INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN'S GAMES GOLF RESULTS

The International Childrens’ Games hosted in Lanarkshire played their golf tournament at Hamilton Golf Club. The event brought together over eleven hundred children aged 12 to 15 to compete in eight different sports including golf.

The format of the golf was 36 holes handicap strokeplay for the girls and 36 holes scratch for the boys championship with 1^st 2^nd and 3^rd getting gold, silver and bronze medals in true Olympic style.

The prizes were presented by Sponsors Morrison, Hamilton Captain Stuart Smellie and PGA chief executive Sandy Jones, previously youngest ever president of Lanarkshire Golf Association, aged 32 in 1978. Present Lanarkshire President Willie Sharpe acted as starter for the two days of the competition.

Results.        Boys Event

Gold  Medal           Innes Ferguson    Lanarkshire        78  73  151

Silver Medal           Connor McWatt  Edinburgh           78  75  153

Bronze Medal        Fraser  Kane   Lanarkshire               77  77  154 

Girls Event

Gold Medal              Sarah Fitzgerald            Tralee      Ireland

Silver Medal              Aoife Crowley                      Tralee     Ireland

Bronze Medal          Yi-Chin Tu                        Taipei    Taiwan

Footnote     Hamilton Captain, Stuart Smellie,  went out for a few holes after the presentation and had a hole in one at the third with a nine iron.

Willie Sharpe    Lanarkshire president