meeting. The technology performed extremely well, allowing the meeting to proceed without any technical problems.
The committee were on view to all, as panellists.
The new committee were voted in.
Position
Name
Club
Term of Office
President
Carole Ross
North Berwick
2021 & 2022
Vice-Presdt
Gill Morrison
Gullane Ladies
2021 & 2022
Captain
Gail McKill
Gullane Ladies
2021, eligible for re-election in 2022
Vice Captain
Frances Hall
Gullane Ladies
As above
Treasurer
Nancy Thorne
Glen
Annual appointment by Committee.
Secretary
Jane Nelson
Dunbar
As above, first appointed 2018
Committee
Alex Kelly
Renaissance
2021 to 2023 (3 years)
Kay Lannin
Craigielaw
2019 to 2021 (3 yrs)
Helen Bruce
Haddington
2019 to 2021 (3 yrs)
Junior Sec.
Shona Paton
Gifford
Annual appointment by Committee.
There were a few highlights during the meeting.
As the prizes were being presented Helen Bruce performed a sterling job showing the trophies that had been won. This culminated in the presentation of the Championship Trophy to Clara Young.
One of our attendees did comment that she would be able to get a job with QVC.
During the handover from Joanne Watt to Carol Ross a short video was shown. Sounds easy but Gail spent a very long time trying to get this to work successfully.
Due to the travel restrictions being placed by the government of a permitted 5 miles for exercise, it is with deep regret that we are suspending the winter singles. The suspension will be lifted once the restrictions allow normal travel to resume. Regards Kay
ELLCGA have managed to raise the fantastic sum of £3,900 for Macmillan Cancer Support, from hosting the Babe Zaharias Competition at Muirfield. Many thanks to all who took part and for the hard work and finger crossing that allowed the competition to take place. Thank you to Muirfield for hosting this event.
Unfortunately due to current restrictions we have been unable to make the donation in person.
Michelle Campbell from Macmillan has contacted us saying:
“Absolutely amazing news about the event and the timing couldn’t have worked out better. What a fantastic amount raised, we are even more grateful for such a large donation this year due to the circumstances.”
Congratulations to everyone on completing your ties in time. Some very close matches, a couple of walkovers and a special mention to Elinor Blair on her hole in one 👏🏌️♀️.
If your next round is being played on or after the 2nd November once the WHS has been implemented you will need to know your handicap index in order to work out your handicap for the courses that you will be playing. It will still be full difference for your ties. As this competition has commenced play will continue to use red/forward tees. Ties to be played on or before the 30th of November.
As the Spring meeting was delayed it was decided that the Championship and the Handicap Quaich should be decided without having the knock-out rounds and be run as a single round of stroke play – County Championship off scratch, and Quaich off handicap.
Congratulations to Our County Champion Clara Young (North Berwick) with a scratch score of 76.
Congratulations to Handicap Quaich winner Lucy Thomas (Gullane) with a net score of 72.
A glorious day at Haddington for our delayed Spring Meeting, conditions were far better than they usually are for this competition and the autumn colours provided a wonderful backdrop.
I don’t think any of our girls will have played a Summer Meeting in October before but on Sunday we held the ELLCGA Girls’ Summer Meeting alongside the ELJGL Championship on Gullane No 3. There were 11 girls playing in total, 8 of whom are members of ELLCGA. It was a lovely Autumn day at Gullane, with not too much wind. The scores were good and the girls’ all enjoyed catching up with their friends.
Ala Gorka won the Scratch prize with a gross 74 and Molly Chapman had the best Nett score of 65.
Well done to all the girls who played. Thanks to Dave Warren for organising the day. Frances Hall
Three juniors – Lucy Thomas, Ellie Bent and Ala Gorka enjoyed a great game with Catriona Matthew on North Berwick West Links this morning. The weather was kind to them and Catriona and Lucy challenged Ellie and Ala to a match. It was very closely fought with some great golf played by all the girls and particularly some good putting. Several holes were halved with birdies! It was all square on the 18th tee and Catriona and Lucy managed to win with a birdie 3. Thank you very much to Catriona for giving the girls a fantastic opportunity to play with you and to Dave Warren and Jenni Ray for organising the game.
