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Dear Readers,

I'm doing some more work on the site tonight.
Apologies in advance if things go wrong!

Gill

Website Maintenance

Apologies if there is any disruption in service over the next couple of days.
I am moving the kirkwoodgolf website from one host to another... 
I'm hoping that there will not be any problems... but you never know!
If things do go wrong... watch our other website www.scottishgolfview.com for up to date news.
Gill

Message from Muriel Thomson, PGA Professional at Portlethen GC

Hi there
I’m just back from my annual visit to India – if you want to read my Newsletter which updates you on the project click into the link here which will take you straight to it on my website.
http://www.murielthomson.co.uk/Newsletter%202010.htm
If you can’t access it from the link you will find it on my website by clicking into the ‘Charity Work’ page.
Regards
Muriel Thomson
website: www.murielthomson.co.uk

North of Scotland Championship entry forms on

"new look" Angus County website

Aileen Hunter has given the Angus County website a bit of a makeover - www.angusladiesgolf.org
Aileen told Kirkwoodgolf.co.uk:
" I felt it was about time and I wanted to put what I'm learning in my Web Design & Development degree course to good use. Until I started at Abertay University I was self taught, so it's good to be learning better practices (or as many as my old brain can retain).
"There is a section on the site for the North of Scotland Championship which is at Forfar Golf Club from July 5 to 7. Entry forms can be downloaded from the site."

E-mail from Claire Hargan, SLGA Championship Manager

Entry forms for the Scottish Ladies Golfing Association's tournaments in 2010 are now available on the SLGA website.

Website: www.slga.co.uk
Telephone: 01738 442357

Enterprising Dollar Golf Club converting holiday flat at clubhouse

Dollar Golf Club are converting the upper floor of their clubhouse into a holiday flat to boost their income. Switch over to www.scottishgolfview.com to read all about it.

Readership and Advertising on kirkwoodgolf.co.uk

Steady increase in visits to kirkwoodgolf.co.uk last year

Colin and I are very pleased to report that readership of kirkwoodgolf.co.uk website grew last year to over 500,000 unique visits and over 1,000,000 page views clocked between 1 January and 31st December. Readership has not abated during the winter, and is running at over 50,000 unique visits per month, which augurs well for 2010.

We are very grateful for your continued interest in kirkwoodgolf.co.uk, Colin is amazing ... he is just SO keen to keep you informed, and he spends hours collecting and collating stories and scores. Thank you to all who have written in and contributed to the website.

You might think that we get paid for providing the service, or that the website is sponsored. WRONG!

We knew when we started that we were never going to make a fortune, and we certainly haven't been disappointed on that score. Advertising brings in a little money which does not even cover our costs.

Do you know of anyone who would consider advertising with us? For only £30 per month you can advertise on both kirkwoodgolf.co.uk and our brother site scottishgolfview.com. More information can be found here. I can design an advertisement to fill the 150x300 pixel space for you at no extra charge.

Let's see Scotland and Scottish Golfers on top of the scoreboard at all events in 2010 and that you turn to kirkwoodgolf.co.uk to read about it first!

Kind regards
Gillian Kirkwood

Notes on Statistics on kirkwoodgolf.co.uk

Those that look at both websites (kirkwoodgolf.co.uk and scottishgolfview.com) will have seen that the statistics for the two websites are reported in different ways. kirkwoodgolf.co.uk is hosted by Strato and scottishgolfview.com by 1&1. They report statistics differently. kirkwoodgolf.co.uk moved to Strato in the middle of January 2009 and therefore the January figures are not complete.

Merry Christmas

Merry

Christmas

to all

our

Readers

Thank you for watching this website!

Richie Ramsay makes European Tour victory breakthrough

Aberdeen's Richie Ramsay has achieved his first European Tour victory in the South African Open. Read the full story and the final totals by switching over to www.scottishgolfview.com

Spanish Tour results

Results from the women's event at the Hi5 Spanish Tour, which finished today, can be read by switching over to www.scottishgolfview.com

Stop snoring .... and cut your handicap!

Switch over to www.scottishgolfview.com to read all about it.

We're a bit stretched!

