Following this mornings exciting news about the new escalator, Strathmore's existing conveyor belt of Junior talent which was installed four years ago has produced another exceptional player. Last year 11 year old Amy Mitchell was showing a lot of promise and I encouraged her to take advantage of Strathmore being confirmed as a Scottish Developement Centre and to enrol.
She already has a fun handicap of 54 on Leitfie and we met up today to play her 1st card for a Congu handicap. Amy arrived prepared, juice and an apple (tick) warmed up by exercising (tick) practised chipping, pitching, full iron shots, driving and then putting (tick) then ready to go.
Pin high right then a superb lob to 6 inches secured a great opening 6 and a single putt - great start. With a very difficult pin position on 6 (back left) a lovely 5 iron found the back right but Amy left her first putt short and missed her first par chance, but that was rectified on 13 when a well struck 5 iron found the middle of the green and giving her first putt a chance left a simple uphill 2 footer (high 5's followed)
Amy's score today would give her a Club handicap of 42 taking an amazing 12 shots of her previous fun handicap and only 6 away from a full Congu handicap. Well done, both Dawn and I were very impressed with your all round game and see you having a huge future in the game. The drive up 18 was huge !!!
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