E-mail from Ian Kerr

Colin, Thought you may be interested in the undernoted article re our achievement in providing 2 out of 6 for the Gents and Ladies upcoming world amateur golf championships.

 We are proud of Matt, Eilidh and Megan Briggs’ achievements, as well as the past international and national honours of our other members, Andy Farmer and Colin Christy. Andy Farmer. as well as being 8 times Club Champion at Kilmacolm, also is current Club Champion at Western Gailes, Renfrewshire County Strokeplay Champion and Winner of Renfrewshire Golf Union’s Order of Merit for 2012 (2^nd time in 3 years).

Not bad for a small village club in Renfrewshire, I’m sure you will agree.

 

Ian Kerr

Immediate Past Captain

Kilmacolm Golf Club

 

KILMACOLM COMPETING WITH 

THE BEST OF THEM

A small Scots village golf club with a unique record is again punching way above it 500-member weight...
For two of Kilmacolm's young talented players are creating a first-ever European, and perhaps World, golf double.
Eilidh Briggs, 19, and Matthew Clark, 30, are two of only six players representing Scotland in the upcoming World Amateur Golf Championships for Gents and Ladies to be held in Turkey later this month and early October.
And Eilidh helping to carry the torch for the modest Renfrewshire club is appropriate as her name is Gaelic for "Torch"...
It also means that the club, tucked away up on the moorlands and described as "a miniature Gleneagles", now has no fewer than three Scottish internationalists - the third, keeping it in the family, being Eilidh's 22 year old sister Megan, former Scottish champion.

Eilidh is first into the fray as part of a 3 woman team to capture the Women’s World Team Championship, the Espirito Santo Trophy, for Scotland in Turkey from 27-30 September.
It crowns an excellent 2012 season for Eilidh, of Lochwinnoch, in her second year of sports studies at Stirling University,  following her first international call up last year. She is the current West of Scotland Ladies Champion, Scottish Universities Champion and lies 3rd in the SLGA Order of Merit.
Last year among many titles she was Scottish Champion of Champions, Scottish Girl Champion, and West of Scotland Ladies Champion.
She said yesterday: "I am really so excited about this Turkish clash. I'm a bit nervous but it is going to be a great experience. "
Matt Clark is hoping to repeat his sparkling form recently when he joins the other two Scots  to contest the Eisenhower Trophy in Turkey from 4th to 7th October. 
He got his first International Cap this year in the victorious Scottish team that won the Home Internationals at Glasgow Gailes, and leads the standings in overall scoring average in Scotland. He has won the Newlands Trophy and posted four other top-four finishes domestically, while finishing tied eighth at the European Amateur Championship over the demanding Carton House layout in Dublin.
But the Kilmacolm club also boasts two previous internationalists, club champion Andrew Farmer, and vice-captain Colin Christy.
In 2010 it also uniquely had two 'bosses' of golf and religion as members - Colin Brown was the Captain of the R&A, and the Rev. Bill Hewitt was the Moderator of the Church of Scotland!
Club Captain Sandy Greenhorn commented: "It's quite fantastic for a village club with a smallish membership to have the honour of having three members who are Scottish internationalists. 

" We all wish Eilidh and Matt all the best in Turkey for Scotland - and Kilmacolm."