THE REAL MONTROSE SPOON BOY REVEALED

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THE OFFICIAL

MONTROSE

2012

SPOON 

BOY

RICHARD AITKEN

Richard finally got his award from Montrose. For the record both Richard and Scott had the same number of  points  but Scott had 1 more on the back 9.    

The little video below is for Richard as he became a Dad again just 2 weeks ago - congratulations to all.

ELIE SPOON BOY

ELIE 

SPOON BOY

2012

GEORGE LEADBITTER

The winner of the most important award on Sunday was The General George Leadbitter with a poor score of just 25 points. George accepted the Spoon with dignity and said he deserved it as he played like a donkey.

Sitting just to the left of George and keeping his head down is his travelling companion Davie Revie who also played like a donkey but managed to beat The General on count back. He had 11 points to George's poor total of 10 points.

Just behind these 2 Hackers was Steven Gibson. He ammassed a total of 26 points to avoid the Spoon yet again by just 1 point. There will be more about Mr Gibson's golf in a later post.

ELIE WINNERS

ELIE

CHAMPION

2012

DEREK

MITCHELL

The winner with 40 points

The champion visualising his tee shot

Runner up Craig Weir with 39 points

In 3rd place Stevie Paul 37 points

Nearest the pin at the 3rd Jim Cullen

Nearest the pin at the 11th Scott Kennedy

WINTER TOUR LEADERBOARD 2012

ELIE LINKS 

Best 5 scores for all players who have completed 5 or more rounds.

The score on the left is each players worst.

Players with 5 rounds+

G Sinclair         30     186
P James            32     182
I Fox                32     177
S Paul              31      174
B Gibson         30      174
G Dickie          31      173
B Murphy        29      173
I Baird             29       170
J Wylie            30       168
M Drummond  30      168
N Keir             29       167
G Cullen         27       166
J Wynn            30      165
R Chalmers     29       163
A Alexander   30       163
D Mitchell       25       162
T Nicholson    28       161
A Smart          25       161
D Graham      28        157
S Kennedy     29        155
C Chalmers    18        153
K Lang          27        150
G Leadbitter  25        149
S Jessney       24        147
S Gibson       26        147
J Cullen         24        146
J Sommerville 23       140
D Stirling       13        113

Players with 4 rounds

B Newall      116
R Aitken       108

Players with 3 rounds

J Byrne         113
C Weir          105
J Carslaw        97
I Hutchinson   94
K Mc Kinney  89

Players with 2 rounds

G Sleight       71
J OPrey         70
J Cumming    67
J Hamilton     58
D Revie         58
J Nicholson   54
P Ritchie       48
J Carroll        48

Players with 1 rounds

S Wallace     40
M Hannah    33
I McLaren    31
D Totten      22

Total number of players this season has been 47 so far.

THE HACKERS CURRENT TOP 4 BALL

THE CREAM 

OF 

THE 

HACKERS

THE PLAYERS AT THE TOP
AFTER 7 ROUNDS.

GORDON SINCLAIR       186

PAUL JAMES                    182

IAN FOX                            177

STEVIE PAUL                   174

CURRENT DONKEY 4 BALL

THE DONKEY 

4

BALL

AFTER 7 ROUNDS THE

CURRENT DONKEY BOYS ARE :

STEVEN  GIBSON           147

JIM CULLEN                    146

JOHN SOMMERVILLE   140

DAVID STIRLING           113

A BRAW DAY AT THE LINKS....for most

ELIE LINKS

Sunday 29th January

Yesterday was our 7th round of this year's Winter Tour and, yet again, we hit it lucky with the weather. Cold but very calm conditions made this course play a bit easier than normal, for most that is. Only 5 players never got 30+ points with the winner just 1 point from equalling the Tour record of 41 points.

The winner was Derek "Del Boy"Mitchell with a great score of 40 points. This meant that Derek gained 15 points in the best 5 rounds league table and still has a 25 pointer to dump. This was the best round Derek has had since last year's Summer outing and maybe this season he will start getting his handicap back down to what it used to be a few years ago.

In second place was Craig Weir with his best score of the season, finishing with 39 points. He was 1 ahead of Stevie "Ma Card" Paul with a solid 38 points. I was surprised that Stevie "only" got 38 as he had 26 points standing on the 11th tee! He had 21 at the turn then proceeded to drive to 3 feet on the 10th and can the putt for a 2 and 5 points!! I think this is our first ever 5 pointer but I may be wrong and if I am, please let me know.

We had another 4 players play to their handicap or better and another 5 on 35 points.

The nearest the pins were won by Jim Cullen and Scott Kennedy.

Spoon Boy for this round was George Leadbitter, losing on count back from his travelling companion Davie Revie. They both had 25 points but The General had a pathetic 10 points on the back 9 and therefore entered into the Spoon Boy Camp. These 2 players saved Steven Gibson yet again from getting Spooned. He has more lives than a cat when it comes to the Spoon and this season he has been missing it solely because someone has been really poor and helping him get out of jail

Another fantastic day's golf and, as usual, the course at Elie was in great condition for January, especially the fairways.

