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Tuesday 31st March 2009
Winner Today (15 players)
Cameron Ferguson with 41 points 
Second place -  on 38 points - Vic Petrie

Bob Hart wins Order of Merit Winter 2008/9

Don't forget - Thursday 2nd April 2009 - Tee off at 07:45

Saturday 28th March 2009
Winner Today (13 players)
Danny McNee with 35 points (cut 1 shot Sat/Sun)
Second place -  on 34 points - Bob Hart

wind

Another "health giving breeze" today - Force 9!

Note
For Old Masters v 08:45ers result (Sunday 29th March 2009) see the Home page.

Thursday 26th March 2009
Winner Today (13 players)
Norman Richardson with 35 points (cut 1 shot Tue/Thu)
Second place -  on 34 points - John Burns

Another very breezy day - GHT blown away and grannied!

Jack tried very hard, in the clubhouse, to get his score up to 35 points - but failed!
But Jack's efforts revealed Ralph's shortcomings as a scorer.
Ralph's scoring ability was questioned and he is now on probation.
He could lose his licence if it happens again!


Tuesday 24th March 2009
Winners Today (12 players)
Ralph Cleworth & Norman Richardson with 42 points

(each cut 1 shot Tue/Thu)


A return to winter
with an icy breeze.
A chilly welcome back to Don after his travels to the Antipodes!!

Sunday 22nd March 2009
Winner Today (8 players)
Jack Wallace with 40 points (cut 1 shot Sat/Sun)

With only five games to go the Winter Order of Merit is now tight at the top.

Bob leads by one from John Powell, Brian, George and Jack
with John Burns and Andrew Smith a further point behind.

Result via our first and third intrepid Tillicoultry reporters

Thursday 19th March 2009
Winner Today (14 players)
Danny McNee with 37 points
(cut 1 shot Tue/Thu)
Equal second place -  on 36 points - were Jack and Gary

Another bright sunny day saw Sam Harris on his first outing in 2009
Welcome back Sam!

Tuesday 17th March 2009
Winner Today (13 players)
Chris Page with 48 points
(cut 1 shot Tue/Thu)
Second place - (way behind!) -  on 36 points were Brian, Norman and Tom
CHAS wins £3

A glorious sunny morning - must have been just like Spain!
The San Miguel obviously helped lubricate Chris's swing.

Info from our first and third intrepid Tillicoultry reporters

Sunday 15th March 2009
Winner Today (9 players)
Bob Hart with 37 points (cut 1 shot Sat/Sun)
Bob "fights" his way to the top to head the Order of Merit with only 16 days to go.

Saturday 14th March 2009
Winner Today (10 players)
Andrew Smith with 33 points (cut 1 shot Sat/Sun)
Another day with one of Miss Christie's "health giving breezes" (a good gale!!).

Thursday 12th March 2009
No sweep today.
A showery day with one of Miss Christie's "health giving breezes" (a good gale!!).
Six players for a "skins" game over nine holes on the Cowden.

PLEASE NOTE
that throughout March
Tee Off time will be 08:30

Tuesday 10th March 2009
Winner Today (12 players)
Vic Petrie with 41 points
(cut 1 shot Tue/Thu)
Second place on 40 points - Cameron Ferguson

A beautiful morning - is spring just around the corner?



Tuesday 3rd March 2009
Winners Today (11 players)
Chris Page and Jack Wallace with 42 points
(each cut 1 shot Tue/Thu)
Three players packed in after nine holes - no stamina!?!

Info from our third intrepid Tillicoultry reporter


Sunday 1st March 2009
Winner Today (6 players)
Andrew Smith with 37 points
(cut 1 shot Sat/Sun)
Eight players turned up.
But two chose not to play on a day with frequent showers and cold spells.

Info from our third intrepid Tillicoultry reporter

Saturday 28th February 2009
Winner Today (9 players)
Cameron Ferguson with 41 points (cut 1 shot Sat/Sun)


Thursday 26th February 2009
Winner Today (11 players)
Bob Hart with 42 points (cut 1 shot Tue/Thu)
Second place on 36 points - Brian Evans and Chris Page
CHAS wins £1

With one month to go - the leaders are crowding up for the Order of Merit

Tuesday 24th February 2009
Winner Today (13 players)
Andrew Smith with 39 points (cut 1 shot Tue/Thu)
Second place on 38 points - John Burns, Ralph Cleworth, Cameron Ferguson and Danny McNee
CHAS wins £3

A nice "spring like" day - makes you look forward to the new golfing season!!

