STRATHMORE SCHOLARSHIPS

Strathmore Golf Centre this week announced their commitment to the future by enhancing their already major investment in the junior section by creating annual scholarships available to qualifying juniors. There will be three scholarships awarded this year.


The scholarship will consist of:


• Tokens for practice balls equating to £40 per month


• 6 x ½ hour lessons with either Andy Lamb or Gareth Couzins, the PGA Professionals attached to Strathmore Golf Centre

The scholarship will be awarded to juniors who meet the following qualifying criteria:


• Scholars must be Home Players.


• Scholars must have represented Strathmore at Junior Scratch League and continue to make themselves available for selection.


• Scholars must represent Strathmore at County and/or National events.


• Scholars must have a Congu Handicap of 18 or less. The selection will be done in Handicap order.

Strathmore Golf Centre already commits £3,000 per annum to provide coaching open to all juniors. With over 70 juniors Strathmore has a vibrant and growing junior section and the opportunity this scholarship provides will increase the section’s profile and attract new juniors who are the lifeblood of the future of the Centre and Strathmore Golf Club.

The very first three Juniors to be awarded this scholarship is Allan Easton, Hannah Robb and Rory Tinker. They are pictured above with David Norman.

We would like to thank Strathmore Golf Centre for this massive committment and we know that the section will make full use of the award and go from strength to strength.

Mini Foursomes - Pitlochry 30th May

Today is the last day for entries !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Draw for Spring Meeting and Under 14 Trophy - Dunning -Sunday May 2nd May

08.10 Rory Tinker
08.30 Allan Easton
09.50 Josh McKenna
10.20 John McKenna
12.00 Alex Simpson
12.40 Cory Miller

For full draw go to Links on right hand side of page and click on Perth and Kinross Gents County Golf.

STRATHMORE JUNIORS DO IT AGAIN!

Another fantastic weekend for Strathmore juniors where we have seen handicaps come tumbling down and fantastic scratch scores posted.

It all began on Saturday when our juniors competed in the Strathmore Juniors Club Championship Qualifier (1) and Junior Captain Rory Tinker returned an excellent scratch 74 closely followed by defending champion Allan Easton on 75. The handicap scoring was just as impressive causing the boys CSS to reduce to 70. Girls CSS 72 Frankie Henvey topped the leader board with a brilliant nett 64 followed by Michael Brodie on 65, Rory Tinker 67, Frankie Moran 69, Hannah Robb 70 and John McKenna 70.

Handcap reductions
Frankie Henvey was 47 now 43
Michael Brodie was 17 now 15
Rory Tinker was 8 now 7
Hannah was 11 now 10

John McKenna was 19 now 18

Following Saturdays impressive day the juniors came out again in force and played in the Summer League (4) today and once again the scoring was very impressive
with the best scratch score going to Hannah Robb with 79 and also the best handicap with a nett 69, Josh McKenna (14) also returned an impressive 69 and in third position was Alex Simpson (24) 76

Reductions

Hannah Robb was 10 now 9
Josh McKenna was 14 now 13

Well done to both but especially Hannah who has now become a single figure handicap player. Hannah has worked extremely hard all winter and the fruits of her labour are now showing. Well done Hannah from us all.

Rory Tinker played in the gents sections competition today and won the event with a fantastic scratch 73 nett 66! Reducing his playing handicap for the second time in two days to 5.6!! Well done Rory, like Hannah you have worked extremely hard and we are all delighted for you.

FIRST ROUND OF THE JUNIOR CLUB CHAMPIONSHIP

The first round of the Junior Club Championship qualifier takes place on Saturday. Tee Times commence from 1.07pm. Please sign up for this in the relevant junior sign in books. The boys sign in book is kept beside the Gents book next to the computer screen in the club house and the girls in in the ladies locker room next to the ladies sign in books. If you are unsure please give us a call for assistance.

Come along and take part, the draw for this event will be in handicap order.

A CONGU HANDICAP OVER RANNALEROCH IS REQUIRED. 

JUNIORS AT THE TOP OF THE LEADERBOARDS

Congratulations to all the juniors who played last night. Hannah Robb took part in the SLGA Medal and won the silver division with a nett 69. The medal was also the first quailfying round of the Club Championship and Hannah also produced the best scratch score of 80. This resulted in yet another cut to Hannah's handicap. Well done Hannah.

The boys also faired well with three boys taking 2nd, 3rd and 4th place in the Wednesday Stableford competiton. Josh returned 38 stableford points whilst Michael Brodie and Alex Simpson amassed 37 points each. 