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Using a putter borrowed from her brother Grace won the East of Scotland Championship with a 73 on the Jubilee course at St Andrews. With 4 birdies and 12 pars In her round Grace won by two shots from fellow County member Clara Young.
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Please find attached the draw and additional requirements for the ‘Spring Meeting’ next week. Please ensure that you read the additional requirements, which cover the Covid-19 precautions.
Many congratulations to our youngest ELLCGA champion, Grace Crawford.
It has taken some time but we have managed to confirm with Winterfield that her score at our Autumn Meeting is a new ladies’ course record. Grace’s 65 was the thirteen year old’s lowest ever round and the lowest ladies score since Winterfield was altered six years ago.
Many thanks to Winterfield for confirming this record.
Captain Jenni Ray presenting Grace with her scorecard
We’re delighted to announce that we will be running a delayed ‘Spring Meeting and County Championship’ at Haddington GC on Wednesday 21 October.
Tee times will be available from 0800 until 1350, which will allow up to 108 members to play. Booking will open, via the BRS system on the ELLCGA website, at 0800 on Thursday 1 October. The entry fee will be £12.
We won’t be able to have any knock-out rounds for the County Championship and Handicap Quaich, so both these competitions will be run as a single round of stroke play – County Championship off scratch, and Quaich off handicap. No single player can win both events. In the event of a tie, both competitions will be decided by count back on the back 9, then back 6, then back 3, then final hole scores. If a tie still arises, the last 6, 3 and 1 of the first nine holes will be used.
We’re sorry about the relatively short notice, but are very grateful to Haddington GC for agreeing to make the course available to us. I hope that people will be able to book a day off work, if required, and we’re pleased that this is half term week, which should allow our juniors to enter.
As for the Autumn Meeting, we will have to run the competition in compliance with whatever Scottish Golf and Scottish Government Covid rules are in force on the day. In order to minimise the number of people present, caddies will not be permitted.
We’re looking forward to seeing many of you at Haddington!
Well done to all for completing their games in the preliminary round. All good close games and mostly good weather. Some games already completed in round 1.
At last we were able to hold a competition for the ELLCGA Girls! Yesterday we held the Girls’ Spring (!) Meeting and Championship on Gullane No 2. The weather was great for the time of year with plenty sunshine and not much wind. The girls were pleased to see each other and nearly all of them had grown 4 inches taller since our last fixture last year!
The scoring was good and the girls all enjoyed their afternoon in the sunshine. The winner of the Morrison Quaich with the best handicap score of 73 was Ala Gorka. The Junior Championship winner was Abby Nisbet with a very good gross score of 74. Congratulations to Ala and Abby and thank you to all the girls for taking part.
Alongside the Autumn Meeting the inaugural Catriona Matthew Team Trophy was being contested.
Clubs nominated one or two teams of three players to take part, the best two scores being added together to give the score for their team.
23 teams from 14 Clubs took part, including a team from Muirfield and one from the home club, Winterfield.
ELLCGA are delighted to report that our junior team won the competition with a fantastic score of 80. The trophy will be presented by Catriona Matthew at North Berwick Golf Club at a date to be arranged.
Many thanks to Winterfield for hosting this competition.
Result
1st ELLCGA Juniors Ellie Bent, Grace Crawford and Lucy Thomas 80 points
2nd Musselburgh A Trudy Burnett, Anne Rorison and Irene Stewart 76 points
3rd North Berwick A Elinor Blair, Fiona McIver and Gwen Stewart 75 points
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It was a beautiful day in Dunbar with very little wind and Winterfield was in fantastic condition, scoring was generally good with the front nine proving a lot easier than the back nine. Our members were very positive about the course and all seemed to have really enjoyed their day.
