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• Loch Lomond Golf Club avoids receivership , 03 Nov 2008 in Tee
  

  We’ve known Loch Lomond Golf Course was in trouble for a while and we;ve talked about it before. Now, on the brink of receivershsip, its American owner has called in the Bank of Scotland (or HBOS as we;ve got used to calling it these days) to run the club. There was £40 mill of members [...]

• So Jack Vettriano snubs Monty… , 31 Oct 2008 in Tee
  

  OK. Jack Vettriano has refused to paint a portrait of felllow Scot and top golfer, Colin Montgomerie because: ‘I don’t do men with breasts’.
  Don’t give it another thought, Colin. What he really means is that he hasn’t got a painting-by-numbers book to cover the subject of men with clubs.
  If he had any imagination he have [...]

• Exciting new golf development for Kintyre , 05 Oct 2008 in Background
  

  A new links course, desined by David McLay Kidd is to open in May 2009 at Machrihanish. Machrihanish Dunes Golf Club is an 18-hole links course beside the Machrihanish Golf Club. The two courses, a plush clubhouse for the new course (due 2010) and some luxury accommodation will put together a fantastic golfing complex for [...]

• Well - Poulter came through the challenge but result showed Faldo didn’t cut it , 05 Oct 2008 in Background
  

  We all know the gory details - a glorious and feted European team snatching, as they say, defeat from the jaws of anticipated victory. Nuff said. But look at the Zinger’s tactics. Magic. A new logic altogether and what a successful one. He put - and kept - groups of players together on the basis [...]

• So - it’s Poulter and Casey for the Ryder Cup , 31 Aug 2008 in Background
  

  Faldo has spoken. The wild cards go to Ian Poulter and Paul Casey. The rumour mill’s been saying they’d both been given the nod in advance - explaining why Poulter went to the States instead of proving his place at Gleneagles. Darren Clarke’s got reason to feel put out. He’s done the business. Poulter and [...]

• Ryder Cup Wild Card - will it be Monty? , 26 Aug 2008 in Background
  

  Open champion, Padraig Harrington has asked to have Coin Montgomerie as his partner but what will Europe captain Nick Faldo do? Justin Rose has had the bottle to go to Gleneagles to prive his worth. Ian Poulter has preferred to look after his own interests, has cancelled Gleneagles, where he was down to play and [...]

• So Kenny did the deed at Askernish , 23 Aug 2008 in Background
  

  Yesterday was the day. Old Tom Morris would have been relieved to see the course he designed at Askernish on South Uist and described as ’staggering’, now back from serial use as croft and airfield and restored as one of the world’s best links courses. Kenny Dalglish, beloved of Scotland’s football fans, opened the course [...]

• Congrats to South Uist on opening the restored Tom Morris course at Askernish , 14 Aug 2008 in Background
  

  It’s not Argyll but it’s a big addition to the Scottish Golf scene. The lost eighteen-hole links course designed in 1891 by the legendary Old Tom Morris at Askernish Golf Club on South Uist has finally been restored and is to be opened by Kenny Dalglish on Friday 22nd August. The discovery and the restoration [...]

• Standaloft Open Greensomes at Port Bannatyne Golf Club , 13 Aug 2008 in Background
  

  Bute’s Port Bannatyne Golf Club hosts its Standaloft Open Greensomes on Sunday 17th August.

• Two Lochgilphead Opens still to go , 13 Aug 2008 in Background
  

  With the Gents Open in July and the Ladies Open last weekend, The Gents Open Doubles (the Medal Doubles)  is on Sunday 17th August and the Mixed Doubles Open on Sunday 7th September. Entry forms available online.