Stirling Golf Club played host to the inaugural Active Stirling Secondary Schools Golf Championship on Monday 13 June, as 41 golfers took to the course from across Stirling schools.

Jamie Paterson (Balfron High School) became the first ever Boys (Scratch) Stirling Schools Golf Champion with an outstanding round of 73. Lachlan Reynold (76) and Martin Munro (77) took 2nd and 3rd place respectively to complete a Balfron High School top three.

Harry Robertson (Beaconhurst School) recorded a score of 59 (90 – 31) to lift the Boys Handicap trophy, edging out school colleague Cameron Pender’s 62 (87 – 25). Fraser Craig (Stirling HS), playing on his home course, went round in 64 (100 – 36) to claim 3rd.

The Girls title was won by Orla Fitzpatrick (Dunblane High School) who pitched in from 120 yards on the 12th on her way to an impressive 72 (93 – 21).

Balfron High School (Jamie Paterson, Lachlan Reynolds, Martin Munro) capped an excellent day out on the course as they were crowned Team Champions with a combined score of 226 beating Dunblane High School (242) and Beaconhurst (256) to lift more silverware.

Active Stirling School Sport Competition Co-ordinator Keith Glendinning said: ‘’ We were delighted to work in partnership with Stirling Golf Club and the secondary schools to set up this Championship for the first time. Given the success of this event - and our continued drive to increase competitive opportunities for our young people - we hope to make the Stirling Secondary Schools Golf Championship a permanent fixture on our competition calendar.’’

John Eggo, Stirling Golf Club’s Junior Co-ordinator, said: "It was great to see so many young players compete in this inaugural Championship and for them to play the course in such great condition. It was also pleasing to see so many very good scores returned. We hope to see many of them return to play in our Junior Open on Monday 11 July"

You can enter Stirling Golf Club’s Junior Open on Monday 11th July using the following link - http://www.brsgolf.com/stirling/opens_home.php . For any enquiries please contact Garry Bowman (secretary@stirlinggolfclub.com) http://www.brsgolf.com/stirling/opens_home.php