Historians Group

Pennant Hills Golf Club Historian Ron Harper has produced a set of guidelines for the establishment and management of a Club’s Archive Room. The guidelines are easy to read and describe in detail what is required to establish excellent club records.

Importantly, it explains the process necessary to ensure the preservation of important paper documents, photographs and other items so that valuable documents and items of interest are secure and will be available for future generations.

The document also identifies the most cost effective and user-friendly software. This is a most important issue - after having committed countless hours to data entry and recording - to ensure that the software is such that present and future members can readily access the data. The mistake has been made by a number of clubs of purchasing very intense museum standard software which was not suitable for recording golf club records.

Ron’s document, “Club History - Archive Room”, will be available to Clubs when they become members of the AGHS.