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STONEHAVEN GOLF - TOURNAMENT TO RAISE CASH FOR POOL



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LOCAL companies are being asked to enter a golf tournament in Stonehaven - and raise funds to help the town's famous open-air swimming pool.
Stonehaven Golf Club is holding a corporate day on Friday May 30, the second year such an event has been held at the 120-year-old course.
Last year, the club raised more than £1000 for the Stonehaven Lifeboat Appeal.
This year, the club has decid
ed to help the town's swimming pool.
Alistair Duncan, the club's sponsorship convener, said: "Like our club, the swimming pool is a long-established part of the local sporting scene and it also attracts large numbers of visitors to the town.
"The Friends of the Pool do a tremendous job in keeping this valuable local asset going and we would like to help them if we can by giving them a donation from our corporate day.
"The companies who send a team will know that not only are they enjoying a day's golf but they are also helping to maintain a unique local attraction.
"We would like the money raised to help the general maintenance of the pool."
Companies are being asked to enter teams of four for the corporate day on May 30.
The competition will be over 18 holes with the best two net scores at each hole counting.
The cost will be £100 a team and that will include a meal for four.
Companies can enter by emailing the club at stonehavengc@btconnect.com or by telephoning the club manager, Willie Donald, on 01569 762124.

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A HOST of players are in with a chance of winning when the club's first "major" of the season, the Cowie Cup, is completed this Saturday.
After the first round of the two-round event last Saturday, more than 30 players are within nine shots of the lead.
With full handicap allowance applying, the Cowie Cup, traditionally, favours the higher handicappers unless the wind blows, when the lower handicappers tend to come into their own.
Well, the wind did blow on Saturday, and an awkward north-easter it was, but no single-figure golfer, strangely, finished in the top ten.
Sitting proudly on top of the leader board at the end of a long day was Tom Simpson, a 27-handicapper, whose net score of 60 led the 134-strong field by two clear shots.
Tom did what all higher-handicappers must do in stroke-play and that is avoid any major disasters.
He was out in 43 and back in 44.
He had nothing worse than a double bogey in the first nine along with two valuable pars at six and eight.
On the back nine, he threw in two "triples" at 12 and 15 but parred 11, 14 and 17.
The question for Saturday will be how his nerve stands up under the pressure of the lead.
Particularly as he will be playing off 24.
Nine others in the chasing pack also had their handicaps cut, with Ian Mackay being lopped by two shots after his net 62.
One relatively new member with signs of promise was Robert McIntosh, whose net 65 left him in a top-ten position. He survived an 8 at the difficult second hole and finished birdie, par, bogey.
The CSS for the day worked out at 67, unusually high, with expectant father Bruce Ferguson, in a rare break from his world-wide travels, keeping a 6 off his card with the best scratch score of 70.



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  • Last Updated: 24 April 2008 2:25 PM
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  • Location: Stonehaven
 
 

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