East Lothain Schools Golf Order of Merit Final at Renaissance
The final 2024/25 East Lothian Schools Golf Order of Merit Event was held at The Renaissance, host course of the 2025 Scottish Open, on Easter Monday 21st April 2025. The Schools Golf Order of Merit is open to players that go to one of our 7 East Lothian based high schools that have an official handicap of 36 or below. Click here for final East Lothian Schools Golf Order of Merit
A record 71 local juniors competed in 14 counting events between September and May in all weathers! Well done to all 35 players that qualified to compete in the final based on their position in the Scratch Division of the Order of Merit.
Huge thanks to the Renaissance Club for kindly hosting us as they prepare to host the Genesis Scottish Open. Thanks also to the parents that kindly ball spotted and helped to ensure all players got round in good time. Click here for full results from the competition at The Renaissance.
2024/25 East Lothian Schools Golf Order of Merit: FINAL RESULTS
Yesterday’s event at The Renaissance was the final counting event in the 2024/25 Junior Golf Order of Merit which was played over 14 events hosted by: Winterfield, Gifford, Haddington, Musselburgh Old, North Berwick, Gullane, The Glen, Royal Musselburgh, Kilspindie, Longniddry and Renaissance Golf Clubs. Huge thanks to all of the clubs that hosted us, ensuring we could offer local playing opportunities free of charge, to support junior golf in East Lothian.
Junior Golf East Lothian Order of Merit Scratch Division Winner - Congratulations to Ryan Pirie (Knox Academy/Haddington Golf Club) who is the winner of the Scratch Division. Ryan beat Cameron Brown (Ross HS/Kilspindie GC) into 2nd and having won 4 events and coming 2nd in 3 is a very worthy winner.
Junior Golf East Lothian Order of Merit Handicap Division Winner - Congratulations also to Calum Robertson (Preston Lodge HS/Royal Musselburgh GC) who is the winner of the Handicap Division beating Alfie Pugh (North Berwick High School/West Links Junior) into a close 2nd. Calum also came 6th in the Scratch Division as well so has done very well in both divisions.
Lastly congratulations to North Berwick High School who are the winners of this year School Team Division - best 2 net scores combined at each event.
We now bid a very fond farewell to all the 6th years (Ryan Pirie, Ellie Bent, Sami Hyvonen and Rory Burns) who will now be leaving our junior golf programme. We will be very sad to lose you all and would like to thank you for supporting our local events no matter how good you got! Its greatly appreciated and inspiring for our younger juniors. We wish you all the very best of luck in next exciting chapter of your lives.
Thanks to all 70+ players that took part in this year’s Order of Merit Events which started back in September 2024 and will start up again in September 2025. The summer will now seem like a breeze in comparison to the last 9 months!
