Ten Man Team Beat Murrayshall at STRATHMORE

The home match against Murrayshall played on Tuesday the 5th of May provided Strathmore with our first win of the season, despite fielding only 10 men against their 12. The result was 3.5 Strathmore to 2.5 Murrayshall with the pairings as below:

The pairings for the match are :-

Match 1 - Jim Davidson & George Allan

Match 2 - David Robinson & Ian Scott

Match 3 - Parker Crockart & Tony Sive

Match 4 - Pat Duffy & Sandy McGibbon

Match 5 - Ernie Wastell

Match 6 - Alistair Donaldson

The course is again in great condition with fairways and greens both excellent and the weather keeping fine until the match was finished.

Seniors Stableford -30th. April 2009/Cancelled

A smattering of rain and the promise that it would worsen over the course of the morning resulted in this competition being cancelled.

Some players did go out on the course and will bear witness to the fact that the playing conditions were actually not too bad, albeit that a light drizzle was always present.

Played off Yellow Tees

Order of Play

9am. D. Robinson
J. Lonsdale

9.07 J. Brand
G.S. Allan
R. Haynes

9.15 P. Tinker
M. Kidd
J. Gillison

9.22 T. Sive
P. Duffy
D. Cochrane


9.30 B. Ruffhead
I. Scott
G. Ewen

9.37 J.M.Barr
J. Menzies
J. Rough

9.45 J. Davidson
N. Smith
E Wastell

9.52 D. Johnston
D. Gillespie
A. Sutherland


Complete entry sheet ( £1 sweep ( optional )and 50pence entry fee ) and enter scores in computer.

N.B. Avoid taking golf carts/trolleys between greenside bunkers and the green. This will help protect the course.

Results Triam 23rd of April

John Barr, Pat Duffy and John MacFarlane returned an incredible score of 86 points to take the money with Jim Davidson, Graham Bullock and Ken MacLeod 10points back on 76.

Well done.


DO NOT FORGET TO GET YOUR NAMES DOWN FOR THIS WEEK'S COUNTING STABLEFORD

Thursday 23rd april Tee Times

Thursday's entertainment is a Tri-am with a couple of opening Bi-ams to get us rolling.

Rules are on the notice board along with the tee times which I list below :

9.00 Ron Haynes; Ian Strachan

9.07 Doug Gillespie; Ernie Wastell

9.15 John Brand; Garry Stewart; Peter Tinker

9.22 Jim Davidson; Graham Bullock; Ken MacLeod

9.30 Alex Sutherland; Jim Donnelly; George Allan

9.37 John Barr; Pat Duffy; John MacFarlane

9.45 Gordon Ewen; Mel Kidd; Brian Ruffhead

All the best


PS NEXT WEEK's COMPETITION IS A COUNTING STABLEFORD

Result of Match v Glenisla (Away)

Sadly our away form has not significantly improved over the winter break as we suffered our 2nd away defeat of the year 4 - 2 at Glenisla.

We are getting close with two of the matches we lost going almost to the wire, let's hope for a better result v Murrayshall at home in the first week of May.

ps I repeat my point made at the start of the season and at the Year End bash, All members are welcome to put their names down for the matches if they feel that they would enjoy the challenge. I will be coaxing one or two of the more prominent players whose names never appear on the match name sheets to put themselves forward over the next week or two.

Results of Texas Scramble

Thursday's Texas Scramble was a scramble in more than one sense as I scrambled around to find out whether players were actually coming or not. Out of the 6 groups posted on this site on Wednesday not one remained as drawn.

PLEASE NOTE THAT THE FIRST TEE TIME IS NINE O'CLOCK, NOT 9.30.

Point made, the winning team on Thursday was

Pat Duffy (20); Ernie Wastell (16) and Alex Sutherland (19) with a gross score of 69, net 60.

Matches in May

Golfers are invited to put their names down for the following matches which will be played in May

Murrayshall (Home) - Tuesday 5th May (10.00am tee off)

Arbroath (Away) - Friday 15th May (12.00noon tee off)

Grange-Dundee (Away) - Tuesday 26th May (1.00pm tee off)

The entry sheets will be on the board tomorrow after the Texas Scramble.

Thursday 16th April Texas Scramble

Teams and Tee Times for 16th april:

NOTE THAT DUE TO A LATE REQUEST BY PAT DUFFY HE HAS HAD HIS TEE TIME MOVED BACK TO 9.30 AND JIM DONNELLY MOVED UP TO 9.07

9.00 John Brand; Jim Davidson; Ron Haynes

9.07 Jim Donnelly; Mel Kidd; Doug Gillespie

9.15 John MacFarlane, Jack Rough; Ian Strachan

9.22 Brian Ruffhead; George Allan; Gordon Ewen

9.30 Pat Duffy; Ernie Wastell; Alex Sutherland

9.37 Rob Kidd; John Barr; Peter Tinker; Brian Moore

Handicapping:

Teams of 3 - sum of handicaps/6
Teams of 4 - sum of handicaps/10

Seniors Summer Knock Out - Doubles

Round 1

Jim Davidson & Ernie Wastell v David Robinson & Ian Mollison
(to be played by 29th May 2009)


Round 2

Winner Round 1 v Ian Scott & Ron Haynes

Alan Morrison & Doug Gillespie v John Brand & Bob Greig

Ken MacLeod & Jim Ross v Peter Tinker & George Allan

Graham Bullock & Sandy McGibbon v Jack Rough & Gordon Ewen

(to be played by 26th of June 2009)

First name in each match to arrange a suitable date and time.


