Press Release: THE ROYAL AND ANCIENT GOLF CLUB ANNOUNCES KEITH MACINTOSH AS CAPTAIN FOR 2016/17

The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews

For Immediate Publication

THE ROYAL AND ANCIENT GOLF CLUB ANNOUNCES KEITH MACINTOSH AS CAPTAIN FOR 2016/17

4 May 2016, St Andrews, Scotland: The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews has announced that Keith Macintosh will serve as Captain in 2016/17.

Mr Macintosh has been nominated as Captain 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 23 September 2016.

A distinguished amateur golfer, Mr Macintosh won the Scottish Amateur Championship at Prestwick in 1979 and the Belgian Open Amateur Championship the following year. The former Scotland international was also a member of the Great Britain and Ireland St Andrews Trophy team that defeated the Continent of Europe 19 ½ - 10 ½ at Royal St George's in 1980.

Mr Macintosh has served on the Amateur Status and Finance Committees of The R&A. He has been a Member of The Royal and Ancient Golf Club since 1994 and, in 1999, won the Royal Medal, the Club's principal scratch medal prize at its Autumn Meeting. He is an Honorary Member of Cardross Golf Club and was Chairman of Prestwick Golf Club in 2014/15. He plays to a handicap of 3.

Born in Cardross, in Argyll, Scotland in 1949, Mr Macintosh studied law at Glasgow University before serving his legal apprenticeship in Glasgow and becoming a solicitor at a practice in Dumbarton. In 1987, he was appointed Company Secretary of Clydesdale Bank PLC. After nine years in the role he returned to practising law as a Partner in practices in Glasgow and then Dumbarton and Helensburgh. He retired in 2009.

Residing in Helensburgh, Mr Macintosh lives with his wife Diana and has two sons, Stewart and Scott.

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Note to Editors:

The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews

The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews holds a unique position in golf. Established in 1754, it evolved through two and a half centuries as a leading authority in the world game.

As the Club celebrated its 250th anniversary in 2004 it devolved responsibility for the administration of the Rules of Golf, the running of The Open and other key events, and the development of the game in existing and emerging golfing nations, to a newly formed group of companies collectively known as The R&A.  

As a separate entity The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews remains as a private golf club with a world-wide membership of over 2,400 Members.

Note to Picture Editors:

A photograph of Keith Macintosh is attached and may be used with editorial coverage of this news release. 

For further information contact:

Martin Slumbers

The Secretary

The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews

Tel: +44 (0) 1334 460000

 

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