LOUISE (Fleming) HALL NOW A MUM - AND A PRO WINNER IN USA
TEE TALK ... FROM COLIN FARQUHARSON
Colin@scottishgolfview.com
Louise Hall - she won the 2005 Scottish Under-21 girls' stroke-play championhip as Louise Fleming - has been in touch today with an E-mail from California to say (a) She's had a baby and (b) She's won a professional tournament out there.
I have asked Louise to provide more details and a picture for display on http://www.kirkwoodgolf.co.uk/
If you are an old pal of Louise and want to get in touch with her again, send me your E-mail address and I will pass it on to her.
EVE MUIRHEAD RUSHED TO HOSPITAL AFTER WASP STING
Did you read the story in the papers about Perth and Kinross team player Eve Muirhead being rushed to hospital during the recent Scottish women's county finals at Dumfries and County Golf Club?
Better known as a world-class international curler, 21-year-old Eve suffered a severe allergic reaction to a wasp sting. Eve was quoted as saying:
"I got stung on the forehead on the Friday and didn't think much of it. My eye was a bit bloodshot but the next day I couldn't open it, so I was taken to hospital.
"I can only open it by about a millimetre. I hope the drugs work as we fly out to Oslo for the start of the international curling season in Norway later this week."
Dr Pamela Newell, consultant allergist at Addenrooke's Hospital in Cambridge, said: "This is an unusual reaction as a wasp sting fo rmost people is limited to a small nip. It sould like she has an an allergy to wasp venom."
Many years ago golf writer Gordon Simpson from Stonehaven - now a top media man on the European Tour meda staff - was stung by a wasp at a tournament in Scotland.
It was certainly more than a "small nip" for Gordon. From memory, I recall he went into or was going into a coma and had to have emergency treatment which fortunately a medical team on hand was able to supply ... or they reckon the wasp sting, in Gordon's case, could have been fatal.
And it's not only humans that can be severely allergic to wasp stings. My daughter's dog was stung on a woodland walk a few weeks ago and it collapsed within minutes. We rushed "Nacho" to a vet who was able to give him an an anti-wasp sting injection that had him right as rain within 24 hours.
FOURSOMES? EXCITING COUNTY FINALS FINISH WITHOUT THEM
I have long thought that foursomes is an old-fashioned form of golf which does not belong to modern forms of team match-play. Four-ball maybe, but alternate shot ... No! Just ask the Americans who lost the Walker Cup at Balgownie earlier this month.
Tell me the last time you rolled up at your local golf club for a bounce game and decided to play foursomes with three others. I'll bet the answer is "Never."
I am sure it was not a coincidence that the most exciting, closest finish to the Scottish women's county championship finals at Dumfries and Co GC followed the decision to scrap the foursomes of the final day's programme following a lengthy rain suspension.
And just think of the money that could be saved if the county finals were decided on singles only.
The traditional three-day programme could be condensed into three sessions of play - Saturday afternoon, Sunday morning, Sunday afternoon.
No need for a Friday night hotel bill.
Same goes for the home internationals.
Does anyone out there think that's a good idea?
EUROPEAN GIRLS' TEAM POINT THE WAY TO GO
You can read elsewhere on this website about the European girls' team - two Irish players, two English, one from Wales and seven from the Continent - played out a 12-12 draw with the United States in the Ping Junior Solheim Cup match earlier this week in Ireland.
A team match along the lines of the Ryder Cup which dropped the "Great Britain and Ireland only" tag back in the late 1970s. The best in Europe against the best in America.
It won't come in my lifetime but I think that one day the Curtis Cup and the Walker Cup will go European.
ADMISSION CHARGES TOO HIGH FOR WALKER CUP AND WOMEN'S OPEN
While on the subject of the Walker Cup, the weather at the Royal Aberdeen's Balgownie links would have put a lot of would-be spectators off - particularly as they could watch most of the play on TV - but weren't the attendances a bit disappointing for the golf-mad city of Aberdeen and the North-east hinterland?
I believe the unofficial figures were 4,000 on the Saturday and 4,500 on the Sunday. Which is on a par with the Pittodrie gates for the toiling Aberdeen football team these days!
The attendance figures were also low for the Ricoh Women's British Open at Carnoustie a few weeks back, despite the galaxy of LPGA and LET stars in the field. What did these two big tournaments have in common? In my opinion, inflated attendance charges.
A charge of £25 a day seemed a bit over-the-top to me.
Particularly when entry is free to next week's Alfred Dunhill Links Championship at Carnoustie, Kingsbarns and St Andrews ... except for the final day's play on the Sunday and even then the admission charge will be a reasonable £10.
