Medal success for Angus and Noel

Apr 29 2009 by Jean Pedder, Stirling Observer Wednesday

THE first Wednesday Medal of the season at Stirling saw 147 players take part. With the weather remaining fine, there was no change to the scratch score of 71.

Eleven players recorded scores under 70, and the joint winners had superb scores of 65. Congratulations to overall winners, Angus Kerr and Noel Masterson, who both qualify for the Wednesday Medal Finals in August. Scott Monteith, who won Class two with a 67, and joint Class one winners with 68, David Dryland and Craig Arthur, also qualify.

Results: Class one: 68, David Dryland (9); 68 Craig Arthur (5); 70 Robert Cunningham (9), Michael McFarlane (6).

Class two: 67 Scott Monteith (10), 68 William Kerr (13); 70 David Liddell (13), Gordon Sinclair (10), Sydney Stewart (12).

Class three: 65 Angus Kerr Jnr (21), Noel Masterson (17), 67 James Bedwell (18), Brian Mulgrew (17).

On Saturday, April 25 in the Chalmers Cup Stableford, class one golfer Duncan McCallum won the Chalmers Cup by one point with a total of 40 points.

With 191 entries and in good conditions Duncan started with two birdies then dropped a shot at the third but parred his way to the ninth for an outward half of 35 shots to give him 23 points.

After a shaky start at the beginning of the back nine he got himself back on track with four pars and a birdie at the 18th to win by one point.

Ian Wallace edged out Ian McDonald to win Class two on a count back. In Class three Steve Henderson Rory McKenzie and Paul Bond all returned excellent scores of 40 points.

Results: Class one: 41 points Duncan McCallum, 40 Alan L Watson, 39 Brian Shanks, Ian Muir, Robert Cunningham.

Class two: 39 Ian Wallace and Ian McDonald, 38 Archie Young, William McVicars.

Class three: 40 Steve Henderson, Rory McKenzie, Paul Bond.

STIRLING SENIORS

ON April 27 Stirling were hosts to Last year’s Central and Lothian Retired Members League Champions Falkirk Tryst in their first home game of 2009.

Bruce Hunter (6) and Ian Muir (7) in match one recorded a fine win against Falkirk Tryst Captain, Alan McNab (6) and Jim Smith (7) to give Stirling the first win of the match.

R Cunningham (8) playing with J Blyth (8) in match two for Falkirk proved just too strong for Gordon Sinclair (10) and Tom Rose (10) winning by one hole to square the match.

Archie Young (11) and Ian Cockshoot (14) restored the Stirling advantage in a ding dong tussle in match three which saw the home side go from two up to two down then to 1 up before winning the 18th to give Stirling a two hole win and their second point to go one up in the match.

It looked good for Stirling when Brian Mulgrew (16) and Alan Taylor (16) reversed a three down after three holes situation to win on the 17th hole with a two and one victory to put the home side 3-1 up with two matches to play.

The Falkirk tail wagged really strongly in match five when J Cowie (13) and D Crombie (16) beat John Davidson (20) and Robin Limmack (20) 3 and 1 to bring the match score to 3-2 with only match six on the course.

Mike Fabisiak (21) and John Cable (25) fought hard against W Brodie (16) and J Welsh (19) but the Falkirk Tryst pair ended up two hole winners to give the overall match a halved result and one point apiece.

DUNBLANE NEW LADIES

ON April 21, 64 ladies played in mixed weather in the first round of the Young Cup and Medal.

The winners in each section had excellent scores of 64 and 62 with Janice Stewart reducing her handicap by four shots.

Ladies are reminded that the draws have now been made for all the knockout competitions and are posted in the ladies’ locker room . The mixed draws are on the main notice board.

Results: Silver: Catherine Simpson 84-20-64, Val Saville 83-12-71, Elizabeth Milligan 88-17-71; Bronze: Janice Stewart 98-36-62, Grace Paterson 93-22-71, Janise Grant 98-27-71.

Scratch Winner: Cecilia Kenny 79.

DUNBLANE NEW GENTS

IN the Wednesday Medal played on April 22 with 116 entries, results were:

Scratch: D Blues 69; (Scr-13) 1 R Brynes 77-12-65, 2 J Scales 79-13-66 bih, 3 M Carnegie 70-4-66, 4 R Lewis 81-13-68 bl6; (14-28) 1 A Gillen 84-23-61, 2 J Bovill 81-17-64 bih, 3 W Dickson 80-16-64, 4 H Barton 86-20-66.

ON Saturday, April 25 207 took part in the Tait Trophy and Nat PGA Pro Am Qualifier, results were:

Scratch: C Graham 72; (Scr-10) 1 I Kenny 73-10-63, 2 D Orr 73-9-64, 3 C MacLaughlan 77-10-67 bih, 4 M Gordon 78-10-68 bih; (11-16) 1 J McIntosh 81-15-66, 2 E Russell 83-16-67, 3 T Pheely 80-12-68 bih, 4 G Simpson 80-12-68 bih; (17-28) 1 L Sutton 85-19-66 bih, 2 A Gillen 86-20-66, 3 P Glenhorn 88-21-67 bl6, 4 M Hutchison 88-21-67 bih.

Tait Trophy winner: M Campbell 85-20-65; Nat PGA Pro Qualifier: D Orr 73-9-64.

BRIDGE OF ALLAN

SATURDAY’S competition was the qualifying for the President’s Prize and the good weather meant there was a large amount of players competing. Best score of the day went to Ian Norman with an excellent net 60 and Ian will take his place in the knockout rounds to be played over the summer. Other results were in the A Class: 1Keith Hector 75-12-63, 2 Trevor Kelly 67-3-64, 3 Brian Inglis 74-9-65. B Class:1 Ian Norman 78-18-60, 2 Drummond Gardner 89-24-65, 3 David Anderson 84-18-66.

MUTHILL LADIES

IN the Gow Rosebowl played on April 23, results were:

Division One: 1 Elizabeth Crayton 88-18-70 bih, 2 Eileen MacLeod 95-25-70. Division Two: 1 Anne Bremner 100-32-68, 2 Margaret Robertson 100-31-69.

WHITEMOSS

IN the Gents Medal Trophy No.1 Results were:

Division One: Brian Anderson (15) 67; Ian S Grant (14) 69; Calum Mitchell (6) 69; Colin Anderson (13) 70.

Division Two: Andrew McIntosh (16) 67; Robin Grant (19) 69; Malcolm Roy (17) 69; Ian Bews (16) 70.

Division Three: Michael Kirk (21) 72; Dougie McLean (22) 72; Hugh Caldwell (22) 75; Chris Scott (28) 75.