Grace Crawford’s 65 may be a new ladies record but this will need to be confirmed, fantastic score Grace.
Congratulations go to the winner of the Autumn Meeting, one of our new members in her first ELLCGA competition, Val Bird (Royal Musselburgh) with a Stableford score of 43.
There were 15 2’s, special mention for Carole Ross who managed a 2 on the 15th, a hole most of us thought was a par 4.
Thanks go to the staff at Winterfield for their help.
We have 90 entrants for the Autumn Meeting so far, with about 30 spaces remaining on the start sheet. The closing date for entries is 5.00pm on Friday 11 September.
For the first time we will be combining the Autumn Meeting with our new Catriona Matthew Team Trophy. After entry has closed, each club’s lady captain will be invited to nominate up to two teams, each made up of three players who have entered the Autumn Meeting. The Trophy will be awarded to the team who have the highest aggregate of the best two stableford scores from their three players. Note that this is done on overall stableford scores NOT hole by hole. We hope also to have teams made up of county junior members. Entries can be made through BRS.
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Fife County Ladies Golf Association have just announced the arrangements for the East of Scotland Championship, which will be held this year on the Jubilee Course at St Andrews, on Sunday 18 October. The competition is open to members of East of Scotland counties (East Lothian, Fife, Midlothian and Stirling & Clackmannanshire). As well as the individual stroke play competition there is a team trophy to be played for.
In the event that there are more entrants than tee times, places will be allocated to the players with the lowest handicaps. The closing date for entries is 21 September 2020.
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The East Lothian County Flag flew over Muirfield yesterday for the first time since the memorable day of our Spring Meeting in 2017. This time it was for the Babe Zaharias Competition and yet again the main topic of conversation was the weather. 155 players had come from all over the UK to experience the wonderful Muirfield course and to take in the fabulous East Lothian scenery, sadly there was little of that to be seen as heavy mist shrouded the course. The Babe Zaharias Trophy shone some light on the scene as it was looking magnificent since its trip to the jewellers to be re-silvered.
Amazingly this didn’t dampen the spirits and the masked players were surprisingly upbeat as they came in to call out their scores, it made it very difficult for us to recognise even old friends, it didn’t help that they were very wet and bedraggled. Many of them told us that it was like appearing on Dragon’s Den as they read out from the pieces of blue papier mache that were their scorecards. We heard tales of the brutal rough, the bunkers, not being able to see the ball land in the fog, playing 9 off a tee just so they could post a score and losing 11 balls (apologies to anyone who lost more) but all with good humour and a feeling that they had managed to survive the round.
The fog became thicker and thicker and there were serious concerns about the late starters. Jenni went out in the buggy to check the conditions and there was great concern over whether the competition could continue, it was really touch and go but amazingly and unexpectedly the fog lifted and this allowed the final groups to finish.
Congratulations to our prize winners in particular Karen Marshall who won the Babe Zaharias Trophy with a fabulous score of 77, given the conditions an amazing effort and Kay Lannin whose net 76 won her the Ultraplast Trophy.
A sign of the times
For a long time there was no certainty that this event would have been able to go ahead so a huge thank you to Muirfield for their efforts in helping us stage this competition and to make sure we complied with all the Covid rules. I am sure all the players appreciated the chance to play on this great course.
The ‘Babe’ has always been about raising money for charity and there will be an update soon on the sum that will be donated to Macmillan Cancer Support. Thank you to all those who took part for their support.
Summer Hole & Hole Delay
Home, Latest News & Info, Summer Hole & HoleFollowing the First Minister’s latest update on COVID-19 restrictions, please note that there is no change to the current position for golf. This means we are having to delay the start of the Summer Hole and Hole competition. The draw will be published as soon as the restrictions are eased.
