The ELJGL held a Texas Scramble fun event at Royal Musselburgh GC on Thursday the 22nd October, the final event of the season. Details of Teams and scoring can be seen on the Golf Genius portal here and you can see the Leaderboard on the GG App on your mobile phone using the access code ELJGLTS. There were 9 Teams of 4, including 1 Team of Girls. The live scoring facility on the Golf Genius App was in use by every group, and as Teams could view the live leaderboard scoring in full during their round, this added some intrigue to the event. We first have to report a truly sensational round by the group comprising Samuel, Oliver and Cameron Mukherjee, and Joe MacPherson, aged 15, 15, 12 and 14 respectively. With very little run on the fairways, they birdied the first 15 holes, then collapsed with 2 pars, but finished with a birdie at the 18th for a gross 54, net 50.8. A certified copy of the scorecard appears below. They were not the winners of this handicap event though, as the team in the last group (pictured below) comprising Byron Archibald, Dylan Brown, Hugo Alderson and Andrew Irvine came in with a gross 60, net 50.5, finishing 0.2 strokes ahead of the team comprising Adam Nichol, Adam Macdonald, Ben Austin and Harris Munro who had a gross 59, net 50.7. Our thanks are due to Royal Musselburgh and their Secretary David Cummings, and to the Professional Callum Smith, for making their excellent and historic course available. The League were indebted also for the help in running the event, provided by the local Convenors, Stuart and Helen Findlay, and from Shona Paton and Colin Leishman. Prizes were given to the winning Team on the day, and prizes for the 2nd place Team, and for the winning scratch Team, will be presented at some time in the future.  This was the final trial of the newly acquired Golf Genius scoring system which was very successful, with the help of our account manager Nick Stocking, and the Golf Genius system will now be brought into use in full during next season.

If you click on the photos below of the Players with the Clubhouse behind, you can see a slideshow of all the Players in a “Gallery.”

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The winners – L-R Hugo Alderson, Dylan Brown, Byron Archibald, and Andrew Irvine, with their prizes.

The CSS for Girls was down 1 to 67 and was down 1 to 64 for the Boys. Results and prize list appear below. Thanks to Gullane Golf Club for hosting these Championships, and thanks to Brian O’Connor, Frances Hall, Mark Lucas and Jenni Ray for their help. The trialling of Golf Genius for our scoring worked well once Players knew to access the on-app scoring using their GGID code on their scorecard. As I knew that some Players were playing on the following day in the ProDream USA event at Longniddry, so Mrs Warren and I sorted out the CSSs last night by re-inputting all the scores onto Intelligent Golf. Your “away” scores will now have been posted through to your home Clubs. Thanks to all of for playing! There were some great scores. Watch this space for news of  some invites for special treats! 

Here is the full prize list below the photos. I will get the trophies engraved for Players, and when ready, we will make arrangements for a handover. Prize vouchers will be posted out. Golf Balls etc will be kept for you till our events start next season and I will hand them out then. Photos are, top to bottom:-

Ryan Killorn, Alexander Yuill, James Wood, Ala Gorka, Molly Paton and Adam McLean.

The U18s and U16s Boys Championship was played earlier in the season, and all the U15 Boys missed their chance in that section due to a clash with a larger Juniors event. They played in the event at Gullane, but were not competing for the U16s trophy. Andrew Hendry had an excellent scratch 65 with Jack Lucas and Oliver Mukherjee on 68, were 2nd but Jack prevailed on the count-back. Adam Nichol led the handicap section with a net 60, and only claimed the prize after a count-back on the last 6 holes with Owen Malcolm. 

Boys U14 Results. Congratulations to James Wood who won the scratch trophy with a 65. Fergus Brown was close behind with a 66, and Brodie Cunningham was 3rd with a 72. Adam McLean won the  handicap trophy with a superb net 58, only winning by 2 strokes from Harris Munro who had a net 60. Scott Porteous and Adam Macdonald were joint 3rd.

Girls results. Congratulations to Ala Gorka for her scratch 74 beating Lucy Morrison by 2 strokes. In the handicap section, Molly Chapman had a 65, two strokes better than Maisie Witt.

U12 Boys results. Congratulations to Alexander Yuill for his scratch 72 beating Cameron Mukherjee by 1 stroke. In the handicap section, both Ryan Killorn and Oscar Wilkinson had 62s, with Ryan having the better back 9 of 32 to Oscar’s 33.

Here are all the scores and prizes for the recent U18s and U16s Boys Championships. There were a couple of call-offs but 17 Boys in total played in the event, over a Musselburgh course in great condition. Ciaran Paterson, off Scratch handicap, and Luke Greig off 5 handicap, took the Scratch honours with excellent gross scores of 70. Gregor Thomson successfully defended his U18s net title with an excellent 66, and Magnus Braby won the U16s net with a 68. Photos attached below. The CSS went down 1 stroke to 71.