RLCGA SUCCESS FOR RANFURLY CASTLE

Anne Judge, Pearl Orr and Marion Munro
Winter Foursomes Winners

Sheila Shaw Pearl Orr and Jan Macnab

The 110th Renfrewshire Ladies' County Golf Association AGM was held at Haggs Castle Golf Club last Wednesday evening  -- the 6th November 2019. -- READ FULL REPORT

Ranfurly Castle's players performed well in this years County Competitions and received their prizes from RLCGA's President Pearl Orr after the AGM.

Ranfurly Castle Main Winners
Winter Foursomes 2018/19
Winners: Anne Judge and Marion Munro, Ranfurly Castle
Runners Up: Jan Macnab, Ranfurly Castle and Sheila Shaw, Caldwell

Spring Meeting Scratch and Division 1 Winner: Jan Macnab,
June Medal Winner: Jan Macnab 
July Medal Winner : Anne Judge

Rosebowl Winner: Jan Macnab,

Triam Winners: Jan Macnab, Ranfurly Castle, Morag Turner, Kilmacolm, Margaret Gray, Old Ranfurly

Unfortunately Jan's partner Sheila took unwell just after receiving the Winter Foursomes runners up award and Jan did not get presented her Rosebowl Winners Trophy as she was helping look after Sheila with others at the time and the prize giving was moved through to another room. Sheila has since recovered.  

Report by Carol Fell (as requested)

Winter Bounce Options 2019

Ladies

As mentioned at the Ladies dinner last week, please keep in mind  the  bounce game  options on a Wednesday , 9.30am and 13.00 though probably best to check re 13.00.-see notice  in locker room

Saturday Morning play.. normally there are ladies play around 10.30am ish.....chek via clubv1..-full members however

LADIES DINNER

On Wednesday 23rd October 43 ladies enjoyed a lovely evening at the annual dinner.  Despite all the disruptive work being carried out fitting new windows in both the smoke room and mixed lounge, Simon, Mandy and their team coped amazingly. No one would have known how the room had looked only a couple of hours before everyone arrived! Judging by the noise level, everyone had a good time.
Jan welcomed everyone and presented the Fun Competition prizes before giving a little explanation of how she proposes to run the Ladies Section next season in light of the fact that there is no Vice Captain to take over in January.
As usual Jean Irvine has taken a very good selection of photos of the evening.

ALTERNATE FINAL SWING (12 holes) 19/10/2019

2 ladies played in this very last competition of the season on a day of very pleasant autumn weather.
No winter greens!

Winner:       Louise Cooper   16 pts
Runner Up: Morag Cunningham 9 ptts

FINAL SWING (12 holes) 16 OCTOBER 2019

8 Ladies played early afternoon (four played the red course and four played the green course,  (the morning weather was very wet). There were 5  winter greens.

Winner: Karen Binning (count back) 24 points

Runner Up: Anne Judge 24 points.

Updated 19/10/19, apologies , my error.

What an amazing rainbow!

SCRAMBLE TODAY CANCELLED

Once again the horrid rain has scuppered our plans for a fun day. The Australian Scramble scheduled for today, Wednesday 9th October, has had to be cancelled.

If anyone fancies coming to the club for lunch, there will be a few of us there from 12.15pm.

LADIES DUAL DAY OCTOBER MEDAL

05/10/2019

CSS (Red) 76 r/o

Scratch: Sarah Eckford 94

Silver Winner:     Sarah Eckford (11)  83
Silver RunnerUp: Eunice Muir (18)    85

No players in Bronze division

LADIES OCTOBER MEDAL 02/10/2019

14 ladies played on a glorious autumn day.
However, the greens had been tined and heavily sanded, so the putting was not easy!

CSS(Red)      76r/o
CSS(Green)   75r/o

Scratch: Jan Macnab(10)    86

Silver Winner:     Jan Macnab (10)  76
Silver RunnerUp: Mary Craig (16)   77

Bronze Winner:      Helen Abram (21)   79
Bronze RunnerUp: Vicky Rennie (28)   80

AUSTRALIAN SCRAMBLE WEDNESDAY 9TH OCTOBER

The draw has been done for the fun 12 hole scramble next Wednesday, 9th October 2019

LADY GOLFERS' ANNUAL DINNER

The ladies dinner will be on Wednesday 23rd October 2019, 7 for 7.30pm. The menu offered by new chef Simon Partridge looks delicious (see below) and I hope as many ladies as possible will be able to attend. The price will be £25 for 3 courses plus coffee or tea.

The prizes for this year's charity and fun competitions will be presented on the night.

There is a notice up in the Locker Room for everyone to sign up and tick their menu choices. Anyone who wishes to come but cannot get to the club in the next week or so can email me with their menu choices and I will add them to the list.

