The Old Lorettonian Golfing Society
Follow this link to the Golf Academy Newsletter Autumn 2008.
President
J.C. Cameron
Captain
J.S. Miller
Committee
T.M.B.Brown
J.S. Fergusson
P.J.K. MacKay
Hon. Secretary
I.R. Sinclair
Founded in 1927, The Old Lorettonian Golfing Society predates, and is a Society separate from, the Lorettonian Society. The Society's aim is to promote and administer the playing of reasonably competitive golf for OLs - whatever their golfing ability. All Old Lorettonians are eligible to join and the Society has its own Constitution and Committee. There are currently about 200 members, 3 honorary members and 10 honorary life members.
There is no entry fee and the annual subscription is £20.
There is an OLGS tie available for purchase by members.
OLGS Matches are played, usually at Muirfield or Prestwick in the North and at a number of different, excellent courses in the South, such as Denham, Royal Ashdown Forest and Worplesdon, against other public schools' golfing societies. There is also an annual match against the School at Muirfield for "Maxie's Tassie"
Teams also represent the Society in the Halford Hewitt Tournament at Deal and Sandwich, the Grafton Morrish Tournament at Hunstanton and Brancaster, the Anniesland Trophy at Denham, various Scottish Wayfarers meetings, and the Queen Elizabeth Coronation Schools Tournament at Barnton. These tournaments tend to be for the lower handicap golfer but the other matches are broader in scope.
The Society's Annual Weekend takes place each October at Elie. There is a Medal competition on the Saturday and a Foursomes competition on the Sunday, at which The Society's trophies are keenly contested for. A formal dinner, at which guests are very welcome, is held on the Saturday evening just after the Society's AGM. It is a very popular weekend and affords a wonderful opportunity to meet and compete with other members in a fairly relaxed environment, and members are encouraged to support this event whenever possible. Younger members of the Society are particularly encouraged.
The match against Watsonians on 2nd February 2009 marked the twentieth anniversary of this fixture, first played on 11th February 1989.
The picture shows the teams that day twenty years ago.
Back Row l-r:John Oscroft (1), Doug McTavish (3), Craig Cameron (4), Andrew
Brown (8), Alastair Lawson (9)
Front Row l-r: Paul Ferguson (1), Bill Vans Agnew (3), Alec Watt (7).
The Mellin - Burles - Millard Salver teams - 2009
Kneeling : David Cunningham
Front Row (L to R) : Alasdair Burnet, Alastair Lawson, Ross Graham, Douglas
Foulis, Jim Rait, Douglas Brown, Peter Crerar
Back Row : Graeme Simmers, Angus Lindsey-Renton, Craig Cameron, Hamish Ritchie