{"id":348,"date":"2024-06-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-06T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.helensburghlionsclub.co.uk\/?p=348"},"modified":"2024-06-30T14:53:54","modified_gmt":"2024-06-30T14:53:54","slug":"lions-gold-day-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.helensburghlionsclub.co.uk\/?p=348","title":{"rendered":"Lions Golf Day 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Ladies win major prizes at Helensburgh Lions Club annual Golf Day<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alison Ram, Shona Bulloch and Denise Donald the Competition Winners with Don MacDonald Lions Club President.\u00a0To the right – Dorothy Mickel and one of her partners Carol Bell winners of the Geoff Brewster Quiach for the best all Helensburgh GC team<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\ufeffThe annual Helensburgh Lions Club golf day was held on Thursday 6 June in mainly dry but blustery weather.   Over 150 players from around the West of Scotland took up the challenge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Teams from the Ladies section stepped up to the mark and secured the major prizes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In first place, by having the best inward half, with 48 points were \u201cThe Beautiful Ladies\u201d- Denise Donald, Shona Bulloch and Alison Ram.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 In second place also with 48 points came \u201cEl Toros\u201d – Dominic Taylor, Nial Nowrocki and Patrick Scullion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Third spot was taken by \u201c2 Jambo\u2019s plus 1\u201d – Bill Lawler, Chris Lawler and Andrew Murray with 47 points ( BIH ) . <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Chicks with Sticks\u201d – Carol Bell, Dorothy Mickel and Rona Marshall came fourth and also won the coveted Geoff Brewster Quiach as the best team comprised of solely members from Helensburgh GC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Donald Boys\u201d – Andy Donald, Shey Donald and Stephen Donald took the fifth prize.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A number of teams returned 46 points \u201c BaJuSh\u201d – June Haggarty Babs Robinson and Shirley Monaghan took the sixth spot with seventh going to \u201c Golf Buddies\u201d- Phil English, Jim McKenzie and Alex Haggarty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Big hitters secured the prizes for the longest drives. On the 8th hole Declan Baxter won and on the 18th hole Dominic Taylor was successful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some fantastic iron play was required to win nearest the pin on the short holes – Michael McKecknie on the 3rd, Chris Lawler on the 9th and George Ather on the 11th. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hammy Parker played a superb stroke to be within 6 inches of the pin to win on the 16th hole.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lions Club secretary Mel Newton thanked Helensburgh Golf Club for generously making the course available for the fundraiser which this year raised \u00a33556 which will be spent within the local community.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

He also thanked the sponsors for their donations and the players for their generosity throughout the day,  the ladies section who manned the check in desks and 11th tee hospitality.  He also expressed  the Lions Club thanks to  Jonny Cleland and his team for presenting the course in such great condition, Sandra and Justine for providing the hospitality and Club Professional Fraser Hall for his continued support and advice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ladies win major prizes at Helensburgh Lions Club annual Golf Day Alison Ram, Shona Bulloch and Denise Donald the Competition Winners with Don MacDonald Lions Club President.\u00a0To the right – Dorothy Mickel and one of her partners Carol Bell winners of the Geoff Brewster Quiach for the best all Helensburgh GC team \ufeffThe annual Helensburgh … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.helensburghlionsclub.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.helensburghlionsclub.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.helensburghlionsclub.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.helensburghlionsclub.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.helensburghlionsclub.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=348"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.helensburghlionsclub.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":352,"href":"https:\/\/www.helensburghlionsclub.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348\/revisions\/352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.helensburghlionsclub.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.helensburghlionsclub.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.helensburghlionsclub.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}