The second David Doig Golf Day was held once again at St Andrews, this time at The Dukes course. The fun event, held on Friday 31 August, saw 11 teams of 4 once again contesting the David Doig Memorial Trophy - kindly donated last year by Jan Hart and Andy Paterson. It was an exceptional day weather-wise and everyone was joyous at playing this beautiful course in such great conditions.
Transocean (Andy Leslie, Mike Rae, Stewart McLean, Dougie Brown) yet again proved their golfing prowess by successfully retaining their title with a winning net score of 54.6. Runners up were the OES Group with a net score of 57.2 (Steve Ure, Paul Brown, Mike Rennie, Chris Gaff). Third prize went to “A Rhum Lot”, Net 58.8 (Gillian Doig, Craig Scott, Jim Cowan, Trevor Cragg)
On Course Competitions winners were:
Nearest the Pin 3rd sponsored by Wood Alan Mowat (Wood) !
Nearest the Pin 16th sponsored by Atlas Andre Sarafilovic (Stephens the Bakers)
Longest Drive 6th sponsored by Wood Alasdair Hastie (“The Walking Divots”)
Longest Drive 14th sponsored by Atlas Steve Ure (OES Group)
Putting Challenge Winner was Stewart McLean (Transocean) with 11 putts
Beat the Pro – sponsored by Opito, winner was Gordon McNeil (Opito) !
A wonderful amount of £5209 was raised for the David Doig Foundation.
Huge thanks once again to all the companies who provided sponsorship and donated prizes – Falck, Stephens the Bakers, OES, Nexen, Atlas, IADC, Wood, OPITO, Wildwell, Murrayshall, the Marcliffe, Denis Law Trust, Kinross Golf Club and the Dukes staff - thank you so much, it makes such a difference to the success of days like this.
