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Photos from TAMS Christmas Lunch 2017

St Andrew's Day Results

With the course closed last Thursday 22 players were keen to brave a freezing morning to play.  Despite the conditions, scoring was impressive, Jim Walker winning with 23 points, Brian Robson coming second on 19 points. Birdies were recorded by Roger Key, Brian Taylor, David Wallace and Jim Walker. In these conditions we should probably have a nearest the green prize at the 7th as to stop on the winter green is almost impossible.

Sadly we lost George Raeburn this week . A really nice man who will be sadly missed.

Our Xmas lunch is eagerly anticipated next week when this year's trophy winners will be announced.

Results for 16th November

Despite early morning rain and a cool westerly 21 golfers enjoyed a pleasant morning. Ian Tate played some lovely golf to win with 20 points, Brian Robson returning 17 points for second. Ian was also nearest at the 7th [2 weeks in succession] . George Langlands contributed the only birdie at 9.

'Twas a lovely autumn morning ... results for 9th November

23 souls encountered benign conditions tho this was not reflected in the overall scoring.

Wilson Struthers picked up his first first place with 23 points, Tony Kinder coming second with a commendable 19. Ian Tate was nearest at 7 while Ronnie Watt birdied 7 [an outrageous chip in according to his playing partners] .David Wallace birdied 9.

Steve Culbert had his first TAMS outing and it was good to see Sandy Macfarlane back on the course and Chris Beaumont up for coffee after their recent ops.

Results for 26/10 and 2/11

For 26/10 our results:

Our newly trained scorer, Sandy Macfarlane, was in the chair and did a splendid job.

With the putting still a bit difficult due to the greenkeepers work and the heavy dew, 22 played and Alistair Lambie was the clear winner on 22 points with John Forsyth second on 19 points. Richard Edmonds had a 2 on No 7 and Steve Farrar was nearest on No7.

For 02/11 our results:

With Sandy still in the chair 19 played on a glorious, though squelchy, autumn morning when the colours of the trees reminded us of the tweeds that Bernat Klein used to create based on these colours.

George Tucker was first with 19 points in a closely contested match. For the second week running John Forsyth was second with 18 points.

Brian Robson was very close at No 7 to win the nearest the pin and to make a birdie.

....and the 12 October results.

Heavy prolonged rain in the previous 24 hours coupled with tining of the greens made for difficult conditions. Ian Tate rose to the challenge returning 23 points [off a 9 handicap] to win, he also birdied 9 and was nearest the pin at 7. Graham Mackie was second with 19 points while David Wallace returned to the birdie trail at 7.

19th October Result

Only 17 braved the wet, mud, winter and ryvita greens. John Forsyth had his 9 holes of the year [some might say the decade] returning 25 points while having changed to putting left handed with a borrowed putter. Steve Farrer was second on 18 points. Brian Taylor was nearest at the 7th.

The Xmas lunch is confirmed for 7th December.

Results for 28th Sept and 5th October

28th September

Our most-improved golfer, Tony Kinder, continued his well-deserved progress with a great win on the last medal round of the Summer season

He won with nett 31, followed by John Napier on nett 34. Ken Davey was nearest the pin on the 7th.

5th October

Our winter Stableford season began on a lovely autumn day with the trees looking glorious in their autumn colours.

There was a tie on 18 points between Brian Robson and the last man out, Doug Coltman.

Doug won on a countback.

Jim Walker was nearest on the 7th and both he and Graham Mackie birdied the 7th.

Results for 14th September and ... another significant birthday!

Only 20 played this morning the recent wet weather no doubt putting some off. Steve Farrar maintained recent good form with a net 31 to take first spot, David Wallace taking second with net 34. Warner Hardie was nearest at 7. 

Jim McAuslin ,one of our founding TAMS, has celebrated his 90th birthday-he kept it very much under the radar.

TAMS will be represented by 6 players at the Sponsors' Day.

