Presidents Message ::

Patron :: Dan Cullen

Management Committee ::

Two members of our Management Committee have recently resigned. Erwin Huber, Convenor of the Historians Group, has been forced to resign due to ill health. We all wish Erwin well and a speedy recovery. Increased business commitments have made it necessary for our Secretary, Henry Paterson, to resign. We need to fill these positions promptly. We need members to volunteer, someone from the Historians Group and someone, preferably with a relevant background, for the secretary position.

Our membership continues to increase steadily. We now have 97 paid-up members. In a significant development a new category of membership was approved at our AGM in November. This allows golf clubs to join for an annual fee of $100 and to nominate one voting member and two non-voting members. The main purpose of this new membership category is to encourage golf clubs to record and publish their history. Barry Leithhead has prepared the invitation for golf clubs to join; this is now being printed and will be circulated to NSW golf clubs shortly.

I have great pleasure in congratulating PGA Life Member and our Museum Curator, Tom Moore, on being honoured with the Golden Tee Award at the recent NSW/ACT PGA Awards and Graduation Night. The Golden Tee is an industry-wide award for services to golf and has been bestowed only once in the past five years.

Our Captain, Michael Sheret, ably assisted by Jim Glenday and Tom Moore on the Playing Sub-Committee, has compiled an excellent playing program for 2009. I am particularly pleased to see that the match between ourselves and the Golf Society of Australia has been revived. As you’ll see in the coming months we are making serious efforts to publicise our Championship in November to attract larger fields.

The Historians’ collection of books had some on golf instruction surplus to its requirements. These have been donated to the PGA to be kept and used at their Sandhurst headquarters.

Michael, with generous assistance from Tom Winter, continues to produce and edit The Brassie. Michael and Tom deserve our thanks for what has once again become an excellent publication.

Finally I’d like to welcome new member Ken Hughes from Waratah Golf Club.

Bruce Nairn :: February 2009

Bruce Nairn

President & Chairperson

John Lock

Secretary

Malcom McIntosh

Treasurer

Michael Sheret

Publications

Tony Doggett

Captain

Tom Moore

Museum

Peter Read
Historians

Jim Glenday

NSWGA Representative

Nicky Bethwaite

WGNSW Representative

Kyle Francis

PGA Representative

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