Members’ News 2007 (21st December 2007)

Clubhouse Availability over the Festive Period
Although the clubhouse will be open, there will be no cluhouse catering/Bar available on Boxing Day 2007 and 2nd January 2008.
The clubhouse will be closed on January 1st 2008

Gents Locker/Changing Room
There are a number of personal items - shoes, jackets, trousers, socks, bags, etc. in the locker/changing rooms that have been there for some considerable time.
Any item in the rooms at 7am on Monday 7th Jan 2008 will be removed and disposed of on that day.

HOUSE COMMITTEE

Contents of Lockers
Please note that the Club takes no responsibility for the loss of or damage to the contents of lockers.
The Committee recommends that locker users make suitable arrangements to insure locker contents through their house contents policy.

BCGC COMMITTEE

Win a Christmas Hamper - Stroke Play Competition for Ladies and Gents
Saturday, 22nd of December
Prizes for the Best Net Scores
One Class
Gents Play from the Yellow Tees
3/4 Handicap for Gents, Full Handicap for Ladies
Winter Rules Apply
Book a Time with the Pro on the Day
Return the Cards to the Boxes in the Changing Rooms
£2.00 Entry Fee (No Two’s Competition)

STRI Course Report
For those interested in the condition of the course the attached report details how the programme for developing the greens and other areas of the course is developing.

Previous News 30th November 2007

Clubhouse Winter Opening Hours
The opening hours have been amended to better reflect the usage of the clubhouse over the winter period. Full details of bar and catering hgours are shown on the Clubhouse page.

Winter Programme - dates for your diary

Saturday 22nd DECEMBER: XMAS HAMPER STROKE
Saturday 19th JANUARY: “3 CLUB + PUTTER”, STROKE SHOTGUN
Saturday 16th FEBRUARY: STABLEFORD STROKE

(SEE NOTICE BOARD FOR DETAILS NEARER DATES)

Previous News 24th October 2007

Junior Awards
Junior Prizegiving will take place in the clubhouse on Monday 12th November at 7-00 pm. Officebearers for 2008 will be elected. The Speaker will be a well known golf personality, and a free buffet will be served. All Junior members are welcome to attend.

This year's Junior winners were:

Summer-Smith and Cadzow Quaich Trophies
This years Summer-Smith singles winner is Graham Maxwell who fought off a strong challenge from Hugh Waters.
In the Cadzow the victors were Jim Larkin and George Donaldson. Getting off to a strong start (5up) their lead was cut back to one up at one stage, but they eventually ran out winners by 4 and 3.

Previous News 10th Sept 2007

Drainage Works
External contractors will be carrying out drainage works to the 12th, 15th and 18th fairways and rough in week commencing Monday 3rd September for approximately 4 weeks [excluding Saturdays and Sundays]

In the interest of safety all golfers are required to comply with the following;

1. Where their ball lies on disturbed ground it should be lifted and dropped no closer to the hole at no penalty.

2. Where there is a possibility of striking contractor’s personnel with a golf ball it should be moved to the side as required and dropped no closer to the hole at no penalty.

Scott Trophy
After a closely fought match Ian and Janette Crawford secured the trophy for the 5th time defeating Gareth and Alison Rees on the 18th. Four down at the turn their strong comeback on the back 9 included 2's at the 11th and 14th holes.

Previous News 24th Auugust 2007

Re-arranged Fixtures
Two competitions recently affected by adverse weather conditions have been re-arranged as follows:

The cancelled August Medal will be replayed on Saturday 29th September in place of the optional medal scheduled for that day. Any monies paid on the cancelled day will go into the 2's sweep. A new starting sheet will be placed on the notice board.

The cancelled Downs Cup competition will now be played on Saturday 13th October. The original starting sheet for that competition will apply. Any member who has his name on the original starting sheet and can not play on the new date should amend the starting sheet before the 1st of October. Any monies from members who withdraw from the competition will go to a recognized charity.