Regards
Kay Lannin
Summer Hole & Hole Entries
Home, Latest News & Info, Summer Hole & HoleEntries for our Summer Hole & Hole competition are now being taken. Can you please send your entry to kathleeen.lannin@icloud.com I will reply to each email received. The closing date for entries is Sunday the 28th February the draw will be published shortly after this date. Fingers crossed we are able to play this competition without disruption from any more restrictions.
Kay Lannin
Club Open Competitions 2021
Home, Latest News & InfoI have contacted East Lothian Clubs with a view to showing the Ladies Open Competitions on our website. If you are a member of a committee and would like your Opens to be advertised on the ELLCGA site please contact us and let us know the details.
Contact email: ellcga2@gmail.com
Lesley Wood
Babe Zaharias Honoured
Home, Latest News & InfoAlong with Annika Sorenstam and Gary Player, Babe Zaharias was presented with the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
This came after a request from the Zaharias Foundation backed by a dozen Texas congressmen, and provides an acknowledgement to a trailblazer once barred from competing and mocked as a “Muscle Moll”.
More information can be found about the “Babe Zaharias Trophy” and about the remarkable Babe herself, by following this link:
https://www.ellgolf.co.uk/babe-zaharias/what-is-it/
ELLCGA Squad – Fitness Training
Home, Latest News & Info, Squad NewsOn Thursday night we held our first of three Golf Fit Sessions for the Squad with Vharri McMinn. Vharri put us through our paces incorporating cardio, strengthening and stretching all focused on improving our golf fitness. The session was suitable for all ages and levels of fitness and a huge success, even Saffy the dog took part! It was so nice to see everyone and we shall look forward to the next one in February.
Gail McKill
Trophies
AGM and Prize Giving 2019, Home, Latest News & InfoThose of you who won trophies this year haven’t been able to see them yet. Now thanks to Helen Bruce you will be able to see photographs of the trophies and lists of their past winners.
If you follow this link it will take you to a little bit of the history of the trophies: Trophies
Thanks to Elaine Dick for her History of the ELLCGA.
Follow the links to find a list of 2020 trophy winners:
Trophy Winners 2020
Junior Prizegiving
Thanks again to Helen for all her hard work in recording all the winners and taking the photographs of them.
Squad Update
Home, Latest News & Info, Squad NewsNow that the winter is upon us the squad were due to have their first foursomes practice in December, unfortunately due to current restrictions we have had to postpone this until further notice. However the squad have their own winter league and it’s well and truly underway. The Squad League Table can be seen under the County Team section on the website. We are also planning to have GolfFit on Zoom for the squad, this will take place during the early months of 2021. All being well we hope to be able to get them together in January at Gullane and have some foursomes practice prior to our first match against the Gullane men in February.
Gail McKill
Grace Breaks Another Course Record
Home, Latest News & InfoAfter breaking the course record at Winterfield, Grace Crawford has gone on to set a new ladies record at Longniddry. Her 6 under par score in the final round of the ProDreamUSA UK Junior Open has been confirmed as the record for the course. This is the same course where Grace won the USKids Golf European Championship when she was 8 and where she won the ELLCGA Championship when she was 13.
Congratulations Grace.
A Big Thank You from Macmillan
Babe Zaharias 2020, Home, Latest News & InfoA big thank you from Macmillan
Thank you so much for holding your Golf event and raising an incredible £3,900.00 for Macmillan Cancer Support. We hope you enjoyed it, and that you’ll pass on our thanks to everyone who helped make it a success. Your enthusiasm and generosity will allow us to help everyone with cancer live life as fully as they can, providing physical, financial and emotional support.
£3,700 could fund the conversion of a small hospital office into a quiet room for cancer patients to have private and sensitive conversations with healthcare professionals.
Support every step of the way
At Macmillan, we understand that cancer can impact a person’s whole life – health, money, family, work; everything. We can help people with managing symptoms and offer advice and benefits for things like keeping the cost of heating down during treatment. We can also provide training for employers to support people back to work. With your support, people get the energy and inspiration to feel more like themselves.
