Coronation Foursomes Results

11 couples played this morning and 2 couples in the rain in the afternoon.
Marion Munro and Sheila Biggart won with 40 pts and Jean Irvine and Jennifer Cairns were 2nd with 37pts.
Marion and Sheila go on to play at Lanark on 14th August.

Natasha Qayum wins West Girls Medal Finals

Congratuations go to Natasha Qayum who won the Medal Finals at the West of Scotland Girls April Medal at Troon Portland on Saturday.
To see the full list of results go to The West of Scotland Ladies Golf Website

Fiona Roger is the new West of Scotland Greenlees Secretary

Next week sees the start of the 2008 Greenlees matches when Kilmarnock Barassie have a home game against Prestwick St Nicholas in the first of the Division 1 matches that the Ranfurly Castle team are in.
Ranfurly Castle's Fiona Roger has taken over the running of the Greenlees League --- all 3 divisions from Willeen McCallum (Whitecraigs)
In previous seasons you saw a link on the Renfrewshire Website for the Divisional Totals. However,from now on the main links will be found on the The West of Scotland Ladies Golf News website
In addition to the results you will also find a link to the match dates for all 3 Divisions, a full list of results as they are played and also the full divisional totals.

Carol Fell reaches the quarter finals of the Renfrewshire County Championships

The Renfrewshire County Championship was played at Bonnyton Golf Club last week. Carol Fell managed to qualify for the matchplay stages as did Fiona Roger who was unable to take part in the matchplay rounds.
Carol surprisingly won 2/1 against County Team player Carol Whyte (Windyhill) in the 1st round and then was beaten in the afternoon by 10 times past RLCGA champion Donna Jackson (Cochrane Castle) 2/1 in the quarter final.
The final was between the Briggs sisters Megan and Eilidh (Kilmacolm). Older sister Megan was the Winner
To read all the reports go to Renfrewshire Website

To see the complete results of all the Championship matchplay rounds CLICK HERE

Click on photo above to see an enlargement

As you can see from the picture above Carol does not do 36 holes in a day !!!!

April Medal Result

Played 16th April 2008 37 entries, SSS 73, CSS 74,
Scratch: S Eckford 85
Silver: S Gray 73 (19), M Munro 74 (12)
Bronze: E McDermid 72 (25), M Cunningham 75 (26) (bih)

Winter Greensomes Final

The Greensomes final was played yesterday on a lovely afternoon. Well done to Eunice Muir and Shona Gray who beat Mary Hardie and Helen Abram on the 18th in a close but friendly match

Marie Curie Stableford

Played 9/4/08 30 entries SSS 73, CSS 73
Silver M Parrott (20) 36 pts (bih), M Munro (12) 36 pts
Bronze S Biggart (22) 37 pts, V Rennie (32) 36 pts (bih)

Ranfurly Castle Ladies Success at Islay Open

Dr Shona Gray won the handicap prize in the Islay Ladies Open over the Machrie course on Saturday 5th April 2008. She scored an excellent 75 in very blustery conditions.
Sarah Eckford won the Scratch Prize.
Mary Craig and Anne Robinson also won prizes.

Click on the picture above to see an enlargement of Sarah and Shona with the Lady Captain, Dianne Brown who presented the prizes.

Well done girls!

Captain Mary and Sheila Gray win the Renfrewshire County Winter Foursomes

Congratulations go to Captain Mary Hardie and Sheila Gray who won the Renfrewshire County Winter Foursomes Final today in excellent weather conditions at Whitecraigs Golf Course.
Despite the recent heavy rain the course was in remarkable condition.
Last years winners, Roisin Black and June Lockhart of Gleddoch, tried hard to defend the trophy but the The Ranfurly Castle pairing took advantage of their 8 strokes to be two up at the turn.
Roisin and June fought back to be all square after the 17th hole. Going down the 18th Sheila and Mary played steadily to clinch the game.

Mary and Sheila reminded the Gleddoch ladies that they had met in the first round of the Winter Foursomes last year when Roisin and June had beaten them on the 17th green.
They look forward to doing battle once again in the final of the 2008/9 Winter Foursomes Final!
Congratulations to Sheila and Mary. -- Well done and many congratulations from all at Ranfurly Castle

Ladies Social Evening

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We had a very enjoyable evening last night. Marilyn and her assistant Sylvia braved the awful weather and arrived with a most interesting stock of flowers and greenery. Marilyn created six wonderful arrangements while amusing us all with anecdotes of her life as florist at Lomond Castle Golf club. The arrangements were raffled in aid of The Maggie Centers and Vickie Rennie, Rosemary Reedie, Morag Cunningham, Lois Brown, Liz Bowie and Margaret Parrott were the lucky winners.

