at them all. It brought home to me how much other Clubs in the region look to us to give a lead, and it is important that we support golf in our region, one unique in England through its concentration of special links courses. The event in Canada sadly clashed the
with hugely successful Women’s
International Team Challenge at Hoylake. To host this event was a great opportunity to link ourselves unbreakably to this highly regarded international event and ensure our continuing involvement. In my year I have played lots of mixed golf and it has confirmed that this is now firmly embedded in the ‘DNA’ of the club, in addition to the men’s and ladies’ golfing fixtures. It has been inspiring to see the Academy initiative bear fruit by inspiring and bringing through new Lady Members. I would like to record my thanks to Brenda Cross, Captain of the Ladies, for all her hard work over the year. It has been a delight to work with her. Regrets are inevitable. Top of these is
my failure to contribute more in my year – for example, I had plans to entertain scores of members to lunch in the Club to get to know them better. But life
and work get in the way of such plans, and new initiatives at the University of Liverpool - where I am establishing a new research centre - have not always come at the right time. But I think it is important that captains are able to continue to work and contribute outside their Club role, and they can be ambassadors in all sorts of ways while doing these other things. I am certainly a long way behind a recent captain of another local Club who undertook (and achieved) the playing of 365 rounds during his year (I don’t think it was a leap year). My handicap has stayed resolutely at 16.4, but I am hoping to have time after demitting office to edge up the requisite 0.1 to be rounded up.
I shall say my thanks elsewhere to the
very many members who have supported me during the year, but have learnt from my predecessor Bruce Taylor how important the immediate past captain is. I have never apologised properly for leaving him on the doorstep, bell unanswered, on the night of Halloween 18 months ago (“it will just be another trick or treater”) when he was trying to impart the good news that I was being invited to be captain.
My handicap has stayed resolutely at 16.4
Above: Mount Bruno Country Club
Below: Playing away at Royal Aberdeen
Despite that bad start, Bruce has been
an invaluable source of advice, support and substitution, and I shall do my best to use him as a role model when my successor takes the reins. Tudor Williams takes over in a very special year, and I know that he will have a successful and thoroughly enjoyable period in office. n
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