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East v West Match for the Elise Duncan Trophy June 4th at Hayston GC

I think I want to start this match report by thanking the nine members who travelled to Hayston today to play, especially Karina and Linda who were added to the team very late on when I had run out of reserves. Thank you for your support of East Division in this important fixture.

The weather on the drive across to Hayston GC was not great and while having our bacon rolls I'm sure some of us were wondering where the sun from a couple of weeks ago had gone. However apart from a couple of squalls we stayed mostly dry and had only the wind to contend with. For those that haven't played Hayston it's a fun course and well worth the trip to play it.

In an unexpected twist the West Captain, Lesley Lloyd, and I were paired against each other and like many of the matches it was a close one going all the way to the eighteenth. In fact against a very strong West team I think we performed well and were unlucky in some of the results.
However the bad news is I do have to report back that West Division got the better of us this year with a 5-4 victory to win back the Elise Duncan Trophy.

The results were as follows;-

Hilary Laughland lost 5&4 to Fiona Norris
Ailsa Cackett won 3&2 against Lesley Robertson
Caroline Steedman won 1 Up against Gillian Kyle
Susan Rennie won 2&1 against Lesley Watson
Ann Sewell lost 2&1 to Ruth Hunter
Gail Mathieson lost 1dwn to Lesley Lloyd
Fiona Larnach lost 1dwn to Liz Stewart
Karina Matson won 3&2 against Pauline Patrick
Linda Boyle lost 7&6 against Donna Jackson

Thanks were expressed to Lesley and her team, to Hayston GC and to the catering staff for hosting us all. Everyone seemed to have a good time and enjoyed the course and the company.
We look forward to the return match next year.

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Thanks again to the players,
Gail M
East Captain

East Division Championship Qualifiers

Thanks to the 62 members who came out today and played in the Summer Meeting at Haddington. We are delighted to announce the qualifiers for the Division Championship and Handicap Championship are as follows

Division Championship Qualifiers ;-
1. Wendy Nicholson
2. Caroline Steedman
3. Hilary Laughland-Hogg
4. Annie Laird
5. Karen Marshall
6. Susan Rennie
7. Ailsa Cackett
8. Dawn Young

Handicap Championship Qualifiers ;-
1. Jaci Moriarty
2. Caroline Kinnaird
3. Sue Hinton
4. Denise Mitchell

The draws can be seen on the East Division Championship page

Competitors will be contacted shortly with more details about your matches. (Please check your spam folders)

Congratulations to those that qualified for the knock-out stage and good luck.

Summer Meeting results will be posted under Results.

Match against British Senior Men at Elie GC May 13th

Our second match of the Season saw twelve of our members head to Elie GC in Fife. After the weather we experienced last year it was slightly disconcerting to see the haar blowing in as we travelled across but I am happy to report that the sun did come out in time for play.

We were welcomed by our host and British Senior Men's Captain John Allbrook in the Elie clubhouse and had a lovely lunch where we each met our opponents. Having made sure (and made sure again) the stroke allocation was correct for foursomes play from the yellow tees we were off! The course was in great condition and a lot of the matches were close.
However, I'm happy to report that we were the winners again this year with a score of 3 1/2 to 2 1/2

The results of each match were as follows;

Gail Mathieson & Annie Laird halved their match against David Simpson & Graham Duncan
Wendy Nicholson & Karen Marshall won 4&3 against Richard Palmer & Stuart Allison
Fiona Larnach & Caroline Johnstone won 3&2 against Keith Henderson & Nigel Watt
Julie Baird & Wendy Thummanond won 1up against Shaun Middleton & Richard Fenton
Kate Rorke & Elsa Todd lost 1dwn to Gavin Boyd & Charles Hill
Ann Sewell & Louise Casey lost 1dwn to John Duncan & Ian Craig

Our thanks go to the British Senior Men for their hospitality and sportsmanship and to Elie GC for hosting the match and to their catering team who looked after us all day.
I'd also like to thank our members who played, including all the reserves who I had to enlist as the date got closer.
This is always a popular event in our fixtures as it's such a fun day out so mark your calendars for next year!
Photos from the day can be see in the Photos section of this website.

