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