Refreshing balance...
Three of our ladies won the Ladies Team Open at Royal Dornoch yesterday. Congratulations to Fiona McLaren, June Clark and Sheena Hendrie who, despite a lack of local knowledge, finished ahead of teams from across the area, including ladies from Royal Dornoch, Golspie and Brora. Well done ladies.
The Club Diary for 2021 is available here.
For visitors, please note that even when we have members’ events shown, there are normally plenty of tee slots available. Bookings can be made via our online booking system.
Now that the weather’s warming up and the season is underway, we’re looking forward to our exciting programme of Opens, starting with the ‘Twa Bridges’ on Sunday 2nd May. Further information about our Opens is here.
The first ever Twa Bridges Open was held on Sunday 2nd May with over 80 golfers taking part. The weather was kind and there was excitement in the air as proceedings began at Abernethy Golf Club before concluding at Carrbridge. Thank you to all who took part and especially to all those involved in organising and running the event.
Both clubs were well represented in the results with Jono Baldwin the overall champion in the Gents and Ann Rae in the Ladies. Fin Thurlbeck finished a very commendable third in the overall standings. Local knowledge was clearly useful at Nethy, with Alex Donald and Ann Rae leading the field at that point. To see the results click the category. Gents Overall. Gents Abernethy. Gents Carrbridge. Ladies Overall. Ladies Abernethy. Ladies Carrbridge. Juniors.
Abernethy Golf Club welcomed the start of the club’s golf season with the Opening Match on Sunday 28th.
The traditional flag raising was performed by Captain, Rona Smith. 38 players took part in the match which was the Captain’s Team led by Rona Smith versus the Ladies’ Captain’s team led by June Clark. The format was a 9-hole Four Ball Better Ball with a shotgun start – which actually resounded from a wonderful antique maritime manually operated foghorn recently donated to the club by Helen Gillies. The match went to the last game which decided the win for the Ladies’ Captain’s team by 51/2 games to 41/2 games for the Captain’s team.
The course was in great condition and the new signage was much admired. So thanks to everyone involved in getting us ready for the season. Now for golf.
Sunday 2 May 2021
Abernethy and Carrbridge Golf Clubs have joined forces to host the first ever double 9 Open challenge in Scotland – The Twa Bridges Individual Open. Play 18 holes on two beautiful 9 hole Highland courses in one day – start first at Abernethy, then move on to Carrbridge. Please come and join us for this unique event.
Enter online or by post at the address below.
Individual Stableford format, tee times from 0800, £15 per member, £20 per visitor. Handicap Index Limit 36.0
Postal Entries:
Twa Bridges Open
Abernethy Golf Club
Nethy Bridge, Inverness-shire
PH25 3EB
Cheque Payable To:
Abernethy Golf Club
The ladies golf due to be played on Monday was cancelled as the course was closed following a morning of heavy rain. The Senior Convenors Eclectic is usually played as a morning round and an afternoon round with lunch in between but as the clubhouse remains closed it was played over two Thursday mornings. The winner with 26 points was Johnny Petrolini, runner-up with 24 points was Helen Gillies and third with 23 points was the Convenor Dougie Burns.
On Saturday. the men and ladies competed for the Frame Trophy. The winner was John Swinden (20) 66, runner-up was Drew Durrand (26) 69 and third was Steve Gannon (29) 71.
This week saw the completion of all the match play competitions. The men’s singles for the Cumming Cup was won by Ian Sloan defeating Alex Donald in the final. The ladies singles for the Malcolm Salver was won by Eliz Sloan defeating Fiona McLaren in the final. The men’s foursomes for the Grantown Salver was won by Alex Donald and Charles Legge. The ladies foursomes for the Cairngorm Quaich was won by Ann Rae and Ann Weller. The mixed foursomes for the Bantick Trophies was won by Bruce Davies and Aileen Anderson. The men also play a four ball better ball match play competition for the Mitchell Shield and that was won by Dougie Burns and Malcolm McCreath.
On Saturday, the men competed for the Grey House Cup. This 18 hole stableford event is sponsored by the owners of The Grey House, the Bloomfields, and it was a large field that tackled the damp course. The winner of the Cup was Alex Donald (12) with 35 points bih, runner-up was Stan Reid (36 restricted) 35 points and third was Dougie Burns (21) 34 points.
The ladies followed the men to compete for the Robinson Tray. This is also an 18 hole stableford competition but the ladies did not cope quite so well with the damp conditions resulting in a reduction only CSS. The winner was Aileen Anderson (29) 32 points, runner-up was Sheena Hendrie (19) 31 pts and third was Susan Swinden (18) 30 pts.
Pauline’s Trophy is normally played for over four qualifying 9 hole stableford rounds with the trophy going to the lady with the best eclectic score over the four rounds. However, having lost the first half of the season, there were only two rounds left on which to score so the second round on Monday was crucial. The winner was Alison Mitchell 18 points, runner-up was June Clark 17 points and third was Rona Smith 14 points. When these were combined with the first round, Alison Mitchell was the clear winner of the trophy with 24 points, runner-up was Helen Gillis 20points and third was Sue Philpott 19 points.
The weather washed out the seniors competition on Thursday and nearly washed out the men’s and ladies medals on Saturday but the last group managed to find a dry line to the flag on the final green just as the Course Closed sign went on the gate. The men’s competition was won by Bob Mouat (17) 77, runner-up was Dougie Burns (21) 80 and third was Ian Murray (17) 82bih. This was the final competition counting towards the Greenkeeper’s Cup for the best three medal rounds. The winner of the cup was John Swinden with a total of 210, runner-up was Dougie Burns 228 and third was Graham Anslow 229.
The ladies medal was won by Margaret Smith (24) 80, runner-up was Ann Weller (21) 82 and third was Susan Swinden (18) 86.
