WINTER COACHING

Our winter coaching has started in earnest with our Elite Squad going along to Gleneagles on Sunday and enjoying some short game coaching and some tips on how to prepare yourself for play both in terms of your game and your metal attitude. Very interesting!

The Elite squads for this year are:

Group 1. Emily Aird (Strathmore), Megan Aird (Strathmore), Ailie Burnett (Dunkeld), Erin Millar (Pitlochry), Nicola robertson (Dunblane) and Eilidh Watson (Muckhart)
Group 2. Laura Aitken (Killin), Caitlin Bartrop (Whitemoss), Claire Gadsby (Muthill), Hannah Robb (Strathmore), Kathry Robertson (Auchterarder), Siobhan Teague (Auchterarder)

A huge thank you also go to Senior Squad girls Emily Ogilvy and Laura Walker who came along on Sunday to offer support and encouragement to all our girls. They were great!

CARLY IS TOPS

Well done to Team member Carly Booth who not only won the Scottish Junior Champion of Champions but won it in real style!! Played over the fabulous Kingsbarns golf Course, Carly returned an amazing 5 under par 67 to take the crown by 5 clear shots. Carly's round began with five birdies in the first seven holes and with a total of eight throughout the round. She also had one bogey at the par three 2nd and a double bogey on 14th following a lost ball. When I spoke with Carly last night she was delighted with her performance and felt she had her confidence back following a lot of hard practice, practice which certainly has paid off. Well done Carly, a fantastic end to the season.

Perth and Kinross were well represented on the day with 3 of the 13 girls coming from our County. Team member Annabel Niven came a very credible 5th returning an 84. Annabel's round included a fantastic eagle three at the long par 5 12th. Our third representative was Ailie Burnett from Dunkeld and Birnam.

PERTH AND KINROSS JUNIOR PRIZE GIVING

Yesterday we held our first ever Junior get together and Prize giving at Strathmore Golf Centre and what a successful day we had. Strathmore Golf Centre as always were very gracious hosts and we were very lucky to have their 9 hole Leitfie Course all to ourselves! We held a 9 holes, shotgun start, Texas Scramble. Our thanks go to 11 ladies who came along to help on the day, they were Carol Lambie, Lenore Kyle, Dawn Butchart, Pam Drysdale, Laura Walker, Pat Colquhoun, Liz Miskimmin, Janet Griffiths, Dot Doris, Jackie Moran and Shona Leighton. Lenore, Dawn, Laura, Pat, Janet, Dot, Jackei and Shona were team captains and Pam, Lenore and Liz walked round to support all the teams. Also a huge thank you to you our players, it really was a fanatstic turnout. We all enjoyed our game and the winners of the Texas Scramble were Ailie Burnett and Elise Henderson along with Team Captain Laura Walker who returned a par matching 29. Well done all. 2nd place was Dawns Team with 31 and third place Dot's team with 32. Well done all who took part and sorry about the wee bit of rain at the end!

Following our game we all enjoyed a very nice lunch and some yummy cakes. We then asked our President Liz Miskimmin to present the prizes which had been won over the season. Our Scratch Champion Ailie Burnett closed the day with a vote of thanks to all who had helped and support the juniors throughout the year.

It was a super day which I hope you all enjoyed. Well done to all the prizewinners, below is a slide show of the golf and the prizewinners. If you would like any of the photos just email me and I will be happy to send them to you.

ADULT AND JUNIOR COUNTY DAY

Angus County have once again organised an Adult and Junior greensomes competition. All Adults should be current or past county squad members and junior girls must be under 18 with a handicap of 36 or less. The hope is that this format will give junior girls the opportunity to play along side established talented lady golfers.

This is the second year this has been organised by Angus and with such a great turnout it is certainly turning out to be a very popular event.

I have highlighted our pairings.