Finals Day
After torrential rain on Saturday causing the abandonment of the Downs Cup, things improved considerably to allow Finals Day to go ahead in reasonable conditions.
 
The Gents and junior competitions played over 36 holes resulted in some well fought matches.

 
In the battle for the Club Championship Donald Blair (Above) and Alex Ritchie were all square after 18 holes but some impressive play by former champion Donald, back in the final after a gap of a few years, resulted in him winning the title again by 5 & 4.
 
In the Juniors Class 1 Kieran Muldoon had a titanic struggle against Jonathan Calder (Below) but he eventually proved too strong  for Jonathan ending up winning by a score of 3 & 2.

L-R: Gordon Currie, Fraser Craig, Jonathan Calder & Kieran Muldoon

Gordon Currie played Fraser Craig (Above) in the Juniors Class 2 final. After some impressive play by Gordon he eventually ran out the winner by 5 & 4
 
The ladies final over 18 holes was between Fiona Scott and Hilary Stuart . Hilary playing in the final for the first time was up against multiple winner Fiona whose experience and strong play was enough to secure victory by a 5 & 4 margin.
 
In the Gents Seniors, Norrie Good was again in the final and this time he eventually secured victory at the 16th hole against Ian Crawford.
 
Congratulations to everyone on their success.

Previous News 25th July 2007

MacMillan and Sinclair Salvers
The MacMiilan trophy this year goes to a new (but still well known) senior member of the club. With a solid first round of 69 and an even better 67 in the second round, Harry Marsh won the trophy by 2 clear shots from last year's club champion Ian Hynds (72 & 66). In third place was Robert Hope with scores of 71 & 67.

Other notable individual rounds were 66 by Hugh Watters in the morning and a best of the day 65 in the afternoon by Iain Walker.

Harry celebrates his win in style.

The Sinclair Salver for best gross score was won by Forbes Butterfield with a very creditable score of 141 over the 2 rounds, four shots ahead of Nicol Rennie.

There were also outstanding performances by 3 juniors, athough not eligible to win the trophy, they were competing to qualify for the club championship. The 3 successful youngsters were Jonny Glen, Kieran Muldoon and Colin Baird.

Braidwood Cup
The juniors contested the four round Braidwood Cups from July 2nd to 5th and despite the many rain showers, the competitions were completed, with Jak Muir lifting the prestigious boys' trophy with a four round net total of 259. Richard Murray had led the field for three rounds but with an excellent final round of 65, Jak secured a six shot winning lead. Well done also to 10 year old Eva O'Connor for winning the girls' event with a total of 355 for the four rounds. The best gross prize was won by Alan Henderson (333) and the best single round prize was won by Kieran Muldoon with an excellent third round of 70 gross.

From left: Jak Muir, Richard Murray, Eva O'Connor, Jack Devlin, Euan Murray, President Alex Braidwood

A big thank you to all those that supported the above junior event, particularly to those members who so generously donated the excellent prizes.

Match Secretary

Alex Ritchie the Match Secretary is retiring in November 2007 after three years in the post.

Applications to the Secretary are invited from Members who have an interest in the position.

David McNaught
Secretary
05 July 2007

Previous News 30th June 2007

More Success for Pamela
In a field of 63 players, Pamela Pretswell won the Scottish Schoolgirls' title by seven strokes from the favourite, Kelsey MacDonald (Highland) with scores of 68 and 70 over the Gullane No 2 and No 3 courses for a fine total of 138.
Pamela was also runner up in the Munross Trophy over the Montrose Links medal course only losing out to the Renfrewshire Womens’s County Champion Megan Briggs. As a result of her recent play Pamela’s handicap is now +1.

Not once… but twice
Just to confirm that the first time was'n just luck, Gillian Madden recently had 2 hole in ones in the space of a couple of weeks, one of which was in a medal competition which qualified her for the competition run by the Glasgow Herald from which her name came out of the hat as winner.

When did one of the men last achieve something like this!

