Spean Bridge Golf Club SCIO SC050757
For The Year Ended 31[st] October 2025
Spean Bridge Golf Club SCIO – 2026 Trustees
President: Allan Reid Captain: Aeleen Campbell Vice Captain: Michael Smith Secretary: Brian Smith Treasurer: Neil Robson Committee Member: Janice Gosden Committee Member: JP Mainardi Committee Member: Luke Hastings Committee Member: Robert King Committee Member: Gary Martin Committee Member: Cristian Astilean
Officers Reports
Officers Reports for Spean Bridge Golf Club 2025 AGM
Secretary’s Report
2025 was another successful year with several significant events.
At the end of the financial year our membership totalled 129 (94 gents, 15 ladies and 20 juniors). This is very similar to the number we had over the previous period. As always, we will be striving to increase the membership numbers this year which will help to ease the financial pressures which we are currently feeling. Any help our members can provide to help us land new members would be greatly appreciated
As mentioned in last year’s report, our fleet of green keeping machinery has become very dated and as a result we were seeing more and more reliability issues. At the back end of 2024 we took the decision to purchase a second hand (5 year old) greens mower. Towards the end of last year, we replaced our 25 year tractor and our fairway mower with a 3 year old small format tractor with a detachable fairway mowing module. To finance both procurements we dipped into our reserves as well as taking out 5 year leases. While this helps us to ensure that we can retain/improve the quality of our course, it does mean that we have significant lease costs to cover over and above our normal expenditure. For this reason the committee took the decision to raise our adult
subscription rates by £15. We will be also be working hard to land more local business sponsorship and promoting the club through various channels to increase visitor revenues.
I am sure you will join me in thanking Ken and Shaw for the great work on the greens. While we are not a rich club, I really feel that we are punching above our weight in presenting a well maintained and attractive golf course. The regular feedback I get from visitors complementing the condition of the course is all down to their efforts. I am delighted to confirm that Allan Reid (our president) will be joining the team with a number of other folks offering to help out on certain projects.
Also, many thanks to Bob King and to Janice Gosden for helping out in the clubhouse and to our Treasurer (turned plumber) who did a great job in installing a new water treatment facility, saving us several thousands of pounds.
Thanks to everyone who took part in our competitions last year. These gatherings really are the beating heart of the club and I would encourage anyone, no matter what your golfing prowess to get involved. I can guarantee you will have a great time. Congratulations to our club champions, Ronaldo and Aeleen and to all our competition winners.
As always, fund raising is an important part of sustaining our business and this year we raised approximately £2000 from our various open competitions and events for the local Rugby and Shinty club. Thanks to everyone who supported these events and of course to those folks that gave their time preparing the course, and those helping out with the catering, raffle ticket selling and managing the competitions.
Our 4 ball auction was again a great success with over £1500 being raised. Many thanks goes to Galen Dalziel for contacting and securing 4 ball vouchers from well over 20 clubs in Scotland. Also thanks to Ronaldo for setting up the online auction.
Another major event that we were incredibly proud to have hosted was the 72 hole challenge with proceeds going to the Mind Not Defeated charity which is run by Lachlan Cambell. As you may know Lachlan (who was a member of the club for many years and is the brother of our Captain) is suffering from MND himself, and has done an incredible job in raising money for other families affected by this disease. Aeleen is far too modest to mention this in her own report, but she did an incredible job twisting the arms of local business owners to sponsor the event and encouraging folks to donate and/or buy raffle tickets. An amazing £10,018 was raised through the event. Thanks to all the folks that took on and completed the challenge
The golf club has been busy liaising with other clubs in the area and also with member clubs of the Golf Highland organisation. This has delivered a number of benefits including greater promotion of the club. One major area of discussion has been reciprocal green fee rates for members of participating clubs. I am happy to announce that we have agreed 50% discounts with Woodlands Glen Coe (formally Dragon’s Tooth) and Fort William. We have also joined the High Nines Club which will entitle all our members to play and most of the 9 hole courses in Scotland for a base rate of £20. More details of both of these opportunities will be emailed to all our members in the near future.
In an attempt to attract more visitors to the club we are working on adopting the Scottish Golf online tee booking system. This will allow visitors to book and pay for tee times. While this will have very little impact on access for own members, we ask that you be respectful to those visitors that have booked times and give way to them on the first tee so they can play at the time they booked. We will of course observe the effectiveness of using this system and will address any issues if they occur.
Finally, I would like to sincerely thank all the help and support given to the club by our officers and committee members. We make a great team.
That just leaves me to wish everyone a very enjoyable golfing year in 2026.
Seniors Report – Brian Smith
As always, the seniors had a very successful year. It was great to see a number of new faces coming along and enjoying the craic.
Congratulations to our senior league winner, Shaw McCrae who absolutely destroyed the opposition winning the league by over 20 points. We will be studying his handicap very carefully this year.
Well done also to Davey Forbes for winning the Medals final.
Our away day last year was at Grantown on Spey. We enjoyed fantastic hospitality and great weather. Our winner was Kenny Dalziel.
Our senior section funds are holding up well with (as of now) £340 in the pot, so looking forward to another heavily subsidised day this year.
Ladies Section Report- Aeleen Campbell Spean Bridge ladies enjoyed a gcrf)d season lasl year, most competilions were played either on the Saturday or the alternative day, being Thursday. Thursdays will be rolled out as a permanent f ixture to encourage more ladles to enter all the competitions. 2025 saw three of our ladies, Amelia, Katherlne Ann and Aeleen qualify for the Scottlsh hledal Final North which was held at Hamilton. Amelia and Kaiherlne Ann were qualifiers for the grand final and went on to play al The Carrlck. alihough unfortunately didn't make the top 6 winners. A great representation for Spean Bridge Golf Club. This year we have Aeleen. Amella and Nicola qualifying for 2026. Our annual Interclub which wa5 to be held at Spean Bridse In June was unable to be played for as unfortunately Tralgh and F1 William do not have enough lady members to enter the competition. Instead we held a single stableford cOmtill0n for the Heather Simpson IAemor?al Trophy which was won by Aeleen. This year, if there are enough ladies from Traigh and Fort William the Interclub will be held at Spean Bridge, h¢)wever if there are not enough players then we will play for Heather's trophy at Fort William. Details for thls will be finalised nearer the time. Our Mnnday evening competitions were well supported and whlle these are mostly fun nights of golf, it was good to have some of ihese quallfyin8 for our handTcaps. We hope to have other ladies join on a l*b)nday night to encourage more to play in our Saturday Competitions. Our ladies 18 hole competitions are played on Saturdays at 8.30am or alternatively on Thursdays, these were all well attended. The 6" round of comptitlons. introduced in 2025 season had a loi of ladies attending therefore we will continue with these in future. We hope that V manage to encourage more ladfes for the 2026 seag)n. There are a few ladies Sndicating that they wtyJld Ilke to joln. Just leaves me to say a b58 thank you to Brian SmSth our Club Secretary for all the work behind the scenes and continuing to be our club secfetary, a lot of work is involved in this posilion and we are very grateful for all that is done by Br?an. Big thanks a150 to Kenny, Allan and Shaw for their conlinued work on the course and a special thanks to Janlce who has turned out at a lot of opens, events to help in the kitchen and io prepare the clubh¢)use for the forthcoming season, even though she has been unable to play much golf in the lasl year. We really do appreciate all the help from Janice and everyone else that makes ihis club welcomlng and a great club to play for. I'd like to wish everyone a gfeat 2026 season.
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