Kevin & Mike would like to extend to you a warm welcome to your Senior Golf Section.
We have a very active Senior section at Braehead, which is open to any gents over 55. You can find us on the course most mornings and in the lounge thereafter where you can join us for a chat over a pot of tea and a morning roll or two. We play Medal, Stableford and Trophy competitions every Wednesday during the summer season, while the Ochil Shield is played throughout the winter.
Our notice board is in the gents locker room, there you can add your name to any of the sheets and join us for a game. We play friendly games against all the local clubs and some beyond, and we also enter a team in the very competitive and friendly Caledonian League, playing home & away throughout the country.
We have a very busy social calendar, we have our annual prize giving lunch and carol singing and a mixed “Burns” lunch with our Senior ladies. We have recently started a Senior & Junior scramble day and run various golfing events to raise funds for CHAS and Strathcarron Hospice.
Senior’s Charity Donations
Top; Club Captain Derek Doyle & Mike presenting a cheque for £800 to Tullibody Pensioners group. Left; Dougie Hawke presenting Seniors donation of £400 in 2021 and £320 in 2019 to Claire Kennedy from Strathcarron Hospice in honour of his late wife. Right; Mike, Malky & Ian on Peter’s Bridge with a cheque for £508 to Tullibody Scout Group. In 2019 our seniors gathered to present a cheque for £500 to Tullibody Community Development Trust and In 2020 our caterer Corinne and our green staff received donations from the Senior section for their effort during the covid pandemic.
Peter’s Bridge at the 16th
Our new bridge at the 16th, with pictures of Dougie keeping an eye on Lawrence & Grant as they graft away. Some of our Seniors gathered with the Doyle family for the opening ceremony, and the two plaques on either side of the Peter’s Bridge.
Some of our seniors kitted out in Hawaiian fancy dress for their annual fancy dress golf day, with Karen, Jean & Anne.
Presentations
Presentations were made to bar manager Anne Ross on her retirement after 23 years service to the club and Peter Cunningham on his Honorary Life Membership having been an active member of Braehead for 46 years.
Donations
In the summer of 2017 the Senior Ladies & Gents presented club Captain Davy Beaton with a “Heart Start Defibrillator”, which is now located in the main entrance vestibule.
Burns Supper Lunches
Annual Prize givings
