Tuesday, 14 March 2017
RYDER CUP 2018
Tod who is studying Green Keeping at Elmwood is heading to France to help prepare the course for the 2018 Ryder Cup so Strathmore can claim assisting Europe in their quest to regain the trophy "Under 4 weeks until I fly to Paris to start my 6 month internship at Le golf National!⛳️" What a great learning curve for him.
Monday, 13 March 2017
SO PLEASED SO MANY ARE OUT PLAYING
Following my email tonight I have a few updates - see below
Update Saturday - Amy played Glenisla with her Grandad and Josh was out at Strathmore with his dad. This is shaping up to be another brilliant season with another enquiry today for a junior membership. Bumped into Gareth tonight who had been coaching Kieran, Kirsten and Megan and he gave me an update on their progress. Tomorrow a Scottish Golf Limited Development Officer has an appointment with me to discuss the success of our section and the Club Hire Scheme so more great publicity is in the pipeline.Hi all,Who played at the weekend ??? Where and with who ?? Who practiced and where ??I was away the the U16 County Boys coaching at Gleneagles on Saturday and played on Sunday at StrathmoreAlex and Kirsty were playing at Strathmore on Saturday and he was at Drumoig with the County Gents on SundayKirsty, Megan and Amy were all at St Andrews with the County Ladies on SundayOn Saturday Kirsten and her dad were out on the big course and Georgia, Molly and James were out on the wee course so let me know especially if you had any good scoresBlog link - http://strathmorejuniors.blogspot.co.uk/Regards Iain
CONFIRMATION OF KIRSTENS SELECTION
The girls team to play Stirling and Clacks county on the 26th of March was officially announced on P&K Facebook page tonight and is:
Zoe Morton - Auchterarder
Kirsten Miller - Strathmore
Lauren Pirie - Pitlochry
Cathy Lambie - Crieff
Well deserved !! Just off the phone to her and she is really excited at the prospect of making her debut for Perth and Kinross
Zoe Morton - Auchterarder
Kirsten Miller - Strathmore
Lauren Pirie - Pitlochry
Cathy Lambie - Crieff
Well deserved !! Just off the phone to her and she is really excited at the prospect of making her debut for Perth and Kinross
Sunday, 12 March 2017
⛳️ SCOTTISH JUNIOR TOUR U18 ⛳️
Alex, Kirsty and Megan will compete at Forrester Park Golf Resort on the weekend of the 1st - 2nd April. 45 boys and 15 girls will play 36 holes on the Saturday with the top 30 and ties boys and the top 10 and ties girls making the cut for the final 18 holes on Sunday. Along with the New Golf Club St Andrews we are one of only two Clubs in the country with 3 representatives and the only club with the 3 made up of both boys and girls. Boys handicap cut off was 3 and Girls 6.
The event sees a field of Scotland’s leading junior golfers compete in the season opener. The Junior Tour event acts as a warm-up to both the Scottish Boys' Open Stroke Play Championship at Monifieth Links and the Scottish Girls’ Open Championship at Montrose.
This is a chance for the country’s most talented youngsters to test themselves on high-quality courses while the national selectors assess player development. Sandy Scott from Nairn and Aboyne’s Shannon McWilliam came out on top in 2016.
This is a chance for the country’s most talented youngsters to test themselves on high-quality courses while the national selectors assess player development. Sandy Scott from Nairn and Aboyne’s Shannon McWilliam came out on top in 2016.
Friday, 10 March 2017
STRATHMORE GIRLS MAKE THEIR MARK
P&K ladies have a match v Stirling on Sunday 26th and I am delighted that Kirsty, Megan and Amy have been selected for the ladies team and Kirsten for the girls. Flora unfortunately had prior commitments or we could have had 5 players involved. What an amazing achievement for any Junior section anywhere.
Sunday, 5 March 2017
BIG WEEKEND FOR ALEX
Friday and Alex just missed out on being P&K Junior Sport's personality of the year and congratulations go to Swimmer Scott Mclay. But Alex should be very proud on being selected and reaching the final 3. His weekend did get better as it was confirmed for an unprecedented 3rd time he had been awarded a P&K Gleneagles Scholarship and to top it off was invited to a practice match with P&K Gents team at Monifieth. Well done.
