Who won the Carnegie Shield Gold Medal at Royal Dornoch Golf Club in 2010?
The first winner on the Carnegie Shield honours board in the Club lobby is T.E. Grant. in 1901. The competition wasn’t played during the 2 World Wars but apart from that has been the pinnacle of the club’s competition season ever since. There have been more than 100 winners, including Roger Wethered in 1921. Bobby Jones is recorded as saying the best golf swing in the world belonged to a woman – Roger’s sister Joyce. Her brother was pretty good too.
For the first time in quite a while, this years final was played out between two local heroes – Christopher “Chippy” Mailey and Alexander Macdonald. Mailey was the defending champion, and Macdonald had triumphed over 3 time winner Biggadike in their semi-final.
Both have been amongst the best players in the club for the last 10 years, or more so this contest was expected to be a real showdown, with the scratch players trading birdies.
In the event Mailey’s game deserted him and Macdonald ran out comfortably winning at 6 up with 5 to play.
The video shows how they played the first hole in glorious sunshine and followed by an expectant crowd.
Mailey pushed his drive to the right while Macdonald smoothed an iron into perfect position in the center of the fairway.
First with the approach, Macdonald eased a wedge into the heart of the green, about 12 feet short of the hole.
Mailey’s shot was much more difficult, coming out of thick rough, across an approach foreshortened by the large bunker and over the smaller trap guarding the green. His pitch landed nicely in the middle of the green, but ran on, slipping off the side. The next approach with the putter was close enough to ensure a 4.
But Macdonald made that putt un-necessary, stroking in his birdie. And he must have continued in the same vein.
By the time they’d finished at the 13th. the final game was over with Macdonald taking the tie at 6 up with 5 to play.
At the prize giving Macdonald, in the true tradition of the game, acknowledged Mailey’s misfortune and complimented Biggadike on his sportmanship in conceding a 2ft putt on the 18th earlier in the day.
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