Senior Section

Seniors Captain Andrew Stephen

 

2024 Turriff Seniors Interclub matches

Date	Club	Venue	Time	Notice	Closing	Numbers
Tues 9th April	Meldrum House	Meldrum House	10:00 for 11:00	21st March	4th April	16
Tues 16th April	Royal Aberdeen	Balgownie	9:15 for 10;00	3rd April	10th April	16
Thurs 18th June	Fraserburgh	Fraserburgh	10:15 for 11:00	10th April	22nd April	16
Frid 10th May	Murcar	Murcar	9:45 for 10:30	17th April	7th May	16
Frid 17th May	Newmachar	Newmachar	10;15 for 11:00	24th April	13th May	16
Tues 28th May	Meldrum House	Turriff	10;15 for 11:00	5th May	24th May	16
Frid 7th June	McDonald Ellon	Turriff	9;15 for 10:00	15th May	3rd June	12
Mon 24th June	Cruden Bay	Cruden Bay	10;15 for 11:00	29th May	10th June	12
Thur 27th June	Murcar	Turriff	10:15 for 11:00	8th June	20th June	16
Tues 9th July	Deeside	Turriff	10;15 for 11:00	19th June	1st July	16
Mon 15th July	Cruden Bay	Turriff	10;15 for 11:00	26th June	8th July	12
Tues 23rd July	Fraserburgh	Turriff	10;15 for 11:00	3rd July	16th July	16
Thurs 8th August	Aboyne	Aboyne	10;15 for 11:00	17th July	29th July	16
Mon 12th August	Deeside	Deeside	9:15 for 10:00	24th July	5th August	16
Tues 20thAugust	Royal Aberdeen	Turriff	10;15 for 11:00	31st July	12th August	16
Mon 2nd September	Moray	Turriff	10:15 for 11:00	14th August	26th August	16

Seniors 9 Hole Stableford Monday 2nd September 2024

Gents Front Nine

Name	Points
Bill Robertson	19
George Abel	18
Gordon Martin	18
Andrew Stephen	17
Willie Gardiner	17

Ladies Front Nine

Name	Points
Christine Bruce	20
Gillian Thomson	20

15 Gents and 6 Ladies Played

Seniors Summer Golf Arrangements 2024

Booking Tee Times

If you wish to play in our Monday morning competitions you will have to book a tee time on the BRS system. 

Tee times for the seniors’ competitions will be available between and 8.00 am – 10.30 am.

Registration and payment of the £1.50 competition fee will be in the Pro Shop. 

Competition Handicaps

From the 1^st April 2024 your course handicap will be calculated differently, it will be your (handicap index x slope rating / 113) + (course rating – par). 

For most of our summer competitions your playing handicap will be 95% of your course handicap, when you enter your score on the howdidido app, the app will have calculated the correct playing handicap for you. 

Senior Members will be allowed their full playing handicap up to 54 for all senior competitions 

Recording scores during and after the round

Please exchange your score cards with your playing partners at the start of your round.

At the end of the round you and your playing partners should agree each other’s final score \ points for the round and sign the score cards.

You should record your score using the Club’s computer in the bar in the club house or on the Club’s howdidido remote score entry app. 

After you have entered your score you should place your scorecard in the box beside the computer in the bar in the clubhouse.

 If you are unable to use the app please ask at the office for assistance.

After you have entered your score 

Scores must be recorded before the competition closes at midnight.

Competition Results

Most competition results can be viewed on howdidido.

Ball winners for the nine- hole  Stableford competitions will be posted on the club’s website -Seniors’ Section. Ball winners will receive their prizes from the Pro Shop as in winter.

Results for the J D Pirie AM/AM, the R Esslemont Texas Scramble and the Sandy Horn match play competitions will be emailed to members.

Competition Tees

Senior Ladies competitions will be played from the Red tees.

Senior Gents competitions will be played from the Yellow Tees with the exception of the following competitions which must be played from the White Medal Tees:

• Monthly Medal Championship
• The Seniors ‘ Club Championship
• The Sandy Horn Match Play Competition

Summer Monthly Medal Competitions

There are six 18 hole -stroke play medal competitions played during the Summer, they are played on Mondays as indicated in the Club Diary starting in April with the last one in September.

On each of these dates there will be three medal competitions:

• Ladies Medal Championship  played from the red tees
• Gents Medal Championship played from the white tees
• Gents Medal Salver played from the yellow tees.

The results for the above competitions will be posted on howdidido.com, the top seven players each month are awarded points.

The points awarded are as follows:

1^st         10 points

2^nd        8 points

3^rd        6 points

4^th        4 points

5^th        3 points

6^th        2 points

7^th        1 point

At the end of the Monthly Medal competitions, points are totalled to determine the Scratch and Handicap Prize Winners in each competition.

The June Monthly Medal also includes the Summer Salvers competition.

Salvers are presented to the following players:

• The Lady with the best score in the Ladies medal competition.
• The Gent aged 65 and over with the best score in the Medal Championship (white tees) competition.
• The Gent aged 70 and over with the best score in the Medal Salver (yellow tees) competition.

Seniors Club Championship

The Ladies and Gents Seniors’ Championship competitions are played over two rounds.

Handicaps remain the same for both rounds.

The winners are presented with the following trophies: 

Senior Ladies Scratch winner – The Purdie Cup

Senior Ladies Handicap winner – The Wilma McKilligin Trophy

Senior Gents Scratch winner  – The George Abel Cup

Senior Gents Handicap winner – The Riddoch Cup

Other competitions in the google club diary

There are two team competitions in our summer programme: the J D Pirie AM AM

And R Esslemont Texas Scramble.

There is also the Sandy Horn match play competition.

Details of these competitions will be emailed to members.