Whitburgh Cup – 2023

We had excellent weather for our annual scratch open tournament. Virtually no breeze and a hot spell of sunshine. The dry weather over the last few days, made it a fast running track though; and this along with some tricky pins made shooting low very challenging. Nevertheless there was some good golf played.

Many thanks to all the staff and volunteers at Newbattle today for helping the day run smoothly. A special shout out to the green-keeping staff for preparing the course to such excellent condition – lots of compliments from the players today. Also many thanks to our catering and bar staff for keeping everyone fed and watered, and to the guys in the pro-shop for getting everyone registered and away smoothly.

Prizes are awarded for the top 6 scratch totals, and the best 3 handicap totals over 36 holes. Vouchers for the winners will be sent to your home clubs where you will be able to collect them.

As ever, if you qualify for both a handicap and a scratch prize, you will receive only the higher valued award and the next eligible player will pick up the voucher.

Where scores are tied, the ties are settled by whoever had the best individual round, and if still tied, who had the better 2nd round.

Scratch Prize Winners

Jamie McIntosh – Ratho Park
Elliot Innes – Newbattle
Graham Bell – Bathgate
William Henderson – Musselburgh
Stuart Blair – Royal Musselburgh
Craig Surgeon – Liberton

Handicap Prize Winners

Liam Glen – Newbattle
Matthew Stewart – Broomieknowe
Paul Hares – Newbattle

If you had a 2, and you entered the 2 sweep – please contact the professional shop on 0131 660 1631 for details of how to redeem your prize. Scott or Craig will be happy to help you.

We hope all the players enjoyed their day. We look forward to welcoming many of you back next year

Congratulations to all the winners today. Full results are available below.

Whitburgh Cup – Gross Scores

Whitburgh Cup – Nett Scores

Championships 2023 – Draws

Finalists have been decided throughput June and we have the following line-up for Finals day – June 24th:

Seniors Championship: Peter Hardwick vs Graham Lyall
C Class Championship: Gordon Bold vs Paul Armstrong
B Class Championship: Edward Kilanowski vs John Birrell
A Class Championship: Chris Shortreed vs Chris Burrell
Championship Match: Scott Rutherford vs Jeff O’Malley

Ladies Championship: Fiona Winchester vs Margaret Hobbins
Ladies Bronze Championship: Ann Cockburn vs Liz Coull

All the draws, and results to date can be found below

Gents Championship Draw Final – 2023

Senior Championship Draw – Final – 2023

C Class Championship Draw – Final – 2023

B Class Championship Draw – Final – 2023

A Class Championship Final – 2023

Ladies Championship Draw – Final – 2023

Ladies Bronze Championship Draw – Final – 2023

Raymond Smart Trophy Results – 2023

After a foggy start to the day – it turned out to be a great day for golf – warm, dry and with barely a breath of wind.

Many thanks to all the staff and volunteers at Newbattle today for helping the day run smoothly; the course was in great condition, especially given the challenges of some weather damage over last winter. We got a lot of compliments on the day about the preparation of the course.

Also many thanks to our volunteer starters, the guys in the pro-shop and our bar and kitchen staff who all contributed greatly to make all our visitors feel very welcome.

Prizes are awarded for the top 10 handicap totals, and the best 4 scratch scores. Vouchers for the winners will be sent to your home clubs where you will be able to collect them.

As ever, if you qualify for both a handicap and a scratch prize, you will receive only the higher valued prize and the next eligible player will pick up the other voucher.

Prestonfield players made a particularly strong showing this year, as you’ll notice; and we thank them for once again for supporting our tournament so heavily.

Handicap Prize Winners

Alistair Black – Newbattle
Steven Clark – Prestonfield
Paul Wilson – Musselburgh
Conor McCullough – Prestonfield
Gavin Hay – Prestonfield
Ian Cowan – Prestonfield
Keith Anderson – St Andrews
James Quinn – St Boswells
Anthony Lewis – Ravelston
Alan J Thomson – Prestonfield

Scratch Prize Winners

Keith McFarlane – Edinburgh Western
Neil Redhead – Galashiels
John Buchan – Forres
Gareth Wallace – Newbattle

If you had a 2 and you entered the 2 sweep – please contact the professional shop on 0131 660 1631 for details of how to redeem your prize. Scott or Craig will be happy to help you.

We hope all the players enjoyed their day. We look forward to welcoming many of you back next year

Congratulations to all the winners today. Full results are available below.

Raymond Smart 2023 – Nett Scores

Raymond Smart 2023 – Gross Scores

Hole & Hole draws – Gents (2023) – Quarter Final Line-ups

The match play competitions have reached the quarter final stages

Please add a a phone number to the draw sheets in the club if you haven’t already

Closing date for the quarter finals is August 13th – so please contact your opponents in good time get your ties played.

The full rules for the competitions are also posted on the notice-board beside the draws

Good luck to you all – Here are the updated draws

H & H foursomes Draw Sheet – QF – 2023

H & H Singles Draw Sheet – QF – 2023

Senior Mixed Open Greensomes 2022

The senior mixed open greensomes took place on Wednesday September 30th and the course played very well – as shown by the excellent scoring on the day

The course was in great condition for the event, and thanks go to out greenkeeping team for the preparation of the course to a great standard.

Here are all the prize-winners for the day – Senior Mixed open greensomes results
Full results can be found on HowdidIdo.

Many thanks to all the bar and catering staff, for their service on the day. We hope all players enjoyed their day and hope to see many of you back next year.

