Results for July 21st

After the great heat we had a lovely morning to play golf and it was enjoyed by 25 of us, which equals our season's best turnout.

The range of scores was astonishing from top to bottom but we had a convincing winner in Brian Taylor with 20 points. Brian was also nearest at the 7th which he also birdied - that amounts to a 4-ball haul.

Graham Mackie was second on 19 points and Eric Ward also birdied the 7th.

Our most-improved golfer, Chris Beaumont, hit what was judged by the gallery to be the best shot of his career on the 5th hole where he hit a sweetly struck second shot from the right rough, which soared over the bunkers and followed the TAMS line up the left edge of the fairway and onto the top edge of the green to finish just a few feet past the hole!

Results for 14th July - coming from a Starbucks in Scottsdale Arizona

A cool early morning soon warmed up to create very pleasant conditions for golf. George Langlands scored 19 point on holes 1 to 8 [a blob at 9 from a misbehaving 9 iron] to take first from Ken Davie on 17 points. Ken birdied 9 while George was nearest the pin at 7. There were several scores in the 14 to 16 range.

Results for July 7th

A pleasant summer's morning found ex Fire Chief Richard Edmonds really on fire returning 18 points to win, Wilson Struthers taking second with 17 points.

Steve Farrar returned the only birdie at 7 and was also nearest the pin for the first time in his TAMS career. Well played Steve.

Results for June 23rd

A pleasant summer morning with the course in excellent condition favored some good scoring. No-one could hit 20 points, however, Keith Ackerman returning 19 points for the honours. David Wallace was second easing ahead of Bill Hardcastle and Steve Baczkowski all on 18 points. 

Birdies were recorded by Melvin Cannell, Richard Edmonds, Ken Davie, Bill Hardcastle, Callum Orr [on his first TAMS outing] and Gordon Fisher who was also nearest the pin at 7. The budget will have to be revised if this ball feast continues!

Results for June 30th

On a really pleasant morning we had a TAMS record turn out for this season of 25 starters.

Melvin Cannell won today with 19 points and was also recognised as having the only real 'go-to' golf swing among all of the TAMS. Melvin takes the club back and brings it down again all in the same plane. That is easy to say but very difficult to do.

Ken Davey was second on 18points and Steve Farrar continued his excellent form this season with a birdie on the difficult pin position at the 4th.

Bill Hardcastle was nearest on the 7th with several players also coming close, but no-one converting their shot for a birdie.

Results for June 16th

Course and weather conditions were conducive to high scoring. Only 2 players took the opportunity ,however, Bill Hardcastle monopolising events with 22 points, nearest the pin at 7 and a birdie at 9. Eric Ward was again second with 20 points.

Results for 9th June

Good to see TAMS well represented in the Senior Team against Torwoodlee tho' it somewhat diminished our playing number this morning.

Pleasant conditions encouraged several scores in the high teens Steve Farrar coming out on top with 18 points followed by Eric Ward on 16 points. Jim Pettigrew's swing is obviously in sync at 7 as he was nearest the pin for the second week running.

Results for June 2nd

21 starters enjoyed a lovely morning on a beautifully prepared golf course.

We are definitely getting better and our golf is now a bit more worthy of the course.

Sandy Morris just sneaked in ahead of the field with 20 points.

Second place on 19 points went on countback to Steve Farrar who just edged out Bill Hardcastle.

Steve is in a rich vein of form no doubt fortified by a short break in Cyprus in what appears to have been rather lovely company!

Jim Pettigrew was nearest on the 7th.

We look forward to continuing good scores and hopefully a few birdies which have been scarce this season.

Results for 26th May

20 players enjoyed the golf course in immaculate condition at such an early stage in the golfing year. The greens were true and lightning fast - witness some of us who putted off the front of the second green from behind the pin.

We are getting better after last week's horror show and Melvin Cannell was our clear winner with 18 points. There was a log jam behind Melvin with 3 on 16 and more on 15 points.

David Forsyth was adjudged second on 16 points on extended countback from John Forsyth and Ian Tate.

And, at last we had a birdie from Brian Taylor on the 7th and he was also nearest.

Results for 19th May

With the golf course looking at its finest with freshly mown greens and beautiful bunkers (is such a thing possible ???) we had 20 players today.

The line-up was given a stern talking to as the collective performance was considered to be lamentable and not worthy of such a fine course.

It might even become necessary for lessons to be mandatory!!

All of that notwithstanding, we did have a worthy winner today in Steve Farrar whose 16 points was enough to beat Graham Mackie on count-back and a host of others on 15 points.

There were no birdies and Brian Taylor was nearest on no.7.

The Convenor is away on the high seas and therefore missed today's debacle.

We were pleased to see Brian Robson back among us nursing several broken ribs after his recent accident in Stranraer. Sadly it looks as though Brian's convalescence will take most of this season.

Roddie McAlpine gavel - results at Christmas!