Colin@scottishgolfview.com
Louise Hall - she won the 2005 Scottish Under-21 girls' stroke-play championhip as Louise Fleming - has been in touch today with an E-mail from California to say (a) She's had a baby and (b) She's won a professional tournament out there.
I have asked Louise to provide more details and a picture for display on http://www.kirkwoodgolf.co.uk/
If you are an old pal of Louise and want to get in touch with her again, send me your E-mail address and I will pass it on to her.
EVE MUIRHEAD RUSHED TO HOSPITAL AFTER WASP STING
Did you read the story in the papers about Perth and Kinross team player Eve Muirhead being rushed to hospital during the recent Scottish women's county finals at Dumfries and County Golf Club?
Better known as a world-class international curler, 21-year-old Eve suffered a severe allergic reaction to a wasp sting. Eve was quoted as saying:
"I got stung on the forehead on the Friday and didn't think much of it. My eye was a bit bloodshot but the next day I couldn't open it, so I was taken to hospital.
"I can only open it by about a millimetre. I hope the drugs work as we fly out to Oslo for the start of the international curling season in Norway later this week."
Dr Pamela Newell, consultant allergist at Addenrooke's Hospital in Cambridge, said: "This is an unusual reaction as a wasp sting fo rmost people is limited to a small nip. It sould like she has an an allergy to wasp venom."
Many years ago golf writer Gordon Simpson from Stonehaven - now a top media man on the European Tour meda staff - was stung by a wasp at a tournament in Scotland.
It was certainly more than a "small nip" for Gordon. From memory, I recall he went into or was going into a coma and had to have emergency treatment which fortunately a medical team on hand was able to supply ... or they reckon the wasp sting, in Gordon's case, could have been fatal.
And it's not only humans that can be severely allergic to wasp stings. My daughter's dog was stung on a woodland walk a few weeks ago and it collapsed within minutes. We rushed "Nacho" to a vet who was able to give him an an anti-wasp sting injection that had him right as rain within 24 hours.
FOURSOMES? EXCITING COUNTY FINALS FINISH WITHOUT THEM
I have long thought that foursomes is an old-fashioned form of golf which does not belong to modern forms of team match-play. Four-ball maybe, but alternate shot ... No! Just ask the Americans who lost the Walker Cup at Balgownie earlier this month.
Tell me the last time you rolled up at your local golf club for a bounce game and decided to play foursomes with three others. I'll bet the answer is "Never."
I am sure it was not a coincidence that the most exciting, closest finish to the Scottish women's county championship finals at Dumfries and Co GC followed the decision to scrap the foursomes of the final day's programme following a lengthy rain suspension.
And just think of the money that could be saved if the county finals were decided on singles only.
The traditional three-day programme could be condensed into three sessions of play - Saturday afternoon, Sunday morning, Sunday afternoon.
No need for a Friday night hotel bill.
Same goes for the home internationals.
Does anyone out there think that's a good idea?
EUROPEAN GIRLS' TEAM POINT THE WAY TO GO
You can read elsewhere on this website about the European girls' team - two Irish players, two English, one from Wales and seven from the Continent - played out a 12-12 draw with the United States in the Ping Junior Solheim Cup match earlier this week in Ireland.
A team match along the lines of the Ryder Cup which dropped the "Great Britain and Ireland only" tag back in the late 1970s. The best in Europe against the best in America.
It won't come in my lifetime but I think that one day the Curtis Cup and the Walker Cup will go European.
ADMISSION CHARGES TOO HIGH FOR WALKER CUP AND WOMEN'S OPEN
While on the subject of the Walker Cup, the weather at the Royal Aberdeen's Balgownie links would have put a lot of would-be spectators off - particularly as they could watch most of the play on TV - but weren't the attendances a bit disappointing for the golf-mad city of Aberdeen and the North-east hinterland?
I believe the unofficial figures were 4,000 on the Saturday and 4,500 on the Sunday. Which is on a par with the Pittodrie gates for the toiling Aberdeen football team these days!
The attendance figures were also low for the Ricoh Women's British Open at Carnoustie a few weeks back, despite the galaxy of LPGA and LET stars in the field. What did these two big tournaments have in common? In my opinion, inflated attendance charges.
A charge of £25 a day seemed a bit over-the-top to me.
Particularly when entry is free to next week's Alfred Dunhill Links Championship at Carnoustie, Kingsbarns and St Andrews ... except for the final day's play on the Sunday and even then the admission charge will be a reasonable £10.
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