Golf

IN 1992 Tain Golf Club’s head greenkeeper, Iain MacLeod, was proclaimed by his peers as the best in Scotland.

THERE was good weather for the Bonar Bridge/Ardgay Ladies’ Open on Saturday and a wide representation, with players from as far away as Abernethy,…

ROSS Currie on Sunday became one of very few in the history of the August men’s open to break par 70 and win the scratch title at Durness Golf Club.

FORMER Sutherland County Champion and Carnegie Shield winner, Embo-based Alex MacDonald, added his name to his club’s most sought after stroke play…

Fourteen years after winning his first County Cup at the age of 18, Royal Dornoch’s Chris Mailley added his name to the impressive Sutherland Championship…

HOST club Golspie romped to a 35 point win – while last year’s winners, Tain, fell back to third place – in the quadrangular inter-club…

THE Brora and Golspie double-header spring 18 hole events last weekend turned into a single round at Brora due to bad weather.

Golf course rankings and ratings have fascinated me since I first came across them when Golf World brought out what I still consider the definitive listing…

ROYAL Dornoch exile Jimmy Gunn, who is striving to get his tour card back for the Web.com Tour in America, did not get the start he was hoping for at…

Dougal Chalmers, winner of last season’s Brora four-day golf tournament, but missing from this year’s defence of the Clynelish Salver, has…

Conditions could not have been better for the last meeting of the season of Caithness and Sutherland Seniors’ Golf Society at Golspie last week.

SIXTY-EIGHT members of the Ross and Sutherland Seniors Golf Society competed for the Ackie Robertson Trophy at Tain Golf Club on Wednesday, 10th September.

Roddie Cameron, winner of the Clynelish salver at the beginning of August, helped inspire his team to the decisive score of gross 60 and nett 54.1 in…

ROYAL Dornoch Golf Club will host the world’s best senior ladies amateur golfers next week for one of the calendar’s major tournaments.

TAIN Golf Club will be hoping to win the Northern Counties Cup for the first time when the 103rd running of competition takes place over their course…

BRYAN Urquhart has become a scratch golfer after an impressive performance at last Saturday’s Gardner Trophy and Fraser Shield competition at Royal…

Local Cara Gruber was the only golfer to return a card under 80 in the Royal Dornoch’s Women’s Open.

THE Dornoch Firth Lady Veteran Golf Society nominated the Highland Hospice Building Project as their charity this year. To maximize their contribution,…

IN a repeat of the 2008 final, when local member Roddie Cameron beat clubmate James MacBeath for his third Clynelish Salver success, the two golfing pals…

The four weeks of premier competitive golf in East Sutherland begins at Royal Dornoch tomorrow  with the 36 hole Sinclair Cup challenge, followed…