Victory for SportRenfrewshire in SALSC’s National Boys Golf Tournament

The Scottish Association of Local Sports Councils’ Annual National Boys Golf Tournament, supported by the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews, was held at Torrance House Golf Club in East Kilbride. In wet conditions the Tournament was won by the SportRenfrewshire Team of Fergus Smith, Gavin Hay, Philip Gordon and Fraser McNeill who recorded a gross score of 225.

Runner up was East Kilbride with Aberdeenshire taking third place.

In this event hosted by East Kilbride Sports Council in partnership with South Lanarkshire Leisure, the winners of the handicap team competition were the Clydesdale team of Simon Fleming (9), Ruaraidh Gardner (5) Fraser Campbell (6) and Ryan Crawford (6) with a net score of 214.

Runners up were Tweeddale with Cambuslang and Rutherglen in third position.

Individual Competitions

Winner of the Individual Scratch Tournament was Gavin Hay of SportRenfrewshire, the recent winner of the West of Scotland Boys. Match play Championship.
Gavin returned an excellent score, in heavy rain conditions, of 73 to win by two strokes from Alan Welsh of East Kilbride and Nick McAndrew from Aberdeenshire.

 

 

 

Leading Scores

73 Gavin Hay --- SportRenfrewshire
75 Alan Welsh --- East Kilbride
Nick McAndrew --- Aberdeenshire

76 Craig Ross --- Cambuslang & Rutherglen
Ruaraidh Gardner --- Clydesdale
Philip Gordon --- SportRenfrewshire
Russell Gordon --- Tweeddale
Fergus Smith --- SportRenfrewshire

SportRenfrewshire are delighted that our team has again won this very prestigious event recognised by the R & A of St. Andrews. We want to thank our member organisation, Renfrewshire Golf Union who have 21,000 members on their books, for acting on our behalf in selecting the SportRenfrewshire Team and preparing Fergus, Gavin, Philip and Fraser so well for the tournament in which teams from across the country competed for the trophy.

The Boys and Officials have certainly brought great credit to SportRenfrewshire and indeed themselves. Despite unsavoury weather conditions they recorded a fantastic score against top competition to win the SALSC National Tournament 2008.

Gavin Hay, West of Scotland Match Play Boys Champion, did extremely well to pick up the Individual Scratch Tournament Trophy. It is also worth noting that SportRenfrewshire players finished in three of the top eight individual positions. A marvellous achievement against such strong opposition and adverse weather conditions.

The hosts, East Kilbride Sports Council partnered with South Lanarkshire Leisure, and SALC officials, also commented on how well presented the SportRenfrewshire Team were. Again we thank Renfrewshire Golf Union for this. Renfrewshire Golf Union have a proven track record in developing youth in Golf and we in SportRenfrewshire congratulate RGU in their first class development programmes that manifest in the success enjoyed by Renfrewshire young golfers.