North East Alliance Pro-Am Championship Teams Portlethen GC Thursday 21 March 2019

1	09:00	1	Kris Nicol	Dunes Golf Centre
			John Nicolson	Hazlehead
			Les Fowler	Royal Aberdeen
			Paul Cornfield	Hazlehead
2	09:09	1	Chris Robb	Meldrum House
			John Borthwick	Craibstone
			Doug Booth	Tarland
			Graham Thom	Murcar Links
3	09:18	1	Sam Kiloh	Portlethen
			Calum Morrison	Inverurie
			William Middler	Peterhead
			Ken Mathieson	Kintore
4	09:27	1	Ross McConnachie	Peterculter
			Alfie Smith	Duff House Royal
			Peter Cheyne	Northern
			Ian Birnie	Deeside
5	09:36	1	Kamran Zeynalov	Portlethen
			Graham Somers	Bon-Accord
			Steve Shand	Kemnay
			Brian Munro	Newmachar
6	09:45	1	Keil Beveridge	Kippie Lodge
			Stewart Finnie	Caledonian
			Richard Ruddiman	Royal Aberdeen
			Ritchie Smith	Portlethen
7	09:54	1	John Duff	Newmachar
			Drew Buchan	Peterhead
			Ritchie Davidson	Caledonian
			Jim Scott	Peterculter
8	10:03	1	Kevin Duncan	Cruden Bay
			Dave McLean	Kemnay
			Mike Duncan	Murcar Links
			Derek Townsley	Peterculter

From: johnhenry92@hotmail.com
Date: 20 March 2019 at 09:50:11 GMT
To: calcarsongolf@btinternet.com
Subject: BJT Jubilee

Jubilee

Thursday, March 21

Sponsored by Golf Finance and Ellmoll Builders 

10.00 Bradley Neil

Garrick Porteous 

Connor Wilson (A) 

10.10 Greg Dalziel 

Michael Stewart 

Ryan Campbell 

10.20 Alan Sutherland 

Pete Whiteford

Danny Young 

10.30 Conor O'Neil 

Scott Henry

John Henry 

10.40 Euan Bowden 

Jamie McLeary 

Fraser McKenna

Prize fund £1,000

1st £400, 2nd £300, 3rd £200, 4th 100

Thursday's NE Alliance Pro-Am tee times

The eight professionals who qualified for the NE Alliance pro-am at Portlethen GC tomorrow (Thursday) are listed below along with their team start time.  
Each pro will be joined by three qualifiers from the Scratch Amateur, Class 1 Handicap and Class 2 Handicap sections.  Full teams will be published shortly, once qualification details are completed and verified.
Times for pros:

9.00	Kris Nicol	Dunes G C
9.09	Chris Robb	Meldrum House
9.18	Sam Kiloh	Portlethen
9.27	Ross McConnachie	Peterculter
9.36	Kamran Zeynalov	Portlethen
9.45	Keil Beveridge	Kippie Lodge
9.54	John Duff	Newmachar
10.03	Kevin Duncan	Cruden Bay

Glasgow Airport named as official sponsor of 2019 Solheim Cup

Glasgow Airport has been announced as an official sponsor of The 2019 Solheim Cup match, taking place at Gleneagles from September 9^th-15^th, 2019.

The airport, Scotland’s principal long-haul hub, is where many of the 100,000 expected spectators at across the event week will arrive before continuing around 50 miles north to the iconic, world-famous Gleneagles.

NO PLACE LIKE HOME FOR NE ALLIANCE CHAMPION SAM KILOH

                       Sam Kiloh (left) and Alliance secretary Alan Gall
                                 Picture by Cal Carson Golf Agency

By COLIN FARQUHARSON  
Portlethen tour pro Sam Kiloh, pictured, won the North-east Golfers' 36-hole championship over his home course today (WED).
A second round of six-under-par 66, which included three eagles, followed up his first round of 70 at Duff House Royal last week.
His aggregate of  four-under-par 136 saw him win by two strokes from Kevin Duncan (Cruden Bay) who had a pair of 69s.
Professionals filled the first three places at the head of a field of 95 with Sam Griffiths (Dunes Golf Centre) third on 140 with scores of 73 and 67.