Whilst I was out playing today I got a message from past Junior member Calum Sinclair who said he was home from Robert Gordon's University, Aberdeen and was coming along for a game with his dad and had looked out a set of his old clubs that he wanted to donate to our Scheme. I met him in the car park and we had a good catch up and he was asking how things were going and who was in our current Scratch League team and was surprised and delighted when I told him we had 3 girls in the squad and Alex was playing off scratch, Kirsty 3, Megan 5 and Amy 8. I am going to add the post from September 2012 when Calum was part of our 1st Scratch League Team to win the trophy. It brings back some great memories
Callum Ewan, Kirsty Brodie and Tod Bannerman joined us and we discussed the format of the competition and how to play as a team. I accompanied them on the first 2 holes where Alex took the Red Cross "yellow ball" and just missed birdie but had a steady par. Kirsty also had a par 5 (net 4) for 3 Stableford points and the team were off and running. On the second hole Kirsty took the "yellow ball" and with all 4 players finding the green in 2 I explained that it was best for Kirsty to play out the "yellow ball " first as the boys all had shots and after Kirsty made sure of a 4. Alex made a 4 (net 3) which left Tod a free putt at a 3 (net 2) but just missed. 6 points secured and 2 pars with the "yellow ball"'- a great start. All 4 hit good drives down 3, I wished them well and headed back to meet Michael who was practising his putting, in his words "just to make sure yesterday's putting display wasn't a fluke !!"
I arrived at Gleneagles and Callum Sinclair, Rory Dyce and Hannah Robb were already there. After the warm up we made our way to the putting green and then had to kick our heels for 20 minutes due to a fog delay in the morning. This may have helped us, as we spent the time usefully with the strokesavers and I had a Eureka moment and came up with a master plan using the tick formula. Our players had to read the pro tip follow it and if they succeeded they had to tick it off. This seemed to relax our team and Auchterarder looked more apprehensive as each player was announced onto the tee. I watched them all tee off and Michael who led us out looked like he had won the 1st so our team had made the perfect start. Rory Dyce last out won his first hole and I made my way through the course to catch up what was going on ahead. Callum lost the first 2 but responded with a great birdie and par to square his match. Brad had followed the pro's tip to the letter and with pin at the front played to the back of the 5th green but still secured a half. I caught up with Hannah to see her hole a 20 foot birdie and win the hole to peg her opponent back. At the Dormie House 10th I received the news from Strathmore that our team had successfully defended and won their 4th successive British Red Cross junior trophy. I relayed this to our team and kept them abreast of how each other were doing. Hannah was behind Rory was up and the other 3 games were nip and tuck. Trying to follow 3 games which are all heading back towards the club house is difficult and I knew Michael had gone 1 up but saw him tee off 2nd on 18, Brad won 16 to go 1 up and Callum was dormie 2 down . Brad won 17 to put Strathmore 2v1 and I was trying to see what had happened ahead when I went to the back of the green where our team was and was told Michael had won 2 up. It took a second to sink in but Michael who had ran back up from the 18th green and had put on his white wind cheater was standing there and I hadn't noticed. When I had seen him tee off 2nd on 18 it was a provisional ball and he had not lost the 17th. With Rory, Brad and Michael all winning we were Perth and Kinross Champions for the first time and after only 4 years of trying . The experience of being runners up last helped our team and if you refer back to my previous blogs I have always installed into our juniors you first have to learn how to lose before you win , as winning is never easy. Today Strathmore Juniors have come of age , made their mark and rubber stamped their place as the most successful Junior Section in P&K and proved me right as I never doubted their ability.
I have built up friendships which will last a lifetime and seen juniors grow into adults and have so much pride in seeing them reach their own personal goals I will remember this day forever.
Travelling down today I remembered of our first away match at Aucherarder 01/07/2008 and after playing golf at Strathnmore we went to Downfield to watch Carly Booth represent P&K in Dawns team and stopped off at MacDonalds at Perth for a burger and Alan Easton showed his farm yard identification skills were thankfully less than his golfing ones, Megan,Emily and Matthew laughed so much and with Grant it set us up for a brilliant halved match wearing our team colours for the first time
Last year Allan became County Stroke Play Champion.
4 years later we are County Scratch League Team Champions and Bell Trophy Team Champions runner ups , with the talent coming through and the fight for places hotting up we can be the strongest Junior section in P&K for years to come.
Whilst I was out playing today I got a message from past Junior member Calum Sinclair who said he was home from Robert Gordon's University, Aberdeen and was coming along for a game with his dad and had looked out a set of his old clubs that he wanted to donate to our Scheme. I met him in the car park and we had a good catch up and he was asking how things were going and who was in our current Scratch League team and was surprised and delighted when I told him we had 3 girls in the squad and Alex was playing off scratch, Kirsty 3, Megan 5 and Amy 8. I am going to add the post from September 2012 when Calum was part of our 1st Scratch League Team to win the trophy. It brings back some great memories
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 2012
DOUBLE DELIGHT
SCRATCH LEAGUE TEAM
This was definitely my proudest day as convenor of Strathmore Junior Section. I went down to the Club to meet our British Red Cross team and Alex Simpson was already on the range practising an hour and a half before their tee time.