Sunday 22nd February 2009
Winners Today (11 players)
Brian Evans, Cameron Ferguson and Vic Petrie with 39 points
(each cut 1 shot Sat/Sun)
CHAS wins £2

On a sunny day Brian has worked his way up to join the Order of Merit leaders.

Saturday 21st February 2009
Winners Today (9 players)
Cameron Ferguson and Drew Page with 41 points (each cut 1 shot Sat/Sun)


Thursday 19th February 2009
Winner Today (9 players)
Bob Hart with 42 points (cut 1 shot Tue/Thu)

Missing £1 from Tuesday 17th February now traced and paid.
A genuine error - no names, no pack drill -  So
CHAS wins £1.


Tuesday 17th February 2009
Winner Today (11 players - 1 not paid)
Brian Evans with 43 points (cut 1 shot Tue/Thu)
Second place - Norman Richardson with 40 points

Norman, or CHAS, still waiting for £1 !?!

Welcome back to playing fitness (9 holes) for Gary.

Info from our first intrepid Tillicoultry reporter

Sunday 15th February 2009
Winner Today (10 players)
John Powell with 36 points (cut 1 shot Sat/Sun)

Surprisingly ten players showed up after the snow and played in balmy conditions!
Or should it be:
Ten barmy players turned up after the snow!!

Welcome back to playing fitness for Chris Page - full eighteen holes!
We knew it wouldn't take long!!

Saturday 14th February 2009
Heart-1
Fantasy Golf 2009 starts on 12th March 2009
A mini league is set up as:-
Muckhart Old Masters 09
Password to join is: seamab

Register at www.fantasygolf.scotsman.com
and JOIN NOW!!

Tuesday 10th February 2009
Course still covered with snow.
Prospects for Thursday - not good.
Unless we get some localised "global warming".

Sunday 1st February 2009
Winner Today (10 players)
Jack Wallace with 39 points (cut 1 shot Sat/Sun)

Saturday 31st January 2009
Winner Today (11 players)
Brian Evans with 38 points (cut 1 shot Sat/Sun)
Equal Second - George Taylor & Drew Page with 34 points

ALL the sweep money today
has been donated to CHAS
in memory of
JIM HAMILTON
who passed away on
Saturday 24th Jauary 2009
Sunrise


Thursday 29th January 2009
Winner Today (11 players)
John Burns & George Taylor with 42 points (cut 1 shot Tue/Thu)
CHAS wins £1

 To See CHAS Certificate for donation raised at our Challenge Dinner
 Click the box below
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Tuesday 27th January 2009
Winner Today (11 players)
John Burns with 46 points (cut 1 shot Tue/Thu)
Andrew Smith in second place with 43 points - CHAS wins £1

Saturday 24th January 2009
Winner Today (10 players)
Ralph Cleworth with 45 points (cut 1 shot Sat/Sun)

Please see Home Page for timing of meeting re: numbers.


Thursday 22nd January 2009
Winner Today (6 players)
George Taylor with 39 points (cut 1 shot Tue/Thu)
Sweep played over Naemoor/Cowden - on proper greens
Arndean closed - still too soggy.

Thursday 15th January 2009
Winner Today (9 players)
George Taylor with 23 points (cut 1 shot Tue/Thu)
9 hole sweep for £1 over Naemoor
Arndean and Cowden closed due to snow and/or "sogginess".

Please see Home Page for date of meeting re: numbers.

Tuesday 13th January 2009
Winner Today (11 players)
John Burns with 42 points (cut 1 shot Tue/Thu)
Brian Evans in second place with 41 points - CHAS wins £1

A beautiful morning with mostly proper greens!

Info from our first intrepid Tillicoultry reporter - Alias Snitch One!

Saturday 10th January 2009
Winner Today (9 players)
Andy Crichton with 46 points (cut 1 shot Sat/Sun)
A raw windy day.
Let's face - it if you can't score 40 points on temporary greens - you are playing rubbish!

