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Scotsman
22-05-2025
- Sport
- Scotsman
It's a family affair for Hailes in 125th Dispatch Trophy at Braids
Steve and Nathan McCulloch join forces to book semi-final spot for Kingsknowe club Sign up to our daily newsletter Sign up Thank you for signing up! Did you know with a Digital Subscription to Edinburgh News, you can get unlimited access to the website including our premium content, as well as benefiting from fewer ads, loyalty rewards and much more. Learn More Sorry, there seem to be some issues. Please try again later. Submitting... Ten years after helping Hailes win the Dispatch Trophy, Steve McCulloch is bidding to repeat the feat - and this time playing alongside his son Nathan. The Kingsknowe club progressed to the semi-finals in the 125th edition with a 6&5 win over Kilgour Wealth Management at the Braids. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad 'I'm feeling old compared to these young guys,' quipped 59-year-old McCulloch snr of this year's Edinburgh Leisure-run tournament having involved a new era of players. National World 'I love it up here, the course is immaculate, the golf pretty steady - and it is a joy to play with Nathan!' Team McCulloch finished two up at the front against Sean Marc and Jamie McIntosh while Paul Page and Danny Crolla won four up at the rear over James Keggie and Owen Melrose. 'The seventh was a crucial moment as we'd just chucked away the sixth and I drove the green at the seventh,' reported 25-year-old McCulloch jnr, who has now made the last four in his two appearances in the tournament. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad This is the furthest 32-year-old Crolla has progressed while Page is back in the medals at the age of 56. 'The Dispatch has always been a great event to be involved in,' said Page, the current Hailes champion. 'I only stopped playing in it to let some of the youngsters get to experience it, but I am glad that an opportunity came calling for me this year.' Awaiting Hailes in the semi-finals on Saturday morning are Heriot's FP, who came out on top when the teams met in the last eight in the 2024 edition. In a tight encounter, Heriot's FP edged past the Stephen Gallacher Foundation by one hole, meaning the youngest team in this year's event came up just short in the medal hunt. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad 'That's us used one of our lives,' declared Stuart Langlands as a shot from his playing partner Scott Dickson, having had to take a penalty drop, crept over the gorse on the green at the seventh. It led to the top Heriot's pairing securing an unlikely half in bogeys there before then winning two of the next three holes against Rory McClafferty and Jake Johnston as that eventually finished all square. At the back, Lothians champion Sam Hall and Steven Sinclair, who came in for the watching Fraser Smith, got off to a 'hot start' but then had to dig deep to finish one up on Alexander Yuill and Callum Kenneally. 'We're looking forward to Saturday,' said Dickson. 'We've been in the semi-finals as well the last two years and hopefully we can finally get a gold medal after picking up a silver and bronze.' Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad Six-time winners Silverknowes won the 18th in both matches to finish two up on Edinburgh Academicals. Hugo Rintoul chipped in for an eagle-3 at the sixth in the back match for Accies, with Graham Robertson holing out for a 2 at the par-4 seventh from 108 yards for Silverknowes at the front minutes afterwards. It won't be a repeat of last year's final in the next round for Silverknowes, though, as Duddingston, the winners for the last two years, were knocked out by Murrayfield. 'I'm really happy for the boys,' said Murrayfield team manager Stevie Anderson of young guns Harry Hawthorne (19), Archie Wyatt (21), Stuart Thurlow (26) and Cameron Whyte (25). Third-round results Hailes bt Kilgour Wealth Management 6&5; Heriot's FP bt Stephen Gallacher Foundation by one hole; Silverknowes bt Edinburgh Academicals by two holes; Murrayfield bt Duddingston 3&1.
