Aberdeenshire Ladies County Golf News and Events
Lyon Foursomes
Due to heavy rain the course at Banchory has flooded, play has been suspended.
Please all arrive tomorrow no later than 8.30 am, to start play at 9 am from where you stopped or marked your ball.
The semi finals will be from 11.30.
The final from 3.00.
The weather forecast for tomorrow is looking good.
Thank you to all that played on in the rain today.
The results from this morning are now available on the website under fixtures or via this link
NORTH OF SCOTLAND CHAMPIONSHIP AND GIRLS’ CHAMPIONSHIP
Aberdeenshire were well represented at the above Championships which were held at Arbroath Golf Club from 24-26 July. Well done to everyone who qualified for the match play for the Championship.
Congratulations to Molly Skidmore (Stonehaven) who won the Jean Law Salver for best nett score in the Girls championship and to Karen McGuinness (Newmachar) who won the Handicap Championship final in a close match with Wendy Edwards (Forfar). Unfortunately Robyn Fowlie (Murcar Links) narrowly lost the Championship final to Ellie Docherty (Moray) by 1 hole.
For those of you who like to plan ahead, next years North of Scotland Championship will be held at Nairn Dunbar from 22-24 July 2024.
HOME INTERNATIONALS (August 9-11 Machynys Golf Club, Wales)
I am pleased to report that Jasmine Mackintosh (Murcar Links) and Carmen Griffiths (Aboyne) have been selected for the Scottish team for the above event. Congratulations to you both.
The link to the Deeside draw is now in the fixtures page or by using this link - Deeside Draw
The results for the County Open at Kemnay are now available on the website under fixtures or by using this link Kemnay Results
The results for the County Open at Murcar Links are now available on the website under fixtures or by using this link Murcar Links Results
JUNIOR COUNTY CHAMPIONSHIP, ABOYNE 2nd JULY
The Junior County Championship was held today at a blustery Aboyne Golf Club.
The course was in fantastic condition and we are grateful to Aboyne Golf Club for granting us courtesy of the course for this event.
The Farquharson Quaich for best scratch score was won by Holly McKenzie (Murcar Links) with an 83.
The Styropack Salver for best handicap score was won by Holly Lovie (Ballater), with a nett 73.
Well done to all the girls who played today.
The link to the Kemnay draw is now in the fixtures page or by using this link - Kemnay Draw
For late entries please contact Karen Scott
Congratulations to all that played in the Commonwealth Spoons at Inverurie today
We had 33 pairs so therefore we have 3 winners going through to the finals at Kings Acre GC on the 4th of September.
They are
Lorna Hay & Brenda Anderson (Inverurie) - Score 66.5
Yvonne Moir & Carol Whicher (Kemnay) - Score 68.5
Fiona Gibb & Thelma Beattie (Deeside) - Score 70.5
The full results are now available in the fixtures page.
CONGRATULATIONS
Congratulations to Jasmine Mackintosh for her performance in the Women’s Amateur Championship at the Prince’s course this week. Having qualified for the match play she defeated the reigning champion Jess Baker in the first round. In the round of 32 she was unfortunately defeated by Chiara Horder from Germany in a very close match. Well done Jasmine.
JAMBOREE ‘23
This year our team were sadly unable to retain the Inter-County Jamboree trophy we won last year but put in an equally creditable performance in unprecedented adverse circumstances.
Unfortunately shortly after our arrival at Muckhart the team were struck by a nasty vomiting bug which went on to affect most players during the course of the weekend. In addition one of the only two players to avoid the bug suffered a wrist injury. Despite the magnificent efforts of our ailing players, at times we did not have sufficient fit players to fulfil our fixtures and were forced to concede some matches.
The golf unfolded as follows:
Saturday 10th June v Perth & Kinross. Our foursomes got off to an unfortunate start with a concession being necessary after a player became ill on the first tee and no other players being fit to play at that time. Our two remaining couples fought hard in close matches before unfortunately losing. Due to the efforts of the players, we were able to fulfil the six afternoon singles and managed to win two matches through Rachel Mathieson and team debutant Fiona Pennie.
Result: Perth & Kinross 7 Aberdeenshire 2
Sunday 11th June v Northern Counties. In an exciting morning session we lost the foursomes 3-0, losing two of the matches at the 18th. However Aberdeenshire fought back to win the afternoon singles session by 31/2 to 21/2 with Fiona Pennie, Karolina Martincova and Lynne Tough winning their matches and Rachel Mathieson getting a half.
Result: Northern Counties 51/2 Aberdeenshire 31/2
Monday 12th June v Angus. Aberdeenshire won the morning foursomes session 2-1 with Fiona Pennie & Karolina Martincova and Sheena Wood & Kim Watt winning their matches. We had to concede one of the afternoon singles matches due to a lack of fit players and Suzanne Robertson was unfortunately unable to complete her match due to injury. Despite this Aberdeenshire managed to win three of the remaining four singles through Karolina Martincova, Sheena Wood and Kim Watt to secure our match win.
Result: Aberdeenshire 5 Angus 4
The Jamboree was won by Northern Counties who defeated Perth & Kinross in an exciting final match which was decided by the last game at the 18th. Perth & Kinross finished as runners up with Aberdeenshire 3rd and Angus 4th.
I must congratulate and thank the Aberdeenshire players for the extraordinary effort they put in over the weekend with many playing for the team when they would have preferred to be resting and recovering. Their mutual support and encouragement was superb and it was a pleasure to Captain them.
Thanks also go to all those who sent good wishes to the team and to those who travelled down to support us in person. In particular my thanks go to our President, Marta Moody, for her support throughout the weekend.
While I am sure each Jamboree has its own highlights and memories I suspect this one will go down in history for uniquely different reasons.
