County Championship 2023 - Portlethen Golf Club

Scratch Final 

Robyn Fowlie beat Rachel Polson     1 hole 

Congratulations to our new champion on winning her first Aberdeenshire County Championship

The County Championship Prizewinners for 2023 are

Member Trophy - Leading Scratch Qualifier - Ruby Watt - 77

Handicap Runner Up Trophy - Lesley Watson 

Fiona Hay Salver - - Handicap Winner - Shirley Smith 

Miss C Lyon Trophies - Scratch Semi-Finalists - Ruby Watt & Sheena Wood

E M Craddock Trophy - Scratch Runner-Up - Rachel Polson

Mrs F K Smith Trophy- Scratch Winner - Robyn Fowlie

County Championship Results - Portlethen

Sunday 30th April

Scratch Championship Semi-Finals

Ruby Watt lost to Robyn Fowlie     2&1

Sheena Wood lost to Rachel Polson     1 hole

Good luck to Robyn and Rachel in the final

Handicap Championship Final

Lesley Watson lost to Shirley Smith     2 holes

Congratulations to Shirley Smith (Murcar Links) on winning the Fiona Hay Salver

COUNTY CHAMPIONSHIP RESULTS FROM PORTLETHEN

Results for County Championship Scratch Matchplay  Saturday 29th April.

Click here for results.

Results for County Championship Handicap Matchplay Saturday 29th April.

Click here for results. 

County Championship Saturday Morning Matchplay Draw 

Please find the link to the Matchplay draw for the County Championship at Portlethen Golf Club - Saturday 29th April 2023 - Saturday Morning Matchplay Draw

Good luck to all those playing.

Please follow this link for the Scratch Scores from Friday 28th April - County Championship Qualifiying Round Scratch Results

Please follow this link for the Nett Scores from Friday 28th April - County Championship Qualifying Round Nett Results

 

Aboyne County Open Draw

The Aboyne draw is now available in Fixtures on the website as well as following this link - Aboyne Draw

If you would like a late entry please contact Heather Campbell the Aboyne rep

 HELEN HOLM SCOTTISH WOMENS GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP 2023

Huge congratulations to Jasmine Mackintosh on winning the Scottish Women’s Open Championship at Troon today in a playoff at the first extra hole. All her hard work has paid off.  This is a fantastic achievement and ALCGA are very proud of Jasmine.

County Championship Draw    

The County Championship draw is now available in Fixtures on the website as well as following this link - County Championship Draw

 Ballater Draw now live on the website

The Ballater draw is now available in Fixtures on the website as well as following this link - Ballater Draw

If you would like a late entry please contact Gaynor Hall the Ballater rep

All set for the 2023 season!

 

Last County training session at Murcar Links GC and now all set for the new season! 

 

WELCOME 2023

Welcome to the start of another season of County Golf.

We will again have a full calendar of events. Our first County Open at Ballater is only a few weeks away. This is closely followed by the County Championship from 28-30^th April at Portlethen. Could I please encourage as many of you as possible to enter this, our most prestigious event. Do remember that there is both a scratch and a handicap championship providing a competition for everyone.

We are using the new Scottish Golf App. for collecting subscriptions and managing our competition entries. Unfortunately the new App. is proving somewhat problematic. I am very grateful to our treasurer, Laura McLardy, and our Competitions Secretary, Fiona Campbell, who have put in a tremendous amount of work to get us where we are. However we know that some of you are experiencing difficulties or indeed are unable to use the App. on your phones. Thank you for your forbearance while we hope that Scottish Golf resolves the issues. If you are experiencing problems with competition entries or account top ups please email Fiona at alcga.comp.sec@gmail.com or for membership queries contact Laura at alcga.treasurer@gmail.com 

Juniors.

At the AGM it was agreed that the initial joining and subsequent annual fees for junior members would be waived. Please encourage your junior members to join the County.