USA Today
13-05-2025
- Sport
- USA Today
College golf star learned at graduation ceremony that he's playing a PGA Tour event
College golf star learned at graduation ceremony that he's playing a PGA Tour event A former Michigan State golfer will be making a start on the PGA Tour this upcoming summer. After graduating from MSU this past weekend, Ashton McCulloch was given a surprise, presented by former Michigan State Athletics Director Mark Hollis. McCulloch was gifted a sponsor's exemption to play in the 2025 Rocket Mortgage Classic at the Detroit Golf Club. The tournament is Detroit's PGA Tour event, and will run from June 25-29. A native of Kingston, Ontario, Canada, McCulloch is a record breaker within the MSU golf program, holding the single-season record for scoring average. A champion of the Canadian Amateur, amongst other amateur championships in Canada, McCulloch is gearing up to make a run at a strong professional career. McCulloch has made two career starts on tour, playing in the 2024 RBC Canadian Open and the 2024 US Open. He did not make the cut in either event. Watch the cool interaction between McCulloch and Hollis, where he was given his sponsor's exemption: Contact/Follow us @The SpartansWire on X (formerly Twitter) and like our page on Facebook to follow ongoing coverage of Michigan State news, notes and opinion. You can also follow Cory Linsner on X @Cory_Linsner
USA Today
12-05-2025
- Sport
- USA Today
Spartan golfer given sponsor exemption to play in the 2025 Rocket Mortgage Classic
Spartan golfer given sponsor exemption to play in the 2025 Rocket Mortgage Classic A former Michigan State golfer will be making a start on the PGA Tour this upcoming summer. After graduating from MSU this past weekend, Ashton McCulloch was given a surprise, presented by former Michigan State Athletics Director Mark Hollis. McCulloch was gifted a sponsors exemption to play in the 2025 Rocket Mortgage Classic at the Detroit Golf Club. The tournament is Detroit's PGA Tour event, and will run from June 25-29. A native of Kingston, Ontario, Canada, McCulloch is a record breaker within the MSU golf program, holding the single-season record for scoring average. A champion of the Canadian Amateur, amongst other amateur championships in Canada, McCulloch is gearing up to make a run at a strong professional career. McCulloch has made two career starts on tour, playing in the 2024 RBC Canadian Open and the 2024 US Open. He did not make the cut in either event. Watch the cool interaction between McCulloch and Hollis, where he was given his sponsors exemption: Contact/Follow us @The SpartansWire on X (formerly Twitter) and like our page on Facebook to follow ongoing coverage of Michigan State news, notes and opinion. You can also follow Cory Linsner on X @Cory_Linsner
USA Today
10-05-2025
- Sport
- USA Today
A hurricane set in motion an improbable season (and next) for this Big 10 men's golf team
A hurricane set in motion an improbable season (and next) for this Big 10 men's golf team EAST LANSING, Mich. — Hurricane Milton didn't do the people of Florida any favors last October. Michigan State's men's golf program, on the other hand … If the Spartans are the team they think they might be next year — perhaps the deepest team they've had — they'll have to thank Milton's ferocity for canceling the Quail Valley Collegiate Invitational in Vero Beach, Florida, last October. Because if senior star Ashton McCulloch had played in one more event before he separated his shoulder, he wouldn't have any eligibility remaining and wouldn't be coming back next fall to headline what could be a special team. 'Next year's roster will be the deepest (we've had) by a lot,' MSU men's golf coach Casey Lubahn said. It'll be that deep because of what this year's team has become without McCulloch — a team that, well beyond its winter expectations, finished third in the 18-team Big Ten championships and then was selected for the NCAA regionals, a team now led in no small way by two Lansing-area stars, Williamston's Caleb Bond and East Lansing's Drew Miller. The Spartans are the 10 seed in the 14-team Tallahassee (Florida) Regional, playing May 12-14. The top five teams advance to the NCAA championships. 'If we play just like we did at Big Tens, we'll advance,' Lubahn said. 'And we didn't play great at Big Tens. It's getting them to think that their good is good enough.' That's been a big part of the story of this season — adjusting and then re-adjusting expectations as the Spartans learned their good was absolutely good enough. This, Lubahn thought, would be a rebuilding season after McCulloch's injury — which he suffered while celebrating as he tested equipment for a golf manufacturer that's one of his endorsements. McCulloch (best known for winning the Canadian Amateur in 2023) had carried the team during the fall season and, even with him, they weren't playing that well. 'Even though we've made it to the last nine NCAAs and we've been finishing top four in the league, I think we all just took our expectations (down a bit and said), 'Let's just worry about getting better, growing, learning,'' Lubahn said. 