John and Roger Kerry


DOUBLE VISION!


Royal St David’s Golf Club is nationally, and internationally, renowned as the home of one of the finest traditional championship links courses in the world. It has been established for over 100 years and is steeped in history. It is set in the beautiful Snowdonia National Park with the mountains and the stunning Harlech Castle providing a wonderful back drop.


The club was founded in 1894 at the very end of the first great golfing boom, when the sport at last ceased to be an almost exclusively Scottish pastime. Having heard of the pre- eminence of St. Andrews in Scotland, and conscious that the English had St. George’s at Sandwich, founding fathers, The Hon. Harold Finch-Hatton, fourth son of the Earl of Winchilsea and Nottingham, and William Henry More, then Crown Agent for Wales, the name of St. David’s seemed logical and appropriate for this new Welsh initiative. It turned out to be an inspired piece of ‘branding’, and helped enormously


Twins Roger and John Kerry have, jointly, spent sixty years tending one of the finest links courses in the world. Ecology is high on their list of priorities


to launch Harlech upon the golfing world at large. It has frequently hosted, and continues to host, world class amateur and professional events. Next year the course will be hosting the Ladies British Amateur Open and the S4C Ladies Championship of Europe. Over the years the course has built up a significant reputation for the quality of its greens and overall condition of the course. This has been due to the commitment of both the greenkeeping staff and club officials who have worked in harmony to produce the course we see today. Today the course is in the good hands of Roger Kerry and his twin brother John who have worked together at the Royal St David’s for thirty-one and twenty-nine years respectively. There are two other Kerry family members who work at the club; John’s wife Karen is the assistant club secretary and John’s son, Llion, is one of the greenkeeping staff and also a Welsh international golfer. There are three other members


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