Thursday 8th January 2009
Winner Today (9 players)
Danny McNee with 44 points (cut 1 shot Tue/Thu)
Several in second place with 43 points - CHAS wins £1

Tuesday 6th January 2009
Winner Today (9 players)
John Powell with 20 points (cut 1 shot Tue/Thu)
A perishing cold morning!
By agreement in advance - £1 sweep played over Cowden only
So winner gets cut - he took the money therefore he gets the benefit to go with it!!

Sunday 4th January 2009
Winner Today (9 players)
Danny McNee with 49 points (cut 1 shot Sat/Sun)
A magnificent all time record score of 49 points

Saturday 3rd January 2009
Winner Today (12 players)
John Powell with 47 points (cut 1 shot Sat/Sun)
Second with 46 points - John Burns, Chris Page - CHAS wins £2

Chris Page, courtesy of Jack's lousy scoring, started the bidding at 43 points.
But eventually he could only get up to 46, which wasn't good enough!!

Tuesday 30th December 2008
Winner Today (12 players)
Bob Hart with 45 points (cut 1 shot Tue/Thu)
Second with 43 points - Jack Wallace, Chris Robertson, John Powell
CHAS wins £2

Sunday 28th December 2008
Old Masters v 08:45ers
See Home Page for result

Saturday 27th December 2008
Winner Today (12 players)
George Taylor with 44 points (cut 1 shot Sat/Sun)

A fine frosty morning - at last a wee bit of sunshine.

Tuesday 23rd December 2008
Winner Today (15 players)
Brian Evans with 47 points (cut 1 shot Tue/Thu)
Score included six birdies!!
Equal Second Place with 42 points - Vic Petrie & Norman Richardson -
£2 each - CHAS wins £1

Carnock Match
Sunday 14th December 

For result - See 
Carnock

Saturday 13th December 2008
Winner Today (6 players)
Andy Crichton with 42 points (cut 1 shot Sat/Sun)

Drew Page found out at the 10th hole that
when you hit the tee marker with a 3 wood
you don't get much distance.
It is better use a golf ball
!!

Thursday 11th December 2008
Winner Today (11 players)
George Taylor with 42 points (cut 1 shot Tue/Thu)
Second Place - Andrew Smith with 41 points - winnings donated to CHAS

CHAS is buiding a steady lead in the Order of Merit

Frost in the ground - greens as hard as the car park - and with the same putting difficulty!!

Tuesday 9th December 2008
Winner Today (12 players)
John Powell with 40 points (cut 1 shot Tue/Thu)
Equal Second Place - Don Colquhoun & Ken Coles - winnings donated to CHAS - CHAS wins £2

Sunday 30th November 2008
St. Andrew's Day
               Animated Saltire    Fog & frost delay - No sweep       Lion             

First three (Andrew Smith, Bob Hart, Tom Hailstones) played eighteen.
Second three (Andy Crichton, Ken Coles, Chris Page)played nine.


Info from our third intrepid Tillicoultry reporter

Saturday 29th November 2008
Winner Today (8 players)
Bob Hart with 48 points (cut 1 shot Sat/Sun)
Also worth a mention - Brian Evans - second with 46 points

A frosty start - but very pleasant when the sun joined in.
Snow on the Ochils - spectacular!

Info from our first intrepid Tillicoultry reporter

Thursday 27th November 2008
Winner Today (8 players)
Ralph Cleworth with 45 points (cut 1 shot Tue/Thu)

A cold blustery morning, rain delayed  start, then sunshine, rain, hail, strong winds, cold hands.
Sounds like Muckhart in winter!!

Info from our first intrepid Tillicoultry reporter

Tuesday 25th November 2008
No golf today - still snow

Info from our third intrepid Tillicoultry reporter

Sunday 23rd November 2008
No golf today - snow

Must be getting near AGM time - probaly earlier than usual due  to global warming

Info from our third intrepid Tillicoultry reporter

Saturday 22nd November 2008
No Quorum today - Two playing ties and a fourball

Ralph tried to drown himself in a pint of cola after he and John Burns lost to Andy and Jack!!

