MIDLOTHIAN COUNTY LADIES' GOLF ASSOCIATION

2002 Archive

25 October - Midlothian Ladies' celebrate their Centenary in 2009. It may seem a long time away, but occasions such as this creep up on you fast... and we want to make sure that we celebrate in the best way possible. At the MCLGA AGM in October 2003, Gillian Kirkwood asked for volunteers to form a committee to discuss and plan for the Centenary. If you would like to be a member of this committee, please email Gill
Midlothian has a fascinating history, with a membership positively littered with British and Scottish Champions in the early years. The plan is to use the Midlothian website as a repository for the history, records, memories and reminiscences of the county and its members. There's a new link Centenary in the MCLGA Index (on the left), and information will be added over the next few years... who knows... there might be enough for a book!

23 October - Congratulations to Gillian Kirkwood (pictured left) and Vikki Laing (right). Both were elected to Honorary Membership of the County Association at the Annual General Meeting last night - Gillian for her contributions to golf at county and national level and for the web site she developed (www.kirkwoodgolf.co.uk) which has done a great amount to raise the profile of ladies golf.. Vikki for her contributions to and recognition of her tremendous achievements in amateur golf, culiminating in winning a place in the Curtis Cup Team in 2002.

23 October - Appointment of Office Bearers for 2003

30 September. Confirmation of the 5-aside team results for 2002 - Division I winners Baberton (Macfarlane Trophy), runners up Prestonfield. Divison II winners Harburn (Thomson Trophy), runners up Liberton. Congratulations to the winners and to all the team members who played and participated throughout the season.

15 September, Congratulations to Amanda Edwards (Liberton) on winning the MCLGA Junior Championship. Results

11 September, Many congratulations to Pamela Williamson (Baberton) on winning the Scottish Senior Women's Championship for a second time. Congratulations also to Noreen Fenton (Merchants of Edinburgh) who was runner up. See the full story on Gill Kirkwood's web site

6 September, The Junior Girls Championship will held at Murrayfield Golf Club on Sunday September 15th 2002 at 2 pm and will be followed by the Junior Prizegiving. Draw .raDrawdDrDrawaw

2 September, Wendy Nicholson (Torphin Hill) won the Lady Ford cup for the best Scratch at the Autumn Meeting at Craigmillar Park today. Her score of 73 was matched by Elizabeth Dunn-Butler (Prestonfield, and Wendy won on the better inward half. Both players are 5 handicap, and they also tied for the McIntyre Trophy for the best net with 68s. Once again Wendy won on the better inward half. Report and scores

1 September, Champion of Champions Final - Result. Fiona Hunter (Dundas Park) (pictured right) was the worthy winner of the Antonio Vase presented to the Champion of Champions. Fiona beat Wendy Nicholson (Torphin Hill) in the Final, playing excellent golf to be well up after nine holes, winning by 6/4. The game was played in good sportsmanship. Thanks to the Royal Burgess for granting courtesy of the course and to the Edinburgh Ladies Golf Centre for their sponsorship of this competition. The beaten semi-finalists in this competition were Betty Anderson (Deer Park) and Jane Flucker (Craigmillar Park) More photographs

21 August, It is with great sadness that we have to report the death of Vi Baptie of Craigmillar Park. Vi was an Honorary Member of the Association and acted as its Treasurer for a number of years. The funeral will take place at 11 am on Friday August 30th 2002 at Mortonhall Crematorium

20 August, Autumn Meeting Draw

24 July, Congratulations to three of our Junior members - Amanda Edwards, Lindsey Hunter and Jane Turner for their performances in recent events.
Lindsey represented Scotland in the R & A Junior Open for Under 16 boys and girls at Royal Musselburgh on July 16th and won the European category section with an excellent net score, and further reduced her handicap.
Amanda played in the BP Scottish Girls Championship at Powfoot (July 16-18), qualified for the match-play and got through to the second round.
Amanda and Jane played in the East of Scotland Girls Championship at Turnhouse (July 22-23). Amanda lost in the semi-finals by one hole to the eventual winner. Jane lost a closely contested final. Well played both!

9 July, Results of the Summer Meeting at Murrayfield.

30 June, MCLGA is delighted that Vikki Laing has successfully defended the Welsh Open Stroke Play Championship. Well done Vikki.

24-26 June, Stirling and Clackmannan win the East Division Inter-County Championship Results

19 June, Summer Meeting at Murrayfield 9th July Draw

15 June, Many congratulations to Vikki Laing on her selection for the Curtis Cup Team

7 June, MCLGA beat SUGS by three matches to one over Gullane No 2.Results

Commonwealth Spoons results