'And we did that for about two weeks in January. Then we went out the first week of February and I'm like 'Dang, these guys look good.' They just kept getting better the rest of the year. So it went from a rebuilding year to a reloading year pretty quick.' Losing McCulloch meant losing about four or five shots a round. What allowed MSU to make up for it was that each of the five guys in the lineup took about a stroke a day off their scores. 'I've never seen that, ever,' Lubahn said. 'I've never seen four guys go from basically out of the lineup or not capable of playing at Division I or Big Ten golf in one semester, to all performing very well in the next semester.' MORE: Couch: MSU's Brooke Biermann, Katie Lu hope to leave their mark in NCAA championships, before chasing pro golf dreams Bond and Miller were a big part of that. Bond's rise is pretty incredible — from someone who Lubahn believed was just a little below the Big Ten level when he was coming out of Williamston High School, to someone he thought would be a solid contributor this season as a transfer from Ferris State, to the guy who's carried the most weight on MSU's team, as the Spartans' low scorer this season with an average around of 71.53. 'From my senior year of high school to my sophomore year at Ferris I really became a way better putter and a better driver of the golf ball, too,' Bond said. 'I didn't know he was going to be this kind of impact player,' Lubahn said. 'We talked about him all summer being a very steady contributor. By Big Ten championship Sunday, he had the team on his back, which is just amazing to watch a kid go through that. And it was emotional for me.' Lubahn could relate from his own playing days at MSU in the early 2000s — when he wasn't in the playing group as a sophomore and was the top player on the team by his junior season. 'He leveled up very quickly because he believed his good was good enough,' Lubahn said of Bond. And, he's a 'goldfish,' to steal a reference from the show 'Ted Lasso'. '(Bond) is a genius at moving on three seconds after a shot,' Lubahn continued. 'For a lead player, he hits two or three shots a round — and he'll laugh about them — they're pretty poor. And if it was somebody else, you'd think, 'Oh, boy, there goes his confidence for the next hour.' He's a goldfish. He moves on.' Miller has always believed his good is good enough. 'The thing I love about Drew is he's not afraid of anything,' Lubahn said of the freshman. 'The thing I worry about with Drew sometimes, he's not afraid of anything.' Miller was a big-time recruit out of East Lansing, but not playing all that well when he arrived, and those struggles continued into the fall. McCulloch's injury gave Miller an opening in the lineup in January. 'He ran with it,' Lubahn said. 'I think there's a lot to learn, and I think that's at every level, too,' Miller said. 'Everyone kind of goes through it at some point, and even more than once. … I think you're always going to come out of that (struggle) a better player than you went in it. And I think just having a good environment of coaches and teammates to help you keep working at it and know you're going to figure it out is important.' As Miller, Bond, sophomore Lorenzo Pinili, freshman Julian Menser and sophomore Lucas Acevedo prepare to tackle an NCAA regional, they're excited for this opportunity but also hopeful that this is just the beginning. 'I think this season is really important to us,' Miller said. 'I think we have a really good chance at making the national championship this year, but it's hard to not think about next year in the sense that we look good. But, I mean, you look at it in these other sports, too, and it's not like it always works that linear.' 'The way we finished at Big Tens, especially having the second round, second lowest round of the day, I think that's a huge step toward playing well at regionals,' Bond said, 'knowing we've showed up when we needed to. Even though our season will be on the line, we have nothing to lose at regionals.' 'Four of the five guys had never played a Big Ten championship,' Lubahn said. 'They handled that incredibly well. They followed the game plan exactly like we asked them to. If they do that this week, whether win or lose, they're going to understand when we get to next year where we need be.' If it seems like a lot of talk about next year with a lot still to play for this year, it's because most teams in NCAA regionals won't return everyone AND add a player like McCulloch. 'If he would have played that (last) event (in the fall), no hurricane, he's not going to be back,' Lubahn said. 'I don't think he really ever had a plan to come back. But when you consider how it all fell, maybe it was something just miraculous. And the reality is, with the PGA Tour setup now, it's almost as easy to make the PGA Tour coming from college golf as it is as a touring program. We are going to facilitate everything we can to help him come back and go right from here to the PGA Tour next year.' After building on whatever Bond, Miller and Co. are able to do this month. 'At some point during the spring, everybody kind of found something that gave them confidence,' Bond said. Contact Graham Couch at gcouch@ Follow him on X @Graham_Couch and BlueSky @GrahamCouch.
