AGM of the ESVLGA at Gullane G.C. on 6th November 2023

 Thanks to Steven Marshall and Gullane Golf Club for hosting our AGM and prize giving and lunch.  41 members came for the AGM and 37 stayed on for a delicious buffet lunch.

Farewell to Janet who has been a magnificent & supportive Secretary to both Sue & me.

The cakes of appreciation & thanks to our brilliant Treasurer Val & to Janet. (Cakes created by Emma Stewart a good chum of Sal.)

The Minutes of the AGM can be read here

The Captain's report can be read here

Hilary Laughland's report on the International Matches can be read here

SVLGA Championship & Jamboree Blairgowrie GC 24th to 26th September 2023

Our East Division Champion Karen Ferguson-Sneddon played in the SVLGA Championships for a third year in a row having won the previous two.

Having just spent the last few weeks here there and everywhere with her golf and in particular representing Scotland for the SVLGA & Scottish Seniors (along with teammates Karen Marshall and Hilary Laughland) perhaps this was one event too many to finish the season.

Karen had a great win on Sunday afternoon against Jane Grubb (North) but was just pipped at the 18th by Ruth Hunter (West) in Monday morning’s Semi Final.

The eventual SVLGA Champion is Martine Pow (Borders) who beat Ruth in the Final.

All the Championships are played over The Lansdowne course.

Congratulations Martine pictured here with Marjorie Rae SVLGA President.

Meanwhile on Monday over The Rosemount course our Mairi Pollock had a very solid round in the singles strokeplay with a gross 78/nett 69 which secured the Patrick Rosebowl Trophy. Congratulations Mairi.

Tuesday was our day for the Greensomes strokeplay over The Lansdowne. The Beddows Quaichs were won by Liz Fertacz and Jane Cameron (Midland) nett 69 and the Tony Moffat Quaichs by Fran Millar and Louise Graham (North) scratch 77.

East Division best were Lesley Campbell and Katy Gillies.

Well done to all the East members lucky to have played this and fully embraced the whole event. Thanks so much to all of those who play & support this Division, all very much appreciated by me for the fun we have.

Sal 

AGM 6th November 2003

 This year's AGM will be held at Gullane Golf Club on Monday 6th November. We will meet at 11am for coffee before the AGM starts at 11.15, followed by the prize giving and lunch. Notice of  Meeting and the Agenda will be set out soon by email. 

East v Borders Greensomes Match at Winterfield GG September 14th 2023.

 Result..

Letty Mackinnon & Elsa Todd won 3&2 v Gillian Lithgow & Joyce Michie

Lindsay Hay & Vicki Sandeman lost 4&2 v Mary Fallas & Sheila Horseburgh

Louise Campbell & Viv Mitchell lost at 18th v Dawn Tomlinson & Fiona Melrose

Caroline Kinnaird & Rae Muir won 3&2 v Marjorie Ferguson & Carol Mott

Anne Rorison & Elaine Lumsden won 3&2  v Venitia Scott & Susan Marshall

Carole Mason & Sal Shepherd lost at 18th v Pauline Hogg & June Allan

Many thanks go to all at Winterfield GC for hosting a super day for us. We all loved the course and the company we played in and it turned out a friendly halved match.

So that is the 3 meetings, the Championship & the 5 team matches ticked off the calander for the year, just the AGM & lunch to go  before I go lie down in a darkened room for the winter!

Sal

Autumn Meeting at Liberton G C 7th September 2023

A relatively small but perfectly formed group of our ESVLGA crew turned out to take part in the Autumn Meeting at Liberton GC today.

Not the hideous deluge of rain that scuppered our attempt last year, but we did encounter a real pea souper at the 9a.m. KO. I was rather concerned on arrival that we could start at 9a.m. as visibility was no more that 120 yards from the 1st tee. However, all was well as remarkably the course was open. 

I was relieved being ‘the starter’ to see the first four groups all hit straight down the middle then literally disappear off the horizon into the fog but thankfully reappear 3½ hours later without incident.

Congratulations to our three winners Viv Mitchell with a fantastic nett 68 to take the overall nett score, Wendy Nicholson the Scratch winner with a 73 & Dorothy Thompson the Division 2 winner with a nett 71.

Well done also to the 5 players who had a 2.

Ann Sewell @6th, Carole Mason @8th & Joanne Watt, Wendy Nicholson & Jennifer Bryans all @11th.