10.30: M Summers & L Smith - E Moffat & A Tait
10.37: J Brown & A Pryde - L Fury & K Honeyman
10.44: H Anderson & A Summers - A Wilton & S Munro
10.51: C Penman & J Chalmers - D Ford & L Whyte
10.58: F Blair & E Jamieson - D Watson & S McGuire
11.05: F Gilbert & A Alston - L Walker & L Campbell
11.12: C Capocci & J Laird - J Yellowlees & A Burnett
11.19: S Raitt & K Reid - G Lambie & E Aird
11.26: A Hay & G Wilson - S Leighton & M Aird
11.33: E Allison & A Goodwin - D Butchart & E Millar
11.38: E Goodwin & N Underhill - F Ramsay & E Watson
11.45: AN Other & AN Other - L McGregor & A Hutton

WELL DONE P&K GIRLS

The UBC Girls Championship was played over the Loch Ness course at Castle Heather Inverness yesterday and sisters Emily and Megan Aird along with Pitlochry's Erin Millar flew the flag for P&K. The Aird sisters both returned scratch scores of 85 both also had exactly the same halves -45 -40. Emily won the tie breaker by virtue of better last six to take 3rd prize in the scratch section. As only one prize can be won by each player and as scratch takes precedence, Megan did not leave empty handed. She picked up the best nett prize. Well done to both girls.
The winner of the scratch was fifteen-year-old Hannah McCook (Abernethy).

The full results are as follows:

GIRLSPar 71. SSS 70. CSS 73. 5,387yd.

LEADING SCRATCH
81 Hannah McCook (Abernethy) 42-39.
83 Ailsa Summers (Panmure Barry) 42-41.
85 Emily Aird (Strathmore) 45-40 better last 6, Megan Aird (Strathmore) 45-40.
86 Fiona Fullerton (Huntly) 48-38, Sophie Alexander (Deeside) 47-39, Samantha Leslie (Murcar Links) 46-40.
91 Louise McGillivray (Banchory).
92 Rachel Polson (Peterculter).
93 Nikita Lamond (McDonald Ellon), Kirsten MacCallum (McDonald Ellon), Tegan Seivwright (Peterculter), Heather Munro (Monifieth), Kitrina Vannet (Peterculter).
95 Vicki Powell (Deeside).
97 Erin Millar (Pitlochry).
106 Annabelle Brown (Nairn Dunbar).
122 Shannon McWilliam (Aboyne).
NRs Jordyn Booth (Kemnay), Lauren Duncan (Aboyne), Louise Smith (Monifieth).


HANDICAP
75 Megan Aird (Strathmore) (10).
76 Vicki Powell (Deeside) (19).
77 Fiona Fullerton (9)
77 (bih), Tegan Seivwright (Peterculter) (16).

PRIZEWINNERS
Scratch –
81 H McCook.
83 A Summers.
85 E Aird.

Handicap –
75 M Aird (10).
76 V Powell (19).
77 F Fullerton (9).

ADDITIONAL PRIZEWINNERS
Handicaps 1-10 – Sophie Alexander (7) 79.
Handicaps 11-16 – Tegan Seivwright (16) 77.

WELL DONE GIRLS!

A great turnout for our rearranged date at Milnathort to play the McPherson Medals and some great scoring too. Congratulations go to all the winners and many thanks go to Carol and all her team of helpers also to Milnathort for courtesy of the course and to all the staff for their warm welcome.

It is fantastic to see all the girls doing so well and throughly enjoying their golf. Well done and keep it up!

CSS 72
Gold Medal (Scratch)
Emily Aird, Strathmore 87
Ailie Burnett, Dunkeld & Birnam 91

Silver Medal (Handicap)
Nicola Robertson (16) Dunblane 73
Lauren Marchbank (19) Auchterarder 75
Jennifer Smith (27) Kinross 77

Bronze Medal (9-Hole Girls)
Jennifer Duncan, Auchterarder 49
Elise Henderson, Dunning 57
Abigail Aird, Strathmore 60

7-Hole Girls
Lauren Neill, Alyth
Kayleigh Melvin, Aberfeldy
Emma Cruickshank, Crieff
Rosanagh Davidson, Dunkeld & Birnam
Suzie Taylor, Dunkeld & Birnam

