Mixed fortunes for Renfrewshire Golf Union
RENFREWSHIRE GOLF UNIONPRESS RELEASE
kgmcgee@hotmail.com
Sunday, September 18 was a busy day for the Renfrewshire Golf Union.
At Stranraer Golf
Club the RGU were represented by the team from The Old Course Ranfurly in the
Scottish Club Team Championship by Stewart Watt, Jamie Stewart and Steven
Renfrew where they turned in a very creditable performance in finishing tied in
4th position behind the winners Balmore from Dunbartonshire.
Best individual
performance for the RGU came from Boys Scotland and British International Jamie
Stewart who finished as the 8th best individual.
Meanwhile the Men’s
“A” and Youth teams were in action against Stirlingshire.
The Youths played
away at Kilsyth Lennox Golf Club and ran out winners by a comfortable 7-1
margin, where they were in charge throughout in most of the games.
The 3
Renfrewshire Boys Team players selected, Jack Currie - Greenock, Ibrahim
Hussain - Eastwood and Euan English – Erskine, all won by 4-3, while Team
Leader Alex Ferguson – Paisley led from the front with a solid 5-3 victory.
They were ably
supported by Stuart Thomas -Erskine, the newly crowned RGU Mens Match Play
Champion with a good 2-1 victory and Graham Barr – Gleddoch, where he is the
Men’s Champion also winning by2-1.
Possibly the best
performance, came from Andrew Guthrie – Erskine, drafted in at the last minute
following a late call off from one of his former Erskine team mates, he won by
6-5.
Unfortunately,
usually someone has to lose, and despite the best performance from any RGU
player in the Glasgow Youths Championship the previous day at Ralston Golf
Club, Sean Burns – Caldwell
suffered a rare defeat against an opponent who “holed everything”.
The Men’s “A”
team were in action at the Earl of Mar Golf Course at Mar Hall, a new venue for
County matches.
The courtesy of
the course afforded to the RGU was much appreciated, but the result unfortunately
did not go in their favour losing by 4.5 to 3.5.
In the earlier
exchanges there was nothing much between the 2 teams with the RGU looking to
have the upper hand earlier on, and again at the turn.
However as the
matches progressed, the last 6 holes were proving difficult for the home
players with only Craig Pirie – Renfrew and Craig Thomson – Paisley managing to
win, both on the last green, while Chris Conroy – Paisley, Willie McMillan and
David Sibbald –both Bonnyton, failed to
hold on to earlier leads and they finished all square. Losing players were David
Dickson – Eastwood, Paul Dorrian – Greenock
and Michael Daily – Erskine.
Next Sunday, both
teams play Lanarkshire with the Youths at home at The Old Course Ranfurly while
the Men’s “A” team is away at East Kilbride.
Finishing off the
week-end, 6 members of the RGU Under 14 coaching squad were playing in the
Stanley Morrison Memorial Junior Team Championship at Dumfries and County Golf
Club where they were accompanied by Mark Loftus
and Gordon Urquhart.
The boys finished
3rd in the Team Championship and in the individual Championship
Alexander Farmer – Kilmacolm won the Bronze medal, a chip off the old block
former Mid-Amateur Champion Andrew Farmer.
Other boys who
made up the teams were Ewan McGeoch and Euan Urquhart – both Paisley, Harry
McFarlane – Whitecraigs, Scott Newman – Greenock
and Mackenzie Holmes - Kilmacolm
Graham McGee – Press
Officer
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