NAMES FOR WINTER TOUR

There are just a few spaces remaining for the rounds up to Christmas. I have paid the deposits for 28 players at the courses and will get them of everyone at the first round.

Drumoig    2 places remaining

Leven        2 places remaining

Crail          2 places remaining

Lundin      Full

I WON A PRIZE

When he arrived home with the Spoon on Sunday night Simon was to embarrassed to tell his wife that he had finished last and the Spoon was his reward for getting 17 points.
So he tells her he played well and the wooden Hackers Spoon is actually a training aid to help with his putting stroke !
The above photo shows Helen practising her putting stroke in the kitchen.

Auld Friends

RONNIE AND YOU KNOW WHO

SPOON BOY CHAMPION 2012

THIS

SUMMERS TOP HACKER

SIMON JESSNEY

Proudly displaying his awards

Accepting his Spoon from the King of Spooners Jamie Carroll

Sitting with the Spoon and hoping someone was going to come off the course with less points than him

SUMMER PRIZE WINNERS

SUMMER CHAMPION 

2012

MICK DRUMMOND

Mick receiving his winnings and trophy from Lord Cullen

Runner up Derek Mitchell

Graham Dickie nearest the pin in 2 at the 9th

Nearest the pin at the 6th Andrew Alexander

Shanking it nearest the pin at the 14th was Tommy Nicholson

Nearest the pin in 2 at the 2nd Micky "Funfair"

SPOON BOY HAS LANDED HOME

SUMMER SPOON

BOY

2012

SIMON JESSNEY

Arriving home last weekend Simon wasn't allowed over the front door by his wife Helen until he put on the Spoon Boy tee shirt and posed for the camera.

SUMMER RESULTS

LENZIE GOLF COURSE
19TH AUGUST 2012

Mick "Funfair" Drummond wins the summer outing again.

Last years winner at Auchterader once again walked away with the trophy and successfully defended his title with 40 points. Runner up this year was last years runner up. Derek "Del Boy "Mitchell with 39 points. So a repeat of last years top 2 positions. In 3rd place this year was John "Hammy "Hamilton with 39 points beating George Leadbitter on count back for the 3rd place.

Nearest the pins in 2 went to Mick and Graham with Tommy and Andrew getting the 6th and 14th prizes.

Spoon Boy was Simon Jessney with a very poor 17 points on his own home course. There will be more to follow on Simon later in the week.

Full Results

M Drummond  40
D Mitchell       39
J Hamilton       39
G Leadbitter    39
P James           38
T Nicholson    37
B Murphy       36
G Sinclair       35
R Chalmers    35
J Wynn          35
J Cumming  34
S Paul             34
A Alexander   34
I Fox              33
G Cullen        33
S Gibson       33
N Keir          31
J Cullen        31
G Dickie      30
C Weir         30
I Baird         30
R Aitken     30
J Carroll      30
B Newall    29
J Sommerville 28
D Revie          26
S Jessney        17

Nearest the pins

2nd     M Drummond
6th     A Alexander
9th     G Dickie
14th   T Nicholson

SPOON BOY

SIMON JESSNEY  17POINTS ON HIS OWN COURSE !!!!!!!

Photos to follow later in the week.

LENZIE GOLF CLUB

Sunday 19th August

DRAW 8.30AM

FIRST TEE TIME 8.56

Food from 8.00am

Players entered are

Robert Chalmers
Gordon Sinclair
Paul James
Graham Dickie
Neil Keir
Ian Fox
Richard Aitken
Brian Newall
Danny Totten
Andrew Alexander
Derek Mitchell
George Leadbitter
Davie Revie
Tommy Nicholson
Mick Drummond
John Wynn
Stevie Paul        
Jamie Carroll
Johnny Sommerville
Gerry Cullen
John  Cumming
Simon Jessney 
Craig Weir
Jim Cullen

John Hamilton
Ian Baird
Brendan Murphy
Steven Gibson

28 players

NEW GOLF RULE

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n January, the USGA and The R&A released the new Rules of Golf for 2012-2015 following an exhaustive, four-year review of golf’s 34 playing Rules in which nine principal Rules were amended to improve clarity and ensure penalties are proportionate to rules breaches. One significant change was made to Ball Moving After Address (Rule 18-2b). The addition of a new exception exonerates a player from penalty if his or her ball moves after it has been addressed when it is known or virtually certain that the player did not cause the ball to move. For example, if a gust of wind moves the ball after it has been addressed, there is no penalty and the ball is played from its new position.

HACKER WYNNS THE WINTER LEAGUE

LENZIE GOLF CLUB

WINTER 

CHAMPIONS

John Wynn and his partner Ian McDonald won this years Winter League at Lenzie. They won the final 2-1 against fellow Hackers Jim Wylie and David Edgar.

Congratulations to John and Ian.

FINAL PHOTOS FROM LADYBANK

Below is a selection of some photos I have from Ladybank. It's hard to imagine that just 8 days later we would be getting snow and the temperature was just above freezing.

The golf season has now started and I hope you all have a good one.

Details of first summer round will appear soon.

DRESSED TO WIN THE SPOON ??

Murray was certainly dressed for the summer conditions on Sunday. He was the clear winner in the best dressed category.

For those who don't know Murray he is a Hackers record holder. Murray and Michael Kennaway hold the record for the biggest humping. They were rogered 9-8 by Peter Ritchie and Scott Kennedy at Leven in 2010. 

Murray is also a Spoon winner a few years back and here he was all dressed for the occasion but as he walked down the first the thought suddenly hit him.

If I play like a tit and get this Spoon I will get absolute dog's abuse due to my attire. 

He was also out in a 4 ball that contained double Spoon winners Geraldo and Mr Dickie so between them they had 5 Spoons.

This played through his mind and with a few holes to go he knew that he was borderline and he admitted later he was even willing his partner to miss putts and duff shots so he could stay ahead of someone in his 4 ball. 

In the end the Chef was fine and he stayed out of danger and a whole lot of abuse.

Best dressed for the season - no contest.

THE CHEF

LADYBANK PHOTOS

Ladybank
2012

Simon Jessney , David Edgar and David Stirling

Jamie O Prey , John Wynn , Steven Gibson and Jim Wylie

Craig Weir , George Leadbitter , Davy Graham and Craig Chalmers

Murray Greig , Gerry Cullen , Graham Dickie and Andrew Alexander. The Spoon has been won 5 times by 3 of the players above. Andrew must have been worried .

Turkey Champion Jamie O Prey and Jim Wylie

The Brothers Cullen - Jim and Geraldo

Stevie looking at the football results or setting up his GPS

Davie Revie concentrating on the task ahead to get out of the Donkey prize

Even the putting green was minted

Fantastic weather at Ladybank

George getting ready 

HACKERS CHAMPION 2012

HACKERS WINTER 

CHAMPION 

2012

PAUL "VERA" JAMES

Mr Happy collecting his trophy from last years winner Neil Keir

What can I say !

In second place Gordon Sinclair

In third place Brian Murphy

On Sunday none of the top 4 ball improved their best 5th score and Paul managed to hang to the overall  lead by just 1 point.

It had been a tight game all the way round between Paul and Gordon and with just 3 holes to go Gordon was 3 points ahead of Paul overall but a blob on the 16th dropped him behind again.

It was a great finish to the season and show's that the format is a good one when after 6 months golf and 198 holes of golf that it all comes down to the last hole.

Congratulations to Paul on winning the Tour for the second time.