Greenacres Curling

Bowfield Road,
Howwood,
Renfrewshire,
PA9 1DE,
Scotland

Tel: +44 (0) 1505 850633
Fax: +44 (0) 1505 850291

EUROPEAN SENIOR INVITATION
CURLING CHAMPIONSHIPS

COMPETITION RESULTS

A warm welcome to all the competitors in the EUROPEAN SENIOR INVITATION CURLING CHAMPIONSHIPS 2008 to Greenacres. This is the inaugural event and the response from both men's and women's teams has been very encouraging. We hope that you all enjoy your time with us and wish you every success. A full results service will commence here on Wednesday 29 October 2008.

Located in the Renfrewshire countryside and only 15 minutes from Glasgow city centre, Greenacres is a traditional club that has enjoyed international success. Greenacres' Rhona Martin skipped the Olympic Gold Medal winning team at Salt Lake in 2002.

With six lanes of ice, 48 curlers can play at any one time, and hire of curling shoes, brushes and expert coaching is always available.

Our warm and comfortable lounge area overlooks the ice and provides an excellent venue for social functions. During the season the dining area accommodates 100 guests with space remaining for dancing. The licensed bar caters to all requirements.

With over 1000 members, the Greenacres Curling Club entitles members to priority bookings and access to the best quality curling ice.

Greenacres also specialises in organising events for private groups and corporate clients. Additional facilities include a meeting room, with video facilities, seating up to 24 delegates comfortably.

Don't hesitate to contact our friendly and enthusiastic staff to see how we can tailor a day's fun and games to suit your needs.

info@curl-greenacres.com

Olympic Gold for Greenacres' Curler

Great Britain's women curlers have secured the country's first Winter Olympics gold medal for 18 years with victory in an incredibly tense final at the Ogden Ice Sheet. The British team, led by skip Rhona Martin from Greenacres, clinched the title and a place in history with the last stone of the final end. "I was just panicking on the last stone", said a relieved Rhona Martin after the final.

Rhona Martin, backed by Fiona McDonald, Margaret Morton, Janice Rankin and Debbie Knox, are the first British Winter Games gold medallists since Torvill and Dean back in 1984.

Rhona needed nerves of steel to knock out a Swiss counting stone at the climax of the final, but she managed to pull it off. Her own stone then finished up close to the centre of the rink and that was enough to seal a 4-3 triumph.

A mistake by the Swiss during end seven increased that advantage to 3-1 before they struck back to tie the scores with singles in ends eight and nine.

Rhona and second player Fiona Brown started their curling careers at Greenacres in the junior club and Debbie Knox playing at three is a member of the club.

Greenacres are
National Masters too!

Greenacres Curling Club is celebrating a unique double. Teams from Greenacres won both the men's and the women's events in the first ever National Masters Curling Championship. Jim Beckett and his rink beat Matt Brown from Ayr in the men's final while Millicent Copstick led her team to victory over Margaret Rhind from Atholl.

"I was just panicking on the last stone," Rhona admitted afterwards. "it a case of having faith that could do it. We had to keep close game have chance and were always in control."

Golden Moment for Mum

Hugs for mum - Jennifer and Andrew
have quite a story to tell their friends!

Members crowd into Greenacres for a welcome home party.