Previous News 29th May 2007

Pamela wins Lanarkshire Ladies Championship
Congratulations to Pamela Pretswell for securing another trophy, the Lanarkshire County Ladies Championship at Cathkin Braes, defeating Scotland International and current Scottish Women’s Open Golf Champion Jenna Watson of Strathaven by one hole in the final.

This is Pamela’s first county title and her success prevented her more experienced opponent completing a hat-trick of title wins. Pamela joins a long list of illustrious champions dating back to 1928 and which includes many internationlists.

Former Bothwell Castle winners include Mrs J C Scott (1980 and 1986), Miss Fiona McKay(1988 & 1992) and Mrs A L Prentice (1996)

Low scoring in Junior Daily Telegraph event.
In the annual junior event sponsored by the Daily Telegraph 10 of the 19 boys who played had net scores of par or better. Playing from the competition tees on a day interrupted by showers and blustery winds, the scoring by the juniors was particularly good. Scott Doris and Alan Henderson both shot 64 s and Scott collected the famous Daily Telegraph tee shirt on a count back. The boys also qualified to appear on the Daily Telegraph leader board.

Food for Late Golfers
Now that the golf season is in full swing with ties to be played, the kitchen is offering the opportunity for golfers not back in the clubhouse by 9.45 (weekdays) to pre-order a limited range of items to be served after 9.45. These must be ordered before 9pm.

Choose from:

Cold filled rolls £1.65
Baguettes £2.90
Sandwiches £2.10
Wrapes £1.45

with the following choice of fillings:

Chicken mayonnaise
Ham
Cheese
Tuna mayonnaise
Savory cheese
Salad

Continued Junior Success
Colin Baird has continued his successful run and won the Lanarkshire Junior Spring Meeting at Carnwath with a gross score of 69.

Previous News 26th April 2007

New Access Track Construction
A new track is to be constructed to provide direct access for use by greenstaff to the part of the course through the gap. This will prevent unnecessary damage to the course in years to come.
The map below shows the route and the different construction sections shown are also explained.



Section A - existing track to be scarified and widened to 3mm and new surface added.
Section B - New track created through the woods
Section C - New track over existing rough adjacent to the wood
Section D - Excavate edge of 17th tee and lay new track over existing pathway
Section E - New track over existing rough and 17th fairway
Section F - New track over edge of existing 18th tee
Section G - Existing track to be scarified and new surface added.

10 Year Plan Presentation
There will be a presentation of the 10 Year Plan (PDF) in the clubhouse on Thursday 3rd May at 7.30pm. All members welcome.

Catering - Weekend Mornings
For a trial period of one month starting on Saturday 28th Apri until Sunday 20th May the kitchen will open at 9.00am on Saturday and Sunday to provide bacon rolls etc. Please make use of the facility if you want the option to continue.

South Lanarkshire Council Hygene Report
In the recently published Hygene reports the golf club got a creditable 2* rating for hygene, ahead of most other eating establishments in the Bothwell area.

Scottish Boys’ Championship
Two of our Juniors, Colin Baird and Ian Williamson both gave good accounts of themselves in the Scottish Boys’ Championship at Dunbar last week.
Colin was beaten on the last green in the third round, and Ian had a marathon game in the first round, finally losing at the 22nd hole. Well done to both boys

Saturday Medal Times
The draw for all Men's Saturday medal times will in future be posted as Saturday Medal Sheet(PDF file) on this website on the main Members Page. It will be updated before noon on the Thursday preceding the medal. This will save members having to come up to the club to check their allocated tee off time and also reduce the number of calls at peak times to the professional shop.

STRETCH YOUR DRIVING AND YOUR MUSCLES
Golf has evolved over the years into a sport that has embraced new technology in equipment alongside the realisation that the body has to function properly to achieve optimum ball striking.
The use of massage and manipulation to assist in the healing of stiff and painful backs, necks, shoulders and legs and the use of stretching exercises to improve flexibility offers the Club Golfer a new avenue to explore playing golf injury-free and with improved fitness and flexibility.
I am sure this is the way ahead to better golf.

