MCLGA Centenary Tri Am

A fantastic day was had by 162 MCLGA members and guests at Duddingston today, continuing our centenary celebrations.



Our Captain and President got the event off to a flying start when they teed off first this morning bright and early, and whizzed round in their buggy, putting their names on all the nearest the hole/ longest drive notices. (Yes it was a Tri Am but they thought they would be different).

Everyone seemed to enjoy themselves for the first 6 holes (1 ball counting) and even the next 6 holes were fun with 2 balls counting. But when we all got to all 3 counting the pressure mounted, especially for my team (sorry ladies!). Some great golf was played, with ‘longest drives’ that seemed unreal and ‘nearest pins’ that I am sure must have been placed there ….and unbelievably, two holes in one by Pat Jackson of Kingsknowe at the 6th and Linda Boyle of Harburn at the 14th. Congratulations ladies.

Fun was the name of the game today and lots of laughter could be heard around the course and in the clubhouse. Thanks to everyone who took part, our guests from East Lothian, Fife and Stirling and Clackmannanshire counties and to everyone who helped with the organisation and helped on the desk, especially Karen Ballantyne, Mairi Pollock and Agnes Leslie. Thanks also to Duddingston Golf Club for all their support in running the event.

The results were as follows:




1st Moyra Statham, Lynn Cackett & Sandra Cackett (Broomieknowe) (134)






2nd Pam Williamson, Joan Marshall & Karen Marshall (Baberton) (137)
3rd Linda Allen, Louise MacGregor & Elizabeth Goodwin (Stirling & Clackmannanshire) (138)
4th Sheila McEwan, Dorothy Wilson & Linda Boyle (Harburn) (140)
5th Sheila Keddie, Lyndsey Hunter & Fiona Carlyle (Dalmahoy) (142 bih)


Click here for the sponsored hole prizewinners

Centenary Tri Am Draw

Click HERE for the updated Centenary Tri Am draw for Thursday 9 July 2009. We hope you have a fabulous day! If any team needs to withdraw, please contact MCLGA Vice Captain, Mary Richardson, by telephone on 07850 858608.

Centenary Tri Am Draw

Click HERE for the Centenary Tri Am draw. The event, which is part of our centenary celebrations, is being held at Duddingston Golf Club on Thursday 9 July 2009. There are generous team vouchers to be won as well as sponsored prizes at every hole! We hope you have a fabulous day!

If any team needs to withdraw, please contact MCLGA Vice Captain, Mary Richardson, by telephone on 07850 858608.

Only one week left to enter!

Don't forget to put your entry in for the Centenary Tri Am - the closing date is 14 June 2009. The event, which is part of our centenary celebrations, is being held at Duddingston Golf Club on Thursday 9 July 2009. There are generous team vouchers to be won as well as sponsored prizes at every hole! Click HERE to download an entry form.

Centenary Tri-Am

Don't forget to put your entry in for the Centenary Tri Am - the closing date is 14 June 2009. The event, which is part of our centenary celebrations, is being held at Duddingston Golf Club on Thursday 9 July 2009. Click HERE to download an entry form.

Centenary TriAm

Don't forget to put your entry in for the Centenary Tri Am to be held at Duddingston Golf Club on Thursday 9 July 2009.
Click HERE to download an entry form.

The closing date for entries is 14 June 2009.

Centenary Tri Am

The Centenary Tri Am will be held at Duddingston Golf Club on Thursday 9 July 2009. Entry forms are now available from your MCLGA club rep or you can download a form HERE. The entry fee is £21 per team or you can enter on your own (£7) and we will do our best to make up teams.

The closing date for entries is 14 June 2009. This will be a fun day and an important date in the MCLGA centenary celebrations - so get your teams organised and enter now! As well as the main team prizes, there will be speacial prizes at every hole.

Centenary Tri-Am Competition

There was some confusion at the Centenary Lunch over the date for the Tri-Am competition. It turns out that Ethel had the correct date and the hecklers were wrong!

Please note that the Centenary Tri-Am Competition will be held on THURSDAY 9th JULY 2009 at Duddingston Golf Club. A poster and entry forms will be handed out to the Club Reps at the Committee Meeting on Wednesday 25th February. Entry will be in groups of three, two or individually.

The Centenary Tri-Am Sub-committee are planning a lot of fun prizes and we hope as many of you as possible will be able to play.

Midlothian Centenary starts with a bang!

