WINTER WALK ON MURTHLY ESTATE

This year our Winter Walk took us to Murthly Estate. We were lucky with the weather and managed to get round dry. Our 6 mile route took us round the outskirts of the Estate through Kingswood across the Perth to Inverness railway line and down to the river bank which we followed back in to the main drive of the Estate. We had a slight detour up to the Chapel which has a family burial plot and the most beautiful bells which we were lucky to hear chime at mid day. Numbers were down this year. There should have been eight of us but unfortunately Moira was injured. She did however meet us at the end of the walk and joined us for lunch at Bankfoot Visitor Centre. A great morning Ladies. Thanks to everyone who turned up and the rest of you put it in your diary for next year.

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LADIES CHRISTMAS FESTIVITIES

Better late than never!! My hectic festive schedule has meant I haven't had time to update the blog.   The ladies met on the 15th December to have lunch and a few hardy souls played golf - a game of Bing, Bang, Bong which we all love because it is anybody's guess who will win!!  Alison, Dot, Michelle and Sheena competed for the special prize sourced by the Lady Captain. When Augusta hear about this I am sure the Green Jackets will be a thing of the past. We all enjoyed a lovely lunch. Thank you Paul and Mike for looking after us  in your inimitable fashion.  Lunch was followed by a game of golf with a contraption even more difficult to handle than our conventional putters. Sheena won the prize with great skill considering most of us couldn't hit the ball in a straight line or further than a few inches. I hear some of the ladies partied well into the evening but no names no pack drill. The dreadful weather which followed has seen the Island flooded again so I hope we can all have a smile as we remember the fun day we enjoyed and that it won't be too long until we are all back again. In the meantime watch out for details of our Winter Walk - we might need wellies! Happy New Year.

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Course Update

We had a recce this morning to see the state of play at the Island. We have escaped relatively lightly. Water on the putting green and on the 1st and 18th fairways but not as bad as we expected.  There is a lot of damage to the allotments nearest the path. The fences are down.

The green staff are hard at work pumping off the water and Allan is in  his shop ready with his sale bargains.  Wellies are the order of the day if you want to stray from the main path.   Good news ladies the plants are all intact!!

Here is a view from the 1st Tee.

King James VI GC Prize Giving Dance

 This year the Annual Dinner Dance was held after an absence of many years. For the first time the main Ladies Section Prizes were presented at the event. As you will see from the photographs, our ladies scrub up well and did us proud. Congratulations Moira, Liz and Anne our leading ladies.

Lady Captains Past and Present

Vice Captain Dennis Brown reported that a great night was enjoyed by over 100 members, partners and friends in the Lovat Hotel on Saturday 21st November with a very good meal, enjoyable prize giving with Ray Smethurst introducing the winners and Captain Dougie Taylor handing over the trophies. The main Prize Winners receiving trophies on the night were Greg Pullar the Gents Handicap Stroke and Matchplay Champion and Moira Lumby the Ladies Scratch Champion, Gary Sievwright and Rob Hughes also had more than one visit to the presentation table. The members then danced the night away to excellent music played by LMS during the break the raffle was held, thank you to the Lovat Hotel, Cherrybank Inn and members that donated prizes. King James VI GC and everybody that attended would like to thank Ian McPhee and all the T & H Promotion team for organising a very successful Prize Giving Dance.  

Moira Lumby Lady Club Champion

Anne Smith & Liz Angus winners of McGlashan Hoad

Liz Angus with the Gray Trophy

KJVI Ladies AGM & Presentation of Prizes

The AGM & Presentation of Prizes for the Ladies Section at King James VI Golf Club took place at the Clubhouse on Wednesday 22nd October, 2015.  Alison Knight was elected as the new Ladies Captain and took over from Moira Lumby, 2015 Ladies Club Champion and retiring Captain.  She will be ably assisted by her Vice Captain Michelle McKay and we wish them all the best for their coming terms of office. The prizes were presented by immediate Past Captain Moira Lumby. Moira herself was the Ladies Club Champion and Fiona Farquharson the Ladies Handicap Champion. Unfortunately Fiona was unable to attend.  Liz Angus won the Knockout Gray Trophy and Liz and Anne Smith won the knockout 2 ball McGlashan Hoad. Sheena MacGregor scooped an armful of trophies including the prize for Most Improved Player donated by the retiring Captain. It was great to see so many of the new members featuring in the Prize List. Pam Ewing won the Bronze Medal Winners Final and Donna Nixon was part of the winning trio for the Team Prize. The business of the evening was followed by an excellent meal expertly served and presented by Paul and Mike.

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Today was the end of our season and we played our Final Fling in the form of a Texas Scramble. 12 Ladies took part and it was great to see a couple of our new members in the team. Good fun was had by all, with a certain amount of impromptu singing going on!

The winning team was Fiona Farquharson, Anne Smith and Iris Robertson with a score of 64.5 (11.5)

Runners up were Moira Lumby, Alison Knight and Sheena Macgregor with a score of (10.6) 66.4