Month: July 2025

The Sunday of The Open is always a great day at the Club. Not just our connection to the tournament but also we run two competitions, one for the Claret Jug and the other is a Pro Am. Musselburgh has a great connection to the original Claret Jug, and therefore this is one of our special competitions. Two players tied on a net score of 66, unfortunate for Greig McVean the winner on countback was Paul Brown. Seen here being presented by our Club Captain Billy Alexander.

The second part of the day is the Pro Am and it can not be finalised until the last few tee times at the Open have finished. On the day we had 70 golfers and by coincidence there were 70 qualifiers in the Open. Each player picked at random a Pro golfer and the sum of their net score together with the final round score of the Pro, wins the Alex Hay Phoenix. James Bonthron (Bonnie) seen above with the trophy. Obviously to win you must have a good score and he had a net 68 (level par), and luckily drew out a pro who carded a 66 (5 under).

Saturday 5th July the Club hosted the 24th Musselburgh Challenge, a competition where teams of 4 playing in pairs with hickory clubs on our great course. Teams associated with our course and our local friends made up the line up, however there was one team you could not call local. The Taiheiyo Club from Japan, which we have newly created an association with, sent over a team.

The winners of the trophy The Thorntree with a very good score of 39 and 35 (74), are seen in the header above. Although with a different team from last year they actually defended their crown, well done guys. Arthur Reid, Gordon McLay, Robert McKinnon and Ryan McKinnon making up the team, looking happy with the magnificent trophy. The British Golf Collectors, who have been previous winners, came second and were presented with runner up medals. MOCGC, came third.

One of the Taiheiyo Club pairs seen here with Steven Hill and Euan Glen

Traditionally we have a team based on our Club Champions and here David Service (Club Champion) playing with Alan Tweedie (Senior Champion), played with a team from Bruntsfield Links, a society that used to play at our course and had a clubhouse in our road.

Following an excellent meal, the presentation was made, followed by speeches and a few drinks were had. The committee would like to thank everyone for their help in making this a very special day. Our Japanese guests could not resist getting a picture taken with the Claret Jug (we might have told them it was the original) in front of the Musselburgh winners. Their team came a very creditable 4th in the Challenge.

Sunday 29th June was the finals day of our Club Championship. Following 2 qualifying rounds in the 4 categories (Championship, B Section, C Section and Seniors). Then followed by quarter and semi final rounds of matchplay on a scratch basis, the 4 finals were established. Our Champion, who was defending his title, David Service defeated Keiran Blyth, B Section victor was Terry Gillan who overcame Rich Leslie, C Section winner was Billy Finnigan who beat Eddie Whoriskey. Finally the Senior Champion who was also defending his title from last year Alan Tweedie defeated Gordon Henderson. The picture shows our Club Captain Billy Alexander with the happy group.