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Sunday 11th August – The McKelvie Cup Rd 1

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Sunday 11th August – The McKelvie Cup Rd 1

28 players took advantage of a beautiful morning for golf to compete in the first of our club championship qualifiers. David Morrison showed the field a clean pair of heels in returning a gross 70 to win by 5 strokes

1st David Morrison (12) – 58
2nd Ryan Armstrong (6) – 63 acb
3rd Sandy Pringle (13) – 63
4th John Pennycott (13) – 64

Gavin Mainds returned the lowest gross score of 68 and nine
2s were returned; Markus Kroner @ 1. Gavin Mainds & Jamie Stewart @ 4. Gavin Mainds @ 9. Robert McNaught @ 14.Nicol Auld,Danny Head & David Morrison @ 17.

Wednesday 7th August – The Betty Black Trophy

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Wednesday 7th August – The Betty Black Trophy

20 played, and despite a couple of very risky pin positions, scoring was good with 12 players returning scores in the net 60s. John Mulholland came out top to pip Fraser McKenzie by one shot.

1st John Mulholland (32) – 60
2nd Fraser Mckenzie (20) – 61
3rd Graeme Crichton (14) – 64
4th Gavin Mainds (4) – 64 and lowest gross

Liam Bremner scored the only 2 of the day at the 17th

Sunday 4th August – The Lifeboat Open Stableford

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Sunday 4th August – The Lifeboat Open Stableford

A select field of 11 elite golfers competed for the 2024 edition of the Lifeboat Open Stableford and all were happy to be home and dry before the promised deluge materialised. With the blustery wind and the greens still playing hard and fast, David Morrison won with a creditable 37 points.

1st David Morrison (12) – 37 points
2nd David Brookens (14) – 34
3rd John Rankin (12) – 32

2s – David Morrison at the 2nd.

Saturday 27th July – The WBGC Ladies Open Stableford

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Saturday 27th July – The WBGC Ladies Open Stableford

The 2024 Whiting Bay Ladies Open Stableford was played in glorious, sunny weather. The course was in magnificent condition thanks to the hard work of Stewart and Robbie. With very fast greens the 35 entrants found the course very enjoyable but challenging.
Charlie Taylor, who is having a very successful golf season, came home in first place on 37 points.

1st Charlie Taylor (10) – 37 points
2nd Jill Foggo (6) – 34 acb
3rd Gill Lockhart (7) – 34

The 9 hole competition was won by Anne Gibson (15) – 13 points

The winners of the individual holes were : 1 Charlie Taylor, 2 Doreen Mainds, 3 Jill Foggo, 4 Flora -Jean Mack, 5 Val Crawford, 6 Isobel McDonald, 7 Beth Paterson, 8 Jill Foggo, 9 Jill Foggo, 10 Charlie Taylor, 11 Charlie Taylor, 12 Gill Lockhart, 13 Doreen Mainds, 14 Carol Simpson, 15 Ele Hunter, 16 Carol McDonald, 17 Doreen Mainds, 18 Charlie Taylor
Congratulations to all the winners.

A big shout out and thanks to James for putting out the hole markers, to Dave for all his work and support, to his team behind the bar keeping everyone fed and hydrated, to Howard for the plants, to Colin for serving us perfect Pimms on the 7th, to the Shiskine ladies for bringing in the markers , to Doreen for the delicious tablet, to all the hole sponsors , to everyone who donated raffle prizes and a special thanks to Stan for going above and beyond to help us. Finally, well done and thanks to all the ladies who did their bit to make it happen on the day and to everyone who played and supported us. It was a most successful event and evening and we look forward to repeating it next year. 

2024 WBGC Ladies Open champion, Charlie Taylor with the trophy along with (l-r) runner up, Jill Foggo, WBGC captain, Doreen Mainds and third placed Gill Lockhart

Wednesday 31st July – The McNicol Cup

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Wednesday 31st July – The McNicol Cup

A good field of 31 played in this year’s McNicol, one of our oldest and most prestigious trophies. On a beautiful morning scoring was good with the top four players all beating par but on a great run of form just now, John Pennycott put together a spectacular round to post a winning score of 57, enough to give him a 3 shot margin over the second placed score (60) from Robbie McNaught.

1st John Pennycott (15) – 57
2nd Robert McNaught (7) – 60
3rd David Brookens (14) – 61
4th Gordon MacLachlan (18 ) – 62

Neil Richardson (4) returned the lowest scratch score of 67 and Kerr Drummond returned the only 2 of the day at the 5th hole.