Both Cameron Gallagher and Grace Crawford have been selected to represent Scotland in the Junior Home Internationals in August. Well done to both! The Boys are at Ashburnham in Wales from the 6th to the 8th whilst the Girls are at home at Downfield, Dundee. Good luck to both! The SGF U12s Championship was held at Gogarburn from the 23rd to the 25th July. Fraser Walters and Cameron Mukherjee were the big winners! See full report on the SGF website here. To finish this busy month off, there is the SGF U15/U13 Boys and Girls Strokeplay at Ratho Park from the 29th to the 31st July. Next League action – Match Day at Haddington on Sunday the 28th July and Team Strokeplay at Kilspindie on Fri 2nd August. Draws on website. Cameron Spencer won the North Berwick JO with a scratch 71. Liam Currid was T8 in the Junior Tour event at Duff House Royal. Cammy Gallagher of Longniddry represented Scotland in the Team of 6 competing on the European Boys Team Championship Division 2 in Poland. With Cammy finishing T8 in the qualifying, Scotland competed in the top flight but lost 5-2 to Russia. Cammy then won his foursomes against Belgium. The p.m. singles were cancelled due to bad weather, but Scotland Boys were promoted to Division 1 for next year. Scoring here. Lucy Morrison and Lucy Hall lost narrowly in the semi-finals of the East of Scotland Girls Summer Meeting at Dunnikier Park. Scores here. Lucy H had an ace at the 3rd hole in an earlier round! Connor Wilson finished T7 in the Cameron Corbett Vase at Haggs Castle. The Scottish Boys U16 Open has finished at Royal Burgess with Cameron Adam of the host Club winning the 54 hole event after a play off. Report here. Scores here. Junior Opens in the Lothians have commenced and there are 8 in July which count for the SGF Lothians OOM. League Players are in the top 3 positions after 4 JOs. Positions here. Valdemar Hundeboll has a significant lead in the table. The ASI Mens’ Scottish Open at Renaissance was held at Renaissance, and we had several League Players staffing the practice facilities, or marshalling.
East Lothian Junior Golf League News
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.