Gail M
East Captain

Match v Midlands at Murrayfield GC May 6th 2025

Our opening match of the season, against the Midlands division was held at Murrayfield GC.
The sun was shining and the course was in great shape for our annual scratch singles match.
Unfortunately, despite some close matches (with three of them going to the 18th hole) the Midlands division retained the Liz Miskimmon Friendship Quaich with a 4-3 win.

The results were ;-

Ailsa Cackett won 5&3 against Elsie Hutchison
Gail Mathieson lost 2&1 to Dorothy Ford
Caroline Johnstone lost 1dn to Gillian Wallace
Sharon Lynch halved with Morag Wardrop
Sal Shepherd won 3&1 against Fiona Johnson
Carol Lees halved with Joyce Murdoch
Frances McFadzean lost 4&3 to Anita Collins

Congratulations to the Midlands team and thank-you to your captain Morag for helping arrange the match.
Head to the Photos section to see photos from the match.

Our thanks also go out to Murrayfield GC; to Gus Santana and Laura Hamilton for helping me arrange the fixture and to Susan Mortimer and her team for making us all welcome and looking after us on the day from the bacon rolls to the sweet treats after play.

Finally, to the East Division members who played today, at one point I wasn't sure we'd have 7 players available so thank you for your support, for playing and making it such a close match today.
Until next year!
Gail M
East Captain

Blairgowrie 2025

The SSWGA annual competitions will be held again at Blairgowrie GC in September this year.

The Patrick Rosebowl (played on Rosemount) – Singles – Monday 22nd September 2025

The Beddows Quaich (played on Lansdowne) – Greensomes – Tuesday 23rd September 2025

East Seniors has been allocated a limited number of spaces and a ballot will take place if applications exceed our allocated spaces. *

Those interested in applying should complete the application form. The cost of entry is £170 per couple, which gives you a place in both the singles and greensomes. The completed application form should be sent to eastsswgasecretary@gmail.com by Sunday 27th April

No payment is required at this time. We will notify you during May if you have been successful in your application.

Tee times – SSWGA has asked that those applying to please vary their choice of tee times as they do receive numerous requests for a start time of between 10-12.

*For those of you who have been to Blairgowrie before you will be familiar with the set up, but for anyone who hasn’t played in this competition previously the idea is that you enter with a partner.

Spring Meeting at Kilspindie on Monday April 7th

Well, what a day we had for golf on Monday for our first competition of the year! The sun was splitting the perfect, cloudless, blue sky and there was hardly any wind (almost unheard of at Kilspindie!). There were even shorts and skorts out - very impressive for East Lothian in early April.

Thanks to the professional shop staff at Kilspindie GC for helping out with checking everyone in. Thanks also to the greenkeepers for presenting the course in great condition for so early in the year, and to the bar and kitchen staff for looking after us all throughout the day.

The course was looking great and was already quite fiery, leading to a few stray balls heading onto the beach. For those of us who hadn't spotted the white stakes, and had therefore not played a provisional ball, this lead to a jog back to the tee!

A full tee sheet of sixty six players enjoyed the sunshine with eight of them coming in under par.
The best scratch score came from Dawn Young with an impressive 73, while the best nett score came from Katy Gillies with a fantastic nett 60!
Division 1 was won by our own Val MacKenzie with 78 (nett 66) whilst Division 2 was won by Katy Gillies with her 84 (nett 60).
Nine players scored a two and took home one of our shiny new SSWGA East logo Titleist ProV1 balls.

Full results:
Gross
Nett
Twos

Well done to all who played - it was great to see so many people out enjoying their games and having some food and drink on the terrace in the sunshine afterwards.
Here's hoping for a repeat of that weather at Haddington GC in May for the Summer Meeting.

