Lothians Boys Championship

The Event

The GolfFit Lothians Junior Championship normally takes place in June each year at the Braid Hills No 1 course however to avoid clashing with exams and to fit in with the busy summer junior golfing calendar we are trying August in 2019.

This is an event for boys who are under the age of 18 on 31st December in the year prior to the year of competition, it is open to players whose home club is affiliated to the Lothians Golf Association. Its roll of honour makes for impressive reading, the winners including Andrew Oldcorn (1977), Ian Young (1978) and David Inglis (1998).

The tournament commences with an 18 hole qualifying stroke-play event, with 8 qualifiers of any age going forward to compete in a match-play stage. The leading qualifier gets the Lindsay Trophy, with the champion holding the Spiers Trophy for a year. The Spiers Trophy is the second oldest of the trophies held by the Lothians Golf Association, having been first contested in 1925. 

The championship was, in fact, originally organised by Edinburgh Town Council. It ran the event until the mid-1960s, when it asked the Lothians Golf Association to take over that role. The event allows the Lothians Golf Association to work together with Edinburgh Leisure and the City of Edinburgh Council in their joint aim of promoting junior golf in the area. 

For those Under 16 and Under 14 the event includes championships for the leading 4 qualifiers in each age group.

2019

The 2018 event will be at Braids No 1 with the 18 hole qualifying on Sunday 4 August and the match play stages on the Tuesday 13th, Wednesday 14th and Thursday 15th August.  

2018

Ciaran Paterson (Ratho Park) won the foreshortened, weather delayed, Golf Fit sponsored Lothians Boys Championship with an excellent score of 70, with Aaron Hall (Kilspindie) close behind on 71. In an event postponed twice in May and August the eventually took place in October but only after early morning frost cleared!!! Under the circumstances it was not feasible to have a match play element to the championship this year. The course was in amazing condition for the time of year and we are indebted to Edinburgh Leisure for hosting the event and having the course in such good condition. Sadly the original field of 77 was depleted to 32 players, for a variety of reasons, but we saw some tremendous golf especially from some of the younger players. Ciaran won the championship trophy, the gold medal and the Lindsay Trophy for his leading score, with Aaron taking the silver medal. That left the door open for Adam Hawthorn (Murrayfield) to be awarded the Under 16 Stephen Gallacher U16 Trophy with his score of 75. Third overall and the winner of the Stephen Gallacher U14 Trophy was Fergus Brown (Gullane) with a score of 73 which was all the more remarkable by the fact that he had never played the course before. 

Lothian Boys Championship - Champion

Lothian Boys Championship - Leading Qualifier

U14 Championship

U16 Championship