4-Hole Girls
Rachel Calder, Milnathort
Katie Bell, Milnathort
Faye Mathieson, Kinross
Rebecca Rylance, Perth

CONGRATULATIONS EMILY

Emily Aird (Strathmore) has taken part in Scotland’s biggest junior handicap event, the Dunfermline Building Society Junior Masters. With hundreds of boys and girls from clubs across the country playing for a place in the grand final at Gleneagles, home of the 2014 Ryder Cup. Five regional finals are taking part during the summer holidays from Duff House Royal in the north to Galashiels in the Borders.

Emily played in the regional final at Ratho Park yesterday and has played her way into the final in October.This is a fantastic achievement for Emily and we wish her every success on October 12th!

If you know of any other P&K member sho is playing in this event or any other then please let us know about it!

CAPTAINS DAY AT BLAIRGOWRIE

The draw for Captains Day at Blairgowrie Golf Club - Thurs 14th August 2008 on ROSEMOUNT COURSE is below, if you would like a late entry please contact Liz Fertacz on 01738 828632

9.30: E OGILVY, L WALKER, J MILNE
9.37: M HOPE, G LAMBIE, S BUSHBY
9.45: M MARSHALL, H GIBSON, J LANG
9.52: M WILSON, C LAMBIE, A BURNETT
10.00: S DURWARD, P DRYSDALE, L KYLE
10.07: M BRYDSON, C IRVING, E MILLAR
10.15: M MCGLASHAN, A MCGREGOR, A PRIESTLEY
10.22: G PENNYCOOK, S MACDOUGALL, K MCKELLAR
10.30: S MITCHELL, H DAWSON, E MILLIGAN
10.37: H DALGLEISH, A SPEIRS, L PATTINSON
10.45:
10.52: M CHAPMAN, S YOUNG, L FALL
11.00: D WHYTOCK, H STRAW, S CRYSTAL
11.07: J PROUDFOOT, D WALLACE, M MACLEOD
11.15: J MERRY, M HUNTER, C CHOUDRAY
11.22: P COLQUHOUN, J CLOWE, A DUNCAN
11.30: A ALLAN, W STEWART, E WATSON
11.37: E DONALDSON, A TANNOCK, M MACRAE
11.45: S FENNER, J PRINGLE, E CAMPBELL
11.52: G PATERSON, C WEBB, L O’DONNELL
12.00:
12.07; H LANG, M FORBES, M ROBERTSON
12.15: E HARRILD, S MACNAUGHTON, P HEBNER
12.22: J THOM, S JONES, G NESS
12.30: A CROSSLAND, S IRVINE, C MCNAB
12.37: A BEESON, J GROOM, M LESLIE
12.45: R MCGEOGHEGAN, C MONKS, M CHALMERS
EVENING
17.00: D BUTCHART, K DUNCAN
17.07: G WALLACE, J GRIFFITHS, A BUSHBY
17.15: L FERTACZ, E MARTIN, M BRASS
17.22:
17.30: F JOHNSTON, C TURNER, M ROBERTSON

Really looking forward to seeing you all there, here's hoping the sun will be shining!

MILNATHORT REARRANGED

The heavy rain made play at Milnathort impossible so Carol has rearranged the date to Friday 15th August, same time, same place but hopefully different weather!

MILNATHORT CANCELLED

Sorry girls but due to the heavy rain which has persisted for the last two or three days we have had no choice other than to cancel the event at Milnathort today. We have tried very hard to catch all of you before you get to the course and we appologise if we didn't manage to catch you!

We are trying hard to rearrange this fixture for next Friday but will keep you posted!

Sorry!

NEWS FROM ALTYH

Hot news from Alyth and the Scottish Girls (close) Amateur Championship is that three of our four girls have now completed their 2nd rounds and Carly Booth's scores were 73-78, Eve Muirhead's were 79-84 and Megan Aird 92-92.

