OH WHAT A BEAUTIFUL SATURDAY MORNING

Sun shining and Taylor, Jamie, Lewis and Liam are raring to go. Everyone else must have slept in !!

BIG WEEK AHEAD

Strathmore are well represented at the Scottish Boys and Girls Amateur Championships at Moray starting Monday. Alex, Kirsty, Kirsten and Megan are all heading north and it will be interesting to see how they fair. After 36 holes of Stroke Play the top 64 Boys and top 16 Girls Scratch go into match play and in the Girls another 16 qualify for the handicap section. Our best wishes go with all 4.

WHAT A SUCCESS

Shame a few of you missed it due to holidays and thanks for the emails to let me know. For the others you missed a brilliant night and hopefully you can get along to join in on Saturday mornings or Thursday nights.
Huge thanks again to Amy who has supported me all spring at the Thursday night sessions and took Cameron and Conan out for 18 holes on the big course. Moya, Liam and Lewis were next up for Summer League, handicaps and 2nd Certificates and finally James, Lochlan and Zoe tried for their 1st Certificates. 9 youngsters out having fun it’s what golf is all about. Everyone who attended tonight have shown a commitment to get better and watching the younger ones I’m sure it won’t be long until they achieve their goals.

SUMMER PROGRAMME

Hi all, 

With the summer holidays nearly here this is the Junior programme starting today.

Monday –  course open - sun up to sun down. Gareth is hoping to run a coaching session starting from next week– details to follow. This is outwith the coaching funded by the Centre.

Tuesday -  course open – sun up until it gets dark.  

Wednesday –  course open – sun up to tired o’clock.  Ladies and Gents competitions open to those with Full Congu Handicaps

Thursday –  course open – sun up to night time. Junior night 5.30pm for those wanting to play  

Friday-  course open – sun up to bedtime.

Saturday – course open – sun up to dark o’clock- Junior morning 9.30am for those wanting to play

Sunday – course open – sun up to sunset. 

The putting green and chipping area are there for you to use so take full advantage as practice is the only way to get better  

You’ve all had the coaching now its time to play and practice as much as possible, see you all soon.  

Junior Summer League can be played on Leitfie by all those with fun handicaps. 2 cards per week. Come along Thursday night and/or Saturday morning and find out what it’s all about. 

Iain

SCRATCH LEAGUE TODAY

Dunning, one of the few golf courses in Perthshire I’ve not visited or played, hosted our Scratch League match today. Great welcome and lovely course. Kirsty led out the team and won convincingly  6&5, Alex followed winning 5&4 and Megan made the speech after a 5&3 win. We sit top of our section with only Auchterarder to play.

BELL TROPHY 2nd LEG

We may have been up against it today but I am very proud with how our team performed. Being 4v1 down from the first leg due mainly to not being able to field a full team with full handicaps and having to concede 2 matches. We at least got 4 players out today and with Cameron (making his debut) and Stuart playing to get some experience the future is bright. The day started with the last coaching sessions before the summer break and it’s great to see the improvements made by these youngsters. Next up took Cameron and Stuart on to the putting green to teach them the game of Donkey. Kirsten led the team out and halved her match. James secured a 2 up win. Blair playing his first official match also secured a half. Kieran lost his match 4&2. Cameron and Stuart both kept cards and scored well and it won’t be long until they have full Congu handicaps and be challenging for places in the team. By next year hopefully we will have more kids competing.

CERTIFICATES AWARDED

Euan receiving his 1st Certificate from Jackie

Fraser receiving his 1st Certificate from Gareth