Have Fun

Seniors' Summer Knock Out Draw

A total entry of only 24 this year means that 8 players have until the end of June to get their games in shape for round 2 of the singles knock out while the other 16 do battle before June 6th.

Round 1 Draw:

To be played before 6th June 2009
Top Player to call oponents to fix time and date

Match 1 - Doug Gillespie v Graham Bullock - Winner plays Sandy McGibbon in round 2.

Match 2 - Ian Scott v Ken MacLeod - Winner plays Alan Morrison in round 2

Match 3 - J. Stanley v Jim Davidson - Winner plays David Robinson in round 2

Match 4 - George Allan v Ernie Wastell - Winner plays Archie Mitchell in round 2

Match 5 - Bob Greig v Ian Mollison - Winner plays Ron Haynes in round 2

Match 6 - Gerry Kennedy v Jim Ross - Winner plays Peter Tinker in round 2

Match 7 - Peter Simpson v Tam Bennett - Winner plays Jack Rough in round 2

Match 8 - John Brand v Harry Driscoll - Winner plays Peter Rainbird in round 2

Enjoy

Match result from ALYTH - MONDAY 13th April

After a promising start Strathmore Seniors went down 2- 4 to Alyth away. No excuses, the weather turned out fine despite earlier forecasts that rain was the order of the day. The match was played in good spirits and hospitality afterwards was first rate. We don't host Alyth until September when we will be looking to turn the score around as we did last year.

Results Thursday 9th April 2009

Despite the grey clouds surrounding the golf course there was very little rain that fell on the course from 9.00am onwards.

The course was playing long due to the damp conditions but this did not slow the rounds with all groups round in three and a half hours. Unfortunately the withdrawal of almost one third of the field at the last moment meant that the last tee time moved forward and apologies to John Barr who turned up, on time, for his scheduled tee time of 9.52am only to find that all those present earlier were well on their way. Sorry John.

The top results for the day were:

Pat Duffy - 37 points

Alan Morrison - 36 points;

Ernie Wastell - 36 points; and

Ron Haynes - 35 points.

NEXT WEEK'S COMPETITION - Format TEXAS SCRAMBLE

Tee Times Thursday 9th April

Tee times for tomorrow's Stableford Counting Competition are:

9.00 Dave Cochrane; Ernie Wastell

9.07 John MacFarlane; Brian Moore; Joe McGoeghegan

9.15 Pat Duffy; Graham Bullock; Ken MacLeod

9.22 Alex Sutherland; Tony Sive; Al Lavesque(guest)

9.30 Alan Morrison; Brian Ruffhead; Ron Adam

9.37 Jim Donnelly; George Allan; John Brand

9.45 Ian Scott, Mel Kidd; Ron Haynes

9.52 John Barr; Ralph Henderson (guest); Doug Gillespie

YELLOW TEES

Entry 50p; Sweep GBP 1.00

Points of Etiquette:

Avoid Slow Play. If you lose a hole on the group in front, wave through the following group. Mark your scores on the next tee, not by the green. Repair pitch marks on the greens. Enjoy yourself.

Results April Medal

25 players participated in the first Medal of the year on what turned out to be a glorious morning.

With the CSS for the course 72 Graham Bullock took first place and lowest gross with a gross 80, net 68. Well done Graham.

Sandy McGibbon came in with a gross 86, net 70 in second place and Ron Haynes, after his clean sweep of the winter knock outs took third place with a gross 91, net 73.

Archie Mitchell was the lowest of only 8 Division 2 players with a net 74.

Well played all of you and for Graham and Sandy, congratulations on your new handicaps.

Tee Times - April Medal

Tee times for the April medal are as listed below:

9.00 Doug Gillespie; Ian Scott; Graham Bullock

9.07 Jim Ross; Peter Rainbird; George Allan

9.15 Jack Rough; Alan Morrison; Dave Cochrane

9.22 Harry Driscoll; Sandy McGibbon; Ernie Wastell

9.30 Jim Davidson; Ken MacLeod; Ron Haynes

9.37 Ian Mollison; Garry Stewart; Gerry Kennedy

9.45 Archie Mitchell; Malcolm Stewart; Pat Duffy

9.52 P. Simpson; John Brand; Tam Bennett

10.00 Jim Donnelly; Brian Ruffhead; David Johnston

Play will be from the WHITE(Medal) tees and all players and groups are requested to respect their allocated tee times and to observe on course etiquette particularly in the following areas:

1) After completing a hole move to the next tee before marking your score cards;

2) Repair your pitch marks on the greens;

3) Avoid slow play, if however, you lose a hole on the group in front, wave the following group of players through.

4) Enjoy yourselves