Aberdeenshire Ladies County Golf News and Events
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.
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 25th
April. There is always a big entry to this popular event. The closing date is Friday 11th 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 2nd May,
matchplay on Saturday 3rd May
and Sunday 4th May. Please come along on Sunday the 4th
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
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.
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 7th March.
I would encourage all those eligible to enter. I am sure you
would enjoy taking part.
Email entries to
northeastdistrictgolf@gmail.com
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.
Aberdeenshire County Training got under way Sunday 16th
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.
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The full Captain’s Report will be published in due course. Here are a few points of particular interest from the meeting.
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| 2024 ALCGA Prizewinners |
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| 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 |
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 |
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 18th
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.
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| Kirsty Craig & Susie Macleod |
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.
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| Tri-Am Prize Winners 2024 |
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| 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
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.
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
Many Congratulations to the ladies at Duff House Royal for
winning the Golf View League Trophy for the first time.
They have had a great 2024 season and are worthy winners.
Congratulations also go to Banchory who are promoted to Division
1 and to Stonehaven who are promoted to Division 2.
The results from the Peterculter County Open can be found under Fixture Details 2024 or by following this link - Peterculter County results
The results from the Cruden Bay County Open 2024 can be found under Fixture Details 2024 or by clicking on this link - Cruden Bay Results . The full results from the open can be found in Fixture Details 2024
The draw for the Peterculter County Open 2024 can be found under Fixture Details 2024 or by folowing this link - Peterculter County Draw
Late entries are being accepted and please contact
Pam Fraser pamela.fraser23@btinternet.com
Murcar Links
are this week hosting the 2024 Womens and Mens Home Internationals, with elite
amateurs from our 4 nations competing and demonstrating an exceptionally high quality
of golf right here on our doorstep.
There is an overall team trophy, plus a Womens and Mens trophy up for
grabs, and the Scottish ladies team, which includes Jasmine Mckintosh and
Carmen Griffiths, is well placed going into the final day of play.
Scotland
play Wales tomorrow with the foursomes kicking off at 0730 and the singles
following thereafter, with Ireland playing England from 9am. Spectators are welcome.
The team
standings are as follow:
Overall Ladies
Ireland 29 10.5
England 25 10
Scotland 18 9
Wales 12 6.5
Peterhead Golf Club, one of the founder members of
Aberdeenshire Ladies County Golf Association was the venue for this years’ Lyon
Inter-Club Double Foursomes.
Peterhead, famously windy –certainly was super windy, but
also warm and sunny, which showcased how scenic the course really is.
It proved a great match-play course and was a good test of golf.
All the teams who played enjoyed the challenge and the matches were all played
in a fine sporting manner
The semi-finals were both very close indeed.
Aberdeen Ladies 1 beat a very strong team from Cruden Bay by
just 1 hole. In the other semi-final Duff House Royal 1 beat a tough team from
Murcar Links also by 1 hole, setting up what promised to be a great final.
The final was played in testing conditions as the wind again
rose to gale force. The games were nip and tuck until the last few very
tricky holes when Aberdeen Ladies 1 managed to get their noses ahead and pip Duff
House Royal 1 to the post.
Duff House Royal therefore retain the Godsman Quaich runner
up trophy which they won last year. I am sure they will go one better in the
very near future.
Congratulations go to Aberdeen Ladies 1 winners of the Lyon Foursomes
Trophy.
Thanks to all the players who came and took part and to all the supporters and caddies. Thanks also to Sheila and Linda for organising and President Ellie for starting us off.
I must thank Peterhead Golf club for hosting the event, their greenkeeping staff for the magnificent condition of the course and to their bar and catering staff for being so accommodating.
Pictured below are the winners, runners up and semi-finalists.
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| Winners and Runners Up |
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| Duff House Royal 1 |
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| Aberdeen Ladies 1 |
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| Cruden Bay |
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| Murcar Links |
The results for the McDonald Ellon County Open 2024 can be found under Fixture Details 2024 or by following this link - Ellon Results
The draw for the Cruden Bay County open can be found under Fixture Details 2024 or by following this link - Cruden Bay Draw
There are no late available tee times but Lisa Bruce is maintaining a waiting list so anyone interested please email Lisa on - lisabruce1995@hotmail.co.uk