Argyll & Bute's six man succumbed to a heavy defeat at the hands of the North East at a cold & breezy Cruden Bay last weekend. Buoyed by a great win by messrs Timms & Pirie in the second of the morning foursomes, it was all to play for in the six afternoon singles.

Things started to look up for A&B with four of their players all up in the middle of the round , however inexplicably they all contrived to lose narrowly and with Timms and Pirie unable to repeat their morning exploits the team suffered a 6-0 whitewash in the singles to go down 8-1.

This was a shattering blow to the team who at looked as if they may deliver team manager Gilchrist a memorable win, but whom all struggled down the stretch when it mattered.

The next fixture is against Clackmannan in August at Machrihanish on Sunday 3rd August.

Results

 

This weekend sees the Argyll & Bute Spring Meeting take place at Glencruitten. With last year's winner Gordon Tyre of Cowal not defending, it is likely a new name will grace the trophy. Entries will be accepted on th day up to 1.00pm.

The draw is as follows. All players are from Glencruitten except where stated.

8-00 R Blair M Kelly J Hyde

8-07 W McAdam P Monteith A MacMillan

8-14 I MacInnes I MacCuish D MacLean

8-21 D MacLennan J MacLean D Laird

8-27 H MacIvor B Wotherspoon P Laird

8-34 G Milllar R Frew K Oxland

8-41 D Robertson I Fullarton (Isle of Seil)

8-48 D MacIntyre K MacCallum I McNab

8-55 T MacNair D Mitchell

9-02 B MacLean M Urwin (Taynuilt) J Fraser

9-58 G Davidson (Tobermory) D MacCuish C Aitkin

10-05 P MacCuish E MacCrone( Tobermory) D Fraser

10-12 K MacLean A Stewart(Taynuilt) R MacLarty (Taynuilt)

10-19 H Farquar (Taynuilt) R Wilson (Craignure) A Fitness (Craignure)

10-26 K Mackie N Carmichael C MacKenzie

10-40 J Kidd D MacKenzie M Campbell

11-29 D Graham (Machrihanish) O Armour (Machrihanish)

11-36 G Brown (Machrihanish) S Ferguson ( Blairmore & Strone)

11-43 S MacDonald (Rothesay) W Ferguson ( Blairmore & Strone) J Burke( Rothesay)

12-46 A McKie AA Garrott I Harris

12-53 D Curran J MacMillan D M MacLean

1-00 C McKechnie (Cowal) P Bain A MacHardy

1-07 I Richmond S Cameron

1-21 D Panaytod N Carmichael

1-27 P Murphy J Muir D Hunter (Cowal)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Graham Bolton from Bute secured his fifth Argyll & Bute match-play championship over a windswept Machrihanish links last weekend by defeating Millport's Les Pirie 4 and 3 in the final. Strong easterly windows and fast firm greens made the exposed links a stern test. Despite this there was some good golf played with most of the matches going down to the wire. However it was veterans Bolton and Pirie who emerged from the pack to face each other in the final. Bolton took the early initiative with gains at the first, third and fourth holes. Pirie battled back bravely, but some inspired putting from Bolton kept Pirie at bay, closing him out with a 4ft par putt at the 15th hole. Results:

Results

1st round

Ross Currie ( Machrihanish) bt Calum McMillan ( Machrihanish) 3&2

Gordon Tyre (Cowal) bt Donald Standaloft (Port Bannatyne) 3&2

Ian McNab (Glencruitten) bt David Graham ( Machrihanish) 20th hole

Les Pirie (Millport) bt Greg Watson ( Machrihanish) 1 hole

Graham Bolton ( Bute) bt Matthew McAulay (Lochgilphead) 5&3

George Reynolds (Rothesay) bt Stuart Campbell ( Machrihanish) 1 hole

Chris Timms (Rothesay bt Steven Kelly ( Machrihanish) 4&3

Allan Mckie (Glencruitten) bt Michael Fraser (Glencruitten) 9&7

Qtr finals

Currie bt Tyre 1 hole

Pirie bt McNab 1 hole

Bolton bt Reynolds 1 hole

McKie bt Timms 2&1

Semi Finals

Pirie bt Currie 2&1

Bolton bt McKie 2&1

Final Bolton bt Pirie 4&3

Argyll & Bute Executive committee would like to thank Machrihanish Golf club for again hosting the event and commend them on its course and its impeccable condition. The next Area event is the Spring Meeting at Glencruitten on the 3rd May. Entries should be submitted to Area Secretary Richard Biggart today Friday 25th April. Late entries on the day may be taken if space permits