OUR "MOTHER" CLUB - GAUTENG
(previously named TRANSVAAL)
FOUNDED: 1960
COLOURS:-
shirt: WHITE with red side panels
trousers: RED
FOUNDER CAPTAIN: Under control of MIKE FLORANCE until 1965
1965 BILL WILSON
(Ludie Ludeman was initially proposed as Founder Captain but was unable to accept
the nomination).
FOUNDER MEMBERS: 106
CAPTAINS:
| YEAR |
NAME |
| 1965/6 |
BILL WILSON |
| 1967 |
GERRY CONACHER |
| 1968 |
TOMMY FORSTER |
| 1969 |
PAT McGURK |
| 1970 |
HENRY van den HOOGEN |
| 1971 |
KEN McKENZIE |
| 1972 |
JOHN COULSON |
| 1973 |
ARTHUR COX |
| 1974 |
FRED BRUTON |
| 1975 |
DUDLEY FOADEN |
| 1976 |
CARL WENTZEL |
| 1977 |
BOBBY MERCADO |
| 1978 |
DERRICK MOSTERT |
| 1979 |
MIKE STEVENSON |
| 1980 |
KEN BLAKE |
| 1981 |
DERRICK TRANSELL |
| 1982 |
FRED SMIT |
| 1983 |
FRANK ROOS |
| 1984 |
ALEC SAUNDERS |
| 1985 |
RAY PARSONS |
| 1986 |
BRIAN CUSINS |
| 1987 |
EBEN NEL |
| 1988 |
RICHARD MOORE |
| 1989 |
DOUG WATSON |
| 1990 |
SID GREEN |
| 1991 |
PAUL McCASKIE |
| 1992 |
PETER van der BYL |
| 1993 |
JIMMY LITTLEWOOD |
| 1994 |
PETER CLAYTON |
| 1995 |
BRIAN BURNS |
| 1996 |
STEVE SHERWOOD |
| 1997 |
BRIAN BOLTON |
| 1998 |
BUTCH HINDMAN |
| 1999 |
CYRIL FERRAR |
| 2000 |
PETER KIRCHMANN |
| 2001 |
RAY LOUWRENS |
| 2002 |
RAY GERMS |
| 2003 |
LARRY BREDENKAMP |
| 2004 |
GLEN DALTON |
| 2005 |
NIC du TOIT |
| 2006 |
BRIAN COETZEE |
| 2007 |
JEROME DAVIS |
| 2008 |
BYRON PRICE |
| 2009 |
MIKE GAHAGAN |
| 2010 |
PAT GAFFNEY |
| 2011 |
GAVIN DITCHFIELD |
| 2012 |
PAT FRAMPTON |
NATIONAL CHAIRMEN:
| YEAR |
NAME |
| 1967/9 |
ANTHONY HANDLEY |
| 1969/70 |
BILL WILSON |
| 1973/4 |
KEN McKENZIE |
| 1976/7 |
ARTHUR COX |
| 1985/6 |
DERRICK TRANSELL |
| 1987/8 |
ALEC SAUNDERS |
| 1993/4 |
BRIAN CUSINS |
| 1999/2000 |
DOUG WATSON |
| 2007/8 |
GLEN DALTON |
NATIONAL TOURNAMENTS:
| YEAR |
VENUE |
COORDINATOR |
| 1966 |
KYALAMI CC |
MIKE FLORANCE |
| 1973 |
RAND PARK GC |
JOHN COULSON &
FRED SMIT |
| 1979 |
WANDERERS GC |
ARTHUR COX |
| 1986 |
WANDERERS GC |
RAY PARSONS |
| 1995 |
ROYAL JOHANNESBURG GC |
DOUG WATSON |
| 2006 |
RANDPARK GOLF CLUB |
BRIAN BURNS |
HONORARY LIFE MEMBERS:
| YEAR |
NAME |
| 1965 |
GARY PLAYER |
| 1984 |
ARTHUR COX |
| 1985 |
ANDREW MENTIS |
| 2007 |
ALEC SAUNDERS |
| 2007 |
DOUG WATSON |
| 2010 |
BRIAN CUSINS |
BERT HUNT TROPHY:
WINNERS
1966* ( TRANSVAAL B)
1967 ( TRANSVAAL B)
1969, 1972, 1979*, 1981, 1984, 1988, 1989 & 1992
* denotes win at home venue
NATIONAL CHAIRMAN's TROPHY: 2004
CURRENT CLUB
CAPTAIN:
PAT FRAMPTON
BRIEF HISTORY: This Club is, either directly or
indirectly, the parent Club of all SