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Success for East Lothian Players!

July 2, 2021 By Dave Warren

Review of amazing performances in May and June 2021 by East Lothian Ladies and Girls! (Copy of Press Release issued 2nd July 2021)

Hannah Darling’s performance in recent weeks has been outstanding by winning the St Rule Trophy at St Andrews, by reaching the semi-finals of both the Scottish and British Women’s Amateur Championships at Gullane and Kilmarnock Barassie respectively, and by finishing tied 2nd, at 11 under par, in the 54 hole Helen Holm Scottish Womens’ Open at Royal Troon. These performances have lifted 17 year old Hannah to a position inside the top 50 of the Womens’ World Amateur Golf Ranking (WAGR) Hannah is in the Scottish Golf National High-Performance Squad for whom Catriona Matthew, the Solheim Cup Captain, is now a mentor. Hannah is currently in the squad for the Curtis Cup match vs. the USA on the 26th August in Wales and has committed to attending the University of South Carolina later this year. Hannah’s current handicap is +7.3 and her home Club is Broomieknowe, a parkland course. But Hannah is also member at Gullane where she has been fine tuning her game on links turf as many UK Championship events are held on such courses. Understandably, Hannah, although registered with the League, has commitments which do not leave her much time to play in our League events.
Clara Young a former Scottish Internationalist and past Womens’ Champion, and past winner of the St Rule event, has had similar success this year by finishing 2nd at the St Rule, by reaching the semi finals of the Scottish Womens’ Championship, and by finishing T8 in the Helen Holm. Clara plans on now trying to qualify for the LPGA Tour. Clara’s current handicap is +5.5.
Tara Mactaggart also had good performances in some of these events, by reaching the final of the Scottish Womens’ Championship and by also winning the East Lothian Ladies’ County Championship at North Berwick West Links. Tara will soon be trying to qualify for the Ladies European Tour. Tara’s current handicap is +5.1.
Freya Constable, still only 16 years old, won the Midlothian Ladies’ Championship, and also made the cut in the Helen Holm event. Freya also won a Scottish Junior Tour event at Royal Musselburgh as well as finishing 9th in the Barrie Douglas Scottish Junior Masters. Freya’s current handicap is 4. 
Grace Crawford’s results in making the cut in both the Scottish and British Women’s Championships as a 14 year old, and by recently winning the Stephen Gallacher Foundation Vase at Castle Park, and winning a Scottish Junior Tour event at Southerness, shows that she will be a strong contender for National Junior titles over the next 3 years. Grace is in the Scottish Golf National Performance Squad. Grace’s current handicap is +2.2.
There was a sensational match in the final of the 2020 North Berwick Ladies Club Championship which was delayed till May 2021. Clara, a 3-time winner of the East Lothian Junior League Girls’ Championship, played Grace, a winner of the same Championship in 2019. On a windy evening, they had 13 birdies and 1 eagle between them! Grace just pipped Clara by winning the 17th, 18th, and 19th holes, all with birdies!
We were hoping that some of these Players would be selected for upcoming International Team events especially for the 2021 Girls’ European Amateur Team Championships which were due to be held in Portugal in July. However, Scottish Golf has considered the latest Covid and travel information for these events and sadly the decision has been made not to send teams to any of the Boys’ Girls’ or Mens’ European Team events being held abroad. The Womens’ Team event however, which is in Northern Ireland at Royal County Down is going ahead on the 6th July, and Hannah is in the Scottish Team of 6 Players. The Girls’ and Womens’ Home Internationals are due to be held in England at Woodhall Spa on the 4th – 6th August and will likely still be going ahead. We hope that some of the above mentioned Players will be selected.
Grace recently enjoyed her first game at Muirfield, as a guest of the Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers during a practice round with the East Lothian and Edinburgh Junior Leagues’ Watson Cup Team. The Watson Cup is held in honour of Tom Watson and will next be played in July 2022 over the Royal Burgess, Muirfield and Gullane No.1 courses. Former European Tour Player and former Ryder Cup Vice-Captain David J. Russell is the Captain of the Team for 2022. David has the support of 4 Vice Captains, including David Rudd, a recent League Junior, who is now a Professional playing on mini-tours. The President for the Match is former Ryder Cup Captain, Bernard Gallacher. 
Grace and Freya are still competing in our “Free to Enter” East Lothian Junior League events, and both of them were part of a recent trip in February 2020 to Pinehurst USA which the East Lothian Junior Golf League organises annually.
We look forward to that part of the season where we can report on success in Boys’ events by the many talented Players we currently have registered as League Players. 
We follow all the progress being made in the game of golf by former Players in the League, of which European Tour Player Grant Forrest and Connor Wilson, who is in the Scottish Golf National High-Performance Squad, are probably the best known of the men. Many other former League Players are attending college or universities in the USA or in the UK, and are, or will soon be, employed in the Golf industry as Greenkeepers, or in Club Management, or as Club Professionals or Assistants, as Golf Journalists, or in the Media, or even as Golf Course architects  and builders.
The League would like to thank all the past and present Convenors at our Member Clubs, who have voluntarily given up their time to organise Junior Competitions and manage Club Teams for our League events. We would also like to thank East Lothian and East of Scotland Ladies Golf, the Lothians Golf Association, the Stephen Gallacher Foundation, the Scottish Junior Tour, Scottish Golf and their Development Officers, East Lothian Council and their tireless Golf Development Officer Kate Green, the Golf Foundation, the R&A, local Golf Professionals, and many others, We are indebted to the East Lothian Council, and to those Edinburgh and East Lothian Clubs who provided funding and access to quality courses on Scotland’s Golf Coast for our League events and in Edinburgh for the Watson Cup, and to those who have made contributions of their time, and/or funding, to our “not-for-profit” League over the years to make success possible. We also thank those supporters who provided free accommodation in Pinehurst, to the host courses and tournament organisers there, for welcoming our Players into their winter events every February. Around 50 Players have now experienced such a trip, subsidised to a minor extent by the League.
We have many more young and capable Players coming into our League through the Golf Foundation’s GolfSixes initiative, but we still need more funding and/or Sponsors, to take our competitive League forward to even better things in future, and to organise the fairly new Scottish Junior Team Championship. If you can help with a donation, then please get in touch with me. 
Dave Warren, East Lothian Junior League Secretary. 
[email protected] Cell – 07595 301425.
 