SSWGA v Ireland

Best of luck to the East Division players, Karen Marshall and Louise Fraser, who are representing the SSWGA in the first match of the season versus Ireland at Bruntsfield GC this weekend. Unfortunately another of our members, Hilary Laughland, had to withdraw due to injury.
Full details of the match schedule and the team can be found here

June McEwan - Scottish Golf Lifetime Honour Award

East Division would like to congratulate our member, June McEwan, on receiving the 2025 Lifetime Honour Award from Scottish Golf, to be presented at the Scottish Golf Awards on Friday 15th March. You can read more about June's achievements here

Coffee Morning 10/3/2025 Glencorse Golf Club

It's official the 2025 season has started! 42 members attended the annual coffee morning and quiz at Glencorse G.C. today.

We kicked off proceedings with a short overview of everything the Committee has been working on since the AGM. A lot of which is to do with the name change to SSWGA. Under "About us" on the website you will find proposed changes to the Constitution (needs approval at the AGM), and an updated Terms of Competition. Please take time to review these documents and let the committee know if you have any questions over the changes.

Also because of the name change and some new members we are taking orders for new jumpers; the colour and style will remain the same so there is no obligation to buy a new one if you already have one. We're also offering a mid layer and a polo shirt which will have the new logo and " 75th Anniversary" embroidered on them. The samples that were available to look at today will also be available at the Spring Meeting on the 7th April. Any questions please email Fiona at eastsswgasecretary@gmail.com

Congratulations to the winning quiz team (forgot to get a photo!) who scored a little under par and walked away with new golf towels.
And a huge thanks to Gail (different one!) and her team at Glencorse for the teas/coffees and scones which were HUUUUUGGGEEE!

Finally on behalf of your committee I'd just like to say thanks to all that attended today - hope you had fun catching up
See you on the golf course soon,
Gail
East Division Captain

(p.s. please check your junk mail and add eastsswgacomps@gmail.com and eastsswgamatch@gmail.com to your contacts to ensure you get all the up to date emails)

2024 AGM

The 2024 AGM was held at Gullane GC on Tuesday November 5th.

Thanks to all those who attended.
Once again we were provided with a lovely lunch and everyone seemed to enjoy the chance to catch up.

The PHOTOS section of the website has been updated with a gallery of trophy and prize winners.

You can access the various documents from the AGM below:

AGM minutes

2024 Prize Winners

2024 Accounts

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SVLGA Jamboree Sept 22nd to 24th Blairgowrie Golf Club 2024 Results.

The winner of the SVLGA Championship on Monday was title defender Martine Pow who beat Gillian Kyle in the final over the Lansdowne course.
Huge credit to our East Champion Ann Sewell who fought hard to stay in the game with Gillian in their quarter final match on the Sunday.

Monday also saw the Patrick Rosebowl played for over Rosemount. Rather a successful day for East Division with Mandy McBain winning the Rosebowl, Sal Shepherd the second place Smith Medal. East also won the team Lyon Trophy for aggregate best three nett score; Mandy and Sal were joined by Karen Marshall for this.
Karen also had the second best nett score for the day with Frances McFadzean collecting the Buchanan Cup for best nett 65-69 years.
So, there was much to celebrate that evening after the AGM.

Tuesday saw us all on Lansdowne to play the Greensomes as a Stableford this year. The Beddows Quaichs were won by Louise Walker and Isabel Cullen from West Division but the Tony Moffat Quaichs for best gross score were won by our own Wendy Nicholson and Karen Marshall.
Great effort by all our players.

Full results below:
Patrick Rosebowl
Beddows Quaich
Prize Winners
2024 Championship


One thing of note from the SVLGA AGM is the confirmation of the Associations impending name change to Scottish Senior Women’s Golf Association (SSWGA) as from October 1st 2024.
I am keen to note here that despite this change coming soon, very little will change immediately other than website name and logo which Gail and Fiona will be working on over the next weeks. Our team jumpers will stay in use until we next require a bulk order and then the new logo will be used.

Next stop is 5th November East AGM and lunch at Gullane GC.

