Hosts win Miller Quaich with 35-point lead
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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 competition for the Miller Quaich on Sunday.
It was only the second time Golspie Golf Club has won the Quaich
competition that was instituted in 1999 to recognise the outstanding golf played by Brora’s Jim Miller at the golf courses of Brora, Golspie, Tain
and Royal Dornoch over the past 40 years.
The Golspie team of eight men and four women playing individual stableford made full use of home advantage to record what is thought to be a record score total of 340 points, their average of ten counting scores being 34 points, topped by a card of 37 points from the Golspie team captain, William MacBeath.
There were also three 36s – from assistant greenkeeper Craig MacKay (soon to be leaving to take up a post at Royal Dornoch), Tim Featherstone and Alastair Bell.
Completing the full Golspie team were Stuart Richardson, Ross Urquhart, Colin Sutherland, Jamie Innes, Noelle MacKay, Caroline Logie, Lesley Cranna and Pat Till.
Royal Dornoch were a distant second with 305 points, their two best individual cards both 34 points from Colin MacKay and Ian McAulay.
Holders and most time winners Tain Golf Club’s best efforts were 33 points from Steve Martin and 32 points from Jackie Neil.
Brora languished in fourth place on 285 points with only three of their team returning cards of 30 or more, Ken Lorimer, June Lawson and Robin Wilson.
With the Golspie greens showing signs of recovery from a the winter disease before it next welcomes the surrounding clubs for the Dornoch Firth League competition on May 9th and 10th, if the golfers attending the are treated to the same buffet served up voluntarily by the Ladies Section last weekend, the teams can expect a real treat. Well done the Golspie ladies, your home cooking and baking was first class and highly admired by all!
