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Royal Montrose Golf Club
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Royal Montrose Golf Club
This page was last updated on: Wednesday, 03 March 2010 |
| THE 2010 CLUB BICENTENARY |
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Newsletter – January 2010 from Harry Faulkner, Bicentenary Convenor |
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Sponsored by GlaxoSmithKline with
junior coaching by McCain Potatoes Launches Mid-February ****************************
REMINDER!! - ALL MEDAL WINNERS (April-July) are eligible to compete
in Angus Clubs Invitation Bicentenary Foursomes |
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WEEK OF CELEBRATION – SUNDAY 29 AUGUST to FRIDAY 3 SEPTEMBER
BUDDIES WANTED!!!
45 couples/ pairs are expected to attend. We plan to
offer each of them a BUDDY from the club - someone to make contact
in advance, preferably by email, to answer any questions, meet on
arrival, accompany to registration on Sunday, play golf with on the
Monday and generally be
welcoming.
Further details from Frank Cuninghame on 830557 or Harry Faulkner 672869; who welcome names. Buddies will have priority in buying tickets for the Ball on the Wednesday. |
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Newsletter – July 2009 Programme of events. Click on the link above to view or print a copy of the Bicentenary Programme – please keep it for future reference. A new event added to the programme is the 25 Hole Open on Sunday 30 May 2010 over 18 holes on the Medal and Holes 1-7 of the Broomfield. In October 1866, Royal Albert GC organised the only other 25-hole Open ever held; Entry forms will be available early in the New Year. The Bicentenary Committee and Council will take on most of the work of delivering the programme overleaf. It would help greatly if a small group of members were to take on the detailed organisation of one of the dances, for example. Week of Celebration. To date, almost eighty guests from clubs around the world and the UK and Ireland have accepted our invitation with more responses awaited. It now looks likely there will be a civic reception for guests and members on the Sunday evening. The format for the golf competitions each day, playing in four balls, will be Greensomes (Monday) and individual Stableford and Bogey (Tuesday and Thursday respectively). I ask that you:-
Sponsorship. We are very grateful to these Companies for supporting our bicentenary to date:- Pert Bruce, Guthrie Bros, Mike Fraser, GSK, Scotmid, Astute, Park Hotel, Tennent Caledonian, Rig-Sol, Whyte & Mackay, Diageo, Wallace Express, Glenmorangie and the many Calendar Sponsors. I invite you to:-
Hogmanay Dance/ Hickory-shafted club competition on 2 January. I invite you to:-
Club History Publication. Much of the research and initial drafting is completed, it goes to printers in August and copies should be available early November, so please plan to buy your copy (see it also as the ideal Christmas present for golfing friends). I would welcome photographs now to help illustrate the club history of the last fifty years especially winning teams, club events etc., for possible inclusion in the book. Bicentenary Calendar. I have seen a proof of this calendar and it is an impressive pictorial record of golf in the town over the past 200 years. It will be available soon for sale in the clubhouse at a cost of £5.00 – definitely a “must have” for your home or office, or as a gift for golfing and non-golfing friends Bicentenary Merchandise. This will include caps, forks and marker gift sets, jerseys, polo shirts, bag tags, mugs, place mats and coasters, mouse mats etc. The caps come in two colours with either a full-colour or tonal bicentenary logo, have a magnetic fastener for a bicentenary-logo ball marker, which is supplied, and will be on sale in the club by August. Extra markers may be purchased. Jerseys and polo shirts will soon be available to order from Jason Boyd’s shop. In the clubhouse, we will have a display of all garments and styles; the recommended club colour for jerseys, polo shirts and slipovers is light blue. Future Strategy. Council have agreed certain priorities for the next few months.
What can you do to help deliver this strategy?
If you can help in any of the ways set out, please let me know. Leave a note with the bar staff, telephone me on 672869 or send an e mail to: bicentenary@royalmontrosegolf.com. Thank you. Harry Faulkner, Bicentenary Convenor, July 2009 Download Newsletter in 'PDF' format
Newsletter – December 2008
The club council have approved the design shown at
the top of the page as the
logo for our bicentenary in 2010. My thanks to Mike Cummins for the
design. You may expect to see it on all correspondence in relation to
the bicentenary and on a new clubhouse flag to be flown throughout 2010;
also on a new range of jerseys and polo shirts, golf tee markers, golf
balls and other golfing memorabilia that should be available for
purchase from Jason Boyd’s shop by mid-summer 2009, in plenty of time
for purchase as birthday presents, Christmas gifts or gifts to golfing
friends!
