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North Your local golf magazine for grass roots golfers Local golf news for golfers in Scotland, Northern England and North Wales Golf North Autumn/Winter 2015 Use your smart phone to scan the code or go to our website. A fantastic year of Golf in East Lothian will be rounded off with the Scotland’s Golf Coast Festival in October - see inside for more details. www.golfeastlothian.com www.golfnorth.co.uk 1 18 − 24 October 2015 Celebrate the Perfect Golf Experience Join us for a week-long series of events, where you can BookBook anynow of and the receiveevents before a 10% 1 discount July 2015 andon all receive prices a enjoy some of the world’s finest links courses, embrace 10% discountby enteringon all prices code by GolfNorth10entering code GolfSou10 the challenge of picturesque parkland courses and experience the heritage of a golf destination we have been perfecting since 1672. 2 3 North Your local golf magazine for grass roots golfers Local golf news for golfers in Scotland, Northern England and North Wales Welcome Golf North Autumn/Winter 2015 The good thing about a Solheim Cup year is that just when you think the season is over, along comes a fantastic international WELCOME competition. Carin Koch will lead out her Use your smart phone to scan the code or go to our website. team on 18th September and this year, it A fantastic year of Golf in East Lothian will be rounded off with the Scotland’s Golf Coast Festival in October - see inside for more details. is expected to be a close call. This year the www.golfeastlothian.com www.golfnorth.co.uk European side contains no rookies at all and has top names like Charley Hull and Melissa 1 Reid on board as well as Catriona Matthew. www.golfnorth.co.uk Nine of the players were also in the 2013 Solheim Cup and 11 of the USA players were Golf North Studio 150 there too. Old Embroidery Mill Seedhill In fact, Catriona will be appearing in her Paisley sixth appearance, so she knows what is PA1 1TJ needed from the Europe team. But don’t Tel: 01235 856300 forget the golf is also not quite over for Fax: 01235 468427 local players too. There are still a few club Email: [email protected] champion competitions to be decided and we NEW FOR 2015 will soon be into autumn and winter medal territory. Frightening thought really! Enjoy the last few days of the season. © Golf North Any reproduction of any article or advertisement in whole or part is not permitted without prior written consent of the publishers. 22 NEW ROUTES 3 NEW AIRLINES Bordeaux Las Vegas Bournemouth Lublin Budapest Marrakech Bydgoszcz Milan Carcassonne Munich Chania Poznan Derry Prague Dubrovnik Riga Exeter Vilnius Halifax Warsaw Modlin Katowice Wroclaw 4 glasgowairport.com @GLA_Airport Contents National News . 6 Tiger Returns pages 10 Junior News ������������������������������ 18 NATIONAL NEWS NATIONAL Scotland West �������������������������� 22 Scotland East . 30 North West England . 56 Solheim Cup 2019 page 38 North East England ������������������ 70 Yorkshire ���������������������������������� 74 European Captain Carin Koch has made her to get in the team. As you get older, it gets Golfing Great . 78 four picks for this year’s Solheim Cup matches harder to qualify but this will be my eighth one in Germany, naming Caroline Hedwall, Karine so it will be great to play at home and defend North Wales . 80 Icher, Caroline Masson and Catriona Matthew it hopefully.” to complete her 12-woman team. Koch, who will lead Europe for the first time, Products . 86 All four players enjoyed a record 18-10 victory commented: “We’ve got a great mixture of Golfing Great page 78 representing Europe in the 2013 match at youth and experience which really excites me Senior Moments ���������������������� 88 Colorado Golf Club in the United States of as Captain. Each of our players has a role to America. They are now heading to Golf Club play and I have a team of stars. Now the team Golfing Breaks 93 St.Leon-Rot near Heidelberg for the 2015 is finalised we can all have full focus for the . matches on 18-20 September where they will week in Germany and I can’t wait to see the face Juli Inkster’s United States team. players together at Golf Club St Leon-Rot.” North Berwick’s Matthew, who gained the The European team in full is: winning point at Barsebäck in Sweden in • Carlota Ciganda, Spain 2003 and secured the half that won The Cup • Sandra Gal, Germany WIN a GolfBuddy page 88 outright in Colorado, is the most experienced • Caroline Hedwall, Sweden player in the team, along with Suzann • Charley Hull, England Pettersen. • Karine Icher, France Matthew will make her eighth team • Caroline Masson, Germany appearance and said: “Obviously I was • Catriona Matthew, Scotland delighted and very excited when Carin gave me • Azahara Muñoz, Spain the phone call and I can’t wait to play in The • Gwladys Nocera, France Solheim Cup. • Anna Nordqvist, Sweden “It has always been my favourite event and • Suzann Pettersen, Norway to play as part of a team is so good! 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