Lanarkshire Golf Association

LGA 3 man scratch team championship at Cambuslang on Sunday 13 September.

Entries close this Sunday (6.9.26).

Team managers/match secretaries, please see attached 👀👀👀
for entry details.👍

LGA 3 Man Team Championship
-Cambuslang GC, Sun.13 Sept.
-Tee times from 11am.
-for the James Brown Memorial Trophy & individual trophy

Defending Team Champs
-Kirkhill
Defending Individual Trophy
-Garry McLetchie (Lanark)

Scores count in LGA OOM.

All 3 scores count in team event.👍
Vouchers for all 3 players plus an individual trophy and voucher for best scratch.💷

Enter on Golf Genius and email your clubs 3 players to Mark Walker, Events Convenor, at [email protected]

If your club is paying the £15pp x 3=£45, please contact Mark for our bank details and your club can pay the £45 straight into our bank account.👍

Knockout Cup Semi Finals
-Colville Park 2.5 v Wishaw 2.5
-Airdrie 2.5 v Larkhall 2.5
-Carluke GC, Sunday 30.8.26.

The semi finals of our ever popular Knockout Cup took place yesterday at Carluke and we had 2 photo finishes!

Incredibly both games finished tied and in a holes up/down count back, Wishaw and Larkhall made the final by only 1 extra hole up!

Congratulations to the victors and hard luck to both Colville Park and Airdrie.

The players were very complimentary about the course and the games were played in great spirit and friendship.

The only rain was 3 torrential downpours for about 10 minutes each, but the course held up really well.👍

Our thanks go to all at Carluke for hosting the event, but especially Lynne in the office , the pro shop team and the F & B teams.

Finally big thanks to the greens team for the presentation of the course.👌

The final will take place at Carluke next Sunday 6.9.26 at 12 noon, between Wishaw and Larkhall.

Play well everyone.👍

PS apologies for the "missing" four ball picture. We don't know what happened!🙈

Scottish Golf 2026 Boys Area Team Championship (ATC).
-Lochmaben Golf Course
-Saturday 12 & Sunday 13.9.26.

A tough decision to select a team of only 4 boys with so many of our boys performing so well at a county and national level.

Congratulations to the following boys;

Cameron Meldrum (East Kilbride)

15 years old Cammy has the lowest handicap index of the boys in the county at +2.1.
He was selected for the Scotland U16 team and has had an outstanding season winning 2 major events and finishing 2nd only last week.
This will be Cammy's 2nd appearance at the Boys ATC

Dylan McWilliam (East Kilbride)

17 years old Dylan plays off +1.1 and has had a string of top finishes in main events this season.
The current LGA Boys Match Play Champion and Runner Up in the LGA Boys Stroke Play Championship.

An experienced player making his debut in the Boys ATC.

Oliver Gill (Lanark)

16 years old Oliver has had an unbelievable season so far. He has got his handicap down to +1.0 and won a load of championships in the boys game as well as making his mark in the mens game;

Men's Match Play Champion
Men's Stroke Play 5th
Youth Stroke Play Champion
WOS Match Play Champion
Boys Stroke Play Champion
Boys Match Play Runner Up
U16 Stroke Play Champion
Boys OOM Winner

Oliver is making his debut in the Boys ATC.

Finally Team Captain Tyler Sneddon (Strathaven) off 0.6.

The vastly experienced 18 years old Strathaven player has had a solid season winning one main event and had several top finishes.

His schedule has been restricted due to work but he still managed to make the last 32 of the Scottish Boys.

This will be his 3rd appearance at the Boys ATC.

Team Manager Ian Rankin.

Play well in 2 weeks guys. 👍

WOS Boys Inter County League
-Lanarkshire 7 v Ayrshire 1
-Carnwath GC, Sun. 30 August

Following torrential rain at Crow Wood, which closed the course, we are indebted to Carnwath for giving us tee times to play this fixture at extremely short notice.👏

Both teams had been badly affected due to many of their top players being asked to attend a Scottish Golf Regional Assessment Day (LGA 6, AGA 3).

This meant both area's gave debuts to many new and younger players. All great experience.

We gave debuts to 5 new players who all delivered at least 1/2 point.
Fantastic conveyor belt of talent in the county.👌

Our 4th consecutive league win puts us in a strong position to win our 4th WOS League Championship in the last 5 years.

We are currently 2 points clear of Renfrewshire with one game remaining, and our "match difference" is +10 matches better than Renfrewshire.

Our initial thanks go to Crow Wood for offering to host the fixture and massive thanks to Carnwath for stepping in following the dreadful weather.

Special thanks to the Carnwath committee, Caddyshack for the food, the bar team and the pro shop team.