If you need further information contact:

David S. Webb
Physical Health Practitioner
eldav@tiscali.co.uk
01698 420800

Previous News 26th March 2007

New Distance Markers
Three varieties of trees have been planted, where hole shape allows, to indicate distances to the centre of the green. For those of you with an arboreal interest species used are:
200yds - Scots Pine, 150yds - Larch, 100yds - Thuja

New Committee
This year's new Club Captain is Colin Weir and the Vice Captain is John Duncan. The AGM also appointed Hamish Watson and George Waterston as new Members to the Committee.
 
The Committee has since agreed to co-opt Alice Brown, Stafford Hamilton and Bob Read, thereby fulfilling the requirement for 12 Committee Members.
 
Bob Moonie has been co-opted as a Sub-Committee Member.
 
The Sub-Committees will comprise the Captain and Vice Captain along with the following (the first named being Convener):
 
Ways & Means - J. Murphy

Greens - D. Harvey, D. O’Shea, H. Watson

House - G. Waterston, P. Bellew, S. Gallon,E. Stirrat

Match - R. Napier, S. Gallon, S. Hamilton, R. Moonie

Social - A. Brown, P. Bellew, E. Stirrat

Juniors - R. Read, R. Moonie, S. Hamilton, D.O’Shea, H. Watson

Past Captain Mackie will be collaborating with John Murphy in Ways & Means and also reviewing the administration processes.
 
Vice Captain John Duncan would be dealing with the 10 Year Plan and assisting in course matters. 
 
Captain Weir will be co-ordinating activities and working in the House area with George Waterston.

Dress Code
Following the large response to the questionnaire distributed to all members a relaxation of the Dress Code has been adopted and will be initiated for a trial period of one year. Please support the club and staff by making sure that you and your guests do not transgress the code. View the Dress Code page for the revised rules.

Match
The next club match is a friendly with East Kilbride on Sunday 29th April.
 
Dates of next Committee Meetings
Main Meeting – Tuesday, 27th March at 7.00pm
Greens – Tuesday, 6th March at 5.00pm
Juniors – Thursday, 8th March at 5.30pm
Social – Tuesday, 13th March at 5.30pm.
Match - Tuesday, 13th March at7.00pm
House – Thursday, 15th March at 5.30pm
Ways & Means - TBA

Friday 23 March Charity Sportsman's Dinner - click here for further details

Re-arranged Shotgun competition - 10th February
The previously cancelled competition (20th January) has now been rearranged for Saturday 10th February. The previous entry list will be used and is still up on the notice board.

CANCELLATION of Shotgun Competition Saturday 20th January
Agaon, due to the recent inclement weather the above competition has been cancelled

CANCELLATION of Shotgun Competition Saturday 13th January
Due to the recent inclement weather the above competition has been cancelled.

COMMITTEE NOTICE FOR 2007/8

VICE CAPTAIN 2007
The committee has agreed to nominate Mr John Duncan, 35 Elie Road, Blantyre for the office of Vice Captain for 2007. The nomination will be submitted at the Annual General Meeting.

COMMITTEE
Messers R Moonie, R Read, J Rodger and Mrs A Brown are due to retire, having completed their terms of office. They are all eligible for re election.

Nominations of Members of at least three years standing should be sent to the Secretary signed by at least two Members and countersigned by nominees not later than 1 January 2007. The nominations shall be posted on the Notice Board in the Clubhouse, when received, and shall be intimated in the Circular calling the Annual General Meeting’.

The appropriate forms are available in the Office and at the Bar.

Upcoming Clubhouse Events

Burns Supper - Friday 19 January
Guest Speaker for the Imortal Memory - Sandy Strang
A traditional evening - meal and entertainment
Our annual celebration of Burns. All Welcome. Please book at the bar.
£20.00 per person

Annual Dinner Dance - Saturday 3 February
Gala Evening of the year
Tickets £25.00 per person available from the bar

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