We are still waiting for Emily Aird who returned a 91 this morning. Carly looks to take 2nd qualifying spot behind Kelsey MacDonald who returned scores of 74-74. Eve will also almost certainly qualify.

Ailie Burnett withdrew due to an injury. We hope it's not too bad, will keep you up to date on that on.

SCOTTISH GIRL'S (CLOSE) AMATEUR CHAMPIONSHIP

The Scottish Girls (Close) Amateur Championships kicks off at Alyth Golf Club tomorrow. We have five girls P&K County girls involved. Defending Champion Carly Booth (Comrie), Team member Eve Muirhead (Pitlochry), Megan Aird (Strathmore), Ailie Burnett (Dunkeld) and Emily Aird (Pitlochry).

Practice day is today then two qualifying rounds tomorrow. Carly tees off at 8.00am and 12.30, Eve at 9.12am & 13.42, Megan at 9.21 & 13.50, Emily at 10.33 & 15.03 and Ailie at 10.51 & 15.21. 32 players will then go forward to the three days matchplay.

It is fantastic that this is being held in P&K so please try to come along and support our girls.

Good luck to Carly, Eve, Megan, Ailie and Emily.

GOOD LICK ANNABEL

County Team member Annabel Niven from Crieff, pictured in the blue Scottish Blazer,(photo courtesy of Cal Carson) at last nights opening ceremony of the R&A Junior Open at Hesketh Golf Club, Lancashire.

Annabel received a competitors badge from defending Open champion Padraig Harrington.

Annabel will play along side 108 competitors from 68 countries in this three day event which begins today.
Good Luck Annabel.

RESULTS FROM AUCHTERARDER

Another great turnout for our County Girls Event at Auchterarder yesterday. We had 14 girls playing over 18 holes for the Scratch prize of the Drysdale Trophy and the handicap prize of the Karyn Dallas Trophy. We had some great scores but top of the Scratch Section was Ailie Burnett with a brilliant 83, well done. The winner of the Karyn Dallas trophy was Kathryn Robertson (Auchterarder) (31) 70. Both Ailie and Kathryn have excelled in the P&K junior events, they also won both the scratch and handicap at our event at Blairgowrie. Well done to you both, great to see you enjoying your golf and performing well.

The full results are as follows:

CSS 69
Drysdale Trophy -
1st - Ailie Burnett (Dunkeld) 83
2nd - Emily Aird (Strathmore) 88

Karyn Dallas Trophy
1st - Kathryn Robertson (Auchterarder) (31) 70
2nd - Nicola Robertson (Dunblane) (22) 71
3rd - Rosalyn Hall (35) Alyth (35) 74

9 Hole Girls
1st - Rebecca Duncan (Auchterarder) 53
2nd - Elise Henderson (Dunning) 57
3rd equal- Jennifer Duncan (Auchterarder) 58, Emma Maclaren (Auchterarder) 58

A huge thank you to all our Auchterarder ladies who came along to walk round with the 9-hole girls they were Alison, Janette, Anne, and Sandy also Sheila Aitken from Killin and Anne Speirs from Dunkeld who kindly came along. Thank you also goes to Pam Drysdale and Pat Colquhoun who kept an eye on the 18 hole girls. We really appreciate you all taking time to come along and supporting the girls. They are indeed the future of P&K and the future is looking pretty good!

We all look forward to seeing you all at the next Junior Competition which is on Friday, 1st August at Milnathort at 11 am.

PHOTOS AS PROMISED FROM THE JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIP!

SLGA NOMINATE ANNABEL NIVEN TOPLAY IN R&A JUNIOR OPEN



The Scottish Ladies Golfing Association has nominated Team Member Annabel Niven to play in the R&A Junior Open golf championship at Hesketh, Lancashire from July 14 to 16.


The R&A competition, which attracts competitors from around the world, is for juniors, boys and girls, aged 16 and under. Players with handicaps of three and under play 54 holes, those with higher handicaps play 36 holes.


Once the tournament is finished, the R&A give all competitors the opportunity to attend the Open championship at nearby Royal Birkdale.