21 players competed in a 5 club competition for the Roddie McAlpine gavel the result of which, as per our tradition, will be revealed at the Xmas lunch

Birdies there were none the only glory for the day being provided by David Wallace's nearest the pin at 7.

Results for 5th May

Only 17 played this morning, Covid, holidays and other issues having an impact. Bill Hardcastle took the honours with 20 points while John Forsyth eased second from Keith Ackerman both on 18 points. George Langlands was nearest at 7.

Ted Veitch joined the group for the first time.

Get well soon wishes to Brian Robson who is in hospital in Stranraer with 3 broken ribs.

Next week will be a 5 club competition for Roddie's gavel.

28th April Results

On a pleasant spring morning 24 players took part and enjoyed a course which is in good condition.

Scoring was generally good and Gordon Fisher and Keith Ackerman were in top form and were tied on 23 points each with Keith winning the count back and just pushing Gordon into 2nd place.

Ian Tate played well and birdied the 4th and 9th holes.

Jim Pettigrew was nearest the pin at the seventh hole.

Results for April 21st

We saluted another great achievement today as we learned that Jim and Jean McAuslin

have just celebrated their 65th Wedding Anniversary. Jim was one of the founding members of the TAMS way back in 1993.

We had 18 starters on another warm and sunny morning. The greens were freshly cut and invited good putting, although strangely there were no birdies today.

Until late on there was a log jam of players on 16 points.

Then in came Brian Taylor with an excellent score of 21 points along with his playing partner Ken Davey who scored 18 points.

Ken's handicap is tumbling after only a few weeks of the new season.

Jim Walker was nearest on no 7.

We will soon be announcing the dates of the competitions for our signature events.

Results for 14th April - what a day!

After the near-hypothermic conditions which severely reduced our field last week, 22 players enjoyed glorious spring weather today and the scores reflected that.

We also were able to celebrate two quite separate but nonetheless memorable events.

We join Richard Edmonds and his wife in celebrating their Diamond Wedding Anniversary. Our award of a ball seems scant reward for such a momentous achievement.

On the eve of his 87th birthday, Doug Coltman made birdie 4 down the ninth, which resulted in the record stableford points score of 6 points for that hole.

Our weekly competition winner was our best player, Ken Davey who racked up 20 points including a birdie on the 9th, for which he only scored 4 stableford points.

Runner up was the pride of U3A, Dr Tony Kinder with 19 points.

We had almost forgotten what it was like to play in such pleasant conditions.

Results for 7th April

8 players encountered awful conditions with driving sleet/snow off a northerly wind. 10 points would have been good under these conditions but David Wallace, Gordon Fisher and Bill Hardcastle all returned 13 points with David taking the honors from Gordon and Bill coming third after countback. Gordon also was nearest the pin at 7. Good shooting guys.

Having just had +3 added to his handicap David has immediately given 2 back!

Results for 24th March

On a glorious warm spring day we had 19 players enjoying these conditions which featured newly-mowed greens and fast-running fairways.

Scoring was perhaps not quite reflective of these benevolent conditions but we had a worthy winner in Chris Beaumont with 20 points.

Chris changed the focus of his talents from 3 successive nearies to a solid round scoring on every hole.

An even more impressive second place winner was our elder statesman, Steve Baczkowski, who scored 18 points at the age of 95 - well played Steve!!

There was a good competition for nearest at no7, with 3 players on the flag before Dave Forsyth won out and converted his fine tee shot with a birdie putt.

Results for 17th March

A lovely morning saw the winter greens removed very quickly. A clear winner was Roger Key with an impressive 22 points. Brian Robson was second on 19. Roger birdied 4 and Ken Davey birdied 5.

Chris Beaumont set a new TAMS record being nearest at 7 for the third week running. He should probably get to keep the flag!

Results for 10th March

20 players encountered a pleasant end of winter morning [we hope]. Scoring was fairly mediocre until the last group came in with Jim Walker returning 20 points to win. Joint second with 17 points were Graham Mackie and Bill Hardcastle with 17 points. Bill also birdied the 4th while Chris Beaumont was nearest at 7 for the second week in a row.

Members were sad to hear of the death of Gordon Smith a playing TAM until he moved west to be near his family. A service will be held in the Evangelical Church next Thursday followed by the burial at Peebles cemetery. The time of the service is to be confirmed.

Results for 3rd March

After missing the last 3 weeks there was a welcome return to TAMS golf. 19 players encountered a pleasant morning and found the course in reasonable condition considering the recent weather. Scoring was slightly subdued but Chris Beaumont, George Cunningham and Eric Ward all returned 16 points. On countback Chris took first place from George. Chris was also nearest the pin at 7.

In support of Ukraine several players wore the yellow and blue national colours. To lighten the mood a sartorial verdict on outfits declared David Wallace and Roger Key tied, David winning as his golf ball also sported the colours.