County Championship Kemany 2025

 Good luck to everyone taking part in the County Championship this weekend.

To access the leaderboard on the SG App and Website

For those who are in the competition click on the three dots (“More”) at the bottom right of the Scottish Golf App screen. This takes you to a screen which includes “My Competitions”, click on that to take you to a screen showing competitions from the last three months.

 Click on the relevant competition and this takes you to the competition results/leaderboard.

 

If you are not in the competition

To find the results of the County competitions like the County Championship/Watt Duffus you need to go to the Scottish Golf Website – https://www.scottishgolf.org/

 

Then log in with your CDH number and your password.

 

Find competitions on your home page.

If you played in the competitions you can look under My Competitions

If you didn’t play in the competition you need to select All Competitions from the drop down.

Then you need to select at All Clubs Played instead of at My Home Club

Then scroll down until you find the competition you are looking for and you will see the results there.

Watt Duffus Draw 2025

Watt Duffus Competition
Monday 12 May 2025
Meldrum House Golf Club

The draw for the Watt Duffus competition can be found under Fixture Details 2025 or by following this link - Watt Duffus Draw

Scoring will be done through the Scottish Golf App. Please can you make sure you bring your mobile phone and ensure your Scottish Golf App is working and up to date. Can you also arrive at least 20 minutes before your tee time to register and set up your app for scoring. 

Some Useful Information regarding Meldrum House facilities

1. Car Parking is available at the Clubhouse and at the Practice Facility
2. Catering will be available in the Clubhouse before and after golf.
The Kitchen will be open from 8.00am until 7.15pm. The bar will be open from 8.00am until 8.00pm.
3. The Practice Facility with driving range (all bays with Toptracer), chipper’s alley, and putting green will be open for use from 7.30am.
The ball dispenser in the Practice Facility building takes tokens that can be purchased at the Professionals’ Shop (£2.50 for 25 balls) or £1 coins.
Please note trolleys must not be taken into the Practice Facility building. 

4. Golf will be played from the Tees numbered 54 (which are the first 2 digits of the course length from this tee): Par 70, Course Rating 72.1, Slope Rating 128.

Paul Lawrie North East District Junior Tour Cruden Bay Sunday 27th April

 

Four girls played at Cruden Bay on Sunday, they all played some lovely golf.

Well done to Lois Reid, Joy Lovie, and Holly Lovie for being prize winners.

The next Paul Lawrie Junior event is on Sunday 11^th May at Duff House Royal Golf Club.

We would all like to wish good luck to our Juniors Holly McKenzie and Brianne Mackay who are playing in the County Championship this weekend at Kemnay Golf Club.

Junior Coaching Friday 25th April Portlethen Golf Club

 

The first Junior session at Portlethen Golf Club was well attended and enjoyed by everyone.

David Pocock, Head Professional, kept all the girls busy with a super range of skills, challenges and mini competitions.

He was very impressed with the talent in the group of girls. He also commented that the new ALCGA junior members who are working hard towards getting  first handicap show a lot of promise.

 David  is looking forward to the next session.

Aboyne County Draw 2025

The draw for the Aboyne County open can be found under Fixture Details 2025 or 

by following this link  Aboyne Draw 2025

Any late please contact Judith McCaffery at judithmccaffery@gmail.com 

 Ballater County Open 25th April

The results can be found on the website under Fixture Details 2025 Ballater or by following this link:

Ballater Results

Aberdeenshire Ladies County Championship Draw Friday 2nd May 2025

The draw for the County Championship 2025 is now available in Fixture Details on the website as well as following this link.

Aberdeenshire Ladies County Championship Draw 2nd May 2025

Registration Details

All players must register at the desk in the Clubhouse prior to walking onto the first tee. 

Please bring your mobile phone and have your Scottish Golf App up to date - scoring will be done on the app.

Catering

Catering hours are Friday, Saturday and Sunday - 11am - 3.30pm and 5pm - 8.30pm

No late entries available.  Any queries please contact alcga.comp.sec@gmail.com

 

Ballater County Draw

 The draw for the Ballater County open can be found under Fixture Details 2025 or

 by following this link  Ballater draw

Any late entries please contact Lorna Mckendrick on lorna.mckendrick@hotmail.com

Captain “Sheena” is off to Bruntsfield !

Sheena heads off to Bruntsfield Links Golf Club (Edinburgh) this weekend to play in the Annual Match representing Scotland Senior women against Ireland playing for the Mary McKenna Trophy.

The Match consists of:

Sunday April 6th ….Foursomes

Monday April 7th …Singles

We wish Sheena and the rest of the Scottish Team Good Luck and hopefully they will bring home the Trophy.

Golf Season 2025

 

Welcome to Golf Season 2025.

The golf season 2025 is almost upon us and ALCGA offers plenty of opportunities to get playing.

Yearly subscriptions can now be paid. For information on how to pay, please look at the website under 

Useful Information - Paying your annual subscriptions.

Competitions are now open for entering. Please look at the fixture list on the website for all our events.