Colin has already announced that he is struggling to transmit news from a very dodgy mobile phone signal in Troon. I'm doing Rules down at the Ricoh Womens British Open at Royal Lytham St Anne's and have very limited time.
Please bear with us until the the weekend when normal service should be resumed!
Gill

NORMAL SERVICE WILL BE RESUMED ON SATURDAY EVENING

BECAUSE OF THE WEAK T-MOBILE SIGNAL IN THE TROON AREA, UPDATES ON THIS WEBSITE - AND www.scottishgolfview.comk - WILL BE VERY LIMITED UNTIL SATURDAY EVENING.
WE ASK FOR YOUR UNDERSTANDING IN THESE TRYING CIRCUMSTANCES FOR THE EDITOR WHO HAS A LOT TO TELL YOU BUT CANNOT GET IT UP ON YOUR SCREENS.

COLIN FARQUHARSON

SLGA events in August

Entry forms to the following SLGA events in August can be downloaded from the Scottish Ladies Golfing Association website: www.slga.co.uk

August 18 - County Golf Open meeting at Dullatur.

August 30 - Scottish Ladies Foursomes at Forfar

Got golf news or pictures for us to display?

If you want your golf news or images displayed on Kirkwoodgolf.co.uk, send an E-mail to Colin@scottishgolfview.com

Paul Lawrie Foundation Junior Tour results

Results from the Paul Lawrie Foundation Junior Tour's first Stableford & Flag competitions day at Peterculter can be found by switching over to www.scottishgolfview.com
The first results from the Aberdeen Schools League are also available on that website.

We're sorry ... but it's not our fault!

Sincere apologies from the Editor for the fact that we have been unable to update either Kirkwoodgolf.co.uk or Scottishgolfview.com websites "normally" over the past 24 hours.
This has been due to technological circumstances outwith our control.

P&K golfer Eve Muirhead selected

for Olympic Games' curling team

By DAWN BUTCHART
Perth & Kinross county captain
P&K county squad player Eve Muirhead has been named in the five-strong Great Britain & Ireland women's curling team for the 2010 Winter Olympic Games at Vancouver.
Eve, pictured right by Cal Carson Golf Agency, along with Karen Addison, Lynn Cameron, Jackie Lockhart, Lorna Vevers and Kelly Wood, make up the women’s squad. All have had their share of European and World Championship medals. Eve has two World Junior Curling championships, Jackie Lockhart has already played in two Olympic Games and has won a World gold medal in 2002 and got bronze at the 2007 World Championships and silver at the Europeans in December.
Karen Addison has two World Junior gold medals, a World bronze from 2007 and got European silver in the same year. Lynn Cameron and Kelly Wood played in the 2006 Winter Olympics, Kelly skipped the bronze medal team at the 2007 World Championships and silver team at the Europeans in December 2007.
Eve is the youngest member and is very excited about her selection. We here at P&K wish her well and will follow her progress with great interest.
Well done, Eve!

Happy Birthday to Mary Mac

USA's Carol Semple Thomson and GB&I's Mary McKenna
lead out their teams at the 2008 Curtis Cup at St Andrews.
[click on the image to see a bigger picture in its own window]

Kirkwoodgolf sends Birthday Greetings to Mary McKenna, Curtis Cup and Vagliano Cup Captain.

Mary, I hope you enjoy your 60th birthday as much as I did!

Best wishes
Gill

No pictures meantime - again

Editor's note: We regret that due to a recurring fault, outwith our control, we are again unable to display any images.

Apologies for website down-time

You turn your back for a minute and everything goes pear-shaped!

Abject apologies for the disruption to your enjoyment of kirkwoodgolf.co.uk, and your patience is requested as I try to piece it all together again.

Gill

Merry Christmas from the Team

Hope you are having a Merry Christmas!
No golf news today. Back on Boxing Day if we can find some for you.

Gillian Kirkwood
Colin Farquharson

Search Engine

You might have noticed that the search box in the title bar has not been working for a while... well... I've finally fixed it.... so you should be able to search Kirkwoodgolf for that elusive piece of news in the archives.
Cheers
Gill

COLIN FARQUHARSON IS OFF TO THE ALGARVE UNTIL OCTOBER 21.
GILLIAN KIRKWOOD WILL HOLD THE FORT UNTIL THEN.

How's Martin Laird doing in Canadian Open?

Switch over to http://www.scottishgolfview.com/ to find out Martin Laird's score in the third round of the Canadian Open and also the Saturday scores on the US Nationwide Tour.
News also of the Open leading amateur Chris Wood turning professional.
Here on Kirkwoodgolf.co.uk we will have news from the SLGA 36-hole Order of Merit event, the Mackie Bowl at Gullane, in the evening and also a report and scores from the last day of the Evian Masters in France.
Read it here before you get your next day's newspapers!