Sadly one of our staunchest supporters, Elspeth Morrison, who had already decided this would be her last Vets competition, had to withdraw. We wish her well and hope she continues to get out on the golf course. 

In other news while I am here..

I can confirm our AGM, prizegiving & season concluding lunch celebration will be held at Gullane GC on Monday 6th November, starting with meet up coffee etc at 11a.m then 11.15 AGM. 

I intend to send my Captain’s Report (brief, I promise) out in advance so anyone unable to attend will be able to ask me any questions or raise points which I will respond to at the meeting.

More details will follow by email very soon.

Just be aware though, when I say celebration Lunch, I mean celebration as we have some very good news to share at this year’s AGM.

Sal ESVLGA Captain

A full list of Autumn Meeting scores can be seen here

SVLGA Silent Auction

Please see below details of a silent auction arranged by the SVLGA management committee and team.

Ladies, we know a number of you regularly follow, via Facebook, the progress of the team representing SVLGA. Typically, over the season we support our team to play in two key events, namely an annual match against Irish Senior Ladies and the Jamboree played each August with our counterparts in the three English Associations, North, Midlands and South. As you will appreciate these events put significant demands on our budget, with the players and officials often personally contributing to fund certain aspects. In a bid to offset some of the costs for 2024 the team have been proactive in sourcing vouchers for four-balls at a number of prestigious courses. We would like to invite you to submit a confidential bid via email to our silent auction coordinator, Vice President Alex Glennie (svlgavp@gmail.com) by midday on Saturday 23^rd  September or in person at Blairgowrie

 Please indicate in your email which of the courses your bid is for, your name and which division you are a member of. Successful bids will be confirmed at the SVLGA AGM at Blairgowrie on Monday 25th September with the successful bidder being contacted by email later that week, this email will also include details of how to pay for the voucher. 

The four-ball vouchers available and waiting for your bids are as follows:

We wish you every success and thank you for your support with this fund raising event.

 

Marjorie 

SVLGA President

 

 

Courses for auction (face value ranges from £ 200 to £800)

 

Royal Aberdeen Minimum bid (£300) 

Mortonhall

Baberton

Bruntsfield

Lanark

Dumfries & County

East Renfrewshire

Deeside

Tain

Fortrose & Rosemarkie

Ballater

Autumn Meeting at Liberton on Thursday 7th September

 We have 37 entries for the Autumn Meeting at Liberton Golf Club on Thursday 7th September.  The draw can be seen under the "draws" tab on the home page.

If you have to call off on the day please email esvlgasecretary@gmail.com or phone 07779484878. 

Please complete score cards as usual and put in the EV box in the lounge or hand in at the desk. 

Asp Trophy East v West Greensomes Match at Glencorse GC August 8th 2023

 Janet Fairweather & Rae Muir v Fiona Cameron & Deirdre Anderson

West won 5&4

Carol Fulton & Norma Richmond v Janette McCartney & Sandra Littlejohn

East won 2&1

Fiona Ford & Caroline Kinnaird v Margaret Reid & Katherine Eland

West won 2&1

Liz Calder & Anne Rorrison v Mary Scott & Liz Cochrane

East won 4&3

Frances McFadzean & Letty Mackinnon v Mo Neilson & Sandra Macdougall

East won 4&2

Match result 3-2 win for East Division.

Another splendid day out for our annual Greensomes match v West Vets & a very welcome win for the East.

Thanks go to the always very warm welcome from all at Glencorse G.C. & very well done to our brilliant team effort to get the Asp Salver back.

And we now have the answer to the age old question ‘Why did the chicken cross the road?’

To get to the golf course!

Sal

East Division Semis & Finals Day at Haddington GC July 8th 2023

Following the Summer Meeting played at Haddington on May 23rd we had our top eight players  for the Championship Matchplay line up. The Quarter Finals were completed by players own  arrangements leading up to today’s Semis & Finals day. 

Hilary Laughland beat Ann Sewell 1up 
Wendy Nicholson beat Mairi Pollock 3&2 
Anne Brownie beat Karen Marshall 2up 
Karen Ferguson-Snedden beat Ailsa Cackett 4&3 

Well done to all eight who qualified in May and well played to those

winners who made it through to the semi-finals.

