Loofie League Bonspiel 2026
The Loofie League held its Bonspiel a little later in the year than normal and found ourselves competing with the coverage of the round robin phase of the Mixed Curling Pairs at the Winter Olympics in Cortina, Italy, we held our season 2025-26 Bonspiel on the afternoon of Saturday 7th February 2026 at Perth.
This season we had the largest fixture card for a very long time with 10 rinks competing over 5 sheets for the coveted trophy. This came about as a result of us being joined this season by Falkland and Cragiehill Curling Clubs, alongside an application from Perth Juniors to field a second rink for the season and Perth Gateway Curling Club seeking to hone their new found skills as relative newcomers to the game.
All are welcome and all goes to reinforce the spirit of the Loofie philosophy around helping novices to experience the realities of club curling, We feel the Loofie is heading in the right direction in this and we intend to continue to foster relations with the novice end of the game to provide a unique experience for our new curlers.
The draw saw Falkland playing Craigiehill, Perth Gateway playing Cupar, Perth Juniors 2 versus Newport, Pitlessie versus Perth Juniors 1 and, finally Leuchars taking on Forret. Some clubs struggled slightly to make up their numbers this year so we are indebted to Ian Wallace the Secretary of Falkland Curling Club and Ewan McConnachie (Perth Gateway) subbing into Cupar to help them out. The Loofie Secretary Frank Gibson (me) even found himself unexpectedly on the ice giving Newport a hand (or maybe a hindrance!).
The Bonspiel got off to a tentative start, as always, but several teams soon started to pull away from the pack. By the 4th end we have Leuchars and Pitlessie showing their noses out front with Leuchars on 7 shots and Pitlessie on 5 shots. The strong play continued all the way to the end of the competition with Leuchars and Pitlessie finishing on 15 each and, closely behind them Craigiehill and Cupar on 14 shots each.
The winner is decided on shots scored but, as we had a tie at the top, we went to ends won. That didn't help as both clubs had won 6 ends! It was decided to then go to shots up and we were finally able to seperate the two with Pitlessie being 12 shots up over their opponents whilst Leuchars had achieved 11 shots up.
The winning Pitlkessie rink of W. Finlay (lead), J. Grieve (2nd), I Whiteford (3rd) and Angus Stenhouse (Skip and Loofie President) were presented with the Loofie trophy by Frank Gibson, the Loofie Secretary. (Picture)