These can be entered through the Scottish Golf App. Information on how to enter can be found on the website under the heading -

 Useful Information - Competition Entry Guidance.

The year has started off with County Squad Training which has been a great success at Murcar Links. Our thanks go to Gary Forbes, Head Professional for running the sessions.

Junior coaching will again take place at Portlethen Golf Club with Head Professional David Pocock in April and May. Please inform our new Junior Convenor Ellie Whyte , alcga.juniors@gmail.com as soon as possible of any new Junior members so we can invite them along. Places will be allocated on a first come first served basis.

Our first event is at at Ballater Golf Club on Friday 25^th April. There is always a big entry to this popular event. The closing date is Friday 11^th April. To secure your place get your entry in as soon as possible.

This will be closely followed by our County Championship 2025 at Kemnay Golf Club. The qualifying round is on Friday 2^nd May, matchplay  on Saturday 3^rd May  and Sunday 4^th  May. Please come along on Sunday the 4^th May to watch and support the finalists as I am sure the golf will be of the highest quality.

I would encourage you to enter as many County Meetings as you can throughout the year as these are very sociable, a great way to play other courses and meet players from other clubs.

 

I wish you all a very happy and successful golf season in 2025 and I look forward to seeing you  at our county events.

 

 

Sheena Wood

Captain ALCGA

County Training Session 3

 

Our final session of pre-season training was held on another glorious day at Murcar Links.

Everyone found the sessions most informative and enjoyable.

Our thanks go to Head Professional Gary Forbes for delivering such excellent short game drills and competitions, it has been great for team building.

Champion of Champions

 

George Young who is secretary of the North East District has asked me to me to remind all clubs that the closing date for the Ladies Scratch and Handicap and the Ladies Senior Scratch and Handicap sections is Friday 7^th March.

I would encourage all those eligible to enter. I am sure you would enjoy taking part.

Email entries to

 northeastdistrictgolf@gmail.com

01/03/25 County Squad Training Session 2 - Murcar Links Golf Club

 

The girls for a change  enjoyed good weather to work on their pitching and putting.

Vice Captain Linda, Selector Carol and myself were all very impressed with the range of shots we saw, especially as the challenges were set up to be very testing.

Thanks to Gary Forbes Head Professional at Murcar Links Golf Club for leading the session.

16/02/25 County Squad Training Session 1 - Murcar Links Golf Club

 

Aberdeenshire County Training got under way Sunday 16^th February with the girls braving the weather at Murcar Links Golf Club with Head Professional Gary Forbes.

Due to the weather Gary had set up putting drills indoors and various short game challenges under cover on the range. It was a most productive and enjoyable session.

AGM and Prizegiving 2024

The full Captain’s Report will be published in due course. Here are a few points of particular interest from the meeting.
 

2024 ALCGA Prizewinners

Karen Stalker our new Honorary Member

Karen Stalker (Cruden Bay) was made an Honorary Member for her outstanding contribution to Aberdeen Ladies County Golf Association for twenty years.

We now have a Junior Convenor, who is Ellie Whyte (Aberdeen Ladies), our current President.

Our new County Team  Selector is Carol Eddie (Deeside).

 

Sheena Wood Rosebowl Qualifiers 2025

Debbie Milne (Craibstone)

Karen Stalker (Cruden Bay)

Lynne Tough (Kemnay)

Karen Soden (Peterculter)

Kirsty Craig (Kemnay)

Susie Macleod (Aberdeen Ladies)

Lesley Watson (Deeside)

Eileen Munro (Cullen Links)

Dates for 2025

County Championship, 2, 3, 4 May,  Kemnay Golf Club

Watt Duffus, 12 May, Meldrum House Golf Club

Inter County Jamboree, 6,7,8 June, Edzell Golf Club

Commonwealth Spoons, 30 June, Ellon Golf Club

Junior Championship, 6 July, Portlethen Golf Club

Lyon Foursomes, 4,5 August, Aboyne Golf Club

Tri-Am , 12 September, Craibstone Golf Club

County AGM 23rd November 2024 11am & List of Prizewinners

 

The County AGM will be held this Saturday 23rd November 11am at Curl Aberdeen. This will be followed by the prizegiving. Here are a list of all the prize winners. 