This is a huge honour for Annabel and we send her our warmest congratulations.

JUNIOR GIRLS CHAMPIONSHIP

What a fantastic turnout at Blairgowrie on Sunday! There was over 40 girls playing in total which was a brilliant. So a huge well done to all the girls who were amongst the winners and also to all who came along and enjoyed a great Junior County Day!

The 18 hole girls played over the Lansdowne course and the winner of the Scratch Championship was Ailie Burnett of Dunkeld who returned an excellent 89 over the Lansdowne course and the Handicap Champion was Kathryn Robertson of Auchterarder who returned an amazing nett 65!! Brilliant considering the CSS was 74!

The 9 hole, 6 hole girls played over 'The Wee Course' and the winner of the 9 holes girls was Jennifer Duncan of Auchterarder with 47 and the the winner of hte 6 hole girls was Emma Cruickshank. Well done all.

The full results are as follows:

Scratch Championship CSS 74
Ailie Burnett (Dunkeld) 89
Patricia Mennie (Auchterarder) 92
Nicola Robertson (Dunblane) 98

Handicap Champion CSS 74
Kathryn Robertson (Auchterarder) (35) 65
Erica Burnett (Dunkeld) (36) 70
Laura Aitken (Killin) (27) 71

9-Hole Girls -
Jennifer Duncan (Auchterarder) 47
Hannah Robb (Strathmore) 50
Rebecca Duncan (Auchterarder) 51

6 Hole Girls -
Emma Cruickshank
Faye Mathieson
Erin Pattillo
Katie Bell

Well done all and I will attach the photo's tomorrow!

The date of our next Junior Event is Wednesday 2nd July at Auchterarder at 11 am. so please lets try and make this another successful event!

CALLING ALL GIRLS!!

Sunday is our County Girls Championship at Blairgowrie so if you haven't already responded to Carol then please, please do so now!!!

There will be 18 holes over Lansdowne for those playing 18 and for our 9 hole girls we will be playing over 'The Wee Course'

Something for everyone so please come along and support the county girls events. Please arrive around 1.15pm - 1.30pm for the first tee time at 1.45pm.

See you there.

WELL DONE AILIE

Ailie Burnett who represented North Division in the Inter-Girls Championships at Balumbie this weekend did extrememly well all weekend. Ailie won both her matches on Saturday and narrowly lost her match on Sunday. Ailie you did great and we send you our warmest congratulations.

This tournament is played in a two-ball format, round robin over two days. East won the event with 6pt. South were runners-up with 4.5 points andn in third position was North 4pt from two halved matches and one defeat.West were fourth with 3.5pt from one win, one halved match and one defeat.

RESULTS:
SOUTH 1, WEST 2
Isla Craigie & Lesley Atkins bt Linzi Allan & Hannah Gaunt 4 and 2.
Kirstie McDonald & Tara MacTaggart lost to Zoe Differ & Lauren Meldrum 8 and 6.
Ailsa Mitchell & Ailsa Bain lost to Nicola Ferguson & Natasha Qayum 6 and 5.

NORTH 1.5, EAST 1.5
Ailsa Summers & Julie Vass halved with Cara Easton & Rachael Watton.
Ailie Burnett & Rachel Polson bt Judy Shields & Camilla Tait 6 and 4.
Ashley Smith & Hannah McCook lost to Gillian Simpson & Gabrielle McDonald 2 holes.

SOUTH 1.5, EAST 1.5
Isla Craigie & Lesley Atkins lost to Cara Easton & Rachael Watton 2 holes.
Kirsty McDonald & Tara MacTaggart bt Judy Shields & Camilla Tait 2 and 1.
Ailsa Mitchell & Ailsa Bain halved with Gillian Simpson & Gabrielle McDonald.

WEST 1.5, NORTH 1.5
Nichola Ferguson & Natasha Qayum bt Ailsa Summers & Julie Vass 3 and 2.
Zoe Differ & Lauren Meldrum halved with Ashley Smith & Hannah McCook.
Linzi Allan & Hannah Gaunt lost to Ailie Burnett & Rachel Polson 2 holes.

