County Championship Kemnay Golf Club 2025

 

Kemnay hosted the County Championship for the first time since 2013 and proved an excellent venue which produced great matches, fantastic finals and worthy winners.

The course was in superb condition and thanks must go the greenkeeping staff, admin staff and bar and catering staff for all their help and hard work.

We felt honoured to be amongst the first to play the new 17^th.

I must give a sincere thanks to Kemnay Captain, Cameron Slater for refereeing the final this afternoon.   

The winner of the best scratch qualifying score this year was Fiona Campbell McDonald Ellon with a score of 76, beating Claire Prouse Hazlehead on the better inward half.       

The handicap final was between Jacqui Guthrie from MacDonald Ellon and Brianne Mackay from Duff House Royal. Brianne is one of our rising stars amongst our Junior Section playing in her first County Championship at the tender age of 13.

Brianne played with a composure and maturity well beyond her years, producing a great par, par finish to win a very exciting match by 1 hole.

Congratulations to Brianne our Handicap Winner.

 

In the Championship semi finals Julie Lees Westhill beat Holly Mckenzie Murcar Links 3&2 and Rachel Polson Peterculter beat Sammy Fanthorpe 3&2.

This set up a final between Julie and Rachel. Both players very much entertained the gallery with spectacular golf and some amazing recovery play.

Well done to Julie who accredited herself well in her first Championship final appearance.  

Huge congratulations to Rachel, our Aberdeenshire Champion 2025 winning her third title by 4&3. 

County Championships 2025

 To see the results of the latest matchplay results from the County Championships please click on the link below:

Scratch matchplay

Handicap matchplay

Banchory County Draw

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

 or by following this link  Banchory Draw

Please contact g.christie2@hotmail.co.uk  for any changes, late entries and withdrawals up to 11/5/25.  Any withdrawals after this date please contact the professional shop at Banchory.

County Championship Friday Full Results

The results of the county championship qualifying round  can be found in Fixture Details 2025 or by following these links

Gross scores

Net scores

County Championship Saturday Draw

The Saturday morning draw for the County championship is now available in Fixture Details 2025 or by following the links below   

The Scratch match Play Draw

The Handicap Match Play Draw 

Players must report to the desk in the club house prior to going to the first tee at least 20 minutes prior to tee time.

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.