GREAT SCOTTISH AMATEUR GOLFER HONOURED
George Macgregor, Walker Cup player and team captain
GEORGE MACGREOR TO BE R AND ACAPTAIN IN 2014-2015
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George Macgregor OBE will serve as the Captain of The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews in 2014/15.
He
has been nominated by the past Captains of the Club and will begin his
year in office with the traditional driving-in ceremony on the first tee
of the Old Course on Friday, September 19, 2014.
Born
in 1944 in Roslin, Midlothian, George Macgregor is one of Scotland’s
most successful amateur golfers. He represented Great Britain and
Ireland on five occasions at the Walker Cup and also served as Captain
in 1991 and 1993. His Scotland international career spanned 18 years and
he won the Scottish Stroke Play Championship in 1982, the same year he
reached the final of the Scottish Amateur Championship.
He
has served on The R&A’s Championship, Amateur Status and Selection
committees and has been the Director of Championships at the Scottish
Golf Union since 2010. He was awarded an OBE in 1996 for services to
amateur golf.
Mr
Macgregor was Company Secretary of Dalmore Paper Mill until 2004. He
was Captain of Glencorse Golf Club in its centenary year in 1990 and has
been a member of The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews since
1997. He plays to a handicap of three. He is married to Christine and
has two daughters, Fiona and Morag.
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