The Star
09-05-2025
- Health
- The Star
He's almost 90, but he wants to teach seniors how to use tech
MIAMI: Bertie McCulloch's smartphone has kept him safe in ways he hadn't imagined. McCulloch has hypertension and began using his phone to monitor his blood pressure. He would then give that information to his doctor. Based on the data collected, McCulloch's doctor was able to determine his medication was about 30 milligrams too much. It was then that McCulloch, 89, realised that other people his age need to understand the nuances of technology and how it can be helpful to their everyday lives. That is why he'll be teaching other seniors in North Miami about how they can get comfortable using technology. 'Right now, I'm down to 10 milligrams, and I don't have the fluctuations that I experienced before,' he told the Miami Herald . 'I would like to explain to them that they can help themselves by monitoring these certain things.' The event, NoMi Tech Senior Smart Living Luncheon, is one of many during NoMi Tech Month, North Miami's month-long effort to infuse technological skills and funding into its backyard by offering training to residents and business owners. McCulloch will sit on a panel with OneUnitedBank president Teri Williams and North Miami IT director Claude Charles to discuss why it's important to understand tools and offer tips to seniors who may be tech-averse. LaShevia Burns, president of Bringing Tech, will also lead a senior tech session. 'One of the things that we are more intentional about is making sure that all generations are included in this process,' North Miami Councilwoman Mary Estimé-Irvin told the Miami Herald. 'North Miami has a very large, diverse community. There's a large Haitian American community, a large Hispanic community, and the seniors are sometimes left behind. So I'm very excited about bringing in awareness and having a luncheon that makes them comfortable to adopt technology and not to be scared that they're not able to handle a big old computer.' NoMi Tech began in 2023 as a partnership between Lightship Foundation, an organisation that provides resources and support to tech business founders from diverse backgrounds. The goal is to help make North Miami a viable tech destination for businesses. The event has since grown and this year included a drone pilot program for adults and an afterschool music program for youth. Estimé-Irvin said it was a no-brainer having McCulloch teach to seniors. 'Just like anything else in life, when your peers are the ones participating, it's just believable,' she said. 'It's credible, and you can see that it's possible.' In North Miami, a city with a predominantly Black population, 97% of households have access to a computer and another 81% have Internet access, according to recent US Census Data. About 14% of the population is 65 or older. McCulloch's goal is to make his fellow seniors more comfortable with computers and smartphones and how to use them. For him, it's more than simply using the devices, it's about finding online communities, keeping track of appointments and scheduling prescription refills. Still, he says, he knows many seniors are worried about the dangers they potentially face while using technology. 'We don't like our information out there, and there is that kind of sense that you're giving up too much when you do all of that,' McCulloch said. Staying connected McCulloch, who was born and raised in Jamaica, has seen tech come and go, from beepers to Blackberrys to iPhones. He moved to New York in the 1960s when his wife was recruited for a nursing job. At the time, he worked as a junior chemist for Schenley Industries before working at Technicon Corporation, where he saw the company transition from manual system of analysing blood to a more automated process. McCulloch eventually worked at the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation, and again, he witnessed the way tech changed another workplace. 'The evolution of technology and computer systems could not be avoided in the path that I was on,' he said. 'You couldn't avoid it. You embraced it because this was the trend. This was what was going to make you more efficient, and everything will be more accurate.' McCulloch moved to South Florida in 2012 after he retired and was convinced by his children to get a smartphone. He was slightly hesitant, like most senior citizens, but obliged as he'd had more experience with technology than most people his age, he said. The youngest of 10 children, McCulloch's only remaining sister died last year at 98. He described her as being in great shape, with a sharp mind who frequently used her tablet. It's what he desires for himself and his peers. 'The awareness of being in the present with everything around you is so important now,' he said. McCulloch knows it can be a challenge because seniors might not trust the technology. 'When you talk about seniors' struggles with technology, it has to do with the negativity surrounding social media and the cybersecurity aspects of it,' he said, adding he'd stopped using Facebook altogether after he got hacked several times. Still, he encouraged those who do use it to change their passwords frequently. He also cautioned against clicking on every popup or ad they see on the screen, adding that it may lead them to a website that asks for sensitive information. McCulloch also noted that there are resources for seniors so that they don't encounter misinformation online and recommended that they use Snopes as a way to determine if something they see on the Internet is true. McCulloch said technology has its uses for seniors, such as building community outside of their homes, especially those who live alone. Having a community online can be helpful to avoid loneliness and also to be aware of what's going on in the neighbourhood. 'It's amazing the information that comes through that chat,' McCulloch said. 'You get alerted about people who might not be from your neighbourhood, about things that you're concerned about in terms of safety, and you get tips about how you should deal with it.' He added it's a good way to also keep up with community events and meetings. Ultimately, McCulloch wants seniors to understand the rapidly changing world around them. 'The times have changed so rapidly, almost everything you touch or go to is computerised,' he said. 'You have to make the effort to understand what is happening around you.' – Miami Herald/Tribune News Service