Ken Bowie Salver

To-day we played for the Ken Bowie Salver the winner of which will be declared at our Xmas lunch.

Birdies were recorded by Ian Tate at the 9th and George Langlands at the 5th. Sandy Macfarlane was nearest the pin at 7.

26 played despite the weather forecast.

End of the Meteorological Summer TAMS

There were only 20 players on a lovely summer's morning. General scoring was again poor but Ken Bowie, who last played in March and has had major surgery, returned a remarkable net 31 for first place. John Napier continued a good run of form with net 32 for second. Sandy Macfarlane birdied the first and John Forsyth was nearest the 7th.

Next week's stableford will be playing for the Ken Bowie Salver.

Fisher's 5 star performance!

In spite of benign conditions general scoring was poor-only 7 out of 28 players returning sub net 35. Star man was Gordon Fisher who was first on net 30,birdied 4 and 7 where he was also nearest the pin winning a total of 5 balls-a highly unusual event. Second on net 32 was John Napier with Bill Hardcastlerecording a birdie at 9.

Results 17th August

The good conditions of a beautiful summer's morning were not reflected in the scoring, which was very poor. Recently sub-30 scores were required for a top 5 finish.To-day 34 was the lowest score shared by Ken Davey and Ronnie Watt, Ken winning on countback. Harvey Robertson recorded the only birdie at 9 [his sartorial choice for the morning being much admired!] while George Langlands was nearest the pin at the 7th having lost his glasses-there is a message there somewhere. 29 played.

TAMS back in action - August 10th

With a touch of Autumn in the air, we had 26 starters.

Harvey Robertson and Richard Edmonds tied on 22 points and Harvey won on countback thanks to a par, par finish.

David Wallace was nearest on No 7 and Bill Hardcastle had the only birdie of the day on No 9.

We said 'au revoir' to Donald Miller who is returning to New Zealand after a summer with us.

27th July results

A pleasant morning greeted 25 players. Two of our 'senior' TAMS battled for first place with net 30, Joe Nisbet edging out Harvey Robertson on count-back.

A first TAMS birdie was recorded by Tony Kinder with George Cunningham nearest at the 7th.

20th July Results

Despite the heavy overnight rain 28 souls turned up for golf. George Cunningham won with a very tidy net 30, Wilson Struthers coming second with net 31.

Birdies were recorded at the 4th-Roger Key- and 9th- Ken Davey who was also nearest at the 7th.

It was confirmed that our sponsorship contribution to the club would be £400 this year.

Results for 13th July

Despite excellent conditions scoring was surprisingly high with several 7's 8's and 9's. John Napier-until recently our country member-returned a net 26 for first place with Gordon Smith coming second on 28.Gordon also birdied the 9th.

Roger Key was nearest the 7th despite being as far away from the pin as it was possible to be!

28 played.

Result for 6th July

The rain forecast did not arrive and Ken Davey took full advantage of the conditions returning 24 stableford points. Warner Hardie was second on 21 points. Bill Hardcastle returned the only birdie at 9 while George Langlands was nearest the 7th. 19 played.

It doesn't get much better! 22nd June

Wow - what a spectacular day!!

On a day when the golf course was looking truly magnificent, the 28 starters responded with an equally magnificent display.

Leading the field to rapturous acclaim was our 'Elder Statesman', Steve Baczkowski, who won with a splendid nett 27 (gross 49).

He was closely followed by three on nett 29.

After a countback, second was our summer Kiwi visitor, Donald Millar, who insists that he is a Lions supporter.

On top of that we had four birdies - Sandy Macfarlane (who lipped out for eagle), Steve Farrar and Bill Hardcastle all birdied the ninth (despite the acting coordinator trying to argue that in the conditions the ninth was really a par 4); and Gordon Fisher birdied the fifth.

To complete the ball feast, Chris Beaumont was nearest at the seventh.

Well done guys!