Junior fixtures are shown on the ALCGA website under the “Junior” tab. The majority of these are run in parallel with the Junior Tour organised by the NE District. Unfortunately entries cannot currently be taken via the App. While the NE District await resolution of their IT issues entries can be made by emailing info@sgunortheast.net.

My thanks go to all the clubs who have granted us courtesy of their course for our events and to the County Reps for organising and the clubs for hosting our Open Meetings.

May I wish everyone a successful and enjoyable season. I look forward to seeing you on a course soon.

Olive Robb

Captain

 

 

 

Account topup information

Following the Competition Secretary's update below we have disseminated important information to all members regarding making payment of entry fees online.  You should have received this by email.  If you have not received an email then firstly please check your junk folder, and if you haven't received it then drop a note to alcga.treasurer@gmail.com and a copy will be forwarded to you.  Please note that online payments are subject to the terms and conditions per the email dated 22 March 2023.

Step-by-step instruction to top up account and enter competitions

Hello Ladies 

I know you have all been waiting for the County Competitions to go live on the App, apologies it has taken us so long there are still a few teething problems with the new Scottish Golf system and because of this we have had to create the competitions slightly differently this year.

Hopefully you have all managed to pay your subs through the website using the instructions Laura gave out.

The first thing you need to do to be able to enter a competition is to have enough money in your Aberdeenshire County Account. 

To top this up you need to go to the Scottish Golf Website - Scottish Golf Website and log in at the top corner using your CDH number and password

You then need to click on the My Account section.

This will take you to the below page

From here you need to select Aberdeenshire Ladies County Golf Association as your club and click on View Account

Once you are in your ALCGA account if you scroll down to nearly the bottom you will see a section called Club Accounts where you area able to see your account balance and have the option of topping up your account. You can also see the transactions you have done on your account beneath it.

So once you have topped up your account you can now go to the Scottish Golf App to enter the competitions.

Along the bottom of the screen there is an Events tab with a picture of a trophy above it, click on that and it will take you to your home clubs events (see mine says McDonald in the top left hand corner)

If  you click on the arrow next to your club name you can search for Aberdeenshire Ladies County Golf Association in the find a club section 

Once you are in ALCGA you can see the competitions available to enter. As you can see I have only added Ballater so far (Wednesday 22nd March) but I am hoping to get the rest added tomorrow.

You may also notice that there are two competitions for Ballater. This is because the new Scottish Golf system has all ALCGA members as home members of all the clubs in the county therefore for County Opens where you are not a member of the host club you can't pay the green fee as well as the entry fee.

So I have created a HOME competition for members of the host club (in this example Ballater) and a VISITORS competition for anyone else who wants to play the Ballater County Open but is not a member of Ballater 

All you need to do is click select for the relevant competition you want to enter and this will put the competition into your basket top right - see circled below

If you click on the basket in the top right corner this takes you to the event details

Check the details are correct and click on Continue to Payment this will take you to the Checkout where you click on Pay by Competition Account  (see below) and this will enter you into the competition and take the payment from your County Account. If you can't get to this screen chances are you don't have enough money in your account to pay for the entry so follow the steps laid our earlier.

Any problems please email alcga.comp.sec@gmail.com and hopefully I can talk you through it.

Thank you all again for your patience in us working with Scottish Golf to get this set up and happy golfing!

Fiona Campbell 

ALCGA Comp Sec

ALCGA membership 2023

 

Subscription invoices for the 2023 season have now been issued.  Where possible payment should be made via the Scottish Golf website.  Guidance on how to make payment has been circulated to club reps and directly to members of clubs without reps.  A copy of the guidance is here.

New members are welcome to join.  Please see information here on criteria for joining, benefits of membership and how to apply.

Please direct any membership queries to your rep or to the Treasurer at alcga.treasurer@gmail.com

First Training Session For the ALCGA squad

Very useful short game training drills from Gary Forbes & few competitive holes to follow made for a very successful team bonding day. 

Congratulations to ALCGA VC Sheena Wood at IV Match International Senior Femenino 2023!