Gift Aid raises more
Did you know that Macmillan Cancer Support can claim an extra 25p for every £1 donated from UK tax-payers at no extra cost? If you do hold an event for Macmillan in the future, would you be so kind to ask your supporters to Gift Aid their donations by filling in your sponsorship form, which can be downloaded at: be.macmillan.org.uk/sponsorship-form.
Thank you once again for being a part of Team Macmillan. We have attached a certificate for you to display.
With best wishes,
Emma Peeling
Supporter Donations Team
Tel: 0300 1000 200
Email: fundraising@macmillan.org.uk
AGM
AGM & Prizegiving, Home, Latest News & Info, UncategorizedA Zoom AGM was a new experience for all of us but thanks to the hard work of Gail it was an incredibly successful meeting. The technology performed extremely well, allowing the meeting to proceed without any technical problems.
The committee were on view to all, as panellists.
The new committee were voted in.
There were a few highlights during the meeting.
As the prizes were being presented Helen Bruce performed a sterling job showing the trophies that had been won. This culminated in the presentation of the Championship Trophy to Clara Young.
Winners list 2020 (for AGM)
One of our attendees did comment that she would be able to get a job with QVC.
During the handover from Joanne Watt to Carol Ross a short video was shown. Sounds easy but Gail spent a very long time trying to get this to work successfully.
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As Jenni handed over the captaincy to Gail she retired to her sofa with a large glass of wine.
All in all a successful meeting but hopefully a one off, as it is so much better to meet face to face and allow all our membership to gather together.
Winter Singles – Covid Up
Home, Latest News & Info, Winter KnockoutDue to the travel restrictions being placed by the government of a permitted 5 miles for exercise, it is with deep regret that we are suspending the winter singles.
The suspension will be lifted once the restrictions allow normal travel to resume.
Regards
Kay
Babe Zaharias Macmillan Donation
Babe Zaharias 2020, Home, Latest News & InfoELLCGA have managed to raise the fantastic sum of £3,900 for Macmillan Cancer Support, from hosting the Babe Zaharias Competition at Muirfield. Many thanks to all who took part and for the hard work and finger crossing that allowed the competition to take place. Thank you to Muirfield for hosting this event.
Unfortunately due to current restrictions we have been unable to make the donation in person.
Michelle Campbell from Macmillan has contacted us saying:
“Absolutely amazing news about the event and the timing couldn’t have worked out better. What a fantastic amount raised, we are even more grateful for such a large donation this year due to the circumstances.”
Gail McKill
Winter Singles Round 1 Results
Home, Latest News & Info, Uncategorized, Winter KnockoutCongratulations to everyone on completing your ties in time. Some very close matches, a couple of walkovers and a special mention to Elinor Blair on her hole in one 👏🏌️♀️.
If your next round is being played on or after the 2nd November once the WHS has been implemented you will need to know your handicap index in order to work out your handicap for the courses that you will be playing. It will still be full difference for your ties. As this competition has commenced play will continue to use red/forward tees. Ties to be played on or before the 30th of November.
Winter Knockout
Regards
Kay
Championship and Handicap Quaich Results
Home, Latest News & Info, Spring Meeting and ChampionshipAs the Spring meeting was delayed it was decided that the Championship and the Handicap Quaich should be decided without having the knock-out rounds and be run as a single round of stroke play – County Championship off scratch, and Quaich off handicap.
Congratulations to Our County Champion Clara Young (North Berwick) with a scratch score of 76.
Spring Meeting Results
Competition Results, Home, Latest News & Info, Spring Meeting and ChampionshipA glorious day at Haddington for our delayed Spring Meeting, conditions were far better than they usually are for this competition and the autumn colours provided a wonderful backdrop.
Many thanks to Haddington for hosting this event.
