Santa Scramble Saturday 9th December

Sign up now for our Santa Scramble on Saturday 9th December with times starting from 1pm. Enter as a team of three: one adult and two juniors or three juniors. If you don’t have a full team, let us know and we will team you up with some lovely people.  Each team can have one non-member (adult or junior) so time to phone a friend!

Let’s get as many playing as possible and make it a festive occasion - Christmas hats, jumpers etc encouraged!

You can sign up on line or email cpjuniorgolf@gmail.com to enter.

Presentation of Prizes 2017

Champions!

Back L-R:
Danny Hendry, Cameron Ledingham, Sam Hall, Mark Brooks, Susan Corrie, George Hunter
Front L-R: 
Conor O’Toole, Lucy Morrison, Lucy Hall, Callum Murison, Georgia Ledingham
Missing from photo: Alessio Margiotta, Matthew Nicol, Blair Welsh

It was fantastic to see so many juniors and parents at prize-giving last week and to celebrate all our junior achievements this year both individually and as a team/club. We have had an amazing year and we have a fantastic bunch of young people, parents and volunteers. Thank you for all the support and feedback we have received this year.  Click HERE to view more photos of the prize-giving.

Junior Champion: Mark Brooks

PRIZEWINNERS

Midweek Stablefords

Lucy Morrison

Blair Welsh

Cameron Ledingham

Oliver Livingston

Handicap Medals

Ellie Ferguson (2)

Kirsten Murison (3)

Conor O’Toole

Lucy Morrison

Cameron Ledingham

Blair Welsh

Sam Westwood

Scratch Medals

Conor O’Toole (3)

Danny Hendry (2)

Mark Brooks (2)

Sam Hall

Blair Welsh

Sam Westwood

Trophies

David Young Trophy (Singles Knockout) :Winner: Cameron Ledingham

Junior Summer Foursomes Winners: Danny Hendry & Cameron Ledingham 

Junior Strokeplay Trophy 36 Hole scratch: Conor O’Toole

Junior Most Improved Player : Oliver Livingston

Junior Order of Merit : Kirsten Murison

Junior Team 

SE Edinburgh Winter League Individual Junior Champion: Mark Brooks

SE Edinburgh Winter League Junior Handicap Trophy: Cameron Ledingham

Edinburgh Junior Golf League: Champions

Scottish Junior Team Championship: Champions

Autumn update

There has been so much happening and to round off the season by winning the Scottish Junior Team Championships is just incredible. (See previous post).  The season is nearing an end and unfortunately the medal winners medal had to be abandoned on Saturday due to a torrential downpour and hailstones! The 36 hole scratch Strokeplay trophy takes place this Saturday (8th October) and on Sunday Cameron Ledingham, Mark Brooks, Danny Hendry, Sam Hall, Sam Westwood, Lucy Morrison, Megan Linton, Emily Rigg all take part in The Stephen Gallacher Foundation Race to Dunbar finals.

Winter coaching starts at the Braids this Saturday at 3pm. We will also be holding monthly 10 hole Adult/Junior scrambles once a month on Saturday afternoons, with times staring from 1pm. Dates are:

• Saturday 28 October
• Saturday 18 November
• Saturday 9 December
• Saturday 20 January
• Saturday 24 February

You can enter as a team of one adult and two juniors.  The adult does not need to be a member. Or three juniors can enter as a team, but one must have a handicap of 18 or less. Or you can enter as an individual or a as two and we will try to team you up. Open to ALL junior members.

 

Those with handicaps can enter online.  For juniors without handicaps please email us at cpjuniorgolf@gmail.com  to enter no later than the Wednesday morning before the event. 

Conor O'Toole was selected  to play in the Italian International Individual Under 16s Championship and put in some great performances in a very strong field, reducing his handciap to 1 into the bargain. He was also part of a 3 man Scottish Golf team competing for the Nations Cup at the event. 

Sam Hall has continued his amazing year with even more silverware, In the Independent Schools Golf Association tournament at Kingsacre, he won the U15 Boys Competition with a 69.  He followed this up by recording the best scratch score of 69 over a very windy Strathtyrum Course (St Andrews) in the St Leonards National U15 Junior Golf Championships.  Not to be outdone, sister Lucy, was third scratch and handicap in the U13 event at Craigielaw.

 

Our Tiger Cubs have been busy as well.  Congratulations to new members Craig and Katie MacKenzie on gaining their bronze certificates and many thanks to some of our more experienced junior members who have been out playing with and encouraging the Tiger Cubs.  Great to see.

