Wednesday 15th September – Summer Trophy
15 played
1st Stan Rainey (9) – 62
2nd David Morrison (9) – 63
3rd Jamie Macpherson (4) – 64 and lowest gross
4th Duncan Heenan (12) – 65
2s – Stan Rainey at the 4th
Congratulations to Jamie Macpherson, overall winner of the 2021 Summer Trophy.
Sunday 12th September – The Aitken Rosebowl
Donated to the club in 1909, “The Aitken” is one of our oldest trophies and one of the few we play for in foursomes, a demanding format which requires both playing partners to contribute to the team score. 12 played allowing a draw for 6 pairings. Tellingly no 2s were recorded while a 3 at the 8th and a 12 at the 4th also testify to the demands of the format.
1st Neil Lucas & John Pennycott (14) – 63
2nd Gavin Mainds & David Brookens (9) – 65 acb
3rd Duncan Heenan & Bruce Cameron (21) – 65
Wednesday 8th September – The Bannatyne Cup
16 played in The Bannatyne, one of our last medal play events of the season and always played on a Wednesday. Scoring was impressive but Sandy Pringle, opening with four 3s in the first six holes set a high standard and went on to win by 3 shots from Jamie Macpherson.
1st Sandy Pringle (13) – 56
2nd Jamie Macpherson (4) – 59 and lowest gross
3rd Mark west (12) – 62
4th Duncan Heenan (12) – 64
Duncan and Jamie scored the only 2s of the day at the 17th.
Saturday 4th September – Wolfi’s Open Stableford
Well what a day that was. Perfect golfing weather and a huge turnout of golfers, from all parts of the island and beyond, many overcoming ferry induced travel difficulties, combined to help us commemorate our much missed friend and past captain, Wolfi Kroner. Gege, Markus and the rest of Wolfi’s family went to great lengths to provide a generous array of prizes for the golfers and for the well subscribed auction and raffle that took place afterwards. Many local individuals and businesses, far too many to name here, also contributed generously and the warmth of feelings freely expressed must have been a source of great comfort to all who miss Wolfi so much.
On a day such as this, the golf is perhaps not as important as we sometimes think it is but Wolfi loved his golf and he would have been delighted to know that 76 played in this event, a Stableford from the yellow tees just as he liked. The full result can be found on the club’s website but for the purpose of this intimation it is perhaps enough to know that Gay Mackay from Lamlash returned the top score – and of course the top score from a lady golfer – with a most impressive 44 points. Our own champion Jamie Stewart took the award for the best men’s score on 41 points and fittingly, young Ben Kroner came in as top junior.
