Tuesday, May 15, 2012 

Kimberley Wins in the Wind at Cruden Bay

Kimberley Beveridge (Aboyne) pipped Tegan Seivwright (Deeside) by a shot for the leading scratch prize in Sunday’s Aberdeenshire girls' medal competition played in a bitterly cold and very strong wind at Cruden Bay. 

Kimberley returned a 93 to Tegan's 94. Lauren Watson (Deeside) won the handicap award with a net 83 off 12. 

SCRATCH
93 Kimberley Beveridge (Aboyne)
94 Tegan Seivwright (Deeside)
95 Lauren Watson (Deeside)
99 Kirsten Pryde (Deeside).
NRs Lisa Bruce (Cruden Bay), Jasmine Mackintosh (Hazlehead)

HANDICAP
83 Lauren Watson (Deeside) (15)
88 Tegan Seivwright (Deeside) (6), Kirsten Pryde (Deeside) (11)
90 Kimberley Beveridge (Aboyne) (3)
NRs Lisa Bruce (Cruden Bay), Jasmine Mackintosh (Hazlehead). 

Most of the players who make up the usual Shire girls field were unavailable for a variety of reasons but the main one was studies for school exams. Good luck in them, girls! 

Report courtesy of Cal Carson Golf Agency   

Monday, May 7, 2012 

Congratulations to Laura again

We can hardly keep up with Laura Murray (Alford) these days.  Fresh from her fantastic 3^rd place in the Helen Holm at Troon, Laura was off on her travels to Ashburnham links in South Wales where she finished top Scot and a great 9^th place in the Welsh women`s Open Amateur stroke play Championship.  Very well done and many congratulations Laura. 

Marta Moody

County Captain

Wednesday, May 2, 2012 

County Championship

The 2012 County Championship returned to Royal Aberdeen Golf Club after a gap of 27 years.  The qualifying round was held on Friday 27^th April and with the weather, cold and blustery with squally showers interspersed with hailstones, it was not for the faint hearted.  Thirteen clubs were represented and we were particularly delighted to welcome 4 entrants from Duff House Royal Golf Club, a new member of ALCGA.  A record entry of 39 players bravely battled their way round the historic links which were in their usual immaculate condition. 

Given the difficult weather conditions, the best score of 80 (45 out, 35 in) by Carol Wilson (Murcar Links) showed her exceptional golfing talent.  Tegan Seivwright (Deeside), one of our juniors, produced the next best score of 84. 

The weather improved for the first round matches on Saturday.  Although not quite the warm, balmy conditions of 2011 at least we had blue sky.  Immediate Past Captain, Ellie Whyte (Aberdeen Ladies) had a great tussle with the 1999 County Champion, Linda Urquhart (Banchory) with Linda eventually prevailing by one hole. 

The most closely contested match in the quarter finals was between the 2009 Champion, Sara Mathieson (Murcar Links) and 2010 Champion, Sammy Leslie (Aberdeen Ladies) with Sammy clinching victory on the 18th. 

Sammy was again in a nail biter in her semi final against Carol Wilson with Carol winning through by one hole. 

Sheena Wood (Aberdeen Ladies) was in fantastic form and played immaculately to reach the final.  In her match against Carol she again produced a virtually faultless display of golf and ran out a very worthy winner by 4 and 3.  Very well done Sheena.  Many, many congratulations on this, your 5^th Championship title. 

In the handicap championship two of the qualifiers were juniors, Molly Stewart (Murcar Links) and twelve year old Jasmine Mackintosh (Hazlehead). They met in the semi finals and it was Molly who went on to meet Kathleen Esslemont (Cruden Bay) in the final. 

With a quite superb display of length off the tee Molly won the final against Kathleen by 6 and 5.  A very worthy winner.  Surely with the quality of golf being produced by our juniors, ladies` golf in Aberdeenshire has a secure future.

Away from the course, in the comfort of the Aberdeen Ladies` lovely clubhouse the players and officials were supremely well cared for.  Aberdeen Ladies` Captain, Lesley Patterson, her Vice Captain, Olive Fraser and their committee worked tirelessly to ensure that we were all fed and watered but above all given the warmest of welcomes.  Nothing was too much trouble and through their efforts made the 2012 Championship a very memorable one.  We thank them for all their efforts on our behalf.  We are also extremely grateful to the Captain and Council of Royal Aberdeen Golf Club for granting us courtesy of the course and hope that we may be able to return to these wonderful old links in the not too distant future. 

Marta Moody

County Captain

2012 Handicap and Scratch Champions – Molly Stewart and Sheena Wood

While many of our elite golfers were battling round Balgownie Links at Royal Aberdeen Golf Club in the Aberdeenshire Ladies` County Championship another of our elite players, Laura Murray (Alford Golf Club), was battling her way round Troon Portland and Royal Troon in the Helen Holm Scottish Women`s Open Amateur Stroke Play Championship.  Over the three days of the Championship Laura played wonderful golf, producing rounds of 74, 72 and 72.  Her superb play earned her a fantastic third place.  Many, many congratulations Laura.  ALCGA is so proud of you.  

Marta Moody

County Captain

Helen Holm prizewinners – Laura Murray is pictured 2^nd from the right

SLGA President Margaret MacNaughtan (Aberdeen Ladies) presents the Helen Holm Trophy to Amy Boulden

Both images courtesy of Cal Carson Golf Agency

County Championship at Balgownie
Scratch Results
Handicap Results

Thursday, April 26, 2012 

Squad Training

Training for the County Coaching Squad was held over three Sundays 25^th March, 1^st April and 15^th April.  Our squad this year consisted of 15 girls – Kimberley Beveridge (Aboyne), Jill Harrison (Cruden Bay), Fiona Hay (Deeside), Fiona Hay (Kemnay), Mhairi Johnstone (Murcar Links), Sammy Leslie (Westhill), Sara Mathieson (Murcar Links), Laura Murray (Alford), Donna Pocock (Murcar Links), Claire Prouse (Hazlehead), Vikki Riddell (Kemnay), Fiona Seedhouse (Aberdeen Ladies), Tegan Seivwright (Deeside), Carol Wilson (Murcar Links) and Sheena Wood (Aberdeen Ladies).  