WEST 0, EAST 3
Nichola Ferguson & Natasha Qayum lost to Cara Easton & Rachael Watton 2 and 1.
Zoe Differ & Lauren Meldrum lost to Gillian Simpson & Gabrielle McDonald 4 and 2.
Linzi Allan & Hannah Gaunt lost to Judy Shields & Camilla Tait 3 and 2.

SOUTH 2, NORTH 1.
Isla Craigie & Lesley Atkins bt Julie Vass & Ailsa Summers 1 hole.
Kirstie McDonald & Tara MacTaggart lost to Ashley Smith & Hannah McCook 3 & 2. Ailsa Mitchell & Ailsa Bain bt Ailie Burnett & Rachel Polson 2 and 1.

GIRLS INTER DIVISIONAL MATCHES

Winner of the P&K County Gibb Trophy Ailie Burnett will represnt P&K North team for the Girls Inter Divisional Matches at Ballumbie on 7th and 8th June. This is a round robin tournament with 2 matches on Saturday and 1 match on Sunday against girls teams from South, East and West.

The North team is as follows:Ailie Burnett (Dunkeld and Birnam), Ashley Smith (Monifieth), Ailsa Summers (Panmure Barry) Rachel Polson (Peterculter), Julie Vass (Tain) and Hannah McCook ( Abernethy).

We wish Ailie all the very best of luck throughout the weekend. Come on the North!!

OFF TO THE CURTIS CUP

Really looking forward to our trip to the Curtis Cup on Sunday 1st June. For all of you who are coming along a letter has been sent to you with all the details. But I will briefly outline a few reminders!

Pick up points
Auchterarder 8.20am at the main Car Park.
Perth 8.45am at the Broxden Park and Ride.

Remember to bring a packed lunch, drinks and some warm clothing. Also no mobile phones or camera's are permitted on the course.

With over 25 girls coming along it is sure to be a fantastic day for all.

See you there
Dawn

WELL DONE AILIE AND ERIN

Dunkeld junior member Ailie Burnett and Pitlochry junior member Erin Millar certainly did Perth and Kinross County Juniors proud this weekend at Alyth in the County Championship weekend. Ailie who qualified 7th and Erin who qualified 5th both made it to the final of the Perth and Kinross Gibb Trophy (Handicap Championship) final. Making it an all junior final!

Ailie and Erin had a fabulous match with excellent golf being played by both girls. The winner was Ailie Burnett with a 2&1 victory, however Erin showed great spirit by fighting back from 6 down.

An fantastic final, one of which makes me very proud of our junior section.

EVE MUIRHEAD NAMED IN THE OLYMPIC CURLING SQUAD

I am very please to announce that Junior Member and County Squad Member Eve Muirhead has been named in the 6 strong ladies squad for the 2010 Olympic's. The squad named along with Eve are Karen Addison, Lynn Cameron, Jackie Lockhart, Lorna Vevers and Kelly Wood .

Eve who although has only recently turned 18 is a very experience Curler she was Captain of the women's team who beat hosts Sweden 12-3 in the final match at the 2008 World Championships in Ostersund, Sweden on Sunday 9 March. She also won gold at the World Junior Curling Championships, Minnesota, 2007 was part of the young futures curling squad, 2006, won Silver League Winner 2005 and was 3rd in the Scottish Junior Championships 2005 & 2004

On top of her curling achievements Eve is also an excellent golfer who has represented P&K at County level on numerous occasions, what a talent indeed!!

We are very proud of Eve and send her our warmest congratulations. Well done Eve, we will be supporting you all the way.

Under 16 Championship Second Round

Our girls have continued to do really well at Craigielaw.

Annabel Nivenscored an 80 to-day to add to her 75 yesterday giving a final score of 155 which placed her 13th overall, highest Scottish player. Very well done Annabel.

Megan Aird had a 97 to add to her 83 a very creditable total of 180, well done Megan.

