ROY CASE TO BECOME PRESIDENT-ELECT
OF ENGLISH GOLF UNION

Roy Case, a champion of junior golf for the past three decades, has accepted the nomination to become president elect of the English Golf Union for the year 2008 with a view to becoming its president in 2009.
During his time in junior golf, Roy helped develop the careers of many current professional including Nick Dougherty, Justin Rose, Luke Donald, Graeme Storm, Lee Westwood, Mark Foster, and Oliver Wilson as well as current leading amateurs such as Paul Waring, John Parry, Matthew Baldwin, Ben Parker and new English champion Daniel Willett.
“This has come as a complete shock,” he says. “I had no idea. It is not something I’d even thought would ever come to me, but I’m delighted.”
Roy, currently the secretary of the Nottinghamshire Golf Union, has served the R&A and the EGU in various guises since the early 1990s but his involvement with junior golf dates back to 1980 when he took over as junior organiser at his home club of Radcliffe on Trent.
He held that position for five years after which he was captain at Radcliffe in 1984 and ‘85 and club president in 2000/1. He has been chairman of junior golf in Nottinghamshire since 1984 and was instrumental in launching the McGregor Trophy, now the English Boys Under 16 Championship, in 1982.
Roy served on the R&A’s GB&I boys selection committee from 1994 until this year, while his involvement with the EGU also began in 1994 when he joined the Venues Sub Committee, of which he is still a member.