Again our coach was Gary Forbes of Murcar Links but this year we also had little sister, Julie, who stood in very ably for Gary for one of the sessions when Gary was in Coatbridge,  having qualified for the Finals of the National Bowling Championships.  How lucky we are to have such enthusiastic and committed coaches.  Many thanks Gary and Julie. 

We had a great three sessions but I`m afraid last year`s organisers did a much better job with the weather.  This year we started in March with warm sunny weather - did I see someone wearing crops? and finished in the middle of April wearing a minimum of five layers and sheltering from the hailstones.  Well done girls (and coach), everyone kept smiling to the end.  

Marta Moody 

Laura Murray, Sammy Leslie, Fiona Seedhouse, Sheena Wood, Sara Mathieson, Carol Wilson, Marta Moody,
Fiona Hay, Gary Forbes
Tegan Seivwright, Claire Prouse, Jill Harrison, Kimberley Beveridge, Lorraine Coleman

Monday, April 23, 2012 

Jasmine wins Shire Girls’ Opener at Balgownie

Jasmine Mackintosh, a 12-year-old Hazlehead Golf Club junior, won the first competition of the Aberdeenshire girls' season over the Silverburn course at Balgownie yesterday. 

Jasmine, who has a handicap of 17, had a Stableford points score of 38, one more than Tegan Seivwright (Deeside) (6) and Zoe Marr (Inverurie) (13). 

The CSS was 63, one less than the standard scratch. 

Jasmine Mackintosh (Hazlehead) (17) 38pt
Tegan Seivwright (Deeside) (6) 37pt
Zoe Marr (Inverurie) (13) 37pt
Kirsten Pryde (Deeside) (11) 35pt
Fiona Sutherland (Deeside) (20) 35pt
Sarah Black (Deeside) (18) 34pt
Lauren Watson (Deeside) (13) 34pt
Sophie Alexander (Deeside) (6) 34
Kimberley Beveridge (Aboyne) (3) 32pt
Molly Stewart (Murcar Links) (9) 31pt
Olivia Borwick (McDonald Ellon) (7) 28pt
Shannon McWilliam (Aboyne) (9) 23pt
Kirsten Watson (Deeside) (32) 21pt

Jasmine Mackintosh, the overall winner, is second left on the front row.

Report and photo courtesy of Cal Carson Golf Agency.

Sunday, April 22, 2012 

Congratulations Linda

Many congratulations to Linda Urquhart (Banchory Golf Club) on her recent selection for the Scottish Veterans team in their match against the Irish Veterans at Hilton Templepatrick Golf Club near Belfast. 

Although Ireland won the Mary McKenna Trophy 9.5- 2.5, Linda played extremely well winning her foursomes match with Elaine Allison but narrowly losing her singles match. 

Well done Linda!

Linda Urquhart, Elaine Allison, May Hughes, Mary Smith, Heather Anderson, Alison Bartlett.

Lorna Bennett, Helen Faulds (Captain), Noreen Fenton (Vice Captain), Karen Ballantyne

Tuesday, April 10, 2012

 
The Modeste Trophy 2012

The annual match for the Modeste trophy took place this year on Sunday 8^th April at Newburgh Golf Club.  This match comprises a team of up to twelve North East Youths versus a team of Aberdeenshire Ladies.  Because of other commitments the teams this year comprised 8 players each and the match was played as a greensomes with the winning team being decided on the total number of holes up.  

Aberdeenshire Ladies were represented by the following pairings: 

Laura Murray and Sara Mathieson 

Carol Wilson and Jill Harrison 

Fiona Hay (Deeside) and Fiona Hay (Kemnay)  We thought that could confuse the opposition! 

Sammy Leslie and Claire Prouse 

Our girls played beautiful golf with Laura and Sara winning by 4 holes, Carol and Jill winning by 3 holes, Fiona and Fiona just going down by one hole and Sammy and Claire again just losing out by 2 holes in a very tight match.  So with a total of 7 holes up and 3 holes down Aberdeenshire Ladies took home the trophy.  Well played girls and well played North East District Youths.  They were true gentlemen and took their defeat with great sportsmanship.    

ALCGA would like to thank Newburgh Golf Club for very kindly giving us the courtesy of the course for this match.  

NE Youths and ALCGA with their captains Paul Gallacher and Marta Moody

Congratulations ALCGA
Fiona Hay, Jill Harrison, Laura Murray, Sammy Leslie, Sara Mathieson, Carol Wilson and Claire Prouse 

Thursday, February 16, 2012 
Curtis Cup Registration – Request from the LGU

The Ladies Golf Union would like to know if you are going to Nairn to watch the 37th Curtis Cup match June 8 - 10. 

You can watch the practice days earlier in the week as well.
 
Click here to fill in their survey 

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/zch26wl 

Sunday, February 05, 2012
 
Margaret MacNaughtan – SLGA President

We are delighted to congratulate Margaret MacNaughtan , past County Captain and member of Aberdeen Ladies Golf Club on being elected as President of the Scottish Ladies` Golfing Association.  We know she will be a wonderful ambassador for Ladies` golf and send her our very best wishes for what we know, will be a highly successful two years as President.