See you then
Jan

WINTER 12 HOLE COMPETITION

As there were very few entries this year for the 12-Hole Winter Knock-out, it was decided to run this as a Round Robin competition.

The notice is up in the Ladies Locker Room for those playing to enter results.

McLACHLAN CUP 25/09/2019

12 pairs played in this re-arranged competition.
Luckily it stayed dry.

Winners:       Allison Murray & Jean Murray (21)        39pts
Runners Up: Denise Cowan & Morven McLeod (19)  37 pts

LADIES STABLEFORD 14/09/2019

CSS (Red) 76

Winner:        Louise Cooper (19)   31pts
RunnerUp:   Sarah Eckford (11)    23 pts

FAREWELL TO TOM ECKFORD

Ladies, as you know, Tom will be leaving the Pro Shop at the end of the month after 25 years at Ranfurly Castle.

Next Wednesday 25th September will be the final Wednesday we see him in the Pro Shop when we check-in for a Ladies Competition (it will be the rearranged McLachlan Cup - weather permitting).

To mark the occasion, I have invited Tom to come up and join the ladies for lunch after we play so we can all say goodbye and thank you.

It would therefore be lovely to see as many of you as possible there for lunch on Wednesday, even if you are not playing in the competition.

I will see you there!
Jan

CHARITY TRI-AM 18TH SEPTEMBER 2019

Thanks to Sheila Biggart and Mary Hardie for organising today's Charity Tri-am.

8 teams played and today's entry money plus donations, together with the earlier proceeds from the Bridge Drive raffle, will be donated to the Lady Captain's chosen charity for this year, Crohns & Colitis UK.

The better weather seemed to bring out some good golf as the scores were generally very high.

Winners: Jan Macnab, Geraldine Hughes, Anne Gordon - 54 points
Runners-up; Maureen Cook, Pat Pennel, Carol Reid - 52 points

COUNTY ROSEBOWL FINAL AT GLEDDOCH

Ladies I feel slightly awkward blogging this, as it is a bit like blowing your own trumpet, but I felt you would all like to know that I played in the County Rosebowl final this afternoon and won 3&1.

The final was held at Gleddoch, arranged and refereed by County Captain June Lockhart who is a member there. My opponent was Linda MacDougall (Greenock and Kilmacolm), handicap 7 so I received 3 shots. It was a good match - I felt that I was hitting better iron shots to greens but Linda's putting was outstanding, 12 footers were practically gimmes, until she finally missed one by a whisker at the 15th.

I managed to get to 4 up after 10 holes, then Linda had 3 birdies in the next 5 holes! The match was finally over at the (pretty muddy) 17th where, after we both had to get a free drop to play our second shots, I finally holed a long putt for a birdie 4. Huge thanks to Sheila for coming to caddy for me, listening to my witterings about which irons to play and generally being a big encouragement.

I am absolutely delighted to win the trophy again for Ranfurly Castle - looking back at the trophy there have been 6 Ranfurly winners in the last 8 years - starting in 2012 with Iona Stephen (now a big-time Sky Sports presenter hobnobbing with the Solheim Cup girls but back then a Ranfurly Castle mere mortal!), then Denise won three years in a row (wow)  and last year Anne Judge won at Cathcart Castle. Whose turn could it be next year??

AUTUMN MEETING (MITCHELL TROPHY) 11 SEPTEMBER 2019

Red Css:75 Par :74
Green Css 75 R/O Par 74

Winner  Mary Craig(16) net 77
R/up Sarah Eckford (11) net 80

Vicky, Joy and Morag also braved the elements.
Well done to all, the wind  was very tricky.

5 ladies took part in the competition.

LADIES DUAL DAY SEPTEMBER MEDAL

Ladies Dual Day September Medal 07/09/2019

For once it was a glorious day! 2 ladies played.

CSS (Red) 76 r/o

Winner: Alexandra Qayum (9)    86

DAILY MAIL FOURSOMES

DAILY MAIL FOURSOMES 06/09/2019

Winners:    Anne Judge & Sheila Biggart    78.5
Runners Up:     Mary Craig & Mary Hardie  87

CHARITY TRI-AM WEDNESDAY 18 SEPTEMBER 2019

What a horrible day today, however to brighten it up  is the draw for the above event.

😊 entry fee is £3.00pp.

09.15am  Pamela Mackenzie/Carol Reid/Pat Pennel

09.23am Mary Craig/Vicky Rennie/Jean Irvine

09.31am Lilias Snodgrass/Alison Templeton/Rosemary Reedie

09.39am Maureen Cook/June Giles/Gillian Donaghy

09.47am Evy MacGregor/Margaret Parrot/Rosemary Ogilvie

09.55am Agnes Williamson/Mary Irving/Joy McLeod

13.00      Jan MacNab/Geraldine Houston/Anne Gordon

Any changes please contact Sheila