HUGH HUNTER'S CLACKMANNAN COUNTY NEWS

GOOD SUPPORT FOR CLACKMANNAN

COUNTY SUMMER MEETING

   

Clackmannan County Golf Union held their Summer Meeting at Alloa last weekend, with 48 entries in Division 1 and 47 in Division 2. 

While the entry is nowhere near the huge entries of a couple of decades ago, it is still pretty good in these days of declining numbers in golf membership, and the County Golf Union look for good support in the upcoming County Championship (Tulliallan  36 holes  16^th August) and Autumn Meeting  (20^th September). 

In the Division 1 event it was a clean sweep of prizes for home players with Ian Carmichael and Roy Dow tied on 67, closely followed by Alan Hyem and David Milloy on 68.  

 Best scratch score was Scott Borrowman on 69. Good to see Scott supporting local events among his heavy elite golfing schedule.

In division 2 it was Tulliallan players who took the top spots, Ian McCall with a net 63 and William Wallace with a net 68.

   TOP JUNIOR LADIES AT SCHAWPARK

Top junior ladies from Scotland and abroad converge on Alloa Golf Club this week from Wednesday to Friday  to compete for the Scottish Under-21 girls' open 54-hole stroke-play championship.

A total ofr 66 players are competing, and teeing off from 9.00 till 12.50 in the first round on  Wednesday.  

There are six players with +handicaps in the field, and they are playing in the last two games.  Home favourites are Carnoustie Ladies players Jessica Meek (+1.8), the defending champion, and Ailsa Summers (+1.6).    

Best players from outwith Scotland are India Clyburn (England) (+1.3) and Chiara Mertens (Belgium +1.5). Best local player is Eilidh Watson (Muckhart 2.4)

Spectators are welcome to the event and it’s a great chance to see top ladies in action locally, and see if they can manage a course record.

    JAMIE FLIES THE FLAG FOR ALLOA.

 The Scottish Under-14s national championships will be held at Bothwell Castle Golf Club on August  10-11.    

The entry is restricted to 120 (84 boys and 36 girls) and those who study the entry sheet may be horrified to see only 23 Scots competing   (13 boys and 10 girls).  

Indeed the girls' entry contains only seven home based Scots and three from outwith Scotland.  With huge sums of money being spent on Clubgolf, which has been running a good number of years now, some people may question the effectiveness on the competitive side.  

Out of the 13 boys competing, the entries come from only nine of the 16 golfing areas in Scotland

Having said all that, it is very pleasing to see local Jamie McEwan (Alloa) in the starting field.  Jamie is making steady progress, reducing his handicap, and hopefully this first experience in a National event will give him pointers for the way forward.