SLGA Tournament Assistant

The closing date for applications for the SLGA Tournament Assistant position is Monday 26 May.
See www.slga.co.uk for more details.

Elie Sports Club urgently needs a new Assistant to start ASAP.

Ideally, Ian Muir would like to employ someone who is looking to become PGA registered but this is not essential.

Successful applicant must be enthusiastic and personable. Shift work allows time to play and practice.

Send CV, photo with covering letter via email to ianmuir@btconnect.com

NORMAL SERVICE RESUMED AS SOON AS POSSIBLE
Colin Farquharson will be "out of the game" all day Friday as he travels to Spain to organise the the inaugural Hacienda del Alamo Women's Winter Golf Festival. Until he gets to grips with the communications service over there, updates will necessarily be restricted.

Merry Christmas!

Can't resist showing you another photo of Oliver!

This is him yesterday (5 days old!)

DEATH OF MAY GREET

Deeside Golf Club member May Greet, a past captain of Aberdeenshire Ladies County Golf Association, has died at the age of 83. Her husband Roger died last year.

New arrival

Well. here he is... No3 grandchild.
Oliver Armstrong was born this morning at 9:20am, second son for my daughter Carrie and her husband Alastair.
He weighed 8lbs 5 oz and measures 59 cm in length.
His big brother Harry, who has just turned two, is delighted with his new baby brother.
That makes it 3 - nil in the boys v girls stakes.
Recipes for girls would be appreciated!

We are closing the subject of Tam Pepper's E-mail (scroll down to read his critical comments) with the following reader's response.

From Tom Anderson

Just seen Tam Pepper's letter to you and your request for comments.
Yes - Tam Pepper is quite right you are biased in your reporting.
At present in Scotland we have the most promising and excellent group of young lady amateur golfers for many years together with a number of very good young professionals.
However, in reading your reports at times one would think Scotland young lady golfers consisted purely of Carly Booth and Vikki Laing and sadly the newspapers usually draw their small printed reports from you.
Let's be fair to all members of the above highly talented group of young lady golfers in Scotland. In recent times they all deserve much better publicity than they have received.

Tom Anderson

Last word on the subject from the Editor:

I was astonished when Mr Pepper somehow turned round my praise of Carly Booth to hold me responsible for making her unpopular with her fellow competitors. That was news to me. I was not aware that Carly was "unpopular."
As for Mr Anderson's comments.
Carly Booth won the Scottish Under-21 girls' title by NINE shots. Difficult to write about anyone else in that tournament unless there was unlimited space, which there is not.
Carly won the Scottish Under-18 girls' match-play championship. I did touch on other girls' achievements during that week but Carly Booth began with a brilliant score of nine-under-par 64 and no self-respecting golf writer could have ignored her after that.
She was the player that even non-golf enthusiasts, i.e. newspaper readers, were talking about. She even made the Leader column in the Aberdeen Press and Journal.

Colin Farquharson

NEW LOOK FOR KIRKWOODGOLF

Hope you haven't all died of shock!

I've changed Kirkwoodgolf around, so that you see the "HotNews" page first, and the old pink pages are in the background, reached by the Links down the left hand side.

Reasons:
1. I'm going to be away for weeks on end this summer,
2. Quite frankly I can't keep up with Colin's phenomenal output.

There are still going to be some teething troubles.... Let me know if you have any problems reaching or reading these pages, or if there are any links that do not work.

Gill

Website alterations

You might notice that the Hot News webpages have undergone slight alterations today.

First of all I've altered the banner a little. Yes the photo in the background has changed.... there's a prize for the first person who tells me where it is!!!
You'll have noticed that I've removed the words "Hot News" as I am about to change the whole website around, and have this page as the kirkwoodgolf home page.
If you are still with me... the reason I am doing this is because I'm going to be away for at least 8 weeks this summer... and I don't want you to get frustrated by always seeing a message "Sorry I'm away.. look at Hot News" ... so instead you'll get Hot News automatically.
Hold onto your hats as the big changeover will happen soon!

I've added a Categories list (top left). All the stories/posts will have a label from now on... and so, for instance, if you want to read all about student golf, and only student golf, you can click on the student golf link and see only stories about student golf. Whew!

Let me know what you would like to see in the Categories section and Colin and I will do our best to comply! Indeed if there is anything you think can be improved then please get in touch. Email me at gill@kirkwoodgolf.co.uk