The results were as follows:
Silver Scratch
Clara Young (North Berwick) Scratch 76
Silver Handicap
1st Lucy Thomas (Gullane) 72 bih
2nd Gail McKill (Gullane) 72
3rd Carys Irvine (Craigielaw) 73
Bronze Scratch
Louise Martin (Gullane) 98
Bronze Handicap
1st Judy Newton (Winterfield) 74
2nd Sheila Herschell (Longniddry) 77
3rd Jean McNeill (Longniddry) 79
Full results
Spring Meeting Gross
Spring Meeting Nett Results
Junior Summer Meeting
Home, Juniors' News, Latest News & InfoI don’t think any of our girls will have played a Summer Meeting in October before but on Sunday we held the ELLCGA Girls’ Summer Meeting alongside the ELJGL Championship on Gullane No 3. There were 11 girls playing in total, 8 of whom are members of ELLCGA.
It was a lovely Autumn day at Gullane, with not too much wind. The scores were good and the girls’ all enjoyed catching up with their friends.
Ala Gorka won the Scratch prize with a gross 74 and Molly Chapman had the best Nett score of 65.
Well done to all the girls who played. Thanks to Dave Warren for organising the day.
Frances Hall
Juniors play with Catriona Matthew
Home, Juniors' News, Latest News & InfoThree juniors – Lucy Thomas, Ellie Bent and Ala Gorka enjoyed a great game with Catriona Matthew on North Berwick West Links this morning. The weather was kind to them and Catriona and Lucy challenged Ellie and Ala to a match. It was very closely fought with some great golf played by all the girls and particularly some good putting. Several holes were halved with birdies! It was all square on the 18th tee and Catriona and Lucy managed to win with a birdie 3. Thank you very much to Catriona for giving the girls a fantastic opportunity to play with you and to Dave Warren and Jenni Ray for organising the game.
Frances Hall
Grace Crawford wins the East of Scotland Championship
Home, Juniors' News, Latest News & Info, UncategorizedUsing a putter borrowed from her brother Grace won the East of Scotland Championship with a 73 on the Jubilee course at St Andrews. With 4 birdies and 12 pars In her round Grace won by two shots from fellow County member Clara Young.
Congratulations from all our County members.
Spring Meeting and Championship Start Sheet
Home, Latest News & Info, Spring Meeting and Championship, UncategorizedPlease find attached the draw and additional requirements for the ‘Spring Meeting’ next week. Please ensure that you read the additional requirements, which cover the Covid-19 precautions.
‘Spring Meeting’ Start Sheet
Jane Nelson
Hon. Secretary, ELLCGA
ellcga2@gmail.com
Grace Crawford Breaks Course Record At Winterfield
Autumn Meeting and the Catriona Matthew Team Trophy, Home, Juniors' News, Latest News & InfoMany congratulations to our youngest ELLCGA champion, Grace Crawford.
It has taken some time but we have managed to confirm with Winterfield that her score at our Autumn Meeting is a new ladies’ course record.
Grace’s 65 was the thirteen year old’s lowest ever round and the lowest ladies score since Winterfield was altered six years ago.
Many thanks to Winterfield for confirming this record.
Captain Jenni Ray presenting Grace with her scorecard
2020 Championship and ‘Spring Meeting”
Home, Latest News & Info, Spring Meeting and ChampionshipWe’re delighted to announce that we will be running a delayed ‘Spring Meeting and County Championship’ at Haddington GC on Wednesday 21 October.
Tee times will be available from 0800 until 1350, which will allow up to 108 members to play. Booking will open, via the BRS system on the ELLCGA website, at 0800 on Thursday 1 October. The entry fee will be £12.
We won’t be able to have any knock-out rounds for the County Championship and Handicap Quaich, so both these competitions will be run as a single round of stroke play – County Championship off scratch, and Quaich off handicap. No single player can win both events. In the event of a tie, both competitions will be decided by count back on the back 9, then back 6, then back 3, then final hole scores. If a tie still arises, the last 6, 3 and 1 of the first nine holes will be used.
We’re sorry about the relatively short notice, but are very grateful to Haddington GC for agreeing to make the course available to us. I hope that people will be able to book a day off work, if required, and we’re pleased that this is half term week, which should allow our juniors to enter.
