Speyside Golf Festival 2017
Congratulations to Liz Ruscoe from Vicars Cross who is the winner of the 2017 Speyside Golf Festival.
Tom Anderson, Bathgate was runner up with Len Walker, Denton 3rd, Benno Hoffman, Pfullinger Hof, Germany 4th and Mark McCathie, Dukes Course, St Andrews 5th.
The prizes were presented by Alan Thom, captain of Grantown on Spey Golf Club.
The full leaderboard for the tournament can be found at the following link :- Full Leaderboard
Day 4 Boat of Garten
It is tight at the top of the leaderboard after 4 days play and with 1 score to be dropped after the 5 rounds many are in contention to win the SGF Quaich.
The leaderboard following day 4 can be found via the following link :- Boat of Garten
Daily Prize List
| Gents | Ladies |
| 1st Tom Anderson, Bathgate 39pts | 1st Sue Pearson, Cleethorpes 35pts (BIH) |
| 2nd Len Walker, Denton 38pts | 2nd Karen McKinlay, Hirsel 35pts |
Our three German competitors Benno Hoffman, on the left, and Mario Thonig, on the right, both from Pfullinger Hof and Helmut Pertler, who has played in tournament every year since it's inception who is a member of Moray Golf Club and lives in Elgin.
A beautiful evening at Boat of Garten GC after what was a very mixed weather day that turned out much better than forecast.
Day 3 Elgin
Chris Simpson from Buckpool (on the left) has competition this year from Gordon McCartney from Crieff in the Loud Trousers department.
The leaderboard following day 3 at Elgin can be found at the following link :- Elgin Leaderboard
Daily Prize List
| Gents | Ladies |
| 1st Jamie Glass, Torvean 37pts | 1st Liz Ruscoe, Vicars Cross 36pts |
| 2nd Simon Midgely, Alnmouth 36pts | 2nd Patricia McTaggart, Irvine 35 pts |
Day 2 Moray
Double Dutch x 4 - taking part in September's Speyside G E are Roy van Vessem(kneeling on right) and his dad, Jan (holding the famous quaich) from Kellas, in Moray with 6 of their fellow countrymen making their first visit to Speyside's finest courses.
The leaderboard at the end of day 2 at Moray can be found from the following link:- Moray leaderboard
Day 1 Forres
Prue Gifford-Ellis, Latrobe Golf Club, Melbourne, Australia, as part of a holiday to the UK is playing in the Speyside Golf Festival . As a warm-up to Festival week she played Royal Dornoch and Castle Stuart and teed off today Monday 4th September at Forres. Prue is warmly welcomed by James Macpherson Speyside Golf Expreience.
The Leaderboard at the end of Day 1 at Forres can be found via the following link:- Forres Leaderboard
Daily Prize List
| Gents | Ladies |
| 1st Helmut Pertler, Moray 41pts | 1st Liz Ruscoe, Vicars Cross 38pts |
| 2nd Brian Overton, Alresford 38pts | 2nd Mandy McBain, Carrick Vale 38 pts (best last 3) |