RED CROSS TEAM
Callum Ewan, Kirsty Brodie and Tod Bannerman joined us and we discussed the format of the competition and how to play as a team. I accompanied them on the first 2 holes where Alex took the Red Cross "yellow ball" and just missed birdie but had a steady par. Kirsty also had a par 5 (net 4) for 3 Stableford points and the team were off and running. On the second hole Kirsty took the "yellow ball" and with all 4 players finding the green in 2 I explained that it was best for Kirsty to play out the "yellow ball " first as the boys all had shots and after Kirsty made sure of a 4. Alex made a 4 (net 3) which left Tod a free putt at a 3 (net 2) but just missed. 6 points secured and 2 pars with the "yellow ball"'- a great start. All 4 hit good drives down 3, I wished them well and headed back to meet Michael who was practising his putting, in his words "just to make sure yesterday's putting display wasn't a fluke !!"
I arrived at Gleneagles and Callum Sinclair, Rory Dyce and Hannah Robb were already there. After the warm up we made our way to the putting green and then had to kick our heels for 20 minutes due to a fog delay in the morning. This may have helped us, as we spent the time usefully with the strokesavers and I had a Eureka moment and came up with a master plan using the tick formula. Our players had to read the pro tip follow it and if they succeeded they had to tick it off. This seemed to relax our team and Auchterarder looked more apprehensive as each player was announced onto the tee. I watched them all tee off and Michael who led us out looked like he had won the 1st so our team had made the perfect start. Rory Dyce last out won his first hole and I made my way through the course to catch up what was going on ahead. Callum lost the first 2 but responded with a great birdie and par to square his match. Brad had followed the pro's tip to the letter and with pin at the front played to the back of the 5th green but still secured a half. I caught up with Hannah to see her hole a 20 foot birdie and win the hole to peg her opponent back. At the Dormie House 10th I received the news from Strathmore that our team had successfully defended and won their 4th successive British Red Cross junior trophy. I relayed this to our team and kept them abreast of how each other were doing. Hannah was behind Rory was up and the other 3 games were nip and tuck. Trying to follow 3 games which are all heading back towards the club house is difficult and I knew Michael had gone 1 up but saw him tee off 2nd on 18, Brad won 16 to go 1 up and Callum was dormie 2 down . Brad won 17 to put Strathmore 2v1 and I was trying to see what had happened ahead when I went to the back of the green where our team was and was told Michael had won 2 up. It took a second to sink in but Michael who had ran back up from the 18th green and had put on his white wind cheater was standing there and I hadn't noticed. When I had seen him tee off 2nd on 18 it was a provisional ball and he had not lost the 17th. With Rory, Brad and Michael all winning we were Perth and Kinross Champions for the first time and after only 4 years of trying . The experience of being runners up last helped our team and if you refer back to my previous blogs I have always installed into our juniors you first have to learn how to lose before you win , as winning is never easy. Today Strathmore Juniors have come of age , made their mark and rubber stamped their place as the most successful Junior Section in P&K and proved me right as I never doubted their ability.
I have built up friendships which will last a lifetime and seen juniors grow into adults and have so much pride in seeing them reach their own personal goals I will remember this day forever.
Travelling down today I remembered of our first away match at Aucherarder 01/07/2008 and after playing golf at Strathnmore we went to Downfield to watch Carly Booth represent P&K in Dawns team and stopped off at MacDonalds at Perth for a burger and Alan Easton showed his farm yard identification skills were thankfully less than his golfing ones, Megan,Emily and Matthew laughed so much and with Grant it set us up for a brilliant halved match wearing our team colours for the first time
Last year Allan became County Stroke Play Champion.
4 years later we are County Scratch League Team Champions and Bell Trophy Team Champions runner ups , with the talent coming through and the fight for places hotting up we can be the strongest Junior section in P&K for years to come.
Thursday, 2 March 2017
ANTIPODEAN IS OUR LATEST MEMBER
Rory Brown has become our 2nd New member of 2017 and when I heard he was Australian I believed he had beaten Alexei 🇷🇺 by becoming our longest commuting member but Rory now lives in Scotland so we will hopefully see him more often. Although he is new to golf, he is natural sportsman and will learn quickly, look forward to meeting him soon and great to have another new member.
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