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Course raing Mike Hazlewood, assisted by Ricky Magee and John Rutherford implemented the course raing programme in Ayrshire in 2021 and will coninue to oversee this in 2022. The Ayrshire course raing team is one of the strongest raing teams in the country, who ensure that each course has a raing that accurately reflects the difficulty of the course. The Course raing programme in 2021 was curtailed by COVID restricions, with several scheduled raings being postponed and included in future scheduling. Raings undertaken in 2021 included Prestwick, Troon Portland. Several new course raing volunteers have been recruited, who will assist in the raing programme in 2022.
The Ayrshire Junior Golf League Scot Gilchrist remained as the AJGL representaive on the county Execuive in 2021, with Sandy Walker taking over the role in 2022.
Membership and Administraion The membership of The Associaion remains healthy, with the addiion of the Golf South Ayrshire club bringing the membership to 64 member clubs, represening over 12,000 Ayrshire golfers.
Press and Publicity The Ayrshire Golf Associaion web page has been the main vehicle for publicising the work of The Associaion since its establishment in 2004. Associaion Secretary Alasdair Malcolm has administered the web page since its establishment and will be assisted in publicity maters in 2022 by Scot Gilchrist and Barry O’Rourke. The weblog coninues to prove popular with county players and club members alike, with strong visitor numbers every year, from Scotland and further afield. Fixture lists, compeiion results and entry forms are all made available on the web page, which also features links to member clubs’ own websites and other useful golf links. Local press oten use the web page as a source for press aricles, which are regularly reproduced from the weblog in local papers and on golf related websites. Clubs are encouraged to forward anything of interest to Alasdair Malcolm at ayrshire.golf@binternet.com for possible inclusion on the web page. A Facebook page and Twiter account were also added in 2015. The Ayrshire Golf Associaion Yearbook was produced again in 2021, its eighteenth successive year. Despite the suspension of all compeiions in 2020 it was considered important to keep the yearbook in producion in 2021, and this was well received both within the county and beyond. The Associaion are pleased that Ayrshire Media Services, Troon, have again produced a quality yearbook in 2022, and it is hoped that this publicaion will coninue to prove popular and useful to both members and adverisers alike. Adverising opportuniies in the yearbook are available each year by contacing Ayrshire media Services direct at info@ayrshiremedia.com
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