LADY CAPTAIN'S NEWSLETTER

What a change from last year at this time – we can see green fairways! This year we have been very fortunate and have had a good start to the year with moderate turn outs for the Winter League. Let us hope this is a good omen for the forthcoming season which will be with us sooner than we think.

Thanks to the weather and the clear roads the Tuesday Bridge Group has also had a good season with record turnouts. As always, our thanks to Joy Niven and Noreen Fordyce for their guidance and patience; thanks also to Margaret Hunter and Mary Hope who help out at holiday time.

We round off the winter season with the usual Mad March Medley on 16/3/12 and Texas Scramble on 23/3/12.
The season proper begins on 30/3/12 with the traditional Captain v Vice-Captain’s Match. This will be played on Rosemount with a shotgun start at 10am after the group photograph at 9:30am.

Before these fixtures, we have the opportunity to have coaching from Charles Dernie. These sessions begin from  the 20th February.

The Ladies Get Together is on Thursday 15th March.  This is a good opportunity for new members to meet up with us; so please come along and make yourselves known. The evening begins at 6:30pm with wine and a finger buffet followed by words of wisdom from Charles. The topics will include the new technology of clubs and balls and recent changes to the rules. He will be happy to take questions.
       
The sheets for the various knock-out competitions are now up on the notice board. The entries close on Sunday 1st April.

The Senior Men v the Ladies  match on 10/4/12 has proved so popular that we have been asked to provide 20 ladies!

We were fortunate to have Sandy Bushby set up the Ladies’ Blog www.blairgowrieladies.blogspot.com a few years ago and this year Margaret Hunter has agreed to be our Blogger in Chief. However I am conscious that not everyone is on line. So I propose to print off Blogs and put them on the notice board.
Communication for ALL is important.

Margaret Kerr continues to work hard as our Competition Secretary and Katie Chapman has taken over as Match Secretary. Katie will be putting up the fixture list On March 1st and looking for volunteers for the matches.

It is nice to note that The Scottish Ladies’ Junior Open Stroke Play Championship will be held over Lansdowne 25th – 27th July.
The club will be looking for volunteers for various jobs – starting, scoring, ball spotting etc. Volunteer notices will go up in due course.

Your Fixture List will have all the important dates that you need to know. So it just remains for me to wish you all the best for the coming season, good health, good weather, straight drives and putts that drop, surely not a lot to ask!


Jean Laburn
Lady Captain

WINTER LEAGUE 17/02/2012

Beautiful day - and good scores on Rosemount.
Silver - Winner - Lesley Findlay 46 Runner up - Heather Dawson 48
Bronze - Winner - Sheila Ridgeway 42  Runner up - Morna Steven 46 (bih)

WINTER LEAGUE 10/02/12

Due to poor conditions underfoot and  consistent rain no play took place today.  

DATES FOR THE DIARY

For some reason last week's post of Dates for the Diary  could not be opened by some ladies, so here it is again, in another form.

18th February

VALENTINE DINNER

Ladies! Treat your partners to a Valentine Dinner on Saturday 18th February. You can enjoy a two course meal, with entertainment by  the Michael Buble Tribute Act, for £20.00. Tickets available from the catering staff and you may book your meal between 7.00 and 8.30pm. The entertainment starts at 9.00pm

15 March

MEMBERS GET-TOGETHER 

Ladies are invited to an An evening with Charles. This is not a French-style cabaret...the Charles in question is none other than our own Charles Dernie who will be explaining the recent changes to the Rules of Golf, giving his thoughts on how new technology affects the women's game, a chat about balls, etc, etc. There will also be some surprises. (Wow!)Tickets available soon, priced £7.00 for finger buffet and wine, at 6.30pm. This is a good chance to meet friends, catch up on golf news and welcome new members in preparation for the 2012 season.

23RD March

TEXAS SCRAMBLE

30 March 

CAPTAIN VERSUS VICE-CAPTAIN

10 April

LADIES VERSUS SENIOR GENTS

We need 20 ladies for this one, gals, please sign up asap.... sign-up sheet is in the Locker Room.

15 May

LADIES INVITATION DAY

2012 COMPETITIONS SIGN-UP SHEETS

The 2012 Knock-out competitions sign-up sheets have been posted in the Locker Room. Deadline for signing up is April 1st.

MATCHES

Dates and sign-up sheets for the 2012 matches will be posted  on the notice-board on March 1st

THANKS!!

£74 has been sent to Pancreatic Cancer Research from the proceeds of the Book Exchange. For anyone unaware how the Book Exchange operates, there is an excellent collection of books in the Locker Room which you can buy for a donation of 50p (more if you wish). If you have any books you have read and no longer wish to keep, please place them in the Book Exchange bookcase in the Locker Room.

TUESDAY AFTERNOON BRIDGE

We had  eight tables for bridge on February 7th, what a great turn-out!

Winter League 03/02/12

The thermometer may have been showing Minus 5 when the Winter League ladies stepped onto the  tee this morning but conditions  were fabulous with sparkling fairways and  brilliant sunshine. Well done to all who pitched up and congrats to the winners. Course of the day Rosemount.


Silver - winner  Jan Kennedy     42        Runner-up Margaret Hunter 48
Bronze - winner Elizabeth Tosh  47        Runner up Christine Smith 48


Winter League 27/01/12
Silver - winner  Margaret Hunter 47      Runner up Margaret Kerr 51
Bronze - winner Janet McKenzie  47     Runner up Meriel Walker   51

BURNS SUPPER 27 January 2012

The life and times of Robert Burns were celebrated in cracking style by members and guests at the annual Burns Supper on Friday 27th January. Host Alisdair Drummond opened the proceedings with the The Selkirk Grace, then the haggis was piped in and placed before an exuberant Billy Whytock whose rousing rendition of the Address to the Haggis received a hearty cheer.

We enjoyed a traditional tasty bill o' fare, before settling down to enjoy the reflections and commentary on the life and times of Burns by our talented speakers, all members of our club. How lucky we are to have so many members willing to give their time and energies to help our club.

The Immortal Memory by Jim McClurg was a sensitive and moving tribute to Burns, followed by Billy Whytock's spirited delivery of The Soldier's Return. The Toast to the Lassies by Brian Duncan raised the interesting question of the scarcity of Scottish lady poets in Burns' times, and he provided three fine examples of poems by contemporary authoresses.

Sandy Bushy replied to Brian's toast, by reflecting on how Burns might have viewed today's lady golfers, and offered a humorous poem of her own, in the style of Burns, on the way men in Blairgowrie Golf Club inter-act with Lady members. (Big cheers from the ladies!)

The evening was rounded of with a witty Vote of Thanks from Robin Duncan, followed by everyone joining in to sing Auld Lang Syne.

Congratulations must go to Liz Fertacz and her team on the Social committee for a splendid evening.
It was a Braw Nicht!

WINTER LEAGUE 20/01/2012

A dusting of snow combined with overnight frost made conditions tricky for Winter League this morning. We had great fun trying to master the uneven rocky greens, with some coping better than others.

Silver - Winner - Jan Kennedy 49 Runner up - Margaret Hunter 50
Bronze - Winner - Birte Buckett 43 Runner up - Barbara Cuthbert 46 (bih)