28th July 2010 - In an unprecedented run of success Falkirk Golf Club have dominated the County Competitions in 2009-2010. Winning the Inter-County Team League, the Gents and Ladies individual County Championships, The Alexander Trophy and the Gent's Foursomes has meant a clean sweep of the major county competitions for the club. To see more details and photos click here.

20th July 2010 - In what promises to be two brilliant nights the social calendar gets into top gear for the summer with the ever popular Race Night on Saturday 21st August at 7:30pm and the Fundraising Dinner on the Saturday 18th September. 

Both events are already filling up quickly and are guaranteed to be heavily over-subscribed - so if you want to attend you'd better get in soon or prepare to be disappointed! The Race Night is priced at only £5 which includes supper and the Fundraising Dinner is priced at £30 per head or £280 per table of ten. Tickets are available now for both at the bar.

The Race Night is looking for sponsors for the eight races at £20 per race, contact Vice Captain Billy Crozier to pick your race. Horses and jockeys will be going on sale soon at only £2 each, available from Council Members.

Three top after dinner speakers will appear at the Fundraising Dinner:

Bill Barclay - Bill began performing in the 1960s in Edinburgh and hasn't stopped since. Since 1978 Bill has been a regular contributor to Edinburgh's premier local commercial radio station, Forth 2, as a presenter. Through the 1970s Bill toured solo in Europe, the USA and the Middle East working with the likes of Elton John and Rod Stewart. He still regularly performs although mostly in mainland Britain. Bill is often seen on our television screens as everything from hard-man to policeman and appeared in the Martin Scorcese epic The Gangs Of New York as a gang leader amongst other feature films.

Willie Young - Born in Girvan, he is the Chairman of Brechin Tindal Oatts - a leading Scottish legal firm and currently on the UEAFA referee observers' panel. Willie was a top class football referee for 15 seasons, during which time he refereed over 500 Scottish senior matches, including the Scottish Cup Final, the Scottish League Cup Final, the Bells Challenge Cup Final and the Scottish Women's FA Cup Final. Before age defeated him, Willie was on the FIFA list of international referees and officiated in 27 different countries at a total of 71 European and world matches, including as 4th official at the 1999 UEFA Cup Final. He was presented with a Bells' Lifetime Achievement Award in 2005, when he hung up his whistle.  Paulo di Canio of Celtic, once asked him during a game, if he ''wanted to be manager of Rangers?'' and Dick Advocaat of Rangers once accused him, during a game, of being ''a Celtic supporter''. These comments tend to suggest that he was fairly impartial.

Peter Brown - Peter joined the Bank of Scotland in 1972 and was Area Director for corporate business in Edinburgh. A keen golfer, Peter was Chairman of Glenbervie Golf Club for five years for his sins.  He is a supporter of Falkirk Football Club and goes to the games when time permits.  His reputation as an after-dinner speaker has grown considerably over the last year or two and he can regularly be seen at weekends entertaining at corporate or sporting functions throughout Scotland.  He is a founding member of the Friday Night Burns Club No.1069 and regularly, during the month of January, celebrates the life of our national bard. His ambition in life is to be the last man on earth, just to see if what all these girls said to him as a teenager was true! He lives in Falkirk, has 3 children, a few ex-wives and a big mortgage.

22nd July 2010 - Appalling weather couldn't dampen the excitement felt during the Falkirk Golf Club Junior Open played yesterday amongst 66 contestants. Ladies European Tour star Becky Brewerton kindly agreed to present the prizes to the delight of many who unusually stayed behind for the prize-giving. Top Honours were taken by Robert Johnston (West Lothian & Helensburgh), Blair Lockhart (Falkirk), Tiffiny Wood (Glenbervie) and Catherine Goodwin (Glenbervie) who won the boys and girls overall scratch and handicap titles. Full details and more pictures are available on the dedicated Junior Section website.