Prize winners 2024 -

MacRobert Thistle	Junior Medal	Brianne MacKay - DHR
Bey Trophy	Most Improved Younger Golfer	Holly McKenzie - ML
Fyfe Trophy	Most Improved Young Golfer	Ruby Watt - PLGC
Stella Bruce Trophy	Best Scratch Score in a Junior County Medal	Lois Reid - CB
Farquharson Quaich	Junior Scratch Champion	Ruby Watt - PLGC
Styropack Salver	Junior Handicap Champion	Lois Reid - CB
Commonwealth Spoons	Leading Qualifiers	Lorna Hay and Brenda Anderson - Inverurie
Sheena Wood Rosebowl	Trophy for winner Runner-up	Kirsty Craig - Kemnay Susie MacLeod - AL
Joan Rennie Salver & President’s Prize (Div A)	Best Nett Score in an Open Meeting	Sue Will - MH
Joan Rennie Salver & President’s Prize (Div B)	Best Nett Score in an Open Meeting, Division B	Joyce Wood - Royal Tarlair
Golf View League Trophy	County League	Duff House Royal
Individual Handicap Trophy	Best Individual Nett Score in Watt Duffus	Liz Barrack - MH
Mrs. J.P. Kennaway Cup	Best Individual Scratch Score in Watt Duffus	Rachel Mathieson - Hazlehead
Mrs. Watt Duffus Trophy	Handicap Scratch	Duff House Royal 2 Murcar Links 1
Godsman Quaich	Runner-up in Lyon Foursomes	Duff House Royal 1
Lyon Interclub Double Foursomes Trophy	Winner of Lyon Foursomes	Aberdeen Ladies 1
Mrs. D.T. Bruce Trophy	Best Scratch Score in an Open Meeting	Robyn Fowlie - ML
Mrs. B.B. Mellis Trophy	Aggregate 3 Best Nett Scores in Open Meetings, Division B	Rhona Pirie - Deeside
Mrs. M.L. Kilgour  Cup	Agg. 3 Best Scratch Scores in Open Meetings, Division B	Mary Robinson - ML
Miss K.M. Cochrane Cup	Aggregate 3 Best Nett Scores in Open Meetings, Division A	Fiona Mears - Ballater
Lyon Trophy	Agg. 3 Best Scratch Scores in Open Meetings, Division A	Susie MacLeod - AL
The Fiona Hay Salver Marta Moody Trophy	Handicap Winner Runner-up	Victoria Buchan -  DHR  Fiona Sim - Stonehaven
Member’s Cup	Leading Scratch Qualifier in Championship	Rachel Polson - ML
Miss C. Lyon Trophies	Scratch Semi-Finalists	1. Ruby Watt  - PLGC 2. Holly McKenzie - ML
Mrs. E.M. Cradock	Scratch Runner-Up	Erin Herd - Stonehaven
Mrs. F.K. Smith Trophy	Champion	Robyn Fowlie - ML

Sheena Wood Rosebowl Final 2024

 

The final of the Sheena Wood Rosebowl was played yesterday at Portlethen Golf Club between Kirsty Craig (Kemnay) and Susie Macleod (Aberdeen Ladies).

Great golf was played by the two finalists in blustery conditions. Kirsty was 3 up after nine holes, but Susie fought back with 2 birdies and an eagle, squaring the game after 16 holes. It could have gone either way but Kirsty managed to close out the match at the 18^th hole, winning by 1 hole.

Congratulations to Kirsty on winning the Rosebowl.

Thank you to Portlethen Golf Club for giving us courtesy of  their lovely course for the match.

Kirsty Craig & Susie Macleod

Tri-Am Stonehaven Golf Club 13 September 2024

Our final event, the County Tri-Am at Stonehaven Golf Club was a great success with 72 ladies taking part. The weather was absolutely glorious, which certainly showcased the spectacular views to be had from the course on the way round and I believe the dolphins showed up to add extra entertainment to the day.

In first place, with a runaway score of 94 points were Stonehaven Golf Club team Jan Bradford, Wilma Lawrence and Yvonne Scott. This fantastic score was helped by a superb Hole in One by Jan at the 7th hole. Many congratulations from Aberdeenshire County to Jan.

In second place, with a good score of 86 points, came another Stonehaven Golf Club team, Fiona Currie, Eleanor Hughes and Rose Riddell.

In third place, with 84 points, on a last 6 hold count back,  came the team of Rae Topping, Joyce Wood and Christine Ritchie from Royal Tarlair Golf Club.

In fourth place also on 84 points, came the team of Rachel Smith, Lorna Johnson and Liz Barrack, from Meldrum House Golf Club.

Congratulations to all the prize winners.

Tri-Am Prize Winners 2024

Jan Bradford - Hole in One

Thank you to the ALCGA management team.

A big thank you to Stonehaven Golf Club, staff and members for being so helpful and letting us hold our Tri-Am at your club.

A special thank you to Gordon and Gerry for starting the ladies off in fine style.

All the scores can be found here

ALCGA Tri-Am Stonehaven Golf Club 13/09/24

 We are delighted to say we have had a very good entry for our final event of the year the Tri-Am.

With this in mind, Stonehaven Golf Club have asked where possible if we could car share due to parking limitations.

They also advise they have had a breakdown with the gas for the club kitchen, so on Friday there will be sandwiches, soup, salad bowls, scones, tray bakes, tea and coffee. Unfortunately there will be no bacon rolls etc. available. They apologise for this but it is outwith their control.

Good luck to all taking part, have a great day.

County Tri-Am Draw

The draw for the County Tri-Am 2024 can be found under Fixture Details 2024 or by folowing this link  - Tri-Am Draw

Late entries are being accepted and please contact alcga.comp.sec@gmail.com