As for the Autumn Meeting, we will have to run the competition in compliance with whatever Scottish Golf and Scottish Government Covid rules are in force on the day. In order to minimise the number of people present, caddies will not be permitted.
We’re looking forward to seeing many of you at Haddington!
Jenni Ray
Captain, ELLCGA
Winter Foursomes Preliminary Round Completed
Home, Latest News & Info, Winter KnockoutWell done to all for completing their games in the preliminary round. All good close games and mostly good weather. Some games already completed in round 1.
Winter Singles 2020-21
Round 1 to be completed by the 31st of October
Regards
Kay
Junior News – “Spring Meeting” and Championship
Home, Juniors' News, Latest News & Info, UncategorizedAt last we were able to hold a competition for the ELLCGA Girls!
Yesterday we held the Girls’ Spring (!) Meeting and Championship on Gullane No 2. The weather was great for the time of year with plenty sunshine and not much wind. The girls were pleased to see each other and nearly all of them had grown 4 inches taller since our last fixture last year!
The scoring was good and the girls all enjoyed their afternoon in the sunshine. The winner of the Morrison Quaich with the best handicap score of 73 was Ala Gorka. The Junior Championship winner was Abby Nisbet with a very good gross score of 74. Congratulations to Ala and Abby and thank you to all the girls for taking part.
Junior Championship Results
Frances Hall
Abby Nisbet Ala Gorka
Competitors at sunny Gullane
The Catriona Matthew Team Trophy at Winterfield Result
Autumn Meeting and the Catriona Matthew Team Trophy, Competition Results, Home, Latest News & InfoAlongside the Autumn Meeting the inaugural Catriona Matthew Team Trophy was being contested.
Clubs nominated one or two teams of three players to take part, the best two scores being added together to give the score for their team.
23 teams from 14 Clubs took part, including a team from Muirfield and one from the home club, Winterfield.
ELLCGA are delighted to report that our junior team won the competition with a fantastic score of 80. The trophy will be presented by Catriona Matthew at North Berwick Golf Club at a date to be arranged.
Many thanks to Winterfield for hosting this competition.
Result
1st ELLCGA Juniors Ellie Bent, Grace Crawford and Lucy Thomas 80 points
2nd Musselburgh A Trudy Burnett, Anne Rorison and Irene Stewart 76 points
3rd North Berwick A Elinor Blair, Fiona McIver and Gwen Stewart 75 points
Autumn Meeting at Winterfield
Autumn Meeting and the Catriona Matthew Team Trophy, Competition Results, Home, Latest News & InfoIt was a beautiful day in Dunbar with very little wind and Winterfield was in fantastic condition, scoring was generally good with the front nine proving a lot easier than the back nine. Our members were very positive about the course and all seemed to have really enjoyed their day.
Grace Crawford’s 65 may be a new ladies record but this will need to be confirmed, fantastic score Grace.
Congratulations go to the winner of the Autumn Meeting, one of our new members in her first ELLCGA competition, Val Bird (Royal Musselburgh) with a Stableford score of 43.
There were 15 2’s, special mention for Carole Ross who managed a 2 on the 15th, a hole most of us thought was a par 4.
Thanks go to the staff at Winterfield for their help.
Handicap Winners
1st Val Bird 43 points
2nd Ellie Bent 41 points
3rd Seline Stewart 40 points (bih)
4th Linda Tulloch 40 points
Gross Scores
1st Grace Crawford 39 points
2nd Carys Irvine 34 points
3rd Deborah Back house 30 points
Mary Lou Renwick 29 points
Full Results
Autumn Meeting Nett Scores
Autumn Meeting Gross Scores
Autumn Meeting Two’s
Autumn Meeting at Winterfield – Start Sheet
Autumn Meeting and the Catriona Matthew Team Trophy, Home, Latest News & InfoFollow the link to access the start sheet for the Autumn Meeting at Winterfield.