Well done to ALCGA Vice Captain Sheena Wood who was a member of the successful European Senior Team who for the first time beat the Spanish Senior Team in Gran Canaria at IV Match International Senior Femenino 2023. The team comprised of one Scot, one English, one Irish, one Italian, two Swedes, two Dutch, two Germans, one Belgian, one French.

 

 CONGRATULATIONS

Many congratulations to Carmen Griffiths (Aboyne) who has achieved her first win in the United States, winning the Olde Stone Intercollegiate Championship with a 2 under par 54 hole score. This is a fantastic achievement and we wish her continued success.

Carmen is also included as one of the seven players named in the recently announced Scottish Golf High Performance Group. Aberdeenshire players are well represented in the performance program with Jasmine Mcintosh (Murcar Links) also being included in the High Performance Group. Robyn Fowlie (Murcar Links) is one of five players in the Performance Development group and Ruby Watt (Paul Lawrie) one of eight players named in the Girls' Performance squad. Well done to everyone.

SHEENA WOOD ROSEBOWL FINAL

The final of this year's Sheena Wood Rosebowl was played at Hazlehead on September 29th between Maria Giblin (Torphins) and Karen Soden (Peterculter). Congratulations to Maria who played good golf to win in rather damp and blustery conditions. Well done to Karen on reaching the final.

This was the final golfing event of our season. However I would take this opportunity to remind you that our AGM will be held at Curl Aberdeen on Saturday 12th November at 11am. I hope to see you there.

Olive Robb

Captain

COUNTY FINALS, KIRKCALDY GOLF CLUB, 26-27 AUGUST 2022 

Our team assembled on Thursday 25th for our practice round. No one had played the course before so it was a new experience for everyone. The course was challenging with several hilly areas including a daunting first hole.

Our first match on Friday 26th was against Galloway. We unfortunately lost the morning foursomes 2-1 with our point coming from the pairing of Fiona Campbell and Robyn Gallon. In the afternoon singles we had two convincing wins with Carol Wilson winning 7&6 and Lauren Whyte 5&4. Unfortunately, while other matches were close they slipped away over the last few holes giving an overall match score of 6-3 against us.

On Saturday we played Fife losing the foursomes 3-0. The singles score was again 4-2 against with Robyn Gallon (1up) and Carol Wilson who again had a convincing win (6&5) getting our points. While the overall score was 7-2 against, again several of the matches only slipped away over the final holes.

On Sunday our final match was against Lanarkshire, the strongest team in the competition and the eventual winners. We lost the foursomes 3-0 and the singles 5-1 with Lynne Tough scoring our point.

Overall Standings Team Pts Won Halved Lost   Lanarkshire 22½ 21 3 2   Fife 14½ 12 5 9   Galloway 10 9 2 16   Aberdeenshire 6 6 0 21

Congratulations to Lanarkshire on their win.

I would like to thank the team for all their efforts. For the majority of them this was the first time they had played for the County and this was a new experience for them. They all played good golf, were very supportive of each other and formed a strong cohesive group. It was a pleasure to captain them and I am very grateful to them. 

Thanks to Zibby Brown who has now completed her term as selector. A County Finals is a good place to bow out. My special thanks go to Laura McLardy for volunteering to help out when it became apparent that there would be absences from the usual support team.

Finally, thanks to all our supporters who either attended in person or sent their good wishes. 

Let's hope we can win the Jamboree again next year and qualify again.

Olive Robb

Please find the draw for the Tri-Am on the 2nd of September at Turriff on the fixtures page and here 

Tri-Am Draw

There are still some late entries available please email kasoden46@yahoo.co.uk with your 3 team members.

 COUNTY FINALS UPDATE

Unfortunately Robyn Fowlie has had to withdraw from the team to play in Kirkcaldy. However we are pleased to welcome Lynne Tough to the team in her place. 

The team are looking forward to the weekend and will be doing their best for Aberdeenshire and the Northern Division.

Olive Robb

Captain