Greetings from your Friendly Pro Shop Team,
I hope you've all had a fantastic week on and off the golf course and welcome to another exciting edition of the Moray Pro Shop weekly newsletter, bringing you up to date with all the latest news and gossip from within the walls of MGC.
It was a huge weekend for British Sport with the Wimbledon Tennis Finals, Scottish Open, British Grand Prix and the Euro Championships Final all taking place.
It was great to see Andy Murray seal his 2nd Wimbledon trophy and his first grand slam win since 2013 with a great 3 set final win over the big serving Canadian, Milos Raonic. Elsewhere GB's Heather Watson claimed the mixed doubles crown and Lewis Hamilton sealed his 3rd British Grand Prix win in as many years.
Just along the road at the Scottish Open it was Swedens Alex Noren who managed to put up with some typical Scottish Summer wind and rain over the week to seal victory at -14. Despite the poor weather, the golfing gods allowed some respite from the rain to finish the event with some sunshine and allow the prize-giving to take place outside.
Scotlands Ritchie Ramsay was leading Scot with a final round charge on route to a 67 for a -11 total to also claim the last of the Open Qualifying spots for this week's Open Championship at Troon.
It was also great to see a couple of players from last week's Scottish Open Qualifier at Moray GC make the cut and pick up a payday cheque at the end of the week. Jack Doherty who won the event at Moray finished at -2 for the week picking up 18,167 Euros while Gareth Wright managed to finish at +1 and pick up 10,823 Euros in the process. Not anywhere near the 644,196 Euros that Noren picked up for his win but im sure a huge boost to their season's earnings.
It's going to be a busy few weeks now with the Open Championship at Troon this week.
The draw has also been made for the Moray Open 5 Day Championship starting on the 18th July. This can be viewed on the Moray GC website by clicking here.
Im sure many of you are trying to raise your games for next week's Moray Open. In order to help anyone thats struggling a little with any part of their game, Derek and I are putting on 2 Walk In Coaching Sessions.
The cost is £10 per person (cash only please) and all you do is come along anytime during the 2 hour session and we will be on hand to help you out with any parts of your game that are a bit rusty!! These will take part at the members practice area. Hope to see some of you there!!
- Thursday 2pm - 6pm with Derek
- Saturday 1pm - 3pm with John
Moray R.N.L.I. (CSS 73)
A. Campbell (22), D. Dry (10) - 67
G. C. Devine (6) - 68
M. C. Page (6) - 69
P. McHardy (2), J. McGrath (6), G. Murray (0), A. M. Campbell (6) - 70
H. Flett (13), S. J. Houston (7), Jamie Edwards (5), J. S. Rae (14), J. C. Macgregor (13), C. Moors (15), N. J. Smith (15) - 71
Magic 2's were worth £9 to the following players:
Jim Murphy, Robbie Little, DM Thewliss, Darren Dry, Iain Cardwell, John Macgregor, Kevin Thomson, Michael Page, Fraser Baillie, Stuart Tatters, Andrew Stuart, Gerry Devine.
Ball Raffle
10 Balls - WBJ
9 Balls - Bryan Robson
8 Balls - Sandy Dixon
7 Balls - L Andrews
6 Balls - M Main
5 Balls - Jim Murphy
4 Balls - D A Edwards
Capro Cup
Last weekend was also the 6th counting event for the CAPRO CUP event in October. Click here for the points won at the weekend. For the total aggregate points table after week 6 click here.
The current qualifiers before wild card picks at present would look as follows:
Handicaps 0-5 (Top 4 Qualify)
Points - Player
47 - Jordan Edwards
44 - Ian Geddes
31 - Brent Macleman
30 - Scott Crawford
Handicaps 6-9 (Top 4 Qualify)
32 - Ken Scott
27 - A Casey
25 - Mark Quilter
24 - John Dawson
Handicaps 10-28 (Top 8 Qualify)
24 - G Sutherland
20 - Ar Souter
24 - S Macdonald
17 - Neil J Smith
23 - Cw Stewart
15 - G Woods
21 - K Douglas
15 - Jim Morris
Mid-Week Medal [4] (CSS 73)
M. L. Macleman (0) - 70
F. Baillie (1), J. Steel (8) - 71
A. F. Stuart (2) - 72
S. R. Little (3), W. Binnie (5), J. McPhillimy (7), D. Connolly (15) - 73
G. Sheils (13), S. J. Houston (7), M. Baber (5), S. Stewart (10), T. P. Scholefield (4) - 74
Magic 2's were worth £4.50 to the following players:
Terry Scholefield, Malcolm L Macleman, William Gibson, Alex Mair, William Macleman, Robbie Sheils, Greg Sheils, Aaron Stewart, Michael Baber, Shaun Geddes
Ball Raffle
6 Balls - M L Macleman
5 Balls - Les Stephen
4 Balls - Chris Brown
Mens Abercrombie Cup
The mens scratch team narrowly beat Strathlene 4 ½ - 3 ½ over the Old Course, last Monday, to take a small lead into the 2nd leg at Strathlene on Monday. Im pleased to report that they managed to win 5-3 away from home to win 9 ½ - 6 ½ over the 2 legs and progress to the semi finals where they will meet either Duff House Royal or Elgin. Well Done Guys!!
