Ryder Cup
Now we know our team for this year's Ryder Cup and I am delighted we will have Scottish representation in Stephen Gallagher who claimed one of the 3 wildcard picks alongside Lee Westwood and Ian Poulter.. He narrowly missed out on automatic qualification after a phenomenal performance at the Italian Open. Personally I can't wait for the Ryder Cup as I'll be down there to soak in the atmosphere in approximately 20 days time. It's sure to be as exciting as ever, and with the US Team also now completing their team with Tom Watson's Wildcard picks, its sure to be as close as ever!!
Ryder Cup Ticket Draw
I will be running a shop raffle for the Ryder Cup with some golf shop vouchers up for grabs! Each ticket will cost £5. Each ticket will be randomly drawn by the individual and will either have a Ryder Cup player's name, winning score or captain's name written on it.
We will pay out for the following:
- £100 shop credit for the correct score prediction
- £50 shop credit for the leading European Point scorer
- £50 shop credit for the leading USA point scorer
- £30 shop credit for the Winning Captain
*Prize values subject to all tickets being sold.
Shop Opening Hours
Our shop opening hours are now as follows for September:
Monday - Friday 8.00am - 6.00pm
Saturday 7.00am - 6.00pm
Sunday 7.30am - 6.00pm
Demo Equipment Sale
Over the next few weeks we will start to sell of our demo equipment for the year which includes TaylorMade, PING and Titleist. A list of what we have available will go in next week's newsletter and you can register interest in anything after that. We also have a few outstanding pieces of demo equipment on loan. If anyone still has any demo products, it would be greatly appreciated if they could return them as soon as possible to allow us to check our stock levels.
Tantlus (Old)
There was another strong entry for one of our opens; sadly the weather wasn't the greatest however this wasn't reflected in the scoring.
Congratulations to Clark Brechin from Portlethan whom claimed this year Tantlus Trophy after two fine scores in pretty horrible conditions to win by 1 from R. Allan L Cameron of Fortrose. Our course manager Kevin Thomson placed 3rd, 3 shots further back, while the man he beat in this year's Moray Open semi final Bryan Fotheringham was another couple shots back to take 4th.
Scratch Section [Tantlus]
1st - Clark Brechin (Portlethan) 73 68 - 141
2nd - R. Allan L. Cameron (Fortrose) 69 73 - 142
3rd - Kevin Thomson (Moray) 72 73 - 145
4th - Bryan R Fotheringham (Inverrness) 72 75 - 147
5th - Bruce Mitchell (Cruden Bay) 74 76 - 150
Clarke Gets 1st Ace in Tantalus 
Hector Clarke got his first ace at the 11th hole of the New Course. He was partnered by CA Russell and Stuart Duff. Well Done Hector!!
Section 1 [0-8] [Jack Baillie Trophy]
Section 1 was dominated by men from Moray with Craig Smith claiming the Jack Baillie Trophy by a couple shots from Donald Fletcher and Brent Macleman.
1st - Craig Smith (Moray) 71 71 - 142
2nd - Donald Fletcher (Moray) 73 71 - 144
2nd - Brent Macleman (Moray) 73 71 - 144
4th - Scott Green (Moray) 75 70 - 145
5th - Mark Quilter (Moray) 72 74 - 146
6th - Stuart Imrie (Ratho Park) 76 71 - 147
7th - John A Black (Murcar) 76 72 - 148
7th - David Johnston (Moray) 74 74 - 148
7th - Douglas G Rae (Moray) 78 70 - 148
Section 2 [9-24] [Bill Brown Trophy]
A much more mixed affair in the section 2 prizes with Dave Harvey from Elgin claiming a 2 stroke victory in the Bill Brown Trophy with Ryan Denyer just a couple of shots back in second place.
1st - Dave Harvey (Elgin) 74 72 - 146
2nd - Ryan Denyer (Moray) 80 68 - 148
3rd - Maurice Simpson (Fr'burgh) 71 79 - 150
3rd - David T Grant (Muir of Ord) 76 74 - 150
Congratulation to all the prize winners and to everyone whom took part!
Mid-Week Stableford (8) New Course CSS 70
Congratulations to Willy Duncan on his fine 39 points in last week's mid-week stableford.
Magic 2's were worth £3.40 to the following players:
Aaron Stewart, William Duncan, Michael Cowie, Gary Walker, Jamie McColm, Stephen Murray, Craig Newlands, Steven D Harding, W.G Mackie, John McDonald.
Ladies President Stableford New CSS 71
Congratulations to Eileen Johns on a simply superb 40 points to claim the ladies presidents stableford!
Jimmy's tee shot at the 18th New went right of the fairway but he didn't think he would have any difficulty in finding it. He searched for it for a couple of minutes then declared it lost and started walking back to the tee. Before he put another ball into play, George had found his ball and called Jimmy back. What happens now he asked.
George informed him that you cannot DECLARE your ball lost. "A ball is lost if it is not found and identified by the player within 5 mins of starting his search". Therefore Jimmy's original ball remained in play and he MUST continue with that ball.