Congratulations to Wendy winning 5&3 against Hilary 
And to Karen winning 3&2 against Anne. 

Commiserations to Hilary & Anne but well done both for putting up a very good game in their Semis and making Wendy & Karen work very hard to make it to their Championship Final  places 

Not sure the local celebrity Albino Nutkin was wholly engaged with the matches coming  through the 9th hole this morning. And maybe at that time we spectators were a wee bit  distracted too by the Albino Squirrel!(I hear it is 1/100,00 to spot an Albino Squirrel in UK). 

Our Sue Penman & Ann Sewell, thanks so much for coming out for the trip round the course  twice today & Hilary this afternoon, for all your chat, entertainment & for keeping our  ESVLGA a grand place to be. 

What a lovely final for our East Championships today. (Repeat match up from 2022) The level of golf played, as expected, was superb by both Wendy & Karen. Karen knew she  had to play her best against Wendy & she did just that.

A very well contested match was played with Karen winning with an impressive performance. 4&3 the result. 

Well done to all who competed in our East Divisional Champs for SVLGA play-offs.  We really do have a strong group of great players & people. It is my pleasure to be your Captain.  (Albeit a tad creased in the ‘Trophy Presentation’ Pic!) 

Many Congratulations to Karen for your second win in a row as our Champ. All the best at  the SVLGA Champs at Blairgowrie GC (Lansdowne Course) in September. 

Sal 
Captain East Division of SVLGA.

Scottish Seniors Amateur Championships at Aboyne GC

 

Huge congratulations to Karen Ferguson-Snedden on her victory at the Scottish Seniors Champs

 this past week. And what a way to get the win after being 4 down in the semis against Australian 

Sue Wooster winning on 18 and in the final playing West Vets Ruth Hunter and being 1 down

after 13 Karen turned the game around and sealed the Championship for a third year in a row on 

17. What a fighter.

In the 36 hole stroke-play qualification, Hilary Laughland played two great rounds of 74 to 

qualify in second place and in the match play event played her way to the quarters with a great 

19th hole win over North Division’s Sheena Wood. The quarter final draw was tough as it put 

Hilary and Karen Ferguson-Snedden up against each other. Karen won this one 2&1.

Also qualifying for the scratch match play were Caroline Steedman, Ailsa Cackett and Ann 

Sewell who all narrowly missed out on progressing to the quarters with tough first round draws.

We had four qualifiers from East Vets in the handicap match play event, including Liz Calder 

the top handicap qualifier by some way after two very impressive stroke play rounds. Liz had

two good wins in the first two rounds but could not see out the semi-final.

 

Your Captain Sal had a good first round win up 18 but the less said about her second round

performance the better!

 

Well played Karen Ballantyne and Jacqui Moriarty for making it to the match play bad luck

both for not getting past round one, especially Karen Ballantyne who lost on second extra hole

in a downpour.

I would like to thank Scottish Golf Ltd for putting on the Tournament, all at Aboyne GC for 

being brilliant hosts, all the Scottish Senior competitors but especially all the East Vets at the

event for supporting each other all week and generally having a hoot with it.

Sal

East Division Captain

Elise Duncan Trophy West v East at Lanark GC Wednesday June 7th 2023.

 

 

Today saw the end of a great run for East Vets in this annual scratch match versus the best of the West players. After 8 years of wins our run had to end, but certainly not without a good fight by our team. All the matches were hotly contested with some brilliant golf which made for a tight finish days golf overall. Lanark is very much a course where it definitely helps to know your way around so maybe a little help to the home team but that does not take away from either team’s performance. A grand day out for all & my thanks go to our wonderful team (Susan Rennie, my thanks for last minute call up!). Also, my thanks for West Captain May Hughs & Lanark GC for the ‘open-armed’ hospitality today. 

  Sal EV Captain. 

 

 

Ruth Hunter		2up	Karen Ferguson-Sneddon
Gillian Kyle	2&1		Hilary Laughland
Liz Stewart	1up		Ailsa Cackett
Lesley Lloyd	4&3		Ann Sewell
Donna Jackson	1up		Jennifer Bryans
Lorraine Campbell		7&5	Anne Hanson
Joanne Sharp	1up		Wendy Nicholson
Roz Purdom		4&2	Caroline Steedman
Alyson Hendry	2&1		Susan Rennie
West Total	6pts	3pts	East Total

 

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