Captain Sal

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Knockout Competition Winners

Congratulations to our 2024 Knockout Competition Winners:

Winner of the Ramsden Cup: Rae Muir
Runner Up: Dulcie Barnes

Winners of the Friendship Foursomes: Caroline Steedman and Isla McCrone
    Runners Up: Gail Mathieson and Denise Turnbull

Well done to all!
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Borders v East Greensomes Match at Torwoodlee on 12th September 2024

The sun was shining for our last match of the season against the Borders at Torwoodlee G.C.

Unfortunately we lost a player to illness this week (get well soon Rae) but Captain Sal was happy to jump in and play.

The format was handicapped Greensomes and I had the unfortunate chore of telling our team how many strokes they were giving away on the first tee! However they still managed to smile for their photos.

The result did not go our way this time with Borders winning 4 1/2 to 1 1/2.
Congratulations to their team and a big well done to Louise, Jane, Elaine and Carole who secured points for East.

A big thank-you goes out to Torwoodlee G.C. for their welcome and hospitality, and we look forward to hosting Borders on home ground next year.

Results were as follows;

Gilly Glen & Maureen MacKay lost to Joyce Michie & Dawn Tomlinson
Louise Campbell & Jane Browitt won against Sheila Horsburgh & June Allan
Elaine Lumsden & Carole Mason finished AS with Flora Kerr & Dorothy Small
Caroline Kinnaird & Denise Turnbull lost to Janet Brown & Maria Smail
Sal Shepherd & Elsa Todd lost to Anne Paterson & Cherry Thom
Gill Ellis-Pow & June McEwan lost to Fiona Melrose &Pauline Hogg

Thanks to everyone who played
Gail

(More photos can be found in Photos section)

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West Vets v East Vets Greensomes Match at Strathaven G.C. on 12th August 2024

Our third match of the season took us away to Strathaven G.C. to play greensomes against the West division for the ASP Trophy.

Due to a very wet and thundery morning the course didn't open until 10am and our players started on the first tee with brollies up and waterproofs on. However the sun soon came out and the course was in great shape.
All five matches were very friendly with four of them going all the way to the eighteenth. In fact it came down to the last pairing who were all square going to eighteen. I'm happy to report that they won the last hole to give us a match win of 3-2.

A huge thanks goes out to the West for their hospitality and I'd be remiss not to mention the excellent catering including the ginormous sticky toffee portions!

I know all our players had a great day on a super course and I'd like to thank them all for coming out to represent East division so well.
Until next year
Gail

ASP Trophy: AMICITIA SEMPER PALMA "friendship always wins"

Sal Shepherd & Janet Fairweather won 2Up against Elaine Robb & Katherine Elland

Frances McFadzean & Letty MaKinnon lost 4&3 to Janet McCartney & Joanna Scott

Linda Boyle & Wendy Thummanond lost 2Dn to Pauleen Cameron & Mary Scott

Fiona Larnach & Patricia Smith won 3&1 against Chris Fowler & Jocelyn Faris

Fiona Ford & Louise Campbell won 1up against Angela Kettlewell & Jennifer Mack

(More photos from the day can be found in the Photos section of this website)

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East v West Match for the Elise Duncan Trophy at Baberton GC on June 4th 2024

We welcomed Captain Lesley Lloyd and her team from the West Division to Baberton GC for our annual singles scratch match on a rather cold and very windy morning, with the wind becoming gustier as the matches progressed.
Many thanks to Richard, Angie and all at Baberton GC for their excellent Clubhouse hospitality, and to the greenkeeping team for the presentation of the course, especially appreciated after the awful weather conditions they have had to work with in recent weeks.

Thank you all, and very well done to our team for winning back the Elise Duncan Trophy for East 5&1/2 to 3&1/2.
All the matches were well fought, and as always played in the best spirit of golf. As with all our Vets event there were stories to share, new friendships made or old to rekindle, and good memories made.