To the greens team, as the boys were very complimentary about the course, especially the greens.👌

To our friends in Ayrshire thank you for agreeing to the late switch of venue and best wishes to your many young boys showing great potential.👏



Our final match takes place next Sunday at Colville Park v Stirlingshire Golf Union.

A special mention of Tyler Sneddon (Strathaven) who played his last ever WOS boys match for us as he moves into the youth & men's events next season. Your match win record over the years has been phenomenal Tyler, and you have represented us, and Strathaven, with distinction.👌
Thank you and best wishes in your career.

Congratulations to the following;
* denotes debut

Jack Barnes (Drumpellier)
*Matthew Kelly (Kirkhill)
*Aaron McCormack (EK)
*Oliver McCormack (EK)
Ramsay Purdon (EK)
*Diarmuid Slavin (Drumpellier)
Tyler Sneddon (Strathaven)
*Mitchell Taylor (Strathaven)

Team Manager-Ian Rankin

Knockout Cup Semi Finals
-Carluke Golf Club
-Sunday 30.8.26 from 11am

FAO Colville Park, Wishaw, Airdrie, Larkhall,

Spoke to the pro shop, course is open and no puddles.

SF's good to go.

Light rain forecast all day (see attached).

LGA Junior League Play Off's
-Drumpellier v Lanark
-Wishaw GC, Saturday 29.8.26.

A titanic battle took place today at Wishaw between Drumpellier the Section 1 League winners & Lanark, the Section 2 League winners.

The play off final at a neutral venue consisted of 3 scratch matches and 3 handicap matches.

Lanark have the strongest scratch section in the county with their first 3 players playing off +1.0, 0.7 and 1.8, and they delivered with the first 3 points on the board.

The Drumpellier team fought back winning all 3 handicap matches, for a 3-3 draw and the calculators came out!

Congratulations go to Lanark who won on the holes up count back by 3 holes!👏🏆

Hard luck to Drumpellier.

The match was played in great spirit and friendship and some fantastic golf was played.

Our thanks go to Wishaw for courtesy of the course and to John in the bar and Terry in the kitchen, the kids loved the food!

Big thanks also to Parky & Ben in the pro shop for looking after everyone .

Finally the kids were raving at how good the course was, especially the fast greens.👌

Top marks to the greens team.👏

LGA 3 Man Team Championship
-Cambuslang GC, Sun.13 Sept.
-Tee times from 11am.
-for the James Brown Memorial Trophy & individual trophy

Defending Team Champs
-Kirkhill
Defending Individual Trophy
-Garry McLetchie (Lanark)

Scores count in LGA OOM.

All 3 scores count in team event.👍
Vouchers for all 3 players plus an individual trophy and voucher for best scratch.💷

Enter on Golf Genius and email your clubs 3 players to Mark Walker, Events Convenor, at [email protected]

If your club is paying the £15pp x 3=£45, please contact Mark for our bank details and your club can pay the £45 straight into our bank account.👍

Many congratulations to Kenny Gallacher (EK) on once again being selected for the Scotland Senior team for the Home Internationals in Wales next month.🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Play well Kenny.👍

Junior Champion of Champions
-Semi Finals Drumpellier Golf Club
-Friday 11 September 2026.

We have now reached the SF stages and we move to a neutral venue for the SF & Final.

We are delighted that Drumpellier Golf Club will host the final stages on their fine parkland course.

We have 2 cracking ties involving the following;

15.37- Kyle Caskey (Airdrie) v
Dylan McWilliam (Kirkhill)

15.45-Gabriel Burns (Bothwell Castle) v Harry McLachlan (Carluke)

If you are free, why not come along and see some great golf and cheer the boys on?👍

LGA Handicap & Team Championships
-Wishaw GC, Sunday 23 August

Well it was a clean up for the Lanark team at Wishaw today!

In the individual event Gareth Forde nicked it by 1 from his brother David and young Matthew Kelly who won the Kirkhill Junior Championship on Saturday.

In the team event you won't be surprised to hear Lanark demolished the field with Kirkhill (1) in 2nd place 9 shots adrift.

Our thanks go to all the players who came along and to Wishaw for courtesy of the course, their F & B team, the pro shop team and to the greens team for the presentation of the course.👏

Results;
Individual
🥇Gareth Forde (Lanark)
76 (9) 67 £80
🥈David Forde (Lanark)
74 (6) 68 BIH £60
🥉Matthew Kelly (Kirkhill)
73 (5) 68 £40

Team
🏆 Lanark (Gareth Forde 67,
David Forde 68,
Paul McCafferty 73) 208 (+1)
Each player received £60 each