We also held a very successful Pig Racing night on Saturday 23rd September.  This was the night before the Scottish Team Championships and although the organisers were very tired it obviously didn't affect the team.  Now we know how to prepare for big events in the future! This was a well attended, fun family evening. Thank you very much to all our sponsors, to everyone who bought pigs and all who contributed on the night. We raised a fantastic amount of money for our junior funds and some of the money raised will be donated to charity (to be decided). 

Scottish Junior Team Champions!

The inaugural event was  hosted by Glenbervie Golf Club on Sunday the 24th August 2017.  The winning teams from Junior Leagues all over Scotland, plus several teams from areas currently without Junior Leagues, entered the event. Each Team had 6 Players and there was some excellent scoring under the singles Stableford format, with the best 5 out of 6 scores to count.

We were out in the first groups at 9.30. It rained most of the day and to be fair we were lucky to be out early. We nervously waited all day as the teams and scores came in, but in the end emerged victorious with some very consistent scoring. Sam Hall led the way with 38, followed by Cameron Ledingham with 36,  Alessio Margiotta and Mark Brooks both with 35, and  Conor O’Toole with 34. These 5 scores totaled 178 and were so good that the score by late substitute Lucy Morrison was able to be discarded. This was a great Team performance!

We were awarded a Trophy kindly donated by Ian Howarth, Past President of the SGU, and each player received a commemorative medal. The R&A kindly donated prizes of golf shirts, flags, and balls from the 2017 Open Championship at Royal Birkdale, and the leading 4 Teams all received prizes.

In the end we romped in 14 points ahead of Alloa Golf Club representing Stirlingshire, who also demonstrated the value of consistency with 5 scores all in the range of 32 to 35 for a total of 164.

Well done everyone who played on the day, especially Lucy who had a very late call up and was woken up at 7.30 in the morning as poor Danny was unwell!  And congratulations to all who played in the league matches and helped get us to this event.  I hope everyone will attend prize giving on Saturday 11 November when I think a big celebration is in order!

Well done Morganne

Congratulations to Morganne McQueen who finished 2nd in under 14 girls flag event at the Stephen Gallacher Foundation Finals at Kingsfield  on Saturday.

Team Golf National Championships

It wasn't our day at Scotscraig yesterday.  The team gave their all in pretty awful conditions and are determined to come back stronger next year. Congratulations to winners Lundin Links. Great to get as far as we did and we have the Scottish team championships in two weeks time. Well done everyone. We may not have played our best but as usual we were gracious and courteous in defeat.  If there was a prize for having fun, supporting each other and eating, we would win hands down. (Led by Cameron on the eating side!)

Thanks for all the support from parents, family and members.

Some photos from the final

Click below to view some photos of the final

Edinburgh Junior League Champions 2017!

What a day and a nail-biting finish! Edinburgh Junior League Champions 2017! The matches were all very tight with wins for Danny, Cameron and Lucy, but importantly the others taking their matches as far as possible (Sam and Mark to 18) and the result was a 3-3 draw. On count-back (holes up) we were level as well at 5-5. So Sam Hall, as our number 1, had the unenviable task of playing sudden death. But he was well up to the challenge and won on the 2nd extra hole. And so we won the trophy for the 2nd time ever, the last being 1984. Well done team and that includes all who played in the group matches, quarters, semis and finals. You have done your club proud not just by your golf but by your fantastic attitude, sportsmanship and support for each other. Thanks also to all our magic supporters.

Well done everyone who contributed to this success by playing in the group and knock-out stages:

Alessio Margiotta

Blair Welsh

Cameron Ledingham

Callum Murison

Conor O'Toole

Danny Hendry

Georgia Ledingham

Lucy Morrison

Lucy Hall

Mark Brooks

Matthew Nicoll

Sam Hall

And to Team Manager Susan Corrie, Club Captain George Hunter, and all the parents, family and supporters.

East of Scotland Girls Autumn Meeeting

The East of Scotland Girls Autumn Meeting was held on Sunday 28 March at Craigmillar Park. Congratulations to Georgia Ledingham on winning the Overall Prize with a nett 67. Also congratulations to Under 14 winner Kirsten Murison and under 18 winner Emily Rigg. A total of eight Craigmillar Park girls took part!

Well done Sam!

Well done Sam Hall. Joint winner of the Lothian's Boys Champion of Champions today (with Jack MacDonald, Haddington).