Autumn Meeting Start Sheet v.2
Jane Nelson
ELLCGA Autumn Meeting at Winterfield on Friday 18 September
Autumn Meeting and the Catriona Matthew Team Trophy, Home, Latest News & InfoWe have 90 entrants for the Autumn Meeting so far, with about 30 spaces remaining on the start sheet. The closing date for entries is 5.00pm on Friday 11 September.
For the first time we will be combining the Autumn Meeting with our new Catriona Matthew Team Trophy. After entry has closed, each club’s lady captain will be invited to nominate up to two teams, each made up of three players who have entered the Autumn Meeting. The Trophy will be awarded to the team who have the highest aggregate of the best two stableford scores from their three players. Note that this is done on overall stableford scores NOT hole by hole. We hope also to have teams made up of county junior members.
Entries can be made through BRS.
Jane Nelson
Winter Singles Knock Out Draw
Home, Latest News & Info, Winter KnockoutThe draw for the Winter Singles has been made, preliminary round tries to be played by the 30th of September.
Winter Singles 2020-21
East of Scotland Championship – 18 October 2020 at The Jubilee Course, St. Andrews
Home, Latest News & InfoFife County Ladies Golf Association have just announced the arrangements for the East of Scotland Championship, which will be held this year on the Jubilee Course at St Andrews, on Sunday 18 October. The competition is open to members of East of Scotland counties (East Lothian, Fife, Midlothian and Stirling & Clackmannanshire). As well as the individual stroke play competition there is a team trophy to be played for.
In the event that there are more entrants than tee times, places will be allocated to the players with the lowest handicaps. The closing date for entries is 21 September 2020.
Entry Form at this link: EoS Entry Form
Information Sheet: EoS Championship 2020 Poster
Babe Zaharias 2020 Muirfield Report
Babe Zaharias 2020, Home, Latest News & InfoThe East Lothian County Flag flew over Muirfield yesterday for the first time since the memorable day of our Spring Meeting in 2017. This time it was for the Babe Zaharias Competition and yet again the main topic of conversation was the weather. 155 players had come from all over the UK to experience the wonderful Muirfield course and to take in the fabulous East Lothian scenery, sadly there was little of that to be seen as heavy mist shrouded the course. The Babe Zaharias Trophy shone some light on the scene as it was looking magnificent since its trip to the jewellers to be re-silvered.
Amazingly this didn’t dampen the spirits and the masked players were surprisingly upbeat as they came in to call out their scores, it made it very difficult for us to recognise even old friends, it didn’t help that they were very wet and bedraggled. Many of them told us that it was like appearing on Dragon’s Den as they read out from the pieces of blue papier mache that were their scorecards. We heard tales of the brutal rough, the bunkers, not being able to see the ball land in the fog, playing 9 off a tee just so they could post a score and losing 11 balls (apologies to anyone who lost more) but all with good humour and a feeling that they had managed to survive the round.
The fog became thicker and thicker and there were serious concerns about the late starters. Jenni went out in the buggy to check the conditions and there was great concern over whether the competition could continue, it was really touch and go but amazingly and unexpectedly the fog lifted and this allowed the final groups to finish.
Congratulations to our prize winners in particular Karen Marshall who won the Babe Zaharias Trophy with a fabulous score of 77, given the conditions an amazing effort and Kay Lannin whose net 76 won her the Ultraplast Trophy.
A sign of the times
For a long time there was no certainty that this event would have been able to go ahead so a huge thank you to Muirfield for their efforts in helping us stage this competition and to make sure we complied with all the Covid rules. I am sure all the players appreciated the chance to play on this great course.
The ‘Babe’ has always been about raising money for charity and there will be an update soon on the sum that will be donated to Macmillan Cancer Support. Thank you to all those who took part for their support.
Babe Zaharias was an amazing character and it is well worth looking at her story https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babe_Didrikson_Zaharias
Full Results can be found at the following links:
Gross results Nett results Twos report