Bicentenary Sub-committee This now comprises Past Captains John Anderson and
Frank Cuninghame and club member Richard Phinney. John is taking the
lead role in acquiring sponsorship. Frank and I are planning the Week of
Celebration and Richard is working with me to research and write the
history of the club – not just the history of the Montrose Golf Club set
up in 1810, the Royal Albert created in 1845 and Royal Montrose in 1986
but also the history of the Victoria Golf Club who amalgamated with
Royal Montrose in 1986 to form our present club, and North Links Ladies
Golf Club who joined in 1987. Update on the programme of events
The Dual Circuit band has been
booked for the Hogmanay Party
on 31 December 2009 that launches our year’s celebrations and the Town
hall is booked for the two formal dances in 2010
- on Friday 26
March for
Club members and on Wednesday 1 September
for members and guests attending the Week of Celebration. An additional social event has
been added – a Bicentenary Burns Supper
- on Saturday 23 January 2010, and I am very grateful to Sandy Jessop
who has undertaken to organise this event. Week of Celebration, 30 Aug –3 Sept 2010
Council agreed to phase in the issue of letters of
invitation to this event, so that we may keep numbers attending within
the agreed limits. Invitations have been sent first to all 24 Royal
Clubs outwith the UK and to Royal Blackheath, Royal Musselburgh and St
Andrews Golf Clubs– clubs with whom we have annual matches - and to the
R &A. Depending on the responses from the clubs above, invitations will
be sent out in February 2009 to some or all of the other Royal Clubs in
the UK. If you have received a warm welcome at a particular Royal Club
in the UK, please let me know and we will include it in the invitation
list. Club History
Research is under way using
various club records dating back to 1813.
Richard Phinney and I are very grateful to
Lyn Coull whose father, Bill, produced the first edition of that
excellent publication, Golf in Montrose,
since updated by Lyn and her sister, Doreen.
Lyn is making available to us all of her father’s material and is going
to do some follow-up research in the local newspapers files of the last
two centuries. We welcome from members any documents or photographs that
might further illuminate our club history. Morag Boyd has agreed to take
on the task of researching the history of Ladies Golf in Montrose. A Bicentenary Calendar
This is another addition to the bicentenary programme;
an exercise undertaken by our indefatigable Ladies section. Old
photographs of the Montrose Golf Clubs or golf course as well as
possible sources of financial support, e.g. potential sponsors of a
calendar page, will be welcomed by Phyllis Sutherland, Ladies Section
Captain. Sponsorship
John Anderson has made contact with a considerable
number of companies and provided them with a fact sheet about our
bicentenary celebrations. GSK have already made a contribution. In view
of the fallout from the “Credit Crunch”, John is not pressing companies
too hard at this stage but will be encouraging a positive response to
our appeal early in 2009. If you know of a company that might respond
positively to an approach, please get in touch with John. He will make
copies of the fact sheet available to you if you prefer to make the
approach yourself. Sub Committee
contact details:-
E mail;
bicentenary@royalmontrosegolf.com John Anderson;
01674-675422 Download Newsletter in 'PDF' format
Newsletter – June 2008 Following my appointment as Bicentenary Convenor at the AGM in February, I consulted with Council and drew up plans to fit with the available budget. Council have approved these. The other two clubs in the town have also been consulted and, together with MGL who have agreed all the course bookings for special events in 2010, have been extremely supportive which is very encouraging. I can now share this programme with you and invite your comments and suggestions.
