AS an acknowledgement to the mounting pressures on certain members of its golf club, West Linton this year introduced a twilight nine hole stableford competition that was played on Thursday evenings.

The holes chosen were one through to seven, eleven and sixteen.

This produced a testing par 36, and the new “course” was given official rating by Scottish Golf, meaning scores counted for handicap purposes.

The Competition commenced on June 1 and finished on August 31.

A wonderful piece of glassware, The Emaan Vase, was donated by Shaz Ramzam - the owner of J & R Bell Enterprise, Main Street, West Linton - whose idea for such a competition started the process which resulted in the new event taking place.

Mr Ramzam told us: “On speaking with a number of my loyal customers, who I knew were members of West Linton Golf Club, they were like myself struggling to find the time to complete a full round of golf but were keen to play in an event which could firstly count towards your handicap but also had a prize for the most consistent golfer.

"I spoke with the Golf Club and they were great in supporting the idea and progressing it towards competition status.

"I was therefore delighted to donate the glassware vase which I named after my beautiful daughter Emaan.”

The vase was presented to Scott Ritchie who, with a total of 64 points, had the three best aggregate scores over the duration of the competition.

The competition has been viewed, by the club and all those participating in it, as being a huge success and will return in 2018.

Other recent winners at West Linton were Tom Smith who won The Bigga Quaich with a nett 66 and Pam Stephenson, who beat Vivien Harrower in a countback, to win The LGU Brooch with a nett 77.

Ross Wolfenden, with his fifth success of the season, won the September Junior Medal and Finn Begbie won the September Blue Tees Stableford Competition.