Kiloh's 66 (33-33) was matched by the holder of the Alliance title, Chris Robb (Meldrum House) (35-31) who did not play in the first round at Banff last week.
Stewart Finnie (Caledonian) was the winner of the J K Hall Quaich as leading amateur in joint fourth place with scores of 70 and 72 for 142, one stroke ahead of Iain Taylor (Banchory) (72-71)

NORTH-EAST ALLIANCE CHAMPIONSHIP
LEADING SCRATCH
First round at Duff House Royal (par 68),
Second round at Portlethen (par 72).
 par 140
136 S Kiloh (Portlethen) 70 66 
138 K Duncan (Cruden Bay) 69 69  

140 S Griffiths (Dunes GC) 73 67
142 S Finnie (Caledonian) 70 72, P McKenna (Peterculter) 68 74  
143 I Taylor (Banchory) 72 71, K Nicol (Dunes GC) 71 72, J Duff (Newmachar) 71 72
144 I Esslemont (Paul Lawrie GC) 73 71
146 K Zeynalov (Portlethen) 74 72
151 M Buchan  (Cruden Bay) 76 75
152 J Borthwick (Craibstone) 75 77
153 R McConnachie (Peterculter) 71 82 
154 Keil Beveridge (Kippie  Lodge) 78 76, F Bisset (Banchory) 79 75
155 A Smith (Duff House Royal) 77 78
157 G Somers (Bon Accord) 79 78 
158 D Buchan (Peterhead) 80 78
159 C Morrison (Inverurie) 82 77
160 D Booth (Tarland) 77 83, W Middler (Peterhead 76 84
162 R Smith (Portlethen) 81 81
163 G Burnett (Westhill) 82 81, C Angus (Kemnay) 85 78
164 S Shand (Kemnay) 81 83
165 R Davidson (Caledonian) 82 83, R Ruddiman (Royal Aberdeen) 82 83
166 E Wheat (Montrose) 86 80, D McLean (Kemnay) 80 86, Kimberley Beveridge (Aboyne) 85 81
168 R Reid (Tarland) 82 86, S Allison (Bon Accord) 82 86, J Scott (Peterculter) 85 83, D Townsley (Peterculter) 86 82, N Hardie (Kintore) 84 84
169 M Duncan (Murcar Links) 83 86, S Kidd (Longside) 81 88, C Duffus (Royal Aberdeen) 86 83
170 D Leslie (Bon Accord) 91 79, L Fowler (Royal Aberdeen) 86 84, K Mathieson (Kintore) 84 86
171 P Cheyne (Northern) 83 88, J Sunley (Newmachar) 85 86 
172 S McWilliam (Royal Aberdeen) 87 85,
173 T Boyle (Portlethen) 85 88, I Birnie (Deeside)  87 86, G Thom (Murcar Links) 92 81, M Lawrie (Kemnay) 87 86
174 R Denning (Inverurie) 83 91
177 R Brown (Kemnay) 86 91, D Nelson (Aboyne) 84 93, D Lane (Deeside) 90 87
179 G Gibson (Kemnay) 91 88, M Fraser (Longside) 84 95
181 B Lumsden (Northern) 87 94, M Denholm (Deeside) 92 89, R Duncan (Deeside) 93 88
185 B Munro (Newmachar) 93 92, A Sorley (Newmachar) 92 93
189 D Bisset  (Banchory) 95 94
192 S Davidson (Northern) 95 97
195 G Leslie (Deeside) 97 98
199 D Lawrie (Deeside) 106 93, G Travis (Auchmill) 103 96

NRs M Brown (Kemnay) 90 NR, D Wright (Auchmill) 97 NR, G Homer (Aboyne) NR NR, R Coupar (Duff House Royal) 90 NR,
N Stewart (Northern) NR 92, C Gilbert (Cruden Bay) NR 86

Second round only scores (players who were not in the field at Duff House Royal)
par 72 
66 C Robb (Meldrum House)

69 P Lawrie  (Gleneagles)

71 B Murray (Portlethen), Sean Lawrie (Paul Lawrie GC), R Cameron (McDonald Ellon)
74 R Sinclair (Kintore), P McLean (Peterhead) 
76 L Buck (Peterculter)
79 D Fleming (Portlethen), Laura Murray (Kippie Lodge)
80 D Templeton (Murcar Links), Steve Lawrie (Portlethen)
82 C Cassie (Nigg Bay)
83 P Morrison (Portlethen)
84 D Cassie (Nigg Bay) 
86 W Skene (Deeside)
91 D Wilson (Paul Lawrie GC) 
92 A B Clark (Newmachar)
95 N Chisholm (Kemnay), P Low (Craibstone).
100 M Rogers (Kemnay) 

BEST SCORECARDS
CHRIS ROBB (nine birdies: in red)
OUT: 3-4-3  5-3-6  4-3-4  35 (1 under)
   IN:  2-4-2  5-3-5  3-3-4  31 (5 under)

SAM KILOH (three eagles, red figures underlined)
OUT: 4-3-4  4-3-4  4-3-4   33 (3 under)
   IN:  3-3-4  4-2-5  5-4-3   33 (3 under)

