Thanks to all at Craigielaw for hosting our event on Sunday the 23rd April, and to our helpers Steve Austin, Ric Foulner, Stuart Findlay and Colin Leishman. The standard of play was excellent. The Team scores can be seen on the attached table. There was a great battle for 1st place between 5 Teams who were separated by only 3 points! West Links Fidra pipped Longniddry on 150 points with the better 5th score of 31 points to 30 points. Craigielaw edged West Links Bass for 3rd place with their better 5th score after they had both tied on 148 points, and Dunbar were very close behind on 147 points. The League table has been updated. Craigielaw and West Links Fidra have closed in on the leaders, West Links Bass. The best individual net scores were impressive, with 3 Players on 41 net points, and after the back 9 count-back, the winner was Rory Papakyriakou, with Maisie Witt and Rory McArdle in 2nd and 3rd place respectively. Michael Coulter, Fraser Walters and Harris Munro all scored 35 scratch points, with rounds of 72, and filled the top 3 scratch positions in that order, after count-back. Prizes can be collected at the next MD. The prize list can be seen at the dropdown on the home page of this website. The Orders of Merit have been updated and Fraser Walters now has an 8 point lead in the scratch OOM with Rory McArdle leading the net OOM by 14 points. These OOMs positions can be seen on the Golf Genius App by accessing “Member Portal” and “Season Points.” Entries are still being accepted until Monday 24th April at 6 pm for MD4 at Longniddry on Sunday the 30th April. Late entries will be accepted if there are spaces. The next MD after that is at Haddington on the 28th May and is also now open for entries through the Golf Genius App. Dave Warren and Jack Rogan.
East Lothian Junior Golf League News
West Links Juniors celebrate!
The West Links Juniors met for a fun session on the practice putting green at North Berwick, organised by Martyn Huish and his Pro Shop staff. Then, together with many of the parents, they all convened in the Tantallon Golf Club for refreshments, food, and a chat hosted by the WLJ Junior Convenor, Ric Foulner. Ric reflected on the reasons for their success in the East Lothian Junior Golf League and in individual events in the 2023 season and talked about the way forward for the club to maintain that level of success. On display were the trophies for winning the League Championship, the ELJGL Team Strokeplay Championship, and the most recent win, the ELJGL County Cup Championship. Winning the “Treble” had only ever been achieved before by Tantallon Juniors and by Kilspindie Juniors.
County Cup 2023/24
The 2023/24 County Cup Final – has been completed between two strong Teams, West Links Bass and Gullane. It was played at Royal Musselburgh on Saturday the 23rd March 2024.
The Teams and results in the double aggregate foursomes format were: – Match 1 – West Links Bass – Harris Munro and Seb Harvey, lost 2 down to Gullane – Jack Lucas and Angus Hill. Match 2 – West Links Bass – Ben Churn and Hudson Blair won by 4 up v. Gullane – Charlie King and Angus Waddell. Both matches went to the final hole after West Links Bass forced themselves into an aggregate 4 hole lead with only 4 holes to play. Both Gullane pairs won their 17th hole, then Jack and Angus won their 18th hole! Both pairs in the 2nd match missed the 18th green, and after Charlie narrowly missed for par, Ben canned a 20 foot putt for par to win the Cup for West Links Bass! The overall result was 2 holes up to West Links Bass. Both Matches were Handicap Matches. The referees were Stuart and Helen Findlay whom we thank profusely for setting up the event and refereeing on the day. There was a prize giving in the Clubhouse after play, and refreshments were made available for the Players, Spectators and Convenors. Prize vouchers have been issued. In earlier rounds, Owen Malcolm and Scott McEwan-Ness both played for Gullane and they will also receive a voucher.
Many thanks to Royal Musselburgh for hosting this event. They are having their 250th Anniversary in 2024. They are one of the oldest Clubs in the World so we are very honoured to be holding this final as guests of this historic Club.
Photos attached. Photo 1 L-R Harris Munro, Ben Churn, Seb Harvey, Hudson Blair. Photo 2 L-R Angus Hill, Angus Waddell, Jack Lucas, Charlie King.
Urgent! – Code of Conduct for Juniors
All Players, as part of our Safeguarding Policy, please download this file, sign it, and return it to me, preferably by scanning or photographing it, and emailing it back to me asap. If you have recently done this, then you can ignore this request. Thanks. Dave
ELJGL Code of Conduct for Juniors 2024
Jack Rogan steps down!
Jack Rogan, pictured with the League Secretary, Dave Warren, has stepped down from his role as Joint Secretary of the League as he is relocating to the North of Scotland. Jack is a former player for Longniddry in the Junior League, and represented the League in The Watson Cup Match against South Carolina. After graduating from St Andrews, where he played a lot of golf on the fabled Old Course, Jack returned to the East Lothian area to work, and he became the Junior Convenor for Longniddry. Jack then volunteered to assist Dave in the organisation of League events, including the County Cup. We thanked Jack at the Leagues’ recent AGM where he was printed with a pin flag for the 18th hole at the World’s most famous course.