12th July 2010 - The early starters benefited from the relatively calm conditions to post some decent scores in the Open Mens Team Tournament held at Carmuirs yesterday. Falkirk Golf Club member Sean McAuley led his team of three visitors, all from Polmont Golf Club, to victory with a total of 123 shots from his 8:10am tee off time. As the morning progressed weather conditions deteriorated with very high and gusty winds making for very difficult playing conditions until much later in the day when the winds eventually died down. 43 teams of four entered the competition and all but one survived to make it to the bar after a full 18 holes. The McAuley Team total was not seriously threatened until late in the day when a total of 126 was posted by Team Barr who weathered the worst of the weather early on in their round eventually playing through the storm into more benign conditions. Despite the conditions good fun was had by all and the clubhouse resounded to the stories of daring do in the atrocious weather. A live leaderboard featured for the first time at this event and proved to be a real point of interest during the day for the many players and visitors to the clubhouse. In addition to the generous prizes for the leading five teams, prizes were awarded for the longest drive and nearest the pin. See some more team and prize-giving photos here.

In what proved to be a very successful weekend for Sean McAuley he also won the Saturday medal with a net 66 pipping Mark Cox to the prize by one shot. Mark recorded the best scratch score of the day with his 69, which was a great round given the very difficult playing conditions. Full results and the two's report from Saturday's Medal and Senior Strokeplay are shown below.

30th June 2010 - Spanish Tour Pro Sebi Garcia visited Carmuirs today with his coach and ex-Falkirk Teaching Pro Peter Ledwidge to spend time with Stewart Craig our resident Professional and Tour Coach. Sebi shot a world record 58 in the Spanish Championship played in Murcia in December. The 28 year old Mallorcan is a remarkable individual who has overcome a spinal injury to make it into the ranks of the world's elite golfers. Taking the opportunity to tee off at Carmuirs Sebi's drive cleared the dip coming up close to the 150 yard marker in the centre of the fairway. MORE PHOTOS HERE.

30th June 2010 - A fun Run (or walk or stroll) has been organised to raise funds for Yorkhill Children's Foundation. The event has been organised in memory of Louis Masterton who sadly died age 3 years old in December 2008. Full details of how to enter are shown on the poster to the left. The Juniors also have an event in memory of Louis - The Louis Masterton Trophies - which this year will donate all proceeds from the day to the Yorkhill Childrens Foundation. If you can please support this really worthwhile cause.

20th June 2010 - Jamie Lynch became Club Champion for the first time yesterday as he clinched victory over David Ritchie at the 35th hole. In the Ladies Championship Louise MacGregor eventually overcame Margaret Tough in a memorable match at the second extra hole.

In terms of Club Championships Finals Days it's difficult to see how any club could improve on the day we had yesterday! 

Played out in bright sunshine with just a light breeze the great golf was not the only highlight of the day. 

The barbeque smoked all day on the terrace as both players and spectators alike enjoyed the food and drink on offer at the club. 

The Finalists dinner followed by the prize-giving ensured the club house was packed to the rafters. DJ Andy Reid got the celebrations going in great style as the two champions took to the floor and strutted their stuff! Trophies were filled with celebratory drinks and passed around and the party got under way. The taxis lined up at the end of the night to take the revellers into town and further celebrations. A brilliant day for Falkirk Golf Club!

In the handicap matches Nicky Barr beat Steven Soroka at the last hole to clinch this year's handicap Championship for the first time. In the Ladies Handicap Championship a remarkable match took place with 11 year old Andrea Walker winning out against Ishbel McKellar on the last hole.

In the Junior Championship Finals we watched the future Champions of Falkirk Golf Club battle it out for the top honours. On the Wee Course Craig Bryson fought out a very tough match with Stuart Murray to win the title. Stephanie Kerr flew the flag for the girls by winning the Handicap Championship match against Jake Shaw. On the Blue Tees Alex Walker won both the scratch and the handicap titles beating Greg Tierney and Aaron Beattie respectively. Jamie Lynch made it a double triumph this weekend when he beat Blair Lockhart on Friday evening to clinch the Junior Scratch Championship. Blair overcame his disappointment at losing out in the scratch by winning the Handicap Championship on Saturday beating Jamie Simpson to the title.