Results:
Wendy Nicholson beat Lesley Lloyd 3&2
Annie Laird lost to Ruth Hunter 5&3
Hilary Laughland beat Jane Gravil 4&3
Anne Hanson lost to Alyson Hendry 4&3
Susan Rennie lost to Liz Keohone 1dn
Fiona Steel beat Lindsay Mathie 5&4
Ann Sewell halved with Roisin Black
Caroline Steedman beat Beth Paterson 5&4
Kate Rorke beat Jennifer Mack 6&4

Every event we host, matches home or away or stroke play meetings. really are a team effort, so huge thanks from me to Vice Captain Gail for photography, ‘Boss’ Ann for playing, Secretary Fiona for posting this and our Treasurer Val for paying the bill! More images are posted in the Gallery section of this site.
Yours, Captain Sal.

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Foursomes match versus British Senior Men at Elie GC on May 14th 2024

Hot on the heels of playing the Midlands we were straight back to Fife for the annual match at Elie versus a British Senior Men’s team. I had half hour of panic in the morning when I realised we were one player down due to illness, but I am very grateful to super sub Tricia for last minute finding a frock and hitching a lift with Sue and Mairi. Great commitment, thankyou Tricia.
Less drama for the rest of the assembled team who met up at the Clubhouse for a drink and a chance to size up the opposition, followed by a lovely two course meal. Many thanks to the Men’s team and all at Elie GC for the hospitality provided. I must apologise for not taking a team picture!

Off to the first tee for the golf, and what an opening tee shot Elie provides. There is literally a periscope in the starters box so you can see where the first green is hiding.
The weather was not the kindest but our team clearly coped well with the east wind and the squally rain that came and went. Here are the results to illustrate:
David Simpson and Douglas McNair lost 3&2 to Wendy Nicholson and Karen Marshall
Nigel Watt and Alistair Brown lost 7&5 to Sue Penman and Sal Shepherd
John Duncan and Johnny Allbrook lost 1dn to Kate Rorke and Gail Mathieson
Richard Muckart and Douglas Donaldson lost 2&1 to Annie Laird and Ann Sewell
Graham Duncan and Roddy McDonald lost 2&1 to Mairi Pollock and Sharon Lynch
Campbell Evans and Stuart Allison won 7&6 against Annabel Edmond and Tricia Smith
ESVLGA win 5-1.

My appreciation and thanks go to Johnny Allbrook the new Captain of the Men’s team. The match was played in the best spirit of the game, very competitive but with great fun too. Thanks also to Wendy for assisting in team persuasion and selection, and as always your committee for their support. I have resisted this match in the past but it really is a super day out and what a fantastic course to play.
Obviously, I am a very happy Captain Sal and so proud of the team and this win after so many years. Very well done everyone.
(I am keen to do a bit of digging into the history of this match find out when we did last win. I have a couple of potential leads to follow so please watch this space.)

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Match away to Midlands Vets at Ladybank GC May 13th 2024

Our opening match of the season took us across the Forth to Fife and Ladybank GC to play our annual scratch singles match.

The course was in great condition and appearance. Unfortunately, we had to leave the Liz Miskimmon Friendship Quaich behind again but I am sure our team enjoyed the day out and the golf with some old and new friends.
Results:-
Barbara Biggart lost 3&1 to Elsie Hutcheon
Dianne Brown lost 2dn to Lesley Gibb
Mairi Pollock halved with Jude Allardyce
Sharon Lynch lost 3&2 to Claire Capocci
Gail Mathison lost 1dn to Morag Wardrop
Louise Casey lost 5&4 to Joyce Murdoch
Fiona Larnach won 4&3 against Fiona Johnston

So, Midlands win 5.5 to 1.5 & keep the Quaich.

Thanks to all those who played for our team and to Midland’s Fiona Johnston, Evelyn Hamilton and Ladybank GC for hosting such a lovely day out. I think I am right in saying I was the only one to see a red squirrel. Clearly not paying attention to the golf!
Captain Sal.

ELSPETH MORRISON

Very sad to give you the news that our long time member Elspeth Morrison died on Saturday March 2nd. What a brilliant woman, golfer & supporter of the East Vets she was. Don’t forget she won the East Vets Autumn Meeting prize for Best Nett overall for age group in 2021.

- Captain Sal Shepherd -