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Friday 15th August saw a lone competitor arrive in the evening to sign up for the 9 hole medal. He asked the secretary, who had been told the previous day at a golf lesson - "yes, you have a lovely relaxed swing - it's just that you have totally the WRONG swing" and was therefore not a contender, what should happen. In a snap decision it was decided Mike Powley should be declared virtual winner of the August mini medal - he will also be entitled to a virtual prize!
18th August
The
walk on Open held on 13th August saw an entry of 51 with most of the
prize winners coming from visiting clubs. Once again the weather was very
favourable with wall to wall sunshine for the event and this continues our run
of fair weather opens to 4. Can our final walk on in September make it the
5th????? See the full results
here.
16th August
The Gents Lochcarron away match is on Saturday 20th September and not as advertised in the fixture booklet. This has been confirmed by the Lochcarron captain today.
4th August
New
resting place for weary golfers. The
beginning of August brought with it the culmination of the greens staffs efforts
to let Roy Burgess inspect his family's kind donation to the club. For the full story and
more pictures go
here.
3rd August
Last week the club received a visit from the course founders’ grandson. Roy Burgess, a very sprightly 90 year young golfer, has kindly gifted a wooden bench on behalf of his family to be placed at the new 6th tee for players to appreciate the stunning views of the Western Isles where Roy lives. As Roy does not manage to visit as often as he once did it will be a pleasure to have the seat, complete with plaque as a reminder of his, and his ancestors involvement in the Gairloch area.
28th July
The
weather forecast hyperlink on the right hand side of the banner has been changed
to guide you to the BBC Scotland Highland area map. Over the last year
this has proved to predict more accurate short term forecasting in the Gairloch
area than any other web forecast monitored by the web master. Perhaps one day we
will be able to introduce a drag and drop sunshine weather map
☺
23rd July
The 2008 mixed Open sponsored by The Croft Shop, Gairloch and GGC members was attended by 17 couples from 10 different and widespread Scottish golf clubs. On a blustery day with the occasional shower conditions were not easy and it was home couple John & Eileen Beck who triumphed with a net 66. See the full score results here.
July 20th
The
7 members silly enough to compete in round 1 of the Shieldaig Cup on
Friday 19th July abandoned the game after three holes when the 9th green
was seen from the 4th tee. It was a unanimous decision and all retired to the
clubhouse. The Competition Convener, John Beck, will try to rearrange this game
but initial proposals make it more likely that the 2nd round will be played only
by those who started the 1st round to ascertain the winner - but not necessarily
the most intelligent of golfers
July 19th