{"id":717429,"date":"2026-07-29T14:54:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T14:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/717429\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T14:54:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T14:54:16","slug":"north-berwicks-calder-and-crawford-cup-2026-winners-crowned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/717429\/","title":{"rendered":"North Berwick&#8217;s Calder and Crawford Cup 2026 winners crowned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  The qualifying rounds took place last Tuesday, with the finals contested and champions named last Thursday.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The Calder Cup, was first contested in 1920, is open to players aged 14 and over, while the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eastlothiancourier.com\/news\/25364597.winners-north-berwick-putting-competitions-crowned\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Crawford Cup<\/a>, established in 1994, is for under-14s.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\" alt=\"Harvey Blair, Crawford Cup winner, and George Kirk. Calder Cup winner, with their trophies\"\/>Harvey Blair, Crawford Cup winner, and George Kirk, Calder Cup winner, with their trophies (Image: Ross Richardson)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  In the Calder Cup, George Kirk took first place, with Sean Macrae runner-up and Hudson Blair and David Murvin sharing third.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  In the Crawford Cup, the title went to Harvey Blair, ahead of second-placed River Montgomery, with Roddy Surfleet and Harrison Blair sharing third spot.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\" alt=\"This year's competition grew by more than 40 wanna-be putters\"\/>This year&#8217;s competition grew by more than 40 (Image: Ross Richardson)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Alison Connell also won the prize for first lady.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Crawford Cup winner Harvey went on to win the Cree Medal (scratch competition), while his brother Harrison won the Peter Pan Cup (handicap competition) on the children&#8217;s course at North Berwick Golf Club the following Saturday.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\" alt=\"Brothers, Hudson, 15, Harvey, 13, and Harrison Blair, 9, all competed in the day's events with Harvey taking home top prize in the Calder Cup and, his brothers coming third in their respective contests\"\/>Brothers Hudson, 15, Harvey, 13, and Harrison Blair, 9, all competed in the event with Harvey taking home top prize in the Crawford Cup and his brothers coming third in their respective contests (Image: Peter Blair)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  A spokesperson said: &#8220;There was a great standard of putting and a real community feel throughout the competition.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;Many thanks to enjoyleisure for all their support and for gifting the entry fees to North Berwick Community Council.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;I\u2019m looking forward to next year\u2019s competition and hope to see an even bigger turnout in 2027.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  A total of 139 participants took part in the qualifying rounds, significantly up on last year&#8217;s 90 participants.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Last Thursday\u2019s action saw players progress through a round of 16, quarter-finals, semi-finals and final for each trophy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The qualifying rounds took place last Tuesday, with the finals contested and champions named last Thursday. The Calder&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":717430,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-717429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717429","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=717429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717429\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/717430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=717429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=717429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=717429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}