The AGW was delighted ahead of the 2020 BMW PGA Championshiip to honour European Tour Chief Referees Andy McFee and John Paramor on the occasion of their retirement and long friendship with the Association. Firstly, the AGW is thankful to Iain Carter for hosting the...
The gods were smiling on us this week when they provided perfect weather for the AGW’s first outing of the year at Royal Mid Surrey for the 28th September, 2020 hosting of the AGWs Ron Moseley Memorial Trophy reports AGW Golf Captain, Peter Dixon. But while there was...
MARTIN DEMPSTER, CHAIRMAN, ASSOCIATION OF GOLF WRITERS Through covering golf, we are lucky to come across some special people and Kate – or “Wrighty” as she was called by many of us – was certainly in that category. From the moment you first...
Dale Concannon – Dear Friend to the AGW -Passed away 4th June, 2020 The golfing world has been saddened by the death (June 4th, 2020) of respected golf writer and historian Dale Concannon at the age of 61. A former PGA professional, who competed up until 1984...
It seemed only appropriate long-time Association of Golf Writers (AGW) member and local resident Malcolm Campbell should have been afforded the honour of teeing-up earlier today (FRD) in hitting the ceremonial opening tee-shot at Dumbarnie Links in Scotland. Dumbarnie...
1938 – 2020 Dear AGW Members, Greetings and trusting this will find members and their families well in these uncertain times. I write this first newsletter in a couple of months and on a day nine years ago the golf world lost Seve Ballesteros. Seve...
The following is a wonderful collection of career memories from members of the Association of Golf Writers. It was an Association initiative during the course of the 2020 Coranavirus pandemic and the support in the troubled and uncertain times was superb. Thank you to...
1938 – 2020 LAIDLAW QUAICH – ROYAL CINQUE PORTS – APRIL 20th The AGW has been very fortunate for the opportunity to conduct the inaugural staging of the Laidlaw Quaich on Monday 20th April at the Royal Cinque Ports course in Kent. The AGW has been offered 4 x...
Bill Robertson (1943 – 2020) The AGW was very saddened to learn of the passing of our dear friend and colleague, Bill Robertson on Friday, 6th March, 2020. Bill had been a member of the AGW since 1978 and his life clearly touched many, many members of the AGW as...
One of the great Christmas traditions of the AGW is annually remembering our ‘senior’ colleagues and those colleagues who are no longer with us with the despatch of one our ‘famed’ AGW hampers. We also arranged for a number of hampers to be...
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