Louise Duncan (West Kilbride) was the only Scot to qualify into the finals of the Telegraph Vitality Junior Golf Championship where only the top 7 girls in the G.B. & I. have the opportunity to play at Quinta do Lago in Portugal....the remaining two places are for the 2016 winner plus a sponsor's invite.   The 54 hole final finished today, results are as follows:-

• Annabell Fuller (71, 74, 70) -1
• Lily May Humphreys (74, 75, 79) +12
• Martha Lewis (79, 80, 74) +17
• Charlotte Heath (70. 81, 82) +17
• Annabel Wilson (75, 79, 80) +18
• Hannah Screen (74, 82, 78) +18
• Jessica Hall (79, 83, 75) +21
• Louise Duncan (77, 82, 80) +23
• Ana Dawson (78, 82, 84) +28

Very well done Louise, hope you had an amazing trip! 😊

Honorary Membership for Connie Jaffrey

At last nights AGM the members unanimously accepted the proposal of Connie Jaffrey, Troon Ladies, for Honorary Membership of the Ayrshire Ladies County Golf Association.

New Captain, Liz Wilson, Barassie, highlighted a number of Connie's many golfing achievements over the past 9 years. From her debut in the Junior Kennedy Salver team in 2008, aged 12, to winning the Scottish Ladies Amateur Championship this year and many other highs in between!

Connie is in her final year at Kansas State University where she recently picked up her 4th individual title with an impressive 3 round total of 9 under par.

Connie was absolutely delighted to accept this honour.

Rachel Foster (Turnberry) has been selected to represent Scotland in an Under 16's match against England at Montrose Links from 30th September - 1st October.   Massive congratulations Rachel, we're sure you'll do well!   Enjoy 😊

Scottish Girls Under 14's

Rachel Foster (Turnberry) finished in 8th place with rounds of 81 and 79 (+12) in the Scottish Girls' Under 14 Open at Crail.  Well done Rachel!   Hannah Darling the 13 year old winner of the Scottish Girls' last month won the Under 14's with a 2 under par total.

Home Internationals

Good luck to team Ayrshire team player Louise Duncan, playing this week in the Scottish Girls Home International team at Little Aston Golf Club along with Hazel MacGarvie from Troon Ladies.
Past Ayrshire champion Connie Jaffrey is also playing in the ladies team.

Good luck girls. We know you'll do us proud! 😊

Connie Jaffrey - Scottish Amature Champion 2017!

Connie used a brilliant short game and excellent putting to surge five up at the turn, having gone out in four under par with birdies at the first, fourth, sixth and ninth.
Clara Young did not win a hole until the 11th but it triggered off a two-under-par run which saw her also win the 12th, 13th, 14th and 15th - five in a row, a magnificent fightback which saw her square the match on the 15th. However the miserable weather saw to Clara's rally petered out. She bogeyed the 16th to go one down again and then was plugged in the thick and wet rough with her second shot at the 18th, moving the ball only a few feet, and eventually conceded a 10ft birdie putt to go down by two holes.

Well done Connie! We are all very proud of you and good luck next week!

Liz Keohone is ALCGA Champion 2017

Liz Keohone, (Loudoun Gowf Club) is the new Ayrshire Ladies County Champion, winning the title in her year as Captain. It was a great final between Liz and Jane Finnie, Troon Ladies, with Liz winning at the 19th hole.

Jane got off to a great start winning the first 2 holes, the next 4 holes were exchanged before Liz won 8 and 9 to square the match. Liz then chipped in at the 10th to go ahead for the first time in the game. Eleven and 12 were halved in pars before Jane took 3 holes in a row to be 2 up with 3 to play. Sixteen was halved, then a par on 17 was enough for Liz to take the match down 18 where a great chip secured a 4 and a win.

Despite good approach shots to the 19th green neither found the putting surface with Jane running into some trouble at the back of the green. A good up and down from Liz was enough for her to win the hole and the title.

The match was watched by a good crowd who were certainly entertained by the quality of the golf from both finalists in tricky conditions. The better ball score for the 18 holes played being 3 over par.

 Well done to everyone who played this week!

Captains message

Dear Member

May I take this opportunity as your Captain for 2017 to wish you all the very best for the year ahead.

Although last years weather was not the best, it was again kind to Ayrshire ladies on most of our competition days, and I hope this year we find ourselves back to golfing in tee shirts, with less wind and rain.

Hopefully most of you who can, have paid your fees on line, but we still take cheques and of course any new friends you have that would like to join would be very welcome.

The website is ready for your competition entries with our first exciting competition being the Championship at Glasgow Gailes on Monday 10th – Wednesday12th April.

DATES FOR YOUR DIARY

The West of Scotland Championship this year is on home turf, being held at Kilmarnock Barassie on Sunday 7^th May.  Maximum handicap is 15, watch out for information on the website on how to enter.

The Jamboree this year is at Hamilton Golf Club 12-14 June where we hope to see plenty of green support. Eleanor will be delighted to take your name anytime for caddying, but support of any kind would be Very Very much appreciated.

The Kennedy Salver will be held this year at Clober Golf club on the 19th June, so please come and support the future of Ayrshire.

Please contact me at any time, especially with good golfing news.

The ALCGA website will help to keep you informed of all our competitions and news.

I wish you the very best for the year ahead whether it's Club, County, West or National level.

Liz Keohone

Captain