Informational

It is with great sadness that we heard that Past President Mrs Florence Kinsella died of a stroke on Friday 26th June in St Andrews. Our thoughts are with her daughter Ann and the rest of her family at this time.

We all continue to wait patiently for our clubhouses to reopen but their closures has not hampered many clubs from hosting competitions to visitors and guests (with all necessary precautions in place!)

Now that we have been playing social golf for over a month and clubs are starting to run competitions again (or at least thinking about it), DCLGA Exec met via Zoom to discuss which, if any, of the County competitions we should try to run in 2020.

It is with great sadness that I announce the death of Frances Watson on June 18^th 2020 aged 97 years.  She had been in poor health for the last few months and wasn’t robust enough to fight her final infection.

Although we are still experiencing many challenges due to COVID-19 through many aspects of daily life, our golfing community is certainly rising to, and meeting the challenges admirably and with ingenuity.  Adhering to guidelines, recommendations and areas of best practice, clubs can welcome memb

Isn’t it great now courses are open. We are so lucky that we were one of the 1^st sports to be allowed to play. Many of the comments from players are that they enjoy the time it takes to play in 2 balls, 3 hours for a round of golf – how good it that!

Should you wish to play foursomes golf the following guidance has been issued by England Golf:-

England Golf have recently updated their guidance to take into consideration the latest easing of the lockdown restrictions and have confirmed that play can take place in three and fourballs from 1st Jun

Hello again!  We have done the round of messages from the executive and it’s back to my turn.

I hope you are all well and enjoying the start of the easing of restrictions, in particular playing golf. I played my first game last week, trolley and clubs gleaming and it was a real delight.