FINAL BRIDGE SESSION - Tuesday, 25 March

The last session of this winter's Ladies Afternoon Bridge took place today with a fun competition.  Everyone kept a card with their Plus and Minus scores  and the winner with 2201 points was Louise Whitehead, closely followed by Maureen Urquhart.  There were consolation prizes for Ladies  with  Minus scores, but no names!

This year we are pleased to have had several ladies, who are  relatively new to the game, joining in.  Margaret Hunter, Moira Stewart  and Maureen Reid have been on hand with help and advice and have noticed improvements in everyone’s card play as the weeks went by. 

The Bridge  sessions normally begin again in mid October.   Details will be announced later in the year.

My thanks go to everyone involved in keeping this going after Noreen Fordyce left and also to Margaret Hunter for the report and lovely photos from today.

PINEHURST - Friday, 21st March

Another great turn-out of forty ladies, including some new ladies for the fun Pinehurst competition.  Hazy sunshine tried to warm everyone up but the cool breeze made it very chilly.

The results were:

Winning team - Gill Tissell and Marion Kay with a nett 64 who were presented with golf balls.

Closely followed by runners-up Lynne Bell and Liz Fertacz with a nett 65 on c/b.

Congratulations to the winners!   My thanks go to Heather Dawson for providing a report and photo.

WINTER LEAGUE FRIENDLY v. CRAIL - Saturday, 15th March

After having the original match cancelled because of stormy weather, we were very relieved to arrive in Crail on a bright, sunny day for our final Winter League fixture. 

The match was played on the Craighead course which was a first for some Blairgowrie ladies.  The course presented many challenges with several well-placed bunkers, tricky greens and some stone dykes.  All the matches were closely contested but in the end the home team prevailed with a 3-0 win.  Afterwards we enjoyed soup and sandwiches and some friendly chat in the clubhouse.

Many thanks to the Blairgowrie team of Sheila Bruce, Carolyn Haddow, Louise Luke, Maggie Marshall, Angela Rooney and Gill Tissell (team captain) for representing the club.

BEGINNERS LINE DANCING RESCHEDULED TO MONDAY, 14th APRIL

** Original date was 24th March - now 14th April **

As you may be aware, the dining room is being refurbished.  The carpet will not be fitted until the first week in April and rather than cancel this event (I know lots of you were looking forward to it), Beginners Line Dancing will now take place on Monday, 14th April at 10.30am in the Dining Room.

Fiona Edwards will be there to teach you some moves and we hope to see as many of you there as possible.

LADIES GET TOGETHER - Friday, 14th March

I was delighted to see so many ladies at the Pre-Season Get Together.  Thirty seven ladies enjoyed an evening of fun which started with a welcome drink and lots of mingling with friends new and old.

Barbara Lonsdale put on a fabulous display of her own hand-woven golf snoods, which proved to be very popular.

Raffle prizes were up for grabs and also some summer golf gloves on sale to complete your golfing look on the course.

A lovely one course meal followed by tea/coffee and tablet was enjoyed by all.

The highlight of the evening was our special guest speaker, Heather Dewar - the multi award winning and previously the first ever female BBC sports journalist in Scotland.

Heather spoke at length giving us a rare insight into the life of a female sports reporter.  She shared stories of her own struggles which touched and inspired us all.  Her key message ..... RESILIENCE.  Never give up on your dream or anything you want in life.  

The audience were captivated by her story and asked lots of great questions which she answered honestly.

I was able to go over some golfing items before we headed home.

My thanks go to........ all of you for coming along, the catering staff for providing us with a delicious meal and for looking after us so well on the night.  To Barbara Lonsdale who worked tirelessly to create the golf snoods for the event.  The office staff for helping to print and promote the event, to my Ladies Committee who helped make the evening so special and last but not least to Heather Dewar who gave up her time to share her story.

I am also delighted to let you know that we managed to raise £456 since our last event which will go to Alzheimer Scotland.  Thank you so much for your kind donations.

Here are some photos of the evening.........

TEXAS SCRAMBLE - Friday, 14th March

Another great turnout - this time for the 16 hole Texas Scramble.  

Ten teams played on full greens on the Lansdowne course on another glorious spring day which was enjoyed by all.

Making up the winning team (on c/b) with a score of 57 were Fanny Christie, Alison Graham, Louise Luke and Moira Stewart who pipped  the runners up Eileen Brown, Fiona Edwards, Jennifer Livingston and Gill Tissell into second place!

A golf ball will be left in the Ladies locker room for each player in the winning team.  Congratulations !

WINTER SOCIAL EVENT - BEGINNERS LINE DANCING, Monday, 24th March

You are invited to come along to the last in our Winter Social Events - Beginners Line Dancing with Fiona Edwards on Monday, 24th March at 10.30am in the Dining Room.

It should be good fun !!  I hope to see as many of you there as possible.