SLGA County Centenary Lunch

The Salutation Hotel in Perth was the venue for the SLGA County Centenary Lunch today (Saturday 7th March).

The dining room was packed as 211 past and present County Officials and County Team members congregated to celebrate the centenary of Scottish County Golf.

Many people had arrive early to catch up with old friends, and by the time the Counties were asked to take their seats, the noise was deafening.

Nine Counties are celebrating their centenaries this year... Angus, Ayrshire, Dumbartonshire and Argyll, Fife, Lanarkshire, Midlothian, Perth and Kinross, Renfrewshire and Stirlingshire & Clackmannan. Aberdeenshire (founded 1911), East Lothian (1924), Northern Counties (1967), Borders (1973), Dumfrieshire (1973) and Galloway (1973) have celebrations still to come.

Mrs Margaret Duncanson, who retired in 1997 as the last Secretary of the Scottish Ladies County Golf Association, cut the cake, and Mrs Ethel Jack, President of SLGA Ltd gave a very appropriate golfing grace.

After the meal, Gillian Kirkwood (!) gave the assembled company a talk on the History of Scottish County Golf over the last 100 years, and everyone rose to their feet to toast Scottish County Golf and the next 100 years.

Mrs Helen Faulds, past Captain of D&A gave a very entertaining Vote of Thanks.

SLGA Centenary Lunch

My thanks to Carol Fell, the Renfrewshire and West of Scotland Webmaster, for providing the photographs for this story. The rest of the photographs can be found on her Picasa site if you click on the cake above. [Thanks Carol... don't know what we would do without you!]

Carol also took a video of Helen Fauld's Vote of Thanks



Some people have asked for my speech to be put up on the web. SpeechforCountyCentenarylunch.pdf