A big thank you to all who took part in our inaugural DN Dance Golf Fundraiser event on Sunday 28th of August. It was a great turnout with 53 players across 14 teams, and lots of prizes to be won. We’re delighted to have raised a total of £1077.75 towards training and development opportunities for our dance competition team.
Team prizes
Our two main prizes are the team awards, for “lowest team net score” and for “most team birdies (gross score)”. Both competitions were incredibly close.
Lowest Team Score (Net)
The winning prize for the team with the lowest net score is a 4-ball voucher to the prestigious Archerfield Links Golf Club in East Lothian. Congratulations to Andrew, John, Martin & Douglas from team “Scrambled Eggs” with a superb result of Net 52. A special mention goes to “Team H” who were forced to give up due to low light when on a score of Net 42 with 2 holes to play. Results in order are as follows:
- Scrambled Eggs (Net 52)
- The Coos tail (Net 53, with 25 on the back 9 on count back)
- The Wright Stuff (Net 53, with 26 on the back 9 on count back)
- Happy Whackers (Net 54)
- Shoulda gone home earlier (Net 55)
- Euan, David & Ewan (Net 55)
- Tagi-tastic (Net 56)
- Woodfield Weasels (Net 57, with 29 on the back 9 on count back)
- Morland’s Marauders (Net 57, with 29 on the back 9 on count back)
- Boarder Highlanders (Net 57, with 30 on the back 9 on count back)
- Thin On Top (Net 58)
- Taylor’s Tornadoes Mk1 (Net 60)
- Team H (Net 42 + 2 holes)
- Bleakley’s Bandits (Net 47 + 2 holes)
Most birdies (Gross)
The second team prize is a 4-ball at the excellent Leven Links in Fife. This prize is awarded to the team with most birdies in a round (Gross score). Congratulations to the winners Craig, Michael, John & Andrew from team “Shoulda gone home earlier” who scored an incredible 10 birdies in another extremely tight competition. The results for number of birdies are as follows:
- Shoulda gone home earlier – 10 birdies
- The Coos tail – 9 birdies
- The Wright Stuff – 8 birdies
- Team H (DNF) – 7 birdies
- Thin On Top – 7 birdies
- Woodfield Weasels – 6 birdies
- Scrambled Eggs – 5 birdies
- Tagi-tastic – 5 birdies
- Morland’s Marauders – 5 birdies
- Happy Whackers – 4 birdies
- Euan, David & Ewan – 4 birdies
- Bleakley’s Bandits – 4 birdies
- Boarder Highlanders – 2 birdies
- Taylor’s Tornadoes Mk1 – 2 birdies
Individual Awards
We had 9 opportunities for players to win an individual prize, with 4 Longest Drive holes and 4 Closest to Pin holes, as well as our hickory club challenge. Players were limited to one prize per person, to ensure the prizes were split amongst the players as fairly as possible. Winners of the longest drive & closest to pin competitions each receive a sleeve of premium Srixon Z-Star balls, a bag of premium tees, and their choice from the following list of prizes:
Prizes for individual competitions
- 4-ball at Baberton Golf Club
- 4-ball at Turnhouse Golf Club
- 4-ball at West Linton Golf Club
- 4-ball at Ratho Park Golf Club
- 4-ball at Gogarburn golf Club
- £20 American Golf Voucher
- £20 American Golf Voucher
- £20 American Golf Voucher
- £50 Ratho Proshop Voucher (for the winner of the Hickory club challenge)
Longest Drive
Congratulations to the winners of the longest drive competition. The 4 winners of the longest drive competitions will select a prize from the list above in alternate sequence to the winners of the Closest to Pin Challenge. In order of distance longest to shortest, as verified by Golfshot GPS, the winners are:
- John Macphie – 319 yards, 4th hole (1st pick)
- Euan Martin – 291 yards, 7th hole (3rd pick)
- Archie Hamilton – 289 yards, 14th hole (5th pick)
- Barry McCrossan – Unknown yards, 9th hole (7th pick)
** Barry McCrossan wins by default with a second place drive, as the winner (Euan Martin) had already won on an earlier hole.
Closest To Pin
Congratulations to the winners of the closest to pin competition. The 4 winners of the closest to pin competitions will select a prize from the list above in alternate sequence to the winners of the longest drive competitions. In order of distance shortest to longest, the winners are:
- Craig Watson – 105 cm, 12th hole (2nd pick)
- Shona Moreland – 293 cm, 15th hole (4th pick)
- Sean Wright – 297 cm, 13th hole (6th pick)
- Ross Hall – 473 cm, 8th hole (8th pick)
In addition, congratulations to the superb effort by Alan Mason who wins the Hickory Club Challenge with an excellent result of 290 cm (15th hole) who wins the £50 Ratho Park proshop voucher.
Main Raffle Prize
All raffle prizes were collected on the day, with the exception of the main prize, which was a 4-ball at Craigielaw Golf Club. This final prize of the day was won by Archie Hamilton.
Claiming your prizes
If you are one of the winners listed above, please contact Lindsay Bleakley at accounts@dndance.co.uk to select and arrange delivery of your prize.
Once again, congratulations to all the winners and a big thank you to everyone who played.