NEW! Images from Tiger Lilys on Karen Ballantyne's Picasa site NEW!
If anyone else has pictures they would like to share, please let Gill know

Midlothian County Past Champions
Back row L to R: Marion Quigley, Ethel Jack, Joan Marshall,
Fiona Verth, Elaine Bruce, Sheila Little and Fiona deVries
Front Row L to R: Claire Hargan, Belinda Murphy,
Claire Provan, Karen Marshall amd Fiona Hunter
Mary Norval and Margaret Allen, who were both at the lunch, managed to escape the photograph!
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Edinburgh didn't know what hit it yesterday, when 177 Midlothian members and guests descended on the Roxburghe Hotel for a luncheon to celebrate the centenary of the County Association.

Many people got there early so as not to miss any of the fun, and they were not disappointed. County Captain Tracy Laughland welcomed guests from the neighbouring counties, East Lothian, Fife and Stirling and Clackmannan, as well as MCLGA sponsors, Jill Dumayne from The Ladies Golf Centre and Ian Young from the Braid Hills Driving Range. The guest list also included representatives of the Scottish Universities Golfing Society, against whom Midlothian have played in an annual match since 1930.

Before lunch Centenary Chairman, Gillian Kirkwood, set the scene with a description of the start of the Midlothian County club, Past President, Sue Caton said Grace and the assembled company tucked in to a delicious meal.

During the meal a prize draw for a round with friends at Archerfield, donated by Ian Young, was won by Past Captain, Elizabeth Rose, who had journeyed from her home near Aboyne to be present.

The speeches after lunch were not short of sensational.

The toast to the Game of Golf was given by Helen Faulds, a Past Captain and Past President of Dunbartonshire and Argyll County LGA. Her humourous and witty speech was interupted by a fire alarm, which only added to the occasion as doors to George Street were opened and 177 lightly dressed people trooped out onto the street on a bitterly cold Edinburgh afternoon. Spirits were high and everyone remained cheerful... it gave some another chance to have a chin-wag with long-lost friends. After about 15 minutes the all-clear was given and the company resumed their seats... Helen carried on as if nothing had happened and, at its conclusion, her scintillating speech received a standing ovation.

Janet Wake, Executive Director of the SLGA, and a past Captain of Midlothian, had a hard act to follow. Her well thought out reply, with her theme of Burns at its centre, was appreciated by the audience.

Nigel Watt, Past Captain of the Scottish Univerities Golfing Society toasted the Midlothian County Ladies Golf Association, and regaled the company with some of the history of the annual fixture between MCLGA and SUGS, in particlar mentioning some of the personalities who played and some of the funny stories from the match that he remembered.

Margaret Rodgers, President of MCLGA, replied and also added some of her own reminiscences to the occasion. Camaraderie and friendship were the themes that ran through all the speeches, and the audience certainly appreciated the efforts of all the speakers.

Who would be more appropriate to have the last word than Ethel Jack, current President of the SLGA, and a Past Champion, Captain and President of Midlothian? True to form, and in her own inimitable way, Ethel gave a Vote of Thanks that was truly memorable. The County Secretary, Agnes Leslie and Past Captain, Margaret McPherson, were particularly mentioned as instrumental to the success of the event.

The event eventually finished at the Roxburghe at 4:30 pm.

Reports of an invasion of middle-aged women to Tiger Lilys with Baberton and Kingsknowe competing to see who would be the last to leave in the small hours, have not been exaggerated. [I've been asked to point out that not every-one was middle-aged.... there were some younger members there!]

The unedited images from my camera can be viewed on my Picasa site

Midlothian Past Presidents
L to R: Ethel Jack, Sue Caton, Margaret Rodgers (current President), Sheena Crearie, Joan Marshall

Midlothian Past Captains
Back Row L to R: Helen Shah, Barbara Cooper, Ethel Jack, Sue Caton, Margaret Rodgers,
Anne Brownie, Joan Marshall, Fiona Verth, and Elizabeth Rose.
Front Row L to R: Ellice Cackett, Gillian Kirkwood, Karen Ballantyne,
Tracy Laughland (current Captain), Margaret McPherson and Janet Wake.

Centenary Lunch

Less than two weeks to go until the Midlothian Centenary Lunch at the Roxburghe Hotel. We have 176 going and the list has closed.

Your committee are looking forward to greeting our members and guests on Saturday 24th January at 12 noon.

A host of speakers will entertain the diners.

Midlothian Centenary Lunch

The lunch is on Saturday 24th January 2009 in the Roxburghe Hotel Edinburgh.
The cost for the meal and drinks is £35.
Your club rep has a copy of the menu and will be collecting your payment.
Hope you will be able to go to the lunch and join in the celebration of 100 years of County golf.