AGW – 2025 Annual General Meeting – Royal Troon 1938 – 2024 2024 AGW ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING Wednesday 16th July, 2025 10am, Media Centre, Royal Portrush GC In attendance: Philip Reid, Matt Cooper, Lewine Mair, David Facey, Adrian Milledge, Martin Dempster, John...
AGW visit to Portstewart Ahead of the R&A Open Facilitation Day at Royal Portrush last month AGW members had the opportunity to visit Portstewart. Thank to David MacLaren for the tee times and to Peter Scrivener for this report: “I steadied myself for the most...
APRIL 2025 NEWSLETTER Awards and dinner Ahead of the annual dinner at Royal Portrush the committee got together to discuss awards – and there was also the opportunity for members to say yes or no to the appointment to Vice-President of the AGW of Jose Maria Olazabal...
John Collard Golf DayNatalie Collard has been in touch regarding a golf day in memory of her father, John, who was such a great friend of the AGW. It will be on Friday 12 September at Royal Mid-Surrey (Friday of the BMW PGA Championship), supporting the British Heart...
Lewine Mair receives Lifetime Achievement in Journalism award There is no better way to begin this latest update than with congratulations for our President Lewine Mair who is this year’s recipient of the PGA of America’s Lifetime Achievement in Journalism award.Her...
AGW Golfer of the YearThere were a significant number of early votes accompanied with the words “Rory will win so I’ll vote for …” which for a brief period promised the delicious prospect of Rory not winning for the wrong reasons. In a year of worldwide poll frenzy,...
This year marked the end of an era in the coverage of sport and particularly golf in Ireland with the retirement of Dermot Gilleece. Dermot’s career in sports journalism began as a 19-year-old in 1960. That was when he reported for the Evening Press on a Monday...
Jeremy Chapman wins a second Michael Williams Hogget & lifts his seventh AGW trophy (NB – The 2025 Michael Williams Hogget was contested on 17th September, 2024 as the opening event of the 2025 AGW Golf – ETIQUS Race to Royal Liverpool season. It will...
Sad news in learning of the passing of AGW member Michael Blair. Mike joined the AGW in 1997. A number of members have provided a tribute to Mike. JOHN HOPKINS I saw Mike Blair only occasionally and it was always a pleasure to do so. He would extend a hand, lean back...
Instructed to bring the Fred Pignon and ETIQUS Golfer of the Year trophies to the AGW’s annual meeting on the Wirral after winning them 12 months ago, Dave Edwards fulfilled his brief perfectly. Furthermore, he ensured the silverware was polished and securely packed...
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