Winter Events 2020:
Due to the ongoing Coronavirus pandemic we have cancelled this years Winter competitions and OOM.
We are once again running a series of 1 day, 18-hole Stableford events (Non-Qualifying) over the early months of 2020. The format will be as previous years, with the Winter Order of Merit being won by the player with the highest aggregate points scored from 4 out of 6 competitions. Handicap allowance will be 3/4.
ENTRY FORMS SHOULD NOW BE SENT TO SSGS, P.O. Box 19160, JOHNSTONE, RENFREWSHIRE, PA5 5AQ or emailed to comps@scottishseniorsgolf.com
Order of Merit points top 20
1 - 25 points
2nd - 22 points
3rd - 19 points
4th - 17 points
5th 16 points
6th to 20th place onward points decrease by 1 Less than 30 players points will be reduced accordingly.
SCHEDULE FOR 2020
Thursday 20th Frebuary 2020 - West Kilbride GC Cancelled due to weather.
Friday 28th February - Stirling GC Annual Dinner at night. Cancelled due to weather.
Friday 6th March - Strathmore GC Results and OOM points
Friday 13th March - Drumoig. Results OOM after Drumoig
Friday 20th March - Monifieth CANCELLED
Friday 27th March – Leven Golf Links. CANCELLED
Summary 2018/19
STUART MCKENDRICK wins 2018/19 Winter Order of Merit in the closest finish yet to any Winter series.
There was a tight finish to this years Order of Merit with less than 4 points covering the top 4 after the 4 counting events. In the end Stuart McKendrick with 4 consistent finishes pipped Tom McLevy by less than 1 point and Neil McGarva beat Norman Dyce into 4th place by the same margin. Keith Ross finished in 5th place with another good finish at Prestwick St Cuthbert. For full OOM table CLICK HERE
Vouchers will be available at Powfoot those not collected will be mailed to winners.
Full list of voucher winners CLICK HERE
Summary 2017/18
NEISH CHISHOLM WINS WINTER OOM
With 4 out of 8 of this years events cancelled the SSGS winter events Order of Merit went to 3 counting events out of 4 with the final event at Prestwick St Cuthbert last a Friday.
This led to the closest finish we have had with 4 points covering the top 3 players. The winner was Neish Chisholm who is the most enthusiastic and well travelled member of the Society , Neish had a consistent season with 3 top 5 finishes in the counting events well done Neish.
In 2nd place 1.6 points behind was Drew Wilson (St Andrews New) who pipped Prestwick St Cuthbert winner Kevin McCarthur (St Andrews) by 2.2 points in fourth place was Ian McKerron (The Grange).
For final OOM standings and points, CLICK HERE
2016/17 SUMMARY
After a close call in last years (2015/16) Order of Merit, this year (2016/17) George Barrie (Callander) was a clear winner this year with 5 excellent counting events.
With a 4th place finish at Prestwick St Cuthbert Philip Hendry (Alloa) jumped into 2nd place above Neil McGarva (Kilmalcolm) and Colin Halcrow (Windyhill), Colin Mavor (Elgin) finished in 5th place only 2.75 points behind.
For final top 20 OOM positions from 2016/17 CLICK HERE
Full list of Voucher winners from Winter series 2016/17, click here
