Princes Pot Round 1. Saturday April 13th PGA.
Round One of this year’s Princes Pot was completed today in windy and (for the later starters) very wet conditions. The conditions underfoot were also tricky with the soggy and sandy fairways making the course play as long as it can. Good scores were not expected but we had two stand out scores of 34 points from Kevin Beattie and Thomas McCulloch. The only others to get over 30 points were Ryan Longmuir, David Mitchell and Paul Lewis all with 31, well done to them!
All the scores are shown below and now carry forward to the Second round on May 4th when the winner will be crowned.
11/4 draw updated
10/4: Provisional draw added. If anyone wants a different time just let me know. You should still be able to enter or withdraw until Thursday evening.
Hopefully the PGA will dry out in time for Round One of the Princes Pot this Saturday. IF it does then it won’t count towards your handicap as the wet conditions make it way too hard. This is a stableford competition from the Yellow Tees with the best aggregate score over the two rounds winning the Pot. Round two is on May 4th and you can enter both via the app.
Provisional draw, please check back for changes.
History:
The Princes Pot Trophy first awarded in 1986: Before the development of the PGA Centenary golf course Dun Whinny played some medals on the Glendevon Course and it was at the suggestion of John Rankin that at least two of the medals on the Glendevon course be moved to the Princes Course and he purchased a small trophy to be awarded to the best two round Stableford aggregate on the Princes Course. At that time the princes Course was 18 holes in length which then became known as the Wee Course and now known as the PGA Academy Course and is only 9 holes of Par 3 golf. The change came about when a substantial portion of the Princes Course was lost to the formation of what is now the PGA Centenary Course. In 1999 following approval from John Rankin the Princes Pot is now played as two rounds of Stableford Golf on the PGA Centenary Course