CALDWELL GC DOMINATES RENFREWSHIRE BOYS'CHAMPIONSHIP

RENFREWSHIRE GOLF UNION

PRESS RELEASE

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When the 16 qualifiers gathered at Kilmacolm Golf Club to compete in the Renfrewshire Golf Union boys’ match-play championship, there were three boys from Caldwell Golf Club in the field.   

At the end of the first two rounds in wet and windy conditions, there were four players left, three of them from Caldwell – a 100% survival record!  

As far as can be ascertained, this has never happened before in the history of the event and it will be up to Old Ranfurly’s Jamie Stewart to put a spoke in the Caldwell wheel.  

His 3 and 1 victory over Jamie Sinnamon (Whinhill) means that he will face Lewis Smith (pictured below) in the semi-final.  Lewis had a 4 and 3 victory over Stephen Wilson (Whinhill).   

Alistair McNaughton (pictured top right) beat Josh Beatt (Fereneze) and Sean Burns (picture on right) eventually overcame Elderslie’s Scott Ewing and they will contest the other semi final.

RENFREWSHIRE NAME AREA TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP LINE-UP FOR CRAIL

Team Manager, David MacFarlane has announced Renfrewshire’s team for the Scottish Area Team Championship to be held at Crail Golf Club. There is only one change from last year with Michael Daily of Erskine replacing Ranfurly Castle’s Sam Binning. 
The rest of the team is:
Matthew Clark and Andrew Farmer (Kilmacolm), Ronnie Clark (Erskine), Gordon Stevenson (Whitecraigs) and Craig Watson (East Renfrewshire).

Renfrewshire won the event the last time that it was hosted by the Crail Golfing Society in 2009 and MacFarlane has been encouraged by early season performances by squad members with Matt Clark second and the team taking six places in the top twelve at the Champion of Champions event.  This coupled with Clark’s win in the Edward Trophy and Michael Daily’s second place in the Battle Trophy augur well for a repeat of the 2009 success.

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