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US Kids Golf results!

More news from the US Kids – Ryan Killorn finished 4th in the 11 year old section by scoring an impressive 72 round Craigielaw in the final round. Ryan had previously won Gullane’s U14s Club Championship Championship with a gross 66 round No.3! Photos below. Well done Ryan!

Five of East Lothian’s Clubs, The Glen, Longniddry, Craigielaw, Musselburgh and Royal Musselburgh played host to around 600 Juniors from all around the world, who were competing in the US Kids Golf European Championships. The week climaxed in a Match between all the winners and runners-up in the older age categories, for the Van Horn Cup. All the scores can be seen on the US Kids website here.

The draw for the Cup match, and photos can be seen below. Aidan Lawson was playing in the top match in the four ball format, and with partner Jack Conroy, finished 5 under par to score a point for their Team. Aidan’s Dad John was an excellent caddie, especially in the chilly conditions! The League Secretary later met up with the US Kids Golf founder, Dan Van Horn, and Director Chris Vonderkall, who have again kindly promised to make a donation to the League which will be used to subsidise the costs of our League’s next trip to Pinehurst. Thanks Dan and Chris!

Ryan with his trophy from the US Kids and his scorecard from the Gullane Championships showing his 66!

Golf Sixes 2022!

Lynne Malcolm has kindly sent the results of the second GolfSixes event, held at The Glen on Sunday 22/5 at Craigielaw. Gullane had the best total, followed by Craigielaw and The Glen who were tied for 2nd.  The updated League Table will appear here after each event. The Glen remain in the lead after 2 events. 


 

The new season of Golf Sixes is about to start. There are six Teams competing. The schedule is detailed below and all dates are on our Calendar on our website. The Sixes are an important part of keeping the League refreshed with new Players after they obtain handicaps. so they deserve our support. We already have some 8 and 9 year olds playing in League Matches. We will publish the Golf Sixes results and League Table on our website Katy McNicoll, a professional at The West Links, North Berwick, is organising this years events. Contact Katy at [email protected]

Match Day Information

Dear Players, please see the standard Match Day information for 2022 at this link.

Golf Genius App draws & scoring

Viewing the List of Entrants and Draws – On the App, go to the Match Day concerned and click on it.  As Players enter events through the Golf Genius App, their names appear in the section marked  “Member Portal.” If you click on that, you will then see “Tee Sheets” which is a place where any draws made for our Competitions are  If the event is open for registration, then all the entrants are listed there. But if the event has not yet been opened for registration, you will see the message “No rounds available.” However, you can still see the “Tee Sheets” if you click on “Member Portal,” and then click on “Tee Sheets.” Once the draw has been made, then the Order of Play can be seen under Tee Sheets” in tee-time order, and also in alphabetical order.

Scoring – This link will take you to a very good and brief explanation in a YouTube video on how to record scores on the Golf Genius App in your group during your rounds in our League. Have a look at it and you will feel more confident about using the scoring App all the time. For the rest of the 2022 season however, we will continue to use scorecards but please “double up” by also using the App to practice using it. Next season it will be optional for group to use scorecards or keep the scores on the App. 

Benefits from using the App –

One person in your group can record all the scores on the App  while the other players are teeing off. This will save time and speed up play. You can view the leaderboard. At the scoring desk, all the entered scores can be seen and cross checked more easily and quickly. Arithmetic will be correct. Illegible figures on scorecards, and there shouldn’t be any, can be checked against the App.

 

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Sponsors

East Lothian Council have sponsored our Championships for many years.

We would like to thank the following parties for their support and/or sponsorship which will be used to provide equipment, coaching and prizes, for developing our younger Players, and to contribute to Golf Tours for our Players to the USA.

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