George McKelvie

BREAKING NEWS: 20/10. Due to the heavy rain and strong winds tomorrows event has been cancelled. A new date of November 4th, on Kings, has been set.

UPDATE: 19/10. Due to the incredibly poor weather forecast we are considering postponing this event until November 4th. Will confirm tomorrow.

This years McKelvie Four Ball Better Ball event will take place, weather permitting, on the Queens this Saturday. It is a popular and fun event, played from the yellow tees with partners drawn at random.

David Logie is organising this so please send any special requests to him. Tee times are 8.30am until 10.00am and the draw will appear here in due course.

History: The George McKelvie Trophy first awarded in 2005. George McKelvie, a noted Consultant Surgeon, was a member of Dun Whinny for over 30 years during which time he served on Council and was Captain from 1987 to 1989. George was a keen golfer and serious competitor who railed against the Rules of Golf from time to time but was generally well liked by all the members. He took the function of being Captain seriously and under his guidance a number of changes were made to the running of the Club not least of which was the development of cyclical change to the Council by encouraging Council Members to stand down after two years thus allowing more members of the Club to become involved. His death is noted in the AGM minutes on 2005 along with a note of his bequest to the Club to purchase a trophy for a Better Ball Stroke Play Competition over the Queens Course from the front tees. Pairings were to be drawn among those members wishing to play and each partner was to receive an allowance of ¾ of full handicap (now 85% as per current guidelines). The bequest purchased a beautiful silver trophy which is a modern bowl shaped trophy mounted on a circular timber plinth with silver band. This was a bespoke design by Graham Stewart of Dunblane a noted silversmith.