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Sunday 26th March – Yellow Tees Stableford

17 played in our first Sunday competition under British Summer Time, a Stableford from the yellow tees and a counter for handicap purposes. Most took full advantage of the fine conditions and scoring was exceptionally good in the top half of the leaderboard. A level par round was only good enough for 6th place!

1st Danny Head (9) – 43 points
2nd Neil McKechnie (11) – 40
3rd David Blair (13) – 39
4th Stan Rainey (11) – 37

Danny Head returned a 2 at the 14th, Stan Rainey did likewise at the 4th and David Brookens went one better by scoring a 2 at the 13th and again at the 17th.

Sunday 19th March – Lamlash Friendly

A good turnout of 24 golfers enjoyed a fine morning for the final round of our winter friendlies against Lamlash played over our own course at Whiting Bay. Unfortunately the recent heavy rain made for heavy going underfoot but the tees and greens stood up well to the challenge, thanks to the efforts of Stewart and George in preparing the course.

The match resulted in a victory to Lamlash by 4 games to 2. Lamlash also took the series with an emphatic 11 – 4 winning margin. Congratulations to them on fine performance over the course of the event.

In the individual Stableford sweep, the first three places went to home players with Jamie Macpherson coming out on top with 37 Stableford points, a fine score considering the conditions. Jamie also took the Auld Cronies trophy with a score of 71 points over his best two rounds of the series.

1st Jamie Macpherson (5) – 37 points
2nd Neil Lucas (14) – 34 acb
3rd Douglas Auld (20) – 34
4th Craig Young (+2) – 33
No 2’s were returned.

Sunday 12th March – The Winter Cup

For the past few days much of the country suffered a winter hammering while here at Whiting Bay we played golf on Friday in shirt sleeve conditions. Well we paid for it this morning with constant rain and poor visibility. Nevertheless 7 hardy souls played in the final round of this season’s Winter Cup. Soaked to the skin and justifiably pleased with himself Dougie Auld scored the best round of the day to win on a net 62.

1st Douglas Auld (20) – 62
2nd Graeme Crichton (14) – 66
3rd Jamie Macpherson (5) – 70 and lowest gross
No 2s were returned

Overall the winner of The Winter Cup on a score of 1 under par for three scoring rounds is Jamie Macpherson. David Blair and John Pennycott both returned three round scores of 1 over par with David pipping John to second place with a better last scoring round.
Congratulations Jamie on winning the 2022-23 Winter Cup.

Sunday 5th March – AGA Winter League

Over our home course and playing Machrie Bay, Whiting Bay needed to win all three games to have any chance of retaining the Duncan Trophy. As it turned out we could only manage one halved game, with Machrie Bay prevailing in the other two. League leaders Corrie, needing at least a halved match to have any chance of winning the trophy, fell to a 2-1 defeat against Brodick leaving Machrie Bay to claim top spot. Congratulations to them on winning the Duncan Trophy as AGA Winter League Champions.

Sunday 19th February – Lamlash Friendly

The weather having put paid to the December meeting we travelled to Lamlash again for the February fixture. Unfortunately our away victory in November was not to be repeated as we surged to a 5-1 defeat. We’ll need a real performance in the March fixture on our home course to make up for it. On the day though well played and congratulations to Lamlash on a resounding victory.