{"id":299200,"date":"2025-12-04T20:24:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T20:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/299200\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T20:24:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T20:24:11","slug":"golf-prizegiving-rounds-off-successful-whinhill-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/299200\/","title":{"rendered":"GOLF: Prizegiving Rounds Off Successful Whinhill Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" data-lazyloaded=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"434\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/prizegivingwhinhill.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-81078\"  data-\/><img loading=\"lazy\" data-lazyloaded=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"512\" height=\"346\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/prizegivingwhinhillchamp.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-81079\"  data-\/>John Donald receiving the club champion trophy from Club Captain Dougie Wilson<\/p>\n<p>WHINHILL Golf Club\u2019s season drew to a close recently with its annual prizegiving.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the competitions attracted large numbers of players, making 2025 a very successful year for the club.<\/p>\n<p>John Donald was crowned club champion for a record tenth time.<\/p>\n<p>Competition Winners<\/p>\n<p>Holy Loch Trophy \u2013 Andrew Blair. D. K. Thompson Trophy \u2013 Joe McArthur. Centenary Trophy \u2013 Christopher Bonnar. Ford Trophy \u2013 David Adams. J. McDermid Trophy \u2013 Stuart Boyle. Wallace<\/p>\n<p>Trophy \u2013 Eric Blaikie. Coronation Cup \u2013 Kieren O\u2019Neill. President\u2019s Prize \u2013 Robert MacDonald. Beith Trophy \u2013 Bobby Bell. D. Hamilton Trophy \u2013 David Ellis. J. Paul Trophy \u2013 John Gardiner. C. McCready Trophy \u2013 Stephen Cowan. Jubilee Trophy \u2013 Nathan Lightfoot. Campbell Trophy \u2013 Jason Lindsay. A. Wilson Trophy \u2013 John Alan Burke. J. Melvin Trophy \u2013 Gerard Smith. J.S. Thomson Trophy \u2013 Dale Arkley. Peter Kirkwood Trophy \u2013 Brian Hamil. Outing Trophy \u2013 Kenny Beaton. John Renfrew Memorial Trophy \u2013 John McCabe. Inverclyde Sports Council Trophy \u2013 Alan Wilson. Jim Paterson Memorial Trophy \u2013 Iain Tosh. Robert Bell Trophy \u2013 Craig Robertson. George Jenkinson Trophy \u2013 Willie Henderson.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blairswindows.co.uk\/pvcu \" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noreferrer noopener nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" data-lazyloaded=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"557\" height=\"210\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/blairs550under.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-75834\"  data-\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Matchplay Competition Winners<\/p>\n<p>Boyd Trophy \u2013 Chris Bossley &amp; Sean Pierce. McIntyre Trophy \u2013 Chris Bossley &amp; Hugh Speirs. Anniversary Trophy \u2013 John Donald. Peter Graham Trophy \u2013 Brian Gillan. Hugh Graham Trophy \u2013 Mark McDermott. Auld Yins\u2019 Tassie Trophy \u2013 Joe McArthur. Churm Trophy \u2013 Gary Sinnamon.<\/p>\n<p>Major Competition Winners<\/p>\n<p>Medal Final \u2013 1st Section \u2013 Sean McLaughlin. Medal Final \u2013 2nd Section \u2013 Bernard Kangley. Medal Final \u2013 3rd Section \u2013 Paul Meechan. Hammy Simpson Trophy \u2013 Ryan Campbell. Winter Handicap \u2013 Andy Hendry. Winter Scratch \u2013 John Donald. J. Snoddy Trophy \u2013 Chris Lightfoot. Texas Scramble \u2013 Darren Brown, Ryan Elder, Michael McGeechan &amp; Craig Robertson. Margaret Lever Trophy \u2013 David Doak. Jimmy Lang Trophy \u2013 Lee McLaughlan &amp; Alan Wilson. Whinhill Trophy \u2013 Paul Jones (Largs Golf Club). Strokeplay Trophy \u2013 Gary Harkins. 2nd Section Championship \u2013 Paul Allan. 3rd Section Championship \u2013 Kenny Beaton. Club Championship Trophy \u2013 John Donald.<\/p>\n<p>Whinhill Golf Club thanks all who make it possible to have such a successful season, in particular, the bar and catering staff for looking after all members and visitors so hospitably, the green-keepers for keeping the course in such fine condition and the Match &amp; Handicap Committee for their constant hard work in providing members and visitors with more than 70 strokeplay competitions and various open and match.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"John Donald receiving the club champion trophy from Club Captain Dougie Wilson WHINHILL Golf Club\u2019s season drew to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":299201,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-299200","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299200\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}