Mr McGowan's Learning Blog: SLL Golf Festival 2009

Mr McGowan is a Teacher of Business Education and ICT. He has a BA(Hons) Business, an MSc International Marketing, and PGCE in Secondary Education.

Mr McGowan is an advocate of the Digital Curriculum and uses blogs, podcasts and vodcasts in his classroom to help students reach their potential. Many aspects of the Digital Curriculum are compatible with the 4 capacities of Curriculum for Excellence (CfE). He was the author of the Big Roch Digital Project at Saint Roch's Secondary.

He is currently working in Hamilton Grammar School in South Lanarkshire where he is link teacher for Young Enterprise Scotland.

Mr McGowan teaches Business Management, Administration and Accounting and Finance. He also teaches S1 and S2 ICT.

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Friday, 19 June 2009

SLL Golf Festival 2009

I was fortunate enough to take part in this year's SLL Golf Festival held at Hollandbush Golf Course in Lesmahagow.

Hamilton Grammar were represented by Cameron Graham, Jack Neiland, and Dean Johnstone. We took part in a fun Texas Scramble, but sadly the weather was terrible. It rained all day and it was incredible that the course held up so well.

Jack and Cameron were booming drives down the fairway, while myself and Dean struggled to match them. Our contributions were really in putting, though Dean did strike the shot of the day with his 3 wood onto one of the par5s. We worked well as a team, even though there were a few holes I didn't even drive off due to not being able to hold the club in the wet.

Our good scoring was let down by 3 bogeys, but even so we shot a 66. Sadly we were just pipped by a very strong Lesmahagow side who naturally had local knowledge.

Our lads did the school proud and hopefully we will be back next year to have another run at the title.