Eat, dance and enjoy the build up to midnight and the chance to welcome the New Year and drink a toast to those members who founded the club exactly 200 years ago. Members of the other clubs to be invited to join us after midnight for free bubbly and the raising of a new bicentenary club flag to be flown throughout 2010. 2nd January 2010; RE-ENACTMENT OF FIRST GOLF COMPETITION A 7 hole competition on the Broomie using hickory shafted clubs and dressed in the costume of the period followed by a party in the clubhouse. Prizes for best scores and best costume. Friday, 26th March 2010; MEMBERS BICENTENARY BALL in the TOWN HALL This is the main opportunity for members and partners to dress up in their finery and celebrate the bicentenary of our club. Optional dining beforehand in the club; dancing commences at 8.00pm. At the interval, a guest speaker will entertain us and deliver the toast to the club. A light supper will be served later in the evening. Ticket costs for members will be subsidised. Throughout the year; COMPETE FOR BICENTENARY MEDALS In the first decades of our club’s existence, the only competition held was for the monthly medal and the season ended with the playoff for the Original Gold Medal. These were presented at a dinner following play; attendance was compulsory. In 2010, we want to honour that tradition by putting a special emphasis on play for the medal competitions throughout that year. Specially-commissioned medals – possibly replicas of the Original Gold Medal if costs are not excessive –will be presented and all the winner’s names will be recorded for posterity on a plaque in the clubhouse. The playoff by men for the Original Gold Medal and the ladies’ medal winners’ playoff will be held on the same day later in the year and followed by a dinner in the club for all participants and spectators to honour the winners. Sunday, 25th April 2010; THE MONTROSE GOLF CLUB 1810 COMPETITION This competition will be played mainly on the Medal course, with a few Broomfield tee times, from 8.00am. Exactly 200 golfers- men, ladies and Juniors- drawn from the three clubs in the town will compete for specially-commissioned 1810 Bicentenary Trophies to celebrate 200 years of organised golf in Montrose. Sunday, 1st August 2010; INVITATION BICENTENARY FOURSOMES Each club in Angus to be invited to send a foursomes pairing, men and/or ladies, to compete with up to16 foursomes pairings from RMGC who are winners of specified club competitions throughout the year. Pairings from the other two Montrose clubs and MGLL will also be invited. The Scratch and Handicap winners receive Bicentenary trophies. Monday 30th August - Friday 3rd September 2010; A WEEK OF CELEBRATION This is to be the principal event of our celebrations. Up to 110 representatives (55 couples) from local clubs, MGLL and selected Royal Clubs in Britain and around the world will be invited to attend this week of golf and social events as our guests. They will be responsible for their own travel and accommodation costs and all meals apart from those provided at the major social functions. Sunday 29 August will be registration and possibly practice round for guests. The Golfing programme: - On Monday, Tuesday and Thursday we will have golf competitions of varying formats for all golfing guests and up to 50 members each day, mainly on the Medal course from 0930 - 1530. On Friday morning, there will be a 7 hole competition on the Broomfield course with hickory-shafted clubs, for all wishing to play. The Social programme: - Mercantile and Caledonia Clubs have kindly agreed to offer club facilities to guests throughout the week. On Monday, Tuesday and Thursday nights, there will be an entertainment programme in one of the clubs each evening, in rotation. On Wednesday, the major event of the week, there will be a Dinner and Dance in the Town Hall for invited guests, a few guests of honour and up to 110 of our members and partners. The format is a buffet dinner, speeches and toasts and dancing to a top band. On Friday, at lunchtime, we close the week with a barbecue at the club followed by presentation of prizes for the week’s golfing competitions.
Saturday, 18th December 2010; CHRISTMAS DINNER DANCE
This will be the final social event of the bicentenary year. AND THERE’S MUCH MORE! Ladies and Men’s Prize Giving and RMGC Opens will be made more special in 2010. Prizewinners will receive bicentenary trophies and we also plan to have golfing celebrities attend our Prize Giving events. Our Royal patron, Prince Andrew, is being invited to visit our club in 2010, hopefully to attend one of our events. A History of the Club to mark our 200 years is being researched and will be published some time in 2009. If advertising revenue meet printing costs, members may expect a free copy. Other copies will be gifted to visiting clubs and invited guests in 2010 and some will be on sale to the public. Junior member recruitment programme for 2010. We will encourage schools to engage in a project focusing on Montrose in 1810 compared to the present and will offer all entrants a free golf lesson, as part of a big effort to attract more Junior members. A Bicentenary logo will be designed and incorporated on bicentenary scorecards for use in all competitions in 2010 and on various golf memorabilia such as golf balls, ball markers etc. that will be available for purchase. We plan also to have bicentenary logo jerseys and polo shirts for sale to members and visitors, of one colour only we suggest, thus creating a consistent club “uniform” for 2010. Royal blue for jerseys and white for polo shirts has been proposed. Sponsorship and fundraising; Sponsorship especially will be important in increasing the funds available for the programme and allow us possibly to do more. We will be trying very hard to attract a range of sponsors willing to support such a significant event. To aid this, we plan to push our programme into a media spotlight at every opportunity and talk to bodies such as Angus Council to enlist their support. Clubhouse Improvements. Some part of the available budget will be spent on these. The Club Council will decide on the priorities and will also look to members to assist, perhaps by helping with redecoration and general tidying. WHAT IS ASKED OF YOU? Please: - Note key dates for 2010, especially the Week of Celebration, and try to make yourself available to take part.
Contact me by leaving a note at the Club, phone me on 672869 or e mail: bicentenary@royalmontrosegolf.com Harry Faulkner, Bicentenary Convenor |
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