Dates for the diary.
The Club AGM will take place in the Club lounge on 20th February at 7pm. Members are reminded that to be able to attend and vote, you must have paid your subscriptions.
The 2025/26 Presentation Night will be held at the Masonic Halls on Saturday 14th March.
A Special competition
The Committee and Competition Secretary thought it was a good idea to have a trophy and competition / championship for our older members. A Veteran Championship was put in place, over 70 years old. The competition took place on Saturday 25th October over 9 holes. A great turnout of 10 members played in bright but very windy and cool conditions. The winning score with a net 32 was Mike McGovern, seen here with our Chairman Brian Weddell, a great score in those conditions, but a 33 and two 34s shows how tight a comp we had.
The Secretary Trophy was won by Liam Smith.
The following week, John McFeely won the 9 hole Willie Jarvie Trophy
The Musselburgh Amateur Competition was played over Friday 5th September for Seniors and Juniors, and Saturday 6th for the main competition over our beloved course. The Committee of the competition realising the significance of it being the 100th playing agreed that it should be at our course to host it. Entrants must either be a member of the 3 Musselburgh Courses, a resident of Musselburgh or employed in Musselburgh. With a large entry it was pleasing that the overall winner was one of our own, Ross Noon. Ross is seen being presented by councillor Andy Forrest, who is a Committee member. Not only was it a good round to win, Ross equalled the course record of 65, with the second place carding a 66, great shooting guys.
Each entrant received a medal because of the occasion.
The handicap winner was also a MOCGC member and one of our youngest members, Greig McVean. His net score of 65 giving him the trophy by one shot.
The club nearly made it 3 out of 3 but in the Seniors David Hill from Royal Musselburgh narrowly beat our Eddie Whoriskey by one shot
A huge round of thanks have to go to the organising committee of which Alan Tweedie was our representative. All those that volunteered over the two days, our Chef John McFeely for feeding everyone etc.
The wee club with a big heart, once again delivered when we had our Charity Day on 10th August. The winner of the competition was our Secretary, Mike McVean but the big winner was our chosen charity. Clark’s Concert Party formerly St. Ninian’s Junior Concert Party in memory of Robert Clark. Once again we are supporting a local Musselburgh organisation and here you can see our Captain Billy Alexander with a group of their members receiving a cheque for £1500. It never fails to amaze us how our wee club digs deep on these days, donating raffle prizes, buying raffle tickets etc.
One our wee clubs most important days is our Charity Day. A fuller post will happen tomorrow, but just as a filler, the winner was our Club Secretary Mike McVean.
Joe Scott seen here being presented with the Rosebowl by our Club Secretary Mike McVean. Joe has been a member since he was a junior, and in his thank you speech, stated this was his first major Trophy. A net 66 (2 under) was a great score as the wind was blowing rather hard. It was great to see a number of visitors playing in the Open, but both major prizes went to MOCGC members.
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).
