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THE ASSOCIATED CLUBS OF CLYDE GOLF COMPETITION
"FIRTH OF CLYDE WEE TROPHY "
Saturday 19th August 2006

Committee Report

Opening comments and presentation of trophies by Nigel Wright, Chairman of the Associated Clubs of Clyde, with Graham Thomson, Captain of Blairmore and Strone Golf Club..who coincidently won the Firth of Clyde "Wee Trophy".

Firstly can I present to you Graham as Captain of Blairmore and Strone and to your club this framed photo as a momento for hosting the Firth of Clyde competitions this year."

"May I on behalf of the Executive Committee of the Associated Clubs of Clyde, thank you for hosting the "Wee Trophy" today and to the greens staff for presenting the course in such good condition, thank you to Match Secretary Andrew Daw and to his match committee for their organisation and running of the competition, the bar staff and the ladies for catering, we have all had an very enjoyable day."

"The weather was a bit rough at the start of the day and we have been very lucky this afternoon,. managing to get all the games in before the rain started.. This competition has been played for since 1952 when it was first won by Gourock at Cowal.. It is a competition for higher handicaps of 11 to 21 and was started to allow greater participation between clubs and players, adding to and building on friendships between those clubs and I think that that indeed has certainly worked.

Thank you to all of you for coming and to the member clubs for sending their teams to take part in this competition. I hope your individual scores were good and if not , do not be too critical of yourselves, you have still taken part in one of the oldest golf competitions in the world and that is something to be truly proud of, even if as Michael Caine says "Not a lot of people know that"

We have some keen scores and unlike the competition in June home advantage meant everything.

Thank you once again from all the Green Jackets for taking part today and we do hope to see many of you next year at in Rothesay.

Background & Result

This competition is competed by the member clubs in the communities on the River
Clyde which have a pier.

It requires 5 man teams ( 11-21 handicaps) playing in 3 ball matches with
the best 3 net scores counting to each teams total. There are also two individual prizes. The Best Individual Net Score, the W.L.Montgomerie Trophy, which was won this year with a 62 by Cameron Richmond of Cowal Golf Club and The Best Individual Gross Score, the J.R. Christie Trophy, which was won this year with a 75 by Derek Church of Skelmorlie.

This year Blairmore & Strone were the overall winners with 196, Cowal were second with 197 and Rothesay third with 203.

The Blairmore and Strone team are

1.M.Durning 2.R.Dunlop 3.A.Daw 4.D.Cameron 5.G.Thomson (Captain)

The Associated Clubs of Clyde next competition is in June at Rothesay Golf Club
for the "FOC Trophy" (scratch scores only)

Above - The photograph shows four of the winning Team

Above - The photograph shows the winners with two of the green jackets

Above - Cameron Richmond of Cowal with the W.L.Montgomerie Trophy (best net score) presented by Nigel Wright, Chairman of the Associated Clubs of Clyde.

Above - An ecstatic Derek Church of Skelmorlie with the J.R.Christie Trophy (best gross score) presented by Nigel Wright, Chairman of the Associated Clubs of Clyde.

Report & Photos courtesy of Nigel Wright, ACC Chairman & Skelmorlie Past Captain