As always, any couple who qualify to win both a scratch and a handicap prize, will only receive the higher valued prize, with the other being awarded to the next best couple.

A very special mention must go out to John Hunter, who hit a hole-in-one at the 8th hole on Wednesday – the 4th of his career, which helped himself and wife Leslie to a 3rd place finish.

Prize vouchers for the winners will be sent to your home clubs. In addition, anyone who entered the 2s sweep and had a 2 – please contact the pro shop directly about your prize – Scott or Craig will be happy to help – call them on 0131 660 1631.

Gents Silloth 2022

Thanks to everyone who participated in this years invitational Silloth competition, which took place over both days of this weekend (30th and 31st July 2022)

Silloth is a great event (with the most complex handicapping system known to man) that welcomes guests from other clubs.

There were some terrific scores on both days and the list of winners is attached below – 6 handicap and 2 scratch prizes were awarded – congratulations to the winners

Many thanks to all those who helped on both days; and to the bar staff, catering and greens staff for making the day such a success. We always need volunteers to help make our tournament days run as smoothly as possible, especially where there are external visitors – to welcome them to our course and make their day as enjoyable as possible.

And, here are the results – many congratulations to all the winners. Your vouchers can be picked up in the Pro shop; all vouchers are held under the winning members names for you to share. Also any sweep money for 2s can be picked up in the pro shop.

Silloth 2022 Results

Gents Senior Open 2022

The Newbattle gents seniors open took place over 2 days on Tuesday and Wednesday 26th and 27th July. The weather was excellent for both days and the course was presented in excellent condition which led to some great scoring over the 2 day tournament.

Many thanks to all the bar and catering staff, for their service on the day. Also many thanks go out to the staff in the pro shop and all the volunteers who helped prepare the course, and helped with starting all the players across the 2 days. We could not put these events on without this support.

And once again many thanks to our green staff for preparing the course to such a great standard in advance of the tournament days. A lot of the visitors told us they loved the course and admired the condition it was in.

We hope all participants enjoyed their day and we hope to see many of you back next year. A lot of you have told us you would definitely be back which is great to hear.

Prizes are awarded for the top 7 handicap scores, and for the top two scratch scores in each age category (where any player qualifies for a prize in both scratch and handicap, only the higher award is paid, with the smaller prize moving onto the next best player in the relevant category).

There were some cracking scores over the 2 days, and Alastair Purves from the Woll emerged as the overall champion for 2022 with an excellent Nett score of 61. Here is a list of all the prize winners.

Newbattle Gents Seniors Open 2022

Prize vouchers for all the winners will be sent to your home clubs.

In addition, anyone who entered the 2s sweep and had a 2 – please contact the pro shop directly about your prize – Scott or Craig will be happy to help – call them on 0131 660 1631.

See you all next year!

Ladies Singles Open – results

The annual ladies open was a huge success and enjoyed by everyone who played on the day.

Many thanks to all the staff and volunteers at Newbattle today for helping the day run smoothly, and a special shout out to the green-keeping staff for preparing the course to such excellent condition. Thanks also to our gallant starters.

Prizes are awarded for the top 9 handicap scores, and the best 2 scratch within both categories.

As ever, if you qualify for both a handicap and a scratch prize, you will receive only the higher valued prize.

We at Newbattle, hope you enjoyed your day, and that you will return next year.

The results are attached below.

LADIES OPEN RESULTS

Ladies Senior Greensomes Open

We had a great day at the ladies senior greensomes yesterday. The course was immaculate, and the scores reflected this, with nearly half the field being under par.

Many thanks to all the staff and volunteers at Newbattle for help the day run smoothly, and special thanks to the green-keeping staff for the presentation of the course. Honourable mentions also to our starters on the day, Jim Johnstone, Alan Mac Donald and Ian Sneddon. Thanks again gentlemen.

Congratulations to all the winners. Your vouchers will be sent to you in the next couple of days.

Full results are below.

LADIES SENIOR GREENSOMES RESULTS 2022

Championship Finals 2022

There is a lot of work that goes into the annual championships both before the day, and on the day itself. With 7 championships to decide over the course of the day it was great to see such good support out on the course and the course itself being in such excellent condition.

The day started early for the greens staff and volunteers who were out from 5am preparing the course to its usual excellent standard. Our thanks go out to them and also to all of the bar staff, the catering team, Scott and Craig in the shop and all the referees and other volunteers who helped make it a very successful day.

The Winner of the Gents championship for 2022 is Jeff O’Malley who wins the title for the second time – beating Stuart Thorburn on the 36th hole of a well contested match.

The Ladies champion is Mo Cunningham who won for an incredible 20th time. Mo beat last year’s winner Margaret Hobbins in the final. Mo couldn’t attend the prize-giving, but we managed to catch her later to get a photo of her with her trophy. Here are Mo and Margaret with their trophies

The Senior champion is Fraser Jervis. Fraser was Runner-up last year, but this year went one better, beating Davy Linn in an excellent match that required 4 extra holes to determine the winner.

The A Class championship finished with a victory for Alan Greenhill who beat Shaun Ramsay in the final.

And in the B Class, Mike Korotkich won a handsome victory against Gary Bennett.

In the C Class final, Archie Pottinger emerged as the winner against Chris Duncan

And in the Ladies Bronze championship it was Karen Elliot who went one better than last year, as last year’s runner-up went on to clinch victory against Betty Inglis. And here are Karen and Betty with their trophies…