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The Founding Meeting 26th - 29th June
For this year's
Founding Meeting 26 members arrived at Brora to contest
the Curate's Egg, play against Royal Dornoch and enter
the James Braid Open and close with the Mixed Foursomes.
The weather, for a change, was excellent with long hours
of sunshine. The event kicked off on the Thursday with
the members playing for The Curate's Egg which was won
by Lachlan McIntosh and The St Andrews Stableford prize
of a bottle of Clynelish was claimed by Robert Powell.
The evening reception and dinner at which the prizes
were awarded was the usual riotous Society affair with
the Captain being heckled at every opportunity. Various
fines were dished out and as a result the evening was
assisted by copious amounts of Port.
However, the highlight
of the evening was the award of Honorary Membership to
Hugh Bailie, for long and dedicated service to golf in
Brora. Hugh also wrote an informative book on Golf in Brora
The Friday dawned
brightly, but unfortunately this was not matched by the
talent displayed by the Society members in their match
against Royal Dornoch. As Malcolm said, "the result is
inconsequential, it is the making of friends that
matters". Perhaps our opponents had local knowledge, who
knows!!
On the Saturday The
James Braid Open was won by Neil Hampton who also won
the James Braid Trophy and the Captain's Bunnet was won
by Michael Herriot.
Incidentally, apart
from Members from the UK we were joined by the Wallstens
from Sweden, David Kramer from California and Mario from
Hong Kong who was accompanied by his new wife.
Congratulations Mario!
Date for next year -
The Founding Meeting will be held between the 25th -
28th June.
So, on now on to the
Autumn Meeting held at Lundin Golf Club and Elie at the
end of August
Please send your
entries to Ken Horne at ksm.horne@btinternet.com
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