Aberdeenshire Ladies County Golf Association officials and prizewinners at the annual meeting in the Star Ballroom, Aberdeen. Scroll down for the caption with all the names. Picture by courtesy of county secretary Karen Stalker. Click on it to enlarge.

Joan Rennie and Ethel Farquharson are

honoured by Aberdeenshire Ladies CGA

Aberdeenshire Ladies County Golf Association have awarded honorary membership to Mrs Joan Rennie and Mrs Ethel Farquharson.
Joan is a former Curtis Cup player (1966), past Scottish champion (1967, and beaten finalist 1968) and international, Aberdeenshire county champion (1980) and county team player. She was county president for the past two years..
Joan's roots are in Ayrshire. Her late father was Willie Hastings who was the club pro at Kilmarnock Barassie Golf Club for many years. Joan was a member at Kilmarnock Barassie before she moved to the North-east after her marriage to Aberdeen businessman John Rennie who died in 2008. Joan is a honorary member of Kilmarnock Barassie. She has been a member Aberdeen Ladies Golf Club for many years.
Ethel Farquharson, a past Scottish Ladies Golfing Association chairman, has run the Aberdeenshire girls' competitions for the past 20 years - and is not retiring!" The county are indebted to her for all her hard work with the county girls," said Karen Stalker, the Aberdeenshire LCGA secretary.
Ethel, a member of Balmoral Golf Club for many years, was inspired to put something back into the grass roots of golf by the golfing success of her own daughter, Elaine, who won the Scottish girls and women's amateur championships, reached the final of the British girls championship (twice) and the British women's open amateur championship, played in two Curtis Cup matches (1990 & 1992) and won the women's amateur better-ball championship in Brazil with England's Helen Dobson in the early 1990s.
Banchory's Morag Clapperton succeeds Joan Rennie as country president.
At the county agm, trophies were presented to the two girls considered to have made the most improvement in 2009. Rachel Polson (Peterculter) received the Fyfe Trophy, which goes to the older girl, and Olivia Borwick (McDonald Ellon) received the Bey Trophy, for younger girls.
New office-bearers for the 2010 season:
President: Morag Clapperton (Banchory).
Captain: Ellie Whyte (Aberdeen Ladies)
Vice-captain: Marta Moody (Murcar Links)
Treasurer: Laura McLardy (Duff House Royal)
Secretary: Karen Stalker (Cruden Bay)

Caption for the big group picture above of officials and prize winners, taken by Karen Stalker, at the annual meeting:
Back row: Lynne Terry, Mary Miller, Mandy Roger, Irene Strachan, Maureen Wilson, Georgette Hollingsworth, Mhairi Johnstone, Olivia Borwick, Laura McLardy
Front row: Ellie Whyte, Joan Rennie, Fiona Hay, Ros Dunsmuir, county champion Sara Mathieson (nee Thomson), girls' county champion, Sophie Alexander, Carol Wilson, Susan Murray and Rachel Polson