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THE 75th ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATIONS
The Golf Club celebrated its 75th anniversary in 1989 when a number of special events were staged. The highlight of the year was the anniversary tournament, which was held on Saturday the 15th of July. During this anniversary year the Captain was Alan Hawthorn and the President was Gareth Rees. The tournament attracted a record 100 entries which were divided into three categories with the winner of the Gents 0 - 15 category being David Britton and in second place was Glyn Gale. In the 16 - 28 sections the winner was Paul Thomas while in second place was Andrew Barker.
The ladies section was won by Merle Freeman while in second place was the Ladies Captain Alice Wright.
Alan Hawthorn who was Captain during this year spoke of the present being of equal importance to the past and gave a brief resume of the birth of the club which had been researched by Mrs. Joan Gale. Four Past Presidents recounted some of their memories of the club from the past, these were Peter Wright, John Winter, Arthur Elder and Peter Harries.
The 75th anniversary week proved to be a great success with all sections taking part with players from nine different clubs competing in the ladies competition which was won by Allison Klatts of Haverfordwest Golf club scoring 37 points with Liz Phillpot of Milford Haven in second place with the same score but beaten on the back nine count back.
It has to be said at this point that even though the Executive Committee delegates a number of functions to sub committees, the sub committees themselves are made up from members of the Executive committee.
It was during this period that a letter was received from an American golf enthusiast asking for details of the anniversary year. Tom Stockwood who reported the receipt of this letter was recorded as saying.
"This proves that we have followers on both sides of the Atlantic. In the early days there were not many who played the game, but there were the stalwarts to whom we all owe a great debt"
IT WAS DURING THIS PERIOD THAT THE BAG TAGS THAT ARE IN USE TODAY WERE INTRODUCED
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