Club Prize Night 2018

Junior Champion :  Danny Hendry
David Young Trophy (Singles Knockout): Cameron Ledingham
Junior Summer Foursomes : Danny Hendry & Cameron Ledingham
Junior Strokeplay Trophy 36 Hole scratch:  Danny Hendry
Junior most improved player Trophy: Harry Garden
Junior Order of Merit Trophy: Kirsten Murison

Other 2018 achievements

• Junior Open Tauranga Trophy (Scratch) Danny Hendry
• Junior Open Kilgour Trophy(Handicap – age 15 and unde) Ellie Ferguson
• Daniel Hogg who won the under 10 boys Flag at the Stephen Gallacher Foundation Finals Katie MacKenzie was 3rd in the under 10 girls. 
• Lucy Hall won the Stephen Gallacher under 15, 54 Hole Handicap Championship at Kingsknowe
• Kirsten Murison won the overall prize (1st handicap) at the East of Scotland Girls Summer Meeting today at Royal Musselburgh 
• Conor O’Toole won the Boys Scottish Schools Championship at Murrayshall after a four-hole play-off!
• Lucy Morrison 1st equal Handicap in the girls Scottish Schools Championship
• Conor and Lucy represented Scottish Schools in match v England (Conor captaining the boys side)
• Conor O’Toole made the top 64 cut (out of 264) in the Scottish Men’s Amateur Championship to qualify for the match play stages. 
• We had 9 of our juniors playing in the Scottish Boys and Scottish Girls Amateur Championships at Moray in July!

Edinburgh Junior Leauge Champions 2018!

Round up ...

Our juniors have been playing in lots of Open events with great success.

Lucy Hall won the girls trophy at the Longniddry GC Junior Open today with a nett 71, the lowest score from girl (nett 64) at Kilspindie and then best girl scratch score for at North Berwick taking a total of 1.9 off her Handicap.

Cameron Ledingham won best scratch at Kilspindie and at Mortonhall,  Mark Brooks won best scratch and Danny Hendry 2nd Handicap. In round 2 of the Junior Tour event at Kings Acre, Lucy Morrison shot a nett 65 and reducing her handicap by 1.4!

Lucy Hall at Longniddry

Junior coaching has been taking place at the Braids Golf Centre with Paul Malone and everyone has been working hard and having lots of fun.

Regular Monday evening roll-ups are on going together with Thursday stablefords and roll ups.  We also held a 10 hole scramble last Sunday

Our new PGA Professional Alan Wright joins us next week.  He came up especially to meet our juniors a couple of weeks ago and met some of us at the Scottish Open. We look forward to welcoming you to Craigmillar Park Alan.

Well done Ellie!

Congratulations to Ellie Ferguson on winning the Craigmillar Park Jack Memorial Mixed Foursomes yesterday with partner Iain McNaught

Craigmillar Park Juniors at the Scottish Boys and Girls Amateur Championship

Good luck to all 9 of our juniors playing in the Scottish Boys and Scottish Girls Amateur Championships at Moray starting today:

• Alessio Margiotta 
• Conor O'Toole 
• Cameron Ledingham 
• Danny Hendry 
• Georgia Ledingham 
• Lucy Hall 
• Lucy Morrsion 
• Mark Brooks 
• Sam Hall 

Play well everyone! You can follow their progress at https://www.scottishgolf.org/championships/#/competition/1313000/leaderboard

Post holiday update

Its been a while since we updated the blog - been away on holiday and lots been happening since I got back, so here we go!

Team Matches
We have played 5 of our six Edinburgh league matches with four wins and 1 narrow defeat away to Murrayfield:

Kingsknowe (home) 6-0 win
West Linton (away) 4-2 win
Murrayfield (away) 2.5- 3.5 loss
Duddingston (home) 6-0 win
Dalmahoy (home) 4.5-1.5 win

Our last match is away to Prestonfield on 28 July and a good result should see us through to the semi-final knockout stages as runner up in our group to Murrayfield who have won all their matches.  Well done team!

Junior Championship
Congratulations on everyone who qualified for the junior championship and especially to our champion and new Junior Vice Captain Danny Hendry.  A great final between Danny and Alessio Margiotta played in fantastic sunshine and great spirit.

Monday evening roll-ups
Great to see so many turning up on Monday evenings. If you haven't been then get yourself to the club for about 6.20 on Monday evenings for some fun golf.

Hole in One alert!
Congratulations to new member Alex Nevard who had a hole in one at the 7th!

Well done Conor! 
Conor O’Toole won the Boys Scottish Schools Championship at Murrayshall after a four hole play-off!