We have 28 players now having played their 5 rounds or more and another 7 with 4 or 3 rounds each. Who is in the current top 4 ball position and who is in the donkey 4 ball position ??

The next round is Drumoig Golf Course in 2 weeks.

Lots more pictures to follow and also the following:

"The course is up that way Laddie, not in here "

The Bandito strays off the course - WAAAY OFF THE COURSE !!

Hutch hits the ball far too far !!

Vera and Sinky keep bagging the points.

General George bags a Spoon in full uniform.

"Daddy" Aitken finally gets Spooned.

 THE WINTER TOUR LEADERBOARD AFTER 7 ROUNDS NEXT

SPOON WAITING FOR SOMEONE

SPOON WAITING

FOR 

A LIFT BACK

DOWN 

THE 

ROAD

Standing and getting a tan in the sunshine the Spoon was waiting to see who his new owner was going to be this week.
What he didn't know was that the winner had sneaked into the clubhouse in the first game out and General George with 25 points had a long wait to see if anyone was going to be worse than him.

ELIE RESULTS

WINTER GOLF

IN 

SCOTLAND

JANUARY 29TH 2012
ELIE LINKS
ROUND 7


FULL RESULTS

D Mitchell    40
C Weir          39
S Paul           38
R Chalmers   37
B Murphy     37
B Gibson      36
J Byrne         36
G Sinclair     35
P James        35
A Smart        35
T Nicholson  35
M Drummond 35
D Graham      34
G Cullen        34
J Cullen         33
I Baird           33
A Alexander   33
I Fox              32
B Newall       31
I Hutchinson  31
S Kennedy     31
K Lang          31
J Wynn          30
C Chalmers   30
J Wylie          30
R Aitken        29
N Keir           29
S Gibson       26
D Revie         25 (11)
G Leadbitter  25 (10)

NEAREST THE PINS

Jim Cullen

Scott Kennedy

SPOON BOY
GEORGE LEADBITTER  25 POINTS

REMINDER OF CURRENT LEADERBOARD

HACKERS WINTER TOUR 2012 LEADERBOARD


All players with 5 rounds completed. Worst score on the left.
There have been 49 players playing this year so far.

P James     31  178
G Sinclair  27   178
I Fox         29    174
G Dickie   31    173
N Keir      31     167
S Paul       30     166
B Gibson  27     165
J Wynn     29     164
I Baird      26     163
M Drummond 27   160
A Alexander  23     153
R Chalmers   26     152
S Kennedy   26      150
A Smart       25       150
G Leadbitter  27     149
D Graham     25     148
S Jessney      24      147
D Mitchell    25      147
S Gibson      25      146
T Nicholson  20     146
J Sommerville 23   140
J Cullen          17    130
D Stirling        13    113

REVISED LIST ON SATURDAY AM

REVISED LIST FOR ELIE

ELIE GOLF LINKS

JANUARY 29TH

 32 NAMES ENTERED NOW

A Smart

A Alexander

B Gibson

B Murphy

C Chalmers

D Graham

D Mitchell

G Leadbitter

D Revie *

G Cullen

G Sinclair

I Baird

I Fox

J Byrne*

I Hutchinson

J Wylie

J Wynn

K Lang

M Drummond

N Keir

P James

R Chalmers

S Kennedy

S Gibson

S Paul

T Nicholson

B Newall *

J Cullen *

C Weir *

R Aitken *

30 players entered 

* - Players not paid a deposit (£5.00)

First tee time 10.34am

DRAW 10.15 AM

Soup and sandwiches included in green fee.

Coffee and rolls available before if required.

If you can't play let me know ASAP

WEATHER UPDATE

St Andrews five-day forecast

Date	Time	Weather	Temp	Wind			Visibility
				Dir	Speed	Gust
Sat 28 Jan	0900		0 °C	WSW	6 mph		Very Good
	1200		3 °C	W	6 mph		Very Good
	1500		3 °C	WSW	4 mph		Moderate
	1800		1 °C	SW	3 mph		Moderate
	2100		0 °C	WSW	3 mph		Moderate
Sun 29 Jan	0000		1 °C	NW	2 mph		Moderate
	0300		1 °C	N	2 mph		Moderate
	0600		2 °C	NW	4 mph		Moderate
	0900		3 °C	SSE	7 mph		Very Good
	1200		4 °C	SE	10 mph		Very Good
	1500		4 °C	SE	10 mph		Very Good
	1800		3 °C	SE	13 mph		Good
	Night		2 °C	SE	16 mph	26 mph	Good
Mon 30 Jan	Day		4 °C	ESE	15 mph	25 mph	Very Good
	Night		2 °C	ESE	13 mph		Very Good
Tue 31 Jan	Day		4 °C	SE	13 mph		Good
	Night		1 °C	SSE	10 mph		Very Good
Wed 1 Feb	Day		3 °C	SSE	13 mph		Very Good
	Night		0 °C	S	11 mph		Good
Last updated: 0701 on Sat 28 Jan 2012