Well done all. For more news about scores and to keep track of your handicap and scores go to How Did I Do.com  just click on this link then follow the instructions to register.


 

Captain Eric presents Hamish McTavish Cup

Eric Gray presents cup to winner junior Vice Captain Frankie Moran

A WEEKEND OF GREAT GOLF FOR STRATHMORE JUNIORS

The weekend kicked of with the Junior Summer League Card three and the scoring was again very good. Hannah Robb reduced her handicap with a scratch 81 nett 70 winning the girls section. The boys section was closely fought with a better inward half seeing Alex Simpson 97 (24) 73 pipping Callum Ewen 102 (29) 73 Well done all who took part.

Sunday Morning saw Junior Captain Rory Tinker play in the P&K Boys Strokeplay/Matchplay Championship at Crieff. Rory played his way last week into the last 16 matchplay stages and won his morning match on the 18th green. Unfortunately Rory lost in the afternoon quarter final 2&1 after a great display of golf. A brilliant achievement for Rory to reach the final 8 players.

Hannah Robb and Emily Aird were selected to represent P&K against Stirling and Clackmannanshire at Gleneagles and were also paired together on the day in a Greensome match. Hannah and Emily did the county proud by winning their match 1up.

The Hamish McTavish Cup was played over Leitfie on Sunday morning and the winner on the day was Frankie Moran with a 76 (24) 52 in second place was Alex Simpson 75 (18) 57 followed the title holder Michael Brodie 69 (9) 60. Well done Frankie.

Leaving Golf for just a second, our congratulations go to Micheal Brodie who representing Angus County won the Inter-Divisional Cricket event which was played at Arbroath on Saturday. 

All in all another great weekend for our juniors and this is only April!! 

Results from Under 14 Coaching Medal at Blairgowrie on Sunday 11/04/2010

Strathmore were represented by 6 boys at yesterdays event held in brilliant sunshine. Josh McKenna for the second time this weekend was Strathmore's "player of the day"

When you look at the results on the P&K Website Junior Section the Scratch is calculated on Scratch Stableford points which means you get

1 point for a bogey

2 points for a par

3 points for a birdie

4points for an eagle

Using this format Josh finished 4th scratch (26 points) and 6th nett beating last years defending champion Brad Bannerman who finished 8th scratch (22 points) and 9th nett.

Click on the link below to view the results.

CLICK HERE FOR FULL RESULTS

RORY SHINES AT CRIEFF

Junior Captain Rory Tinker playing in the under 18 Perth and Kinross County Boys Strokeplay Championship at Crieff returned a fantastic three over par round of 74 finishing 8th in the tournament. Congratualtions Rory.

This event also catapults Rory into the Matchplay stages next Sunday when the top 16 players fight it out to progress to the semi final stages. Fellow member Allan Easton also took part but unfortunatley did not make it to the Matchplay stages. 

Good Luck Rory. 

HANNAH BOUNCES BACK

After the disappointment of the Under 16's tournament this week Hannah bounced back with a win at the P&K Ladies County Golf Association Junior and Team player day at Strathmore today, Hannah and her partner Gillian Wallace from Glenisla walked off with the scratch prize following an impressive greensome score of 76.

Well done Hannah from one Junior Committee member who played today as a county team player with a junior and was pipped by you and your parnter today by a better inward half!!

Well done.

JUNIORS DO IT AGAIN!

The 2nd round of the Junior Summer League on Rannaleroch took place today and the players above once again excelled themselves. Josh McKenna was the star of the show with a fantastic scratch 81 off the white tees. Josh was heading for a sub 80 round but unfortunatley three putted the last. This scratch score led to a brilliant nett 64 and returned not only the lowest gross but also the lowest nett too. Josh however was not the only junior to return a nett 64, Frankie Henvey also posted a 64 but was pipped by virtue of a better inward half by Josh. 

Out of the 7 boys playing today 5 had handicap reductions. Very impressive indeed and especially so early in the season. 

Below is the Full Restults

 Junior Summer League CSS 71, Scratch
Josh McKenna 81,
H'Cap
Josh McKenna (17) 64,
Frankie Henvey (51) 64,
John McKenna (19) 67,
Brad Bannerman (18), 68,
Alex Simpson (25) 69,
Michael Brodie (17) 72,
Tod Bannerman (44) 77


And now for the cuts to your handicaps!!
Josh was 17 now 15.0 playing 15
Frankie was 51 now 47.0 playing 47
John was 19 now 18.2 playing 18
Brad was 18 now 16.9 playing 17
Alex was 25 now 23.9 playing 24
 
Brilliant just brilliant!

