Dollar golf course (from the club's website). The club was formed in 1906.Dollar Golf Club fights to survive
... and they ask for your support
NEWS RELEASE ISSUED BY DOLLAR GOLF CLUB
Increased costs and reduced members numbers are a problem for many Scottish golf clubs but it is the smaller clubs which are likely to suffer most as the credit crunch continues to bite.
Dollar Golf Cub in Central Scotland now faces a survival struggle as a small membership struggles to meet the cost of running an 18-hole hillside village club – of which there are very many in Scotland.
But the club members have rallied round and started a “Drive to Survive” campaign which will involve a members’ levy, member donations and many other fund-raising activities.
The club hopes to raise £50,000 from assorted sources to enable it to stay open whilst plans are prepared probably to sell the clubhouse whilst creating a modest changing facility somewhere on the course to allow the club to continue in operation.
Club Captain Jerry Cant says “There are complex legal issues involved since we only own the clubhouse and rent the course but given a little time we feel we can work out a future on a lower cost base.
"It would be tragic if golf were to stop in Dollar after 120 years and our membership are determined and united in our bid to stop that happening. We hope the wider sporting community will support our efforts to keep this beautiful course open for generations to come”. Jerry continues:
“We are holding a ‘Drive to Survive’ fun-day on August 4, 2009, when we are putting on a fantastic exhibition of golf with four of Scotland’s top amateurs playing three rounds in a day. There are some brilliant prizes in the offing, and we hope to drum up a lot of support from the golfing community”.
Donations to the Drive to Survive fund can be made online at http://www.dollargolfclub.com/ (follow the ‘Funding 2009’ link), via cheque (made payable to Dollar Golf Club & sent to Dollar Golf Club, Drive to Survive, Brewlands House, Dollar, Clackmannanshire, Scotland FK14 7EA), by BACS to Clydesdale Bank, Dollar, sort code 82-62-08 account number 00215176 or in cash.
All contributors to the Drive to Survive fund will be welcome to play a free round on the course at Dollar - the views are stunning, the greens are great and the club’s welcome to you will be heartfelt.
*For more information please contact John McMillan on 01259 742400 or email fundraising@dollargolfclub.com
... and they ask for your support
NEWS RELEASE ISSUED BY DOLLAR GOLF CLUB
Increased costs and reduced members numbers are a problem for many Scottish golf clubs but it is the smaller clubs which are likely to suffer most as the credit crunch continues to bite.
Dollar Golf Cub in Central Scotland now faces a survival struggle as a small membership struggles to meet the cost of running an 18-hole hillside village club – of which there are very many in Scotland.
But the club members have rallied round and started a “Drive to Survive” campaign which will involve a members’ levy, member donations and many other fund-raising activities.
The club hopes to raise £50,000 from assorted sources to enable it to stay open whilst plans are prepared probably to sell the clubhouse whilst creating a modest changing facility somewhere on the course to allow the club to continue in operation.
Club Captain Jerry Cant says “There are complex legal issues involved since we only own the clubhouse and rent the course but given a little time we feel we can work out a future on a lower cost base.
"It would be tragic if golf were to stop in Dollar after 120 years and our membership are determined and united in our bid to stop that happening. We hope the wider sporting community will support our efforts to keep this beautiful course open for generations to come”. Jerry continues:
“We are holding a ‘Drive to Survive’ fun-day on August 4, 2009, when we are putting on a fantastic exhibition of golf with four of Scotland’s top amateurs playing three rounds in a day. There are some brilliant prizes in the offing, and we hope to drum up a lot of support from the golfing community”.
Donations to the Drive to Survive fund can be made online at http://www.dollargolfclub.com/ (follow the ‘Funding 2009’ link), via cheque (made payable to Dollar Golf Club & sent to Dollar Golf Club, Drive to Survive, Brewlands House, Dollar, Clackmannanshire, Scotland FK14 7EA), by BACS to Clydesdale Bank, Dollar, sort code 82-62-08 account number 00215176 or in cash.
All contributors to the Drive to Survive fund will be welcome to play a free round on the course at Dollar - the views are stunning, the greens are great and the club’s welcome to you will be heartfelt.
*For more information please contact John McMillan on 01259 742400 or email fundraising@dollargolfclub.com
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