Info from our third intrepid Tillicoultry reporter

Thursday 20th November 2008
Winner Today (8 players)
John Powell with 43 points (cut 1 shot Tue/Thu)

Info from our intrepid Tillicoultry reporters

Tuesday 18th November 2008
Winner Today (13 players)
Ken Coles with 44 points (cut 1 shot Tue/Thu)
Second Place - John Powell - winnings donated to CHAS - CHAS wins £3

Info from our intrepid Tillicoultry reporters

Sunday 16th November 2008
Winner Today (10 players)
Gary Taylor with 43 points (cut 1 shot Sat/Sun)

Info from our intrepid Tillicoultry reporters

Saturday 15th November 2008
Winner Today (6 players - others played Round Robin ties)
Ralph Cleworth & Don Colquhoun with 39 points (each cut 1 shot Sat/Sun)

Info from our intrepid Tillicoultry reporters


Tuesday 11th November 2008
Winner Today (10 players)
Jack Wallace with 43 points (cut 1 shot Tue/Thurs)

Do I hear - bring back the two shot handicap cut for 40 points or more?
Jack will be going for three in a row on Thursday!!

Sunday 9th November 2008

Challenge Dinner will be on Saturday 10th January 2009

For Latest Challenge Info go to:

Challenge 2008

Thursday 6th November 2008
Winner Today (11 players)
Jack Wallace with 44 points
(cut 1 shot Tue/Thurs)
Second Place - Don Colquhoun with 40 points
CHAS wins £1

Tuesday 4th November 2008
Winner Today (15 players)
Brian Evans & Andrew Smith with 38 points
(both cut 1 shot Tue/Thurs)


                                Thoughts for to-day

Golf is a test of character in more ways than one: the cheat simply could not play golf: in the last resort, no one would play with him.  It is also a test of tact.  Many a man has to learn how to lend a deaf ear politely to a loquacious friend, or to curb his own tongue when playing with a taciturn one; and probably there is no one but has had on some occasion or other to keep his own temper sweet while the atmosphere about him was mephitic with a surly silence or rent by vituperative abuse.

Arnold Haultain - The Mystery of Golf - 1908



Sunday 2nd November 2008
Winner Today (11)
John Burns & Bob Hart with 37 points
(both cut 1 shot Sat/Sun)

Handicaps need to be checked out for the start of winter "cutting" season.


Thursday 30th October 2008
Winner Today (12 players)
John Burns & Don Colquhoun with 35 points

Info from our third intrepid Tillicoultry reporter

Tuesday 28th October 2008
Winner Today (12 players)
Brian Evans with 42 points
2nd place - Cameron Ferguson & Danny McNee
So CHAS wins £2.

Rumble, grumble - we should cut winner's handicap in the Summer as well as winter.
Info from our third intrepid Tillicoultry reporter

Tuesday 21st October 2008
Winner Today (9 players)
Don Colquhoun with 36 points

Weather a bit autumnal.

GHT grannied by Brian and Ralph!!


Sunday 19th October 2008
Winner Today (6 players)
Jack Wallace with 39 points

Forecast pretty poor - caused a low turnout - but it stayed dry!!

Saturday 18th October 2008
Winner Today (9 players)
Ralph Cleworth with 36 points

Lots of rain at 8am - but it cleared for 9am (as Chris said it would!!).

Thursday 16th October 2008
Winner Today (10 players)
Brian Evans with 37 points
After failing to "ZOOM" to Canada, Brian is zooming away with the Order of Merit!

A braw autumnal day with plenty of sunshine.
But a wee chill in the air, especially when the putts don't drop!!


Tuesday 14th October 2008
Winner Today (10 players)
Brian Evans with 37 points

Brian is building his lead in the Order of Merit - with only a few games to go!

Tee off times are now: Tue/Thu 08:30, Sat:Sun 09:00

For the Challenge Dinner see:-
Home

Thursday 9th October 2008
Winner Today (10 players)
John Burns with 37 points

For those of you playing in the Turkey Trot this weekend - Don't be alarmed!
But watch out for Sam Campbell dancing his way round the course.
He phoned up on Tuesday to book a time in the FOXTROT competition!?!

Tuesday 7th October 2008
Wet! Wet!! Wet!!!
No golf for us today.

Fantasy Golf results posted - up to 7th October 2008

Thursday 2nd October 2008
Winners Today (9 players)
Brian Evans & Bob Hart with 34 points
Nice autumn day - no wind, plenty sun - not many points!?!