Emily Aird had 100 in the first round followed by 103 to-day, a total of 203, great effort Emily, keep it up!

CONGRATULATIONS ERIN!!

County Junior Elite Squad member and Scholarship girl Erin Millar from Pitlochry won her club Medal on Tuesday with a gross 84 nett 64 CSS 73. She has taken her handicap down to 17 from 20. All your hardword over the winter is certainly paying off Erin!

What a fantastic start ot the season for Erin, well done! Thanks go to Kathleen Duncan from Pitlochry who kindly let me know how well Erin had done.

Please contact me with all your news and your achievements PLEASE!!

NEWS FLASH

Megan has kindly called to keep me up to date with the girls at Craigielaw and the news so far is that Annabel has returned an excellent 75 and Megan has returned a 83. Well done both.

The leading score at present is 69.

I will keep you up dated on any further news as it happens

THREE PERTH AND KINROSS GIRLS IN SCOTTISH CHAMPIONSHIP

Senior Squad member Annabel Niven has been selected to represent Scotland in the team event of the Under 16 Open Stroke Play Championship which starts today at Craigielaw Golf Club. Annabel tee's off at 8.30 both days. Annabel also represented Scotland last year and we wish her well. Annabel along with sisters Megan and Emily Aird makes up the three representatives from the county. Megan Tees off at 9am both days and Emily at 12.40. This is the first major event in the SLGA Girls callender and we wish the girls well.

To see the full draw click on the link below

SLGA Under 16's draw

WELL DONE GIRLS

Following our match at Gleneagles our senior team lost to Stirling and Clackmannan 4-0 however I am very pleased to say that the Juniors had a much happier result with both matches going to P&K. The first team were Annabel Niven and Megan Aird who fought hard throughout their match and won by one hole. The girls were giving 7 shots and to play some great golf to win through. The second team were Aillie Burnett and Emily Aird who also won their match 2 up. The girls fought hard and were not daunted by the occasion.

The officials of President Liz Miskimmin, Vice Captain Lenore Kyle, Match Secretary Shona Leighton and Junior Assistant Pam Drysdale and myself were all impressed by the standard of play and the way in which all team members conducted themselves on the course.

Enjoy the slide show!!

Well done Girls you did us proud!

GOOD LUCK GIRLS!

Five junior girls are taking part in a County Team of 12 in an inter-county match against Stirling and Clackmananshire at Gleneagles tomorrow. The juniors are Emily Aird, Megan Aird, Ailie Burnett, Eve Muirhead and Annabel Niven.

We all wish the team the very best of luck tomorrow and will let you know the result as soon as possible.

JUNIOR OPENS

Now is the time to get organised for your Summer Season. Pam will keep you all updated on the SLGA Events which would be beneficial for you to enter. I have also put a download entry form at the right hand side of this page for the North of Scotland which will be held July 7th 8th and 9th at Strathmore Golf Glub. As Perth and Kinross as hosting this event it would be wonderful if as many of our junior girls could enter as possible.

I have also put an entry form for the Strathmore Junior Open on the page. The will be held on Tuesday 29th July. I will be there helping with the organisation of this event and would love to see you all there on the day.

Let have the girls out in force!!

Just click on the link at the right hand side of the page and this will direct you to the site for downloading.

If your club are holding a Junior Open ask them to contact me and I will also put the entry form for that event on this website as a download too.

JUNIOR AND SENIOR DAY

We had a fabulous day at Strathmore Golf Club on Sunday. 14 juniors and 14 seniors took part in a Greensome Competition. First of all I would like to say, what a marvelous turnout! Well done all who took part and I do hope you all enjoyed the day and also hopefully learnt something from your 'senior' partner. I do know that all the 'senior' players enjoyed their day and were all very impressed by the standard of play and also your company on and off the course. You should all feel very proud of yourselves, I know I am!

We were extremely lucky with the weather with only a little rain for the players at the end of the draw. Although it didn't seem to make any difference to the scoring!!

