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Gents Senior Open Competition - Re-arranged date
Following the torrential rainfall that prevented the completion of the competition yesterday Tuesday 19th August, the club have re-scheduled the competition for Tuesday 26th August. All those who competed will be contacted directly. Please contact the club to indicate if you will be participating in the re-arranged event. Thank you for your support and we hope for more favourable conditions this time round.

Pamela Pretswell wins the Mackie Rosebowl plus breaks Janice Moodies's 12 year old Course Record

Scottish universities champion Pamela Pretswell (Bothwell Castle) hit peak form in winning the Mackie Bowl, the Scottish Ladies Golfing Association 36-hole Order of Merit tournament, at Gullane yesterday.
Pamela, equalled Janice Moodie's 12-year-old course record 67 in the morning first round.
Then, in the afternoon, she clipped a shot off it with an eight-under-par round of 66for a two-round total of 15-under-par 133.
In setting the new mark, the 19-year-old +1 player (prior to these scores) had an eagle 3 at the 14th and birdies at the third, fouth, fifth, sixth, 10th, 11th and 12th in halves of 32 and 34.
Her only bogey all day came at the 17th, her second last hole of the day.

Pamela's second round figures were:
OUT: 4-4-4-2-4-3-4-4-3: 32
IN: 4-3-4-3-3-5-3-5-4: 34

Pamella won by nine strokes from St Rule Trophy winner Kylie Walker who had scores of 74 and 68 for 142. Third on 145 were Borders youngster Lesley Atkins (Minto), the Scottish Under-14 girls' champion, and Louise Kenney (Pitreavie).

LEADING FINAL TOTALS
Par 148 (2 x 74) CSS 74 74

133 P Pretswell (Bothwell Castle) 67 66.
142 K Walker (Buchanan Castle) 74 68.
145 L Atkins (Minto) 75 70, L Kenney (Pitreavie) 74 71.
147 K McNicoll (Carnoustie Ladies) 72 75, J Turner (Craigelaw) 71 76.
150 M Briggs (Kilmacolm) 76 74, C Gruber (Royal Dornoch) 76 74.
151 L Murray (Alford) 79 72, C MacDonald (Gullane) 73 78.
154 E Fairnie (Dunbar) 78 76.

Appointment of new Club Secretary/Treasurer
The Captain and Committee of Bothwell Castle Golf Club are delighted to announce the appointment of Jim Callaghan as Secretary/Treasurer of the Club.

Jim will take over from David McNaught who is retiring from his position in August, after 11 years with the Club. He was previously Secretary/Treasurer at Largs Golf Club for almost 5 years and is also the Scottish Region Administrator for the Club Managers Association of Europe.

Jim has been a category 1 golfer for almost 30 years, winning 10 Club Championships at 3 different Clubs. He has also represented both Ayrshire and Renfrewshire at County level and has played in many Scottish, British and European Amateur events.

I am positive that all members will welcome Jim to Bothwell Castle.

John Duncan
Captain

Pamela in Finals of Ladies British Open Amateur Championship - 17th Jun 2008
Pamela Pretswell, the current Scottish Universities Champion reached the last 16 of the Ladies' British Open Amateur Championship at North Berwick last week. She qualified in 30th position to reach the match play section of the competition. She reached the third round knocking out the 3rd seed on the way. She was beaten in the 3rd round by fellow Scot Rosanne Niven 2 and 1.

CHILDREN 1st TRI-AM Final - Bothwell Castle Sunday 11th May 2008
Each year, clubs throughout the central belt of Scotland are invited to participate with the chance to win a place in the final, which is always a great day for the golfers participating.

The association between Bothwell Castle Golf Club and the charity goes back 24 years, and very generous support over the years from Willie Paterson, of Paterson’s of Greenoakhill, covers the cost of the final day of the event which takes place every May at Bothwell Castle.

The Children’s 1st Tri-am is now an established part of the fixture card for the ladies’ and the gents’ sections of many clubs.

Thirteen teams participated this year, with Bothwell Castle Gents section represented by Brian Small, Eugene Murray and Matthew Fleming.

The winners this year were :

LONGNIDDRY LADIES : Maria Graham, Sally Pasquill, Liz Millar
CAMBUSLANG GENTS: Roy Dunlop, Allan Duford and Brian Rennie

Winners pictured below with Captain John Duncan and Ruth Patrick of Children 1st.

Scottish Boys' Championship- 7th to 11th April 08
Two Bothwell Castle players competed in this yerar's championship at Southerness and the performance of both Colin Baird and Kieran Muldoon are worth noting.

Colin Baird had an outstanding performance in his first national event for 2008 reaching the quarter final, only to be beaten by Scottish Boy international Paul Shields. Colin ended a thrilling 5th round tie by beating Ian Allan at the 19th having progressed to that point in the championship by comfortable margins.

Kieran Muldoon had his first experience of the national event, and put in a good performance before going down to Daniel King of Dunbar by 2 and 1 in round 1.

ProAm - 22nd July 07
Once again the ProAm was an outstanding success, after a lot of effort by the organising committee(as usual), a favourable day weatherwise and some very close competition for both the professional and team prizes.

The event is expected to raise well in excess of £9000.

The professional competition ended with 5 players tied on 67 strokes. After countback:

1st - Greg Hutcheon
2nd - Jasom McCreadie
3rd - James McKinnon

In the team competition with a score of 55, again after countback:

1st - William Hamilton Ltd
2nd - strathclyde Seafoods Ltd

In the Open Draw the winners were:

Roshin Sharp (Harrington)
Fulton Henry (Garcia)
Warri Rennie (Romero)

Boys' Open - July 07
This year's Boys' Open Competition for the Norman Robson and James Wilkinson trophies attracted an increased number of entries from Lanarkshire clubs and beyond. With the course playing long, and occasional rain showers the quality of golf was good, as the Standard Scratch of 69 suggests. The Robson Cup for the best scratch score was won by Ben Sloan of Hamilton with a score of 74,and an excellent net score of 63 was good enough for Mark Macaulay from Easter Moffat to win the Wilkinson Cup. Alan Stuart and Jack Devlin of Bothwell were among the prizes with net scores of 63 and 68 respectively.

Ben Sloan, Hamilton and Mark Macaulay, Easter Moffat

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