UNIROYAL QUAICH (scratch)
136 Sam Kiloh (Portlethen) 70 66

J  K HALL QUAICH (leading scratch amateur)
142 Stewart Finnie (Caledonian) 70 72

CHAPPER'S POT (Class 1 handicap)
138 Ian Esslemont (Paul Lawrie GC) (3) 70 68

MAJOR'S POT (Class 2 handicap)
140 Ritchie Smith (Portlethen) (11) 70 79

VETERANS' POT
144 Raymond Brown (Kemnay) (16) 69 75

L to R:  Calum Sinclair (NorDan), Sam Locke, Alex Brown (MD – NorDan UK), Craig Lawrie, Gordon Mitchell (Regional Director Aberdeen – NorDan UK)

 Sam Locke and Craig Lawrie link up with NorDan UK Ltd

Announcement from Five Star Sports Agency – March 20, 2019

Two of the brightest lights amongst a group of young, professional golfers hailing from the North-east of Scotland today announced a tie-up with leading window and doors manufacturer, NorDan UK Ltd.

Sam Locke and Craig Lawrie, both clients of Paul Lawrie’s Five Star Sports Agency, have agreed deals to represent NorDan and each will bear the distinctive company logo on the front of their headwear.

Alex Brown - Managing Director for NorDan UK - said “As an established business in Aberdeen for over 35 years and the market leader in the North of Scotland, we are delighted to be associated with the guys and with Paul Lawrie”.

The agreement continues 5 Star’s philosophy of building relationships with business partners strongly rooted in the communities from which their players hail.

Silver Medallist at last year’s Open Championship, Sam Locke, spoke about the importance of having the support of NorDan – “I’m really grateful to Gordon and Alex and the team at NorDan for their backing.  This season I’ll be playing between the European Challenge and EuroPro tours, continuing to gain experience as a Professional and so it’s really important to me in the early stages of my career to have the financial side of things dealt with to allow me to concentrate fully on my game, helping me to perform to my potential”.

Craig Lawrie, who has shown steady progress on the EuroPro Tour (UK professional golf tour) over the past few seasons, had this to say:  

“Having the support of a company like NorDan, which values relationships so highly and has a great team of people driving it is brilliant.  It has a big presence in Aberdeen and the UK headquarters are also based in Scotland, so I’m delighted they’ve chosen to support two local lads.  

"I’m looking forward to my season getting properly underway in May and representing NorDan”.

Gordon Mitchell - Regional Director for Aberdeen said, “This is the first time that NorDan Aberdeen has been involved with golf sponsorship and we’re really keen to follow the progress of Sam and Craig during 2019 and wish them both good luck in the season ahead”.

  NorDan UK Ltd - the longest lasting Scandinavian supplier of windows and doors in Scotland and England. The head office is located in Livingston, Scotland. Across seven project management offices in Scotland and England we provide market leading services to both project and residential builders across the UK.

https://www.nordan.co.uk/nordan

 

Golfweek Rankings

 

Duke Women’s Golf Moves to No. 1 in Latest Golfweek Rankings

March 19, 2019

DURHAM, North Carolina – For the 11^th time over the last 19 years, the Duke women’s golf program has returned to No. 1 in the latest Golfweek Collegiate team rankings, which were released Tuesday. 

The Blue Devils accumulated a 70.29 rating in the latest ledger to move ahead of Southern California (70.30), while Stanford (70.41), Texas (70.52), Vanderbilt (70.62), Arkansas (70.78), UCLA (70.88), Wake Forest (70.88), Florida (71.00) and South Carolina (71.15) round out the top 10. 

Duke returned to No. 1 for the first time since the 2015-16 campaign and have been tops nationally in 2012-13, 2007-08, 2006-07, 2005-06, 2004-05, 2003-04, 2002-03, 2001-02 and 2000-01. 

Head coach Dan Brooks and the Blue Devils have turned in two victories at the Tar Heel Invitational and the Landfall Tradition, while collecting a runner-up finish at the Allstate Sugar Bowl Intercollegiate Championship. 

Duke features four golfers in the top 36 in the latest Golfweek Individual rankings – Jaravee Boonchant (7), Virginia Elena Carta (32), Gina Kim (35) and Ana Belac (36

The Blue Devils will next compete in the Evans Derby Experience March 23-25 in Auburn, Alabama. 

Following the Evans Derby Experience, five Duke golfers will compete in the inaugural Augusta National Women’s Amateur April 3-6 in Augusta, Georgia.

Boonchant, Carta, Kim, Belac and incoming freshman Erica Shepherd will see action in the prestigious event.

 

#GoDuke