The results of the day were as follows:

Nearest the Pins Girls:

6th Hole - Emily aird

13th Hole - Ailie Burnett

Nearest the Pins Seniors:

4th Hole - Sandy Bushby

17th Hole - Laura Walker

Scratch Prize-winners

1st Place - Laura Walker & Laura Campbell (pictured above)

2nd Place - Dawn Butchart & Erin Millar

3rd Place - Annabel Niven & Megan Aird

Handicap Prize-winners

1st Place - Sandy Bushby & Eilidh Watson

2nd Place - Dot Doris & Emily Aird

3rd Place - Pat Colquhoun & Siobhan Teague

Again a huge thank you to you all for coming along and making the day so much fun. Thanks also to Carol Lambie and Shona Leighton for helping with the organisation. The biggest thank you also go to Strathmore Golf Centre for providing Courtesy of the Course and also thanks to the catering staff for the lovely food.

I look forward to seeing you all over the season. Please keep in touch with all you news and feel free to contact any member of the committee and if you need any help or advice.

Below is a slide show if the day I hope you like it!

JUNIOR DAY AT STRATHMORE

We are delighted that 14 of you are making your way to Strathmore Golf Club on Sunday. That is a great response, so much so we have had to request more Tee Times!! Our Thanks go to Strathmore Golf Centre who are kindly providing courtesy of the course.

Each of you will be paired with a senior player for a fun greensome competition. We were hoping to pair each junior with a squad member but with more juniors wishing to take part than we actually have senior squad players we are drafting in some lower handicap P&K members to help out! Some of whom are past Team members. We hope you all enjoy your day and learn loads from your partner.

First Tee Time is 11am but make your way to Strathmore before that time to meet up with your 'Team Mate' before you go.

There will be prizes for scratch and handicap, so fingers crossed for some good weather on the day. I will post some photo's next week.

WELL DONE CARLY!!

What wonderful news came to me whilst playing golf in Tenerife!! The news being that P&K squad member Carly Booth had been selected for the Curtis Cup Team which will be played at St Andrews this year. Carly, at 15, becomes the youngest ever player to be selected for a GB&I Curtis Cup team. The previous youngest was Jane Connachan from Musselburgh when she made her debut at the age of 16 in 1980.

This is a fantastic honour for Carly and one which she is more than ready to accept. She has already been part of the Junior Ryder Cup team and playing against the United States will not intimidate our Carly at all in fact it will probably inspire her!

Carly's response when hearing the news was 'Awesome, Awesome, Awesome'!! We all send Carly our heart felt congratulations and look forward to seeing her at St. Andrews!

The team along with ages are below:
Liz Bennett (Brokenhurst Manor) 25, Carly Booth (Comrie) 15, Krystle Caithness (St Regulus) 19, Jodi Ewart (Catterick) 20, Breanne Loucks (Wrexham) 20, Florentyna Parker (Royal Birkdale) 18, Michele Thomson (McDonald Ellon) 19, Sally Watson (Elie & Earlsferry Ladies) 16.
Reserves:
1 Kerry Smith (Waterlooville) 36, 2 Sahra Hassan (Vale of Glamorgan) 20, 3 Rachel Jennings (Izaak Walton) 19, 4 Danielle McVeigh (Royal Co Down Ladies) 20.

NEW HEADER

Hi everybody, I have just created a new header picture, hope you like it! I will try to change this every so often with new pictures of you all at different events.

ELITE GIRLS TRAINING SESSION

Yesterday was the first of three Elite Girls training sessions at Gleneagles. Coaches John, Andrew and Brian had the eight girls working hard on their long game.

The photo's show the afternoon girls who consisted of Megan Aird, Emily Aird, Tricia Mennie and Lauren Marchbank. I appologise to the morning girls, Erin Millar, Allie Burnett, Laura Campbell and Caitlin Bartrop as I forgot to take my camera out! But dont worry we will catch you all next time!

All the girls enjoyed the session and we look forward to seeing them on the 9th of March for the next coaching session and also the Senior squad and Girls squad day at Strathmore on the 30th of March.