VERY WINDY CONDITIONS AT KINGSBARNS

GULLANE JUNIORS WIN SCOTLAND 

FINAL AND TRIP TO SPAIN IN MARCH

NEWS RELEASE

FROM DAVE WARREN

Well done to the Gullane Juniors who won the Junior Team Golf Scotland Final at a windy Kingsbarns. 
Their combined score was 392 and they won by six strokes.
 The Team now proceed to the Final of the Junior Home Nations Cup in Spain in March 2015. 
 The following report has been received from Martin Black, Junior Convener:

On their fourth visit to the national finals in seven years, Gullane Juniors finally came out on top at the Scottish Finals of Junior Team Golf, played at a windswept Kingbarns. 
The other finalists were from Turnhouse, Eastwood and Haggs Castle. The youngsters had to overcome challenging conditions, winds gusting over the immaculate links.
With the gale increasing though the day and the pins set in fiendish positions it was clear that anything approaching par golf was impossible. 
The Gullane Team showed their years of learning the game in breezy seaside conditions hadn’t been wasted and carded the best three gross scores of 78.
This is Gullane’s first win in the most sought after team title in Junior golf and the team will go on to represent Scotland against the other Home Nations Champions in Spain next March. 
Gullane Juniors are already holders of the East Lothian Team scratch stroke-play title and are the East Lothian Junior Golf League Champions for 2014.
Conveners Martin Black and Gail Chalmers have built a strong team with over 15 of the section playing during the season for the Junior team. 
The Gullane Team at Kingsbarns fielded both low and high handicap players and unusually comprised two sets of brothers, the Ladbrookes and the Chalmers. 
Also in the team was Joanne Free, who represented Scotland in the Junior Home Internationals this year and the winner of the Scottish Girls Champions of Champions. 
Joanne posted one of the best scores and was matched in her 78 by Andrew Ni, who has represented the Lothians at County Junior level.
Captain Oliver Ladbrooke, a graduate of Clubgolf, was not to be outdone, and carded the day's third 78 which also yielded the best net with a 73.
 In his last season as a junior, Oliver achieved all the objectives in his captaincy role and now looks forward to packing his golf bag for a final junior team match in Andalucía in March 2015.