Special thanks goes to Donald Thompson who very kindly stayed behind after the gents competiton to process the junior results for a group of very excited players!

Hannah Robb falls foul of her natural exuburance.

Today Hannah learned a harsh lesson. Last night after her opening round Hannah and 2 other girls decided to play 16, 17 and 18 for fun and to pass a bit of time. This was done in total innocence, but to their cost they discovered today that as this was a stroke play competition over 2 days and therefore practice on the course is not allowed (Rule 7-1) all 3 girls were disqualified and they will never make the same mistake again. This is a learning curve for everybody so get yourselves a rule book and make yourselves aware of all the rules!

Emily Aird finishes her 2nd round by improving on yesterdays score by 3 shots returning an 82 to add to her 85 giving her a total of 167. Well done.

Front nine news from SLGA Under 16 Open

Hannah Robb after a bad start has reached the turn in 41 (8-5-5-3-4-3-4-4-5) and has started the back nine 4-4-5 to continue her great run of form. Emily Aird was out in 40 (5-4-5-4-6-4-4-4-4) and is just starting her back nine. Good Luck to both as they continue their rounds.

Emily finishes double bogey, bogey,bogey to finish 13+ . Hannah finishes par, bogey, bogey and returns 8+ ( 3 under Handicap) and placing her 38th= after the 1st round. Congratulations and good luck to both of you for tomorrow. Both tee off the 1st tee tomorrow Hannah in Game 5 at 09:10am and Emily in Game 6 at 09:20am.

Hannah bogies 4 doubles 5 and pars 6 to be 7+ after 15 , Emily pars 4 bogies 5 and pars 6 to be 9+ after15.

Hannah double bogies 1st but pars 2nd and 3rd. Emily triple 1st Birdies 2nd but bogies 3rd to go to 8+.

Hannah birdies 16th to get back to level par but doubles 17th and then pars 18th to reach the turn in 2+. Emily bogies 16 and doubles 17 and 18 to turn 5 +.

Hannah double bogies 13th then bounces back with a birdie at 14 and pars 15 to be 1+ after 6 holes. Emily birdies 14 but bogies 15 to be level par after 6 holes played.

SLGA Under 16 Open Update

Hannah and Emily par the 10th 11th and 12th , their 1st 2nd 3rd.
Great start.

Good Luck Hannah and Emily

Strathmore's Hannah Robb and fellow member Emily Aird now playing out of Blairgowrie tee off today in the 1st Round of the SLGA under 16 Open Stroke Play Championship at Strathmore. Hannah tees off on the 10th in Game 31 at 12:40 followed by Emily in Game 32 at 12:50. Best wishes to both girls from all the Junior Section. I will update you later on their progress.

Junior Captain's Day

This Sundays Junior Captain's Day has been postponed and will be re scheduled later in the Season. This is due mainly to so many of our players are taking part in County Events and the Committee felt it would be better to wait for a clear weekend to allow as many to play as possible.

First Fun Handicap for Megan

Megan Ashley who only joined the Club at the beginning of this season, and having gained her Level 1 & 2 Certificates and has now achieved her Fun Handicap of 54 which will enable her to compete in all Junior Leitfie Competitions including the Summer and Winter Leagues. Congratulations to Megan and on behalf of the Junior Section we wish her every success during the Season.

Breaking News

Just got confirmation that Alex Simpson and Cory Miller have been invited to the Under 14 Coaching Medal at Blairgowrie next Sunday. We now have 6 Boys entered more than any other club in P&K.

Scottish Boys

Unfortunatley Allan lost 3&2 at West Kilbride but he played well and will take the positives into the rest of his season. I know Allan will bounce back and look forward to seeing his progress throughout the rest of the year.

P&K BOYS UNDER 18 STROKEPLAY CHAMPIONSHIPS

The under P&K Boys under 18 Strokeplay Championships take place at Crieff on Saturday 10th April 2010. Junior Captain Captain Rory Tinker and member Allan Easton are both taking part.

Below is the draw, good luck to both.