March Medal

19/3/2008 9 entries SSS 73 CSS 73
Scratch Winner Carol Fell 90
Silver Winner Carol Fell (10) 80
Bronze Winner Mary Irving (21) 75
R/UP Linda MacDougall (36) 75

Mail on Sunday

Ranfurly Castle Ladies played Kilmarnock Barassie Ladies in the Mail on Sunday Competition over the very blustery seaside links yesterday. We all tried our best but were unfortunately beaten 3 games to 2.

Bridge Evening

We held our annual bridge evening on Wednesday 13th February.
There were 17 tables and everyone seemed to enjoy the evening, especially 93 year old Walter McLeod who with his partner Gordon Davidson had a small slam in the first hand.
Vicky Martin won 1st prize Mary Irvine was 2nd and Sheona Barclay 3rd
Thank you to all the committee for a lovely supper.

February - 15 Hole Stableford Competition

Silver: R Ogilvie (17) 27 pts, V Howe (17) 26 pts
Bronze: P Wilson (36) 25 pts, J Dickie (36) 20 pts
(Played Wednesday 6th February 2008)

Handicap Seminar at Haggs Castle

Over 250 representatives (both Men and Women) from Golf Clubs in the West of Scotland attended seminars in the rules and regulations regarding maintaining and administering the new 2008 Unified Handicapping System for 2008.
The seminars were held at East Kilbride Golf Club in January and Haggs Castle Golf Club today and both venues had the comprehensive presentation of the new changes incorporated in the new manual.

Ranfurly Castle ladies Section Representatives that attended the Haggs Castle Meeting today were : Vivien Howe, Elizabeth Jessop and Agnes Williamson . The other Ranfurly Castle ladies there were Fiona Roger, Carol Fell (RLCGA) and Pamela MacKenzie (SLGA)

Thanks go to Lynne Terry (SLGA) and Kevin Weir (SGU) for their excellent presentation

Mary Hardie and Sheila Gray are thro' to the County Winter Foursomes Semi Finals

Congratulations go to Mary and Sheila who have progressed to the semi final stages of the Renfrewshire Ladies County Winter Foursomes. To read all about it go to The RLCGA Website

2008 Greenlees Fixtures

Tuesday 27th May: Troon (Away) 12noon
Tuesday 3rd June: Douglas Park (Home) 12noon
Thursday 26th June: Hilton Park (Away) 12noon
Tuesday 15th July: Prestwick St Nicholas (Home) 12 noon
Tuesday 29th July: Cochrane Castle (Away) 1:00pm
Friday 8th August: Kilmacolm (Home) 12noon
Monday 18th August: Kilmarnock Barassie(Home)12noon
Friday 29th August: Cathkin Braes (Away) 1:00pm

Handicap Seminar at Haggs Castle

The SLGA and SGU are running a series of regional handicapping seminars for all those involved at golf clubs in maintaining and administering handicaps. The seminars will include an overview of the CONGU UHS and a comprehensive presentation of the new changes incorporated in the new manual. There will also be an opportunity to ask questions. For a booking form click here

SLGA AGM - Pamela has one more year in office

The SLGA AGM took place yesterday at the Quality Station Hotel Perth and Carol Fell and Fiona Roger represented Ranfurly Castle at the meeting
SLGA's Chairman Margaret McNaughton's informative annual report was followed by the Finance Director Lynne Terry's detailed accounts annual review.
Ethel Jack was elected as President for the second year and Renfrewshire's Wendy Cameron and Rosemary Dykes were both re elected as one of the 13 Vice Presidents.
RLCGA's Past Captain Beth Paterson (Eastwood) was elected on to the board by the SLGA to replace Margaret MacNaughton who retires by expiry of her term of office.
Past Ranfurly Castle Captain and Renfrewshire Ladies County Captain Pamela MacKenzie is the West Division Representative on the Executive Committee of the SLGA for the 4th year and will retire in January 2009
Various resolutions proposed by the Board of directors were duly proposed and approved by the ladies present representing affiliated clubs,counties and societies.
Mrs Pat Wilson was then elected to be the new Chairman of the SLGA.
Carol Fell asked the board in the "any competent business" section, if County Medals were the same as Open Days for the new Congu regulation. The answer was given as yes and she said that this was impossible to administer unless you used the Home Clubs handicap computer where the competition was being played at and not use the county laptop. The SLGA said they would look into the matter and Carol has sent a report to the SLGA as requested by the new Chairman Pat Wilson. This report includes an explanation of the problem and a couple of suggestions on how to solve the problem

Ladies AGM --- Mary Hardie is our new Captain

A very successful AGM and prizegiving was held in the clubhouse on Thursday 17th January.
Mary Hardie was duly elected as our new Lady Captain. She welcomed Helen Abram as Vice Captain and Sheila Gray, Sheila Biggart and Eileen Walker as new committee members.
The AGM was followed by our usual prizegiving.
Carol Fell, our Ladies Champion, thanked the committee for all their work throughout the year.
Click here to see the Prize Winners List