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SGU Golfers e-newsletter
April 2010
Welcome to the SGU e-bulletin. With one of the coldest winters on record behind us, the clocks are forward and the final preparations are taking place at Augusta, which can mean only one thing...the golf season is here! Our monthly newsletter aims to keep you up-to-date throughout the year with the latest news from the Scottish Golf Union as well as the best offers for golfers across Scotland.
Scottish Golf Awareness Week – 'It's Time to Join the Club'
Following the success of our campaign last year, the SGU and SLGA are launching a new membership marketing campaign entitled "It's Time to Join the Club", which tees off with Scottish Golf Awareness Week from the 10th – 18th April. Look out for our press, radio and on-line advertising. The campaign is designed to assist clubs in recruiting new members and promote the benefits of joining a golf club.
Scottish Golf Card
The growing number of courses in Scotland signed up for the Scottish Golf Card has now reached 133 and you can purchase your new Card for just £10 per year, giving you 50% off the standard green fees at participating courses.
Enjoy a Hospitality Experience at The Open Championship
The Open Championship celebrates its 150th anniversary at the Old Course, St Andrews in July and you could be there to savour this memorable occasion with one of the many superb hospitality packages on offer. This includes the fantastic 'Sportsman's Dinner' on the eve of the event with the chance to witness many of the game's great Champions in luxurious surroundings.
Scottish Golf Show & European Golf Show
For those fortunate enough to attend the European Golf Show in Aberdeen and/or the Scottish Golf Show in Glasgow we hope you enjoyed the events! It was good to meet many of you who visited the SGU/SLGA stand, we certainly enjoyed talking to you all about all golf related issues and how the SGU/SLGA can further benefit Scottish club golfers. Visit the website next week to see if you have won the 'Play a Round with Richie Ramsay' competition!
100's of Open Competitions to enter at SGU Golf Central!
Organising your golfing year ahead? There is no better place for searching the 2010 calendar of Junior, Men's, Women's, Mixed, Senior Open competitions than the SGU Golf Central. The SGU Golf Central doesn't just allow you to search for Open competitions but also offers a host of information about each club ranging from which have membership availability and special offers to which have club hire facilities.
Belhaven Best Scottish Club Handicap Championship
Make sure you take part in your club qualifier for Scotland's largest handicap championship, The Belhaven Best Scottish Club Handicap Championship. This year's Grand Final for the 4-ball better ball championship takes place at The Dukes Course, St Andrews on 1st October 2010. See your club's notice board or speak to your club secretary for details of your club's qualifier.
Scottish Boys Championship
Whether you are following the progress of a friend, relative, fellow club golfer or just want to see who is emerging as the next Scottish golfing protégé...keep up to date with the opening 'SGU Major' of the season courtesy of the SGU live scoring from the Scottish Boys Championship 2010, this year hosted at the testing West Kilbride Golf Club and getting underway on Monday 5th April.
Special Offers available at top Scottish courses
Remember that as a member of an SGU/SLGA golf club in Scotland you are able to take advantage of the Special Member Offers from some of Scotland's leading golf courses, including Kingsbarns Links, Prestwick and The Duke's St Andrews.
Keep visiting scottishgolf.org for all the latest news, results, offers and information from the Scottish Golf Union.
The SGU Team
If anyone would still like to order the RLCGA Centenary Book you can do so through the BLURB BOOKSTORE. Click on Full Screen to see more.
Alternatively email your webmaster and when I have 10 orders (eg of softback books) I will place an order and this avoids the postage costs.
Gillian Kirkwood at the SLGA County Centenary Lunch in 2009- click to enlarge
Douglas Park played Windyhill in the 3rd round of the Mail on Sunday and were 4-1 winners in this Easter Friday match played over Douglas Park.
Douglas Park Team: Lindsay McLean, Lynda Smith, Helen Robertson, Carol Fell and Joan Gemmell
Windyhill Team: Anne Laing, Lindsay Mathie, Christine Kelly, Tracy Masterton and Carol Whyte
Bunny Grant captain of the DP team very kindly gave all the players a "Chocolate Easter Bunny" each for their efforts.
To see further results so far Click Here
The 2010 Scottish Golf Show, held at the SECC in Glasgow last weekend, has been hailed a huge success by both the event organizers and exhibitors after by passing its previous attendance record.
The fifth staging of the annual three-day golf showcase – held at the Glasgow venue for the second consecutive year – attracted a footfall of 17,175 over the course of its three days.
The organizers are attributing this in part to a greater emphasis being placed on customer interaction at this year's show.
A whole host of new features were introduced this year to enhance the interactive experience for show visitors.
These included the Nike Tiger Challenge, the Cleveland/Srixon Bucket Challenge, the Hot Blade Nine-hole Putting Competition and the tricky Fizz Golf Challenge, where visitors' links golf skills were put to the test.
Undoubtedly though, the star attraction was the opportunity to have your photo take for free with golf's most iconic trophy, the Claret Jug. The trophy was at the show ahead of this year's 150th anniversary Open Championship and the chance to have a free picture taken with it was something that over 2,000 people found too good to resist.
All of these new elements were complemented by existing favorites from previous years, including the 31-bay driving range, the ever-popular Callaway Short Game Zone, regular golf clinics, daily trick shot shows and, of course, 100-plus exhibitors.
Event organiser Tom Lovering was delighted with how this year's show went and said: "The Scottish Golf Show is now well established as the perfect way to tee off the new season and goes from strength to strength each year.
"Not only does it have the ongoing support of all of the golf's industry's biggest names, its popularity with the discerning Scottish golf public is also continually on the rise.
"To achieve another record attendance this year, particularly in light of the slow improvement in the current economic climate, speaks volumes for the high regard in which our show is held.
"My team and I have already started working on plans to make next year's show even bigger, better and more successful for both exhibitors and visitors alike."
Lovering also paid tribute to the team of volunteers who assisted throughout the three days, in particular the 100-plus military personnel from the official show charity 'Help For Heroes'.
"The military volunteers did a power of work throughout the event and I'd like to thank all those who donated to Help For Heroes, a particularly worthwhile cause."
For more information on the 2010 Scottish Golf Show, contact Tom Lovering on 0141 353 2222 or email Tom Lovering
Professional Tip.
This week tip is provided by PGA professional Karyn Burns. The pupil is one of her regular juniors Alexandra Duffy.
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