1. 14:00 Paul Mcphee King James VI plus 1
. . Sam Craigon Milnathort 2
. . Patrick Sandison Blairgowrie 3
2. 14:07 Jamie Arthur Milnathort 2
. . Fergus Sandison Blairgowrie 3
. . Allan Easton Strathmore 3
3. 14:14 Thomas White Milnathort 2
. . Greig Stewart Greig 2
. . Bradley Neill Blairgowrie 2
4. 14:21 Stuart McMillan Milnathort 4
. . Rory Tinker Strathmore 8
. . Sean Gadsby Crieff 5
5. 14:28 Connor Neill Blairgowrie 2
. . Fraser Cramb Crieff 6
. . Craig Robertson Blairgowrie 6
6. 14:35 Jack Hadden Crieff 7
. . Callum Hill Muckhart 5
. . Steven Harrower Kinross 5
7. 14:42 Callum McGuigan Crieff 10
. . Robert Willemars Blairgowrie 9
. . Jamie Burrows Pitlochry 5
8. 14:49 Euan Carter Crieff 5
. . Ross Wallace Pitlochry 7
. . Russell Malcolm Milnathort 8
9. 14:56 Lee Smith Crieff 8
. . Matthew Croal Auchterarder 9
. . Blair Stevenson Pitlochry 11
10. 15:03 Stewart Lindsay Blairgowrie 10
. . Ewan Farquharson Auchterarder 11
. . Mark McLeod Blairgowrie 8
11. 15:10 Charles Cooke Milnathort 8
. . Scott McLeod Kinross 10
. . Josh Roy Auchterarder 10
12. 15:17 Chris Ness Milnathort 9
. . Marcus Mollinson Auchterarder 13
. . Blair Seaton Pitlochry 13
13. 15:24 Peter Hendrson Milnathort 9
. . Adam White Muckhart 14
. . . . . .
14. 15:30 Keir Cramb Crieff 15
. . Jordan Hutt Kinross 14

NEWS FROM THE SCOTTISH BOYS AT WEST KILBRIDE.

7:30pm Allan Easton still out hitting balls on the nine hole course attached to his hotel. Played his practice round earlier and feels confident going into his first round match tomorrow.

NEWS FROM P&K LADIES MATCH V FIFE AT LUNDIN LINKS.

In the Junior matches Emily Aird won her foursomes match with partner Eilidh Watson and Hannah Robb partnered by Erica Burnett lost their match.

P&K UNDER 14'S COACHING MEDAL

Strathmore has fantastic representation in the P&K under 14's Coaching medal where along with Auchterarder and Blairgowrie we have four boys playing on the day.

This will be played over the Wee Course at Blairgowrie and our own Brad Bannerman is playing to defend the trophy that he won last year. The draw is below and we wish Brad, Michael Brodie, Josh and John McKenna the very best of luck.

MATCH NAME CLUB H/C
1 O8:16, Ross White Muckhart 9, Scott McLeod Kinross 10,Keir Cramb Crieff 15
2 O8:24, Ian Hill Muckhart 14, Adam Hood Blairgowrie 16, Brad Bannerman Strathmore 17
3 O8:32, Josh McKenna Strathmore 17, Ross McDonald Craigie Hill 18 ,Grant Stewart Pitlochry 18
4 O8:40, Michael Brodie Strathmore 17, Josh Bell Blairgowrie 18, Robert Watson Muckhart 18
5 O8:48, Ross Montgomery Crieff 18, John McKenna Strathmore 19, Kieran Matthews Blairgowrie 20
6 O8:56 Iain McLaren Blairgowrie 20, Callum Brown Crieff 20, Murray Stevenson Auchterarder 26
7 O9:04, Alistair Wood Auchterarder 23, Stuart Irving Muthill 25 ,
8 O9:12, Duncan Robertson Auchterarder 23, Nathan Gannon Muthill 22 ,
9 O9: 20 Jonathan Dunn Auchterarder 24, Callum Thom Alyth

SUMMER LEAGUE RESULTS

A great start to the junior Rannaleroch Season with 10 juniors taking part in the first round of the Summer League. Some fantastic scoring as well with Frankie Henvey returning an amazing nett 65!! Well done, especially as this was Frankie's very first competitive round since gaining his handicap.

The results were as follows:
CSS 71

Frankie Henvey (54) 65
Cory Miller (27) 72
Michael Brodie (17) 73
John McKenna (19) 75

Girls
Kirsty Brodie (31) 74

Special mention also goes to Callum Ewan and Tod Bannerman along with new member Alex Simpson who took part in their first Strathmore Juniors Rannaleroch Competition.

Well done also to Junior Captain Rory Tinker who won the Division One of the Gents Section April medal returning a nett score of 71. Congratulations Rory.

All results from the Junior Competitions will appear in the Courier, so remember to get your copy before they all sell out!!