Seniors Stableford - Tuesday 5 July
Ronald G Main - 39pts
Daniel Y Bruce - 39pts
Robert R Adams - 38pts
Helmut Pertler - 37pts
Clive Murray - 37pts
9 Hole Stableford
1st - Netta Forbes - 21pts
2nd - Jennifer Campbell - 20pts
3rd - Mary McConnachie - 19pts
4th = Madge Philip - 18pts
4th = Wendy Devine - 18pts
Ladies Mary Benton Quaich (CSS 79 R/O)
L. Docherty (20), A. Main (18) 82;
W. Ross (9) 86;
I. Wilson (16), M. Weir (22) 88;
I. Smith (16) 89
Junior Week - August
We will be running some more Junior Coaching on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday 1st-3rd August. There will be a 9.30-11.00 session for under 10's, 11.30-13.00 session for 10-12 year olds and a 2.30-3.30pm session for over 14's.
There will also be some extra junior medals being played during the week after coaching for juniors with current handicaps.
Call the shop to secure your place, or click here to get in touch.
The cost will be £30 for the 3 days coaching
Open Sweepstake
Thanks to everone who took a square in our Open Sweepstake. Click here to view the draw so you know who to cheer on this week.
Shop Open Specials
Buy any New TaylorMade Driver, Fairway or Hybrid from our current stock and if Sergio Garcia wins the Open I'll give you your Money Back!! (as store credit)
We will also do the same on the Titleist 915 Range
Buy any Driver or Fairway or Scotty Cameron Putter (current Stock only) and if Adam Scott wins then we shall do the same!!
Ladies Day - Saturday 13 August 3pm - Late
- Only 50 spaces available
- Fizz on Arrival
- 3 Course Meal & Bottle of Wine £25 per person
- Entertainment provided by Jason Porter as Michael Buble
TaylorMade Fitting Day
Wednesday 27 July
3pm-7pm
Come along and try out the latest TaylorMade equipment as used by world number 1 & 2 Jason Day and Dustin Johnson. Click here to sign up for your free 30 min fitting appointment. Come and see if we can improve your game! No obligation to purchase and no hard selling on the day.
Fraser's Bag Of Tips
During a friendly game with Fraser, Graeme announced that he would be entering the Moray Open for the first time and would welcome any advice that Fraser could give him.
What were his helpful tips?
1. Before your round, always count your clubs to make sure you are not carrying more than 14. It's a costly penalty of 2 strokes per hole with max of 4 penalty strokes in the round if you mistakenly carry more than 14.
2. If you are concerned that your ball may be lost or difficult to find, to save time you may play another ball 'provisionally'. You must announce your intention to your fellow competitor. It is always good practice to either play a different named ball or a different numbered ball and make sure your identification mark is on it.
3. Playing a wrong ball is a costly 2 stroke penalty. If in doubt a player may lift or rotate his ball to identify it having first marked it and announced his intention to his fellow competitor to give him the opportunity to observe the lifting and replacing of the ball.
4. Should you be in doubt as how to proceed and there is no help available then under Rule 3-3 you can play a second ball and complete the hole with the score for each ball. You must inform the Committee as soon as you return of your invoking of Rule 3-3
5. Your Position on the course is behind the game ahead not in front of the game behind ie. keep up with the game ahead
6. And Finally make certain that you and your marker have both signed your card. The ultimate of all penalties D.Q !
Now armed with all these tips you go and have an enjoyable and successful Moray Open Week.
