The Scratch final saw a Captain v Vice Captain match up between 2 times and current Champion Stuart Duncan and Conan Reid. Conan lipped out on the first, which they halved. He then birdied 2, won 3 with a par and birdied 4 to go 3 up. Stuart won 5 and birdied 6 to get it back to 1 down. Bar Conan winning 10 and losing 11 the next 9 holes were halved. Standing on the 18th tee 1 up, and Stuart hitting a drive straight up the middle. Conan stuck with his strategy of hitting an iron off the tee. He found himself slightly blocked by a tree but managed to progress the ball up the side of the fairway, and managed to find the back of the green with his 3rd shot from 210yds uphill. Stuart had hit a good second up the left but found a lush lie in the second cut. He hit what looked like a good third shot but unfortunately it didn’t make the green and rolled back into the front bunker. He produced a great bunker shot and Conan kept his cool to run his putt down the green and left himself a nice straight uphill putt from within 2ft. Stuart unfortunately missed his putt leaving Conan with 2 shots to win but holed it to win the 2024 Junior Club Championship.
Both games were played in great spirits and with the assistance of their caddies who helped them all the way round it was a fantastic day. Keir Reid, Louis Purdie, Archie Pattullo and Tom Stevenson all deserve a round of applause.
Before the presentation Scott Abraham, who had been in a party from Clober Golf Club, playing in front of us, approached me, they had seen our sign about donating to the Juniors for landing in the greenside bunker on the 12th. Although none of them had, they had a whip round and gave me £62.20 for the junior section. What a fantastic gesture and a huge thank you from Strathmore Junior Section.
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