Thursday 23rd October: Cochrane Castle are presented with the West of Scotland Greenlees Trophy

Over 60 ladies representing 28 clubs attended the West of Scotland Greenlees Trophy Presentation Lunch at Largs Golf Club today. Cochrane Castle winners of the 1st Division for the first time were represented by RLCGA Captain Pearl Orr, county team player and captain of Cochrane Castle Gillian McGinlay plus 8 other Cochrane Castle team members. Unable to attend were RLCGA team members Donna Jackson, Carol Whyte and Maureen Skinner

Denise Cowan (Greenlees Captain) accepted the large trophy from Sandra Nordbe the Largs Lady Captain

The league was first established in 1931 by Isabel Greenlees. She was a member of Prestwick St Nicholas before joining Troon Ladies where the 50th Anniversary was held and where she presented the trophies. We are all grateful to her for establishing the league and for giving us such pleasure in playing inter club matches through the years

Willeen McCallum (Whitecraigs) the Greenlees Divisional Secretary chaired the presentation lunch. She congratulated all the winners and also announced her retirement from the post by saying that it seemed appropriate that she should retire this year when so many new names have appeared on the trophies. Jean Donaldson Life Member of Largs gave a very enlightening talk on the history of Largs and Sandra Nordbe, Captain of Largs presented the trophies

Nancy Chisholm, Prestwick St Nicholas, Winners of Division 2 gave the vote of thanks and also announced that there will be a Renfrewshire Seminar on the Unified Handicapping System at Caldwell Golf Club on the 20th November. Details are currently being sent out to clubs.

Monday 20th October 2003: Dunfermline Building Society
SLGA Order of Merit 2003-2004

The top 57 players in the SLGA Order of Merit awards (2003 -2004) have been announced and 5 of our County Players have done exceedingly well:

The top 3 Players are:

1 Lynn Kenny 1180
2 Clare Queen 970
3 Louise Kenney 615
RLCGA Players
13 Addi Shamash (Kirkcudbright and Bonnyton) 310
14 Jennifer Jenkins (Ralston) 300
22 Lesley Robertson (Ranfurly Castle) 150
33 Maureen Skinner (Gourock) 85
37 Gillian McGinlay (Cochrane Castle) 75

The Order of Merit restarts with the Helen Holm Scottish open stroke-play over Troon Portland and Royal Troon at the end of next April and the Welsh open stroke-play will be the final counting event in the scheme which straddles two seasons.

Sunday 5th October 2003

SCOTTISH VETERAN WOMEN'S CHAMPIONSHIP:

Lynne Terry, the North title-holder from Cruden Bay beat the former Scottish women's champion Heather Anderson, the West veterans' title-winner from Caldwell, by 2 and 1 in the quarter finals of the Scottish Veterans Championship at Lansdowne course, Blairgowrie

JUNIOR MASTERS TITLES BOTH GO TO NORTH-EAST
Megan Briggs (Ranfurly Castle) was 5th in the Girls Grand Final of the Scotland Junior Masters played over the Queen's Course, Gleneagles Hotel today (Sunday).
From a starting field of 2,500 from all over Scotland (both boys and girls) a total of 80 qualifiers played on the day.

The top of the girls' Leaderboard was Michelle Thomson (McDonald Ellon) Carly Booth (Auchterarder) and Nicole Blackie (Eyemouth) all finishing with 37pt. .
Nadia Green (Nairn) was fourth with 36pt and Megan Briggs (Ranfurly Castle) fifth of those who had 34pt.
The first five in both the boys' and girls' sections will each receive a bonus prize of specialised coaching.
The tournament is run jointly by the Scottish Golf Union and the Scottish Ladies