Well done Lucy Morrison who finished 6th scratch and 1st equal Handicap (losing out on 2nd round countback) in the girls Scottish Schools Championship. And -.8 off her handicap.

Lothian Boys Championship

Good luck to Mark Brooks, Sam Hall, Danny Hendry and Cameron Leadingham playing in the Lothians Boys Championship at the Braids tomorrow.

Scottish Golf video

See the video of our open day and star roles by some of our juniors!

Competitions

Numbers in competitions have been a little disappointing so far so time to dust those clubs down and enter! But some great scores already. In the last junior medal Georgia Ledingham had a nett 62 (adjusted 60) and reduced her handicap to 15.5. Brother Cameron and Callum Murison both had nett 65's. Conor O'Toole won the scratch with 70.

Lucy Hill won the 9 hole stableford, and Cameron Wilson and Daniel Hogg were awarded their silver Flag certificates. (and no Cameron doesn't wear his helmet on the golf course - he was about to cycle home!)

Team Matches

Great start to our Junior League title defence with a 6-0 win against Kingsknowe last Friday and a 4-2 win away at West Linton last night.  The next match is away against Murrayfield on Friday 1st June.  This will be a tough one but we an do it!

First Monday Evening Roll-up

Great to have so many out for our first Monday evening ‘roll- up’ of the season despite many studying hard at home for exams. 10 girls and 4 boys. Now that’s a ratio you don’t often see at golf clubs!

Remember the roll-ups are every Monday with the first tee time at 6.30pm.  Please turn up around 6.15pm so we can sort people into groups. It would be helpful if you could use Team App to give us an idea of expected numbers.

Good luck to all those with exams this month.

Scottish Golf and the R&A visit Craigmillar Park

Watch this video filmed at our Open Day, promoting the Open Championship at Carnoustie

You might recognise some faces!

Good luck Conor and Sam!

Good luck to all the competitors and our own Conor O’Toole and Sam Hall playing in the Craigmillar Park Open this weekend.

Article below in Bill Lothian’s Community Sport column in the Evening News

The season is underway!

We are off and running for 2018 ......

Difficult conditions in the first medal on Saturday 7th April with the course playing long. Well done our greenkeepers for getting it playable.  Congratulations to Danny Hendry on winning the 18 hole stableford on better inward half from Conor O'Toole and Blair Welsh. Harry Garden won the 9 hole stableford.

Two new members Charlotte and Alex Nevard, out with the Tiger Cubs both gained their bronze certificates first time out!

A special well done to Daniel Hogg who went out with his Dad to put his flag card in at 8am in the morning as they were off to Yorkshire at lunch time!! And then played at Filey GC! Dedication!

Meanwhile Sam Hall was playing in the Scottish Boys Open in Montroses and then down to Collingtree Park in Northampton to play in the England v Scotland Independent Schools Golf Association match 

Celebrating International Women's Day 2018

 #IWD2018 #SheInspiresMe #ThisGirlGolfs #ThisGirlCan

Fun activities at Craigmillar Park

All the snow has meant our course has been used for a different type of sport this week. Believe it or not, the golf season is just around the corner and will kick off with a social evening on Thursday 22nd March in the clubhouse from 6.30pm. You should have received a separate email about it.  Please contact Frances if you can come. Family and friends welcome

The first golf event will be an Adult / Junior Foursomes competition on Sunday 1st April from 1.45pm.  Please bring along your friends and if you don’t have an adult to play with, don’t worry - we will find one for you!

Before the snow

17 out last week in our last junior scramble of the winter. A fun day was had by all. Well done to winners Danny Hendry, Daniel Hogg and Cameron Ledingham with a fantastic 32 for 10 holes! Great to see our ‘senior’ players mentoring our stars of the future. Congratulations to runners up the Murisons.

Changes to Handicap Regulations 2018

There used to be two types of handicaps available to juniors, a CONGU (Competition) handicap and a CONGU (Club) Handicap. From 2018 players can have a CONGU (Competition) handicap up to 54 and the concept of a CONGU (Club) handicap will cease to exist.

Members with a CONGU (Competition) Handicap of 36 or under can play in all junior competitions at Craigmillar Park. Those with a handicap of 37 or above can play in 9 hole Stablefords, all knockout competitions and fun competitions.

For more information please read the sections on the left hind side of this pages on:

1. Competition rules
2. Gaining a handicap 

Fixtures

Our 2018 fixtures are now available - click on FIXTURES on the left hand side of this page. Some external competition dates are also included and colour coded. (see categories at top of the calendar).

Click 'subscribe' to download this calendar to your own device.

In addition, the Club Diary has now been updated and available on the club website - click DIARY at the top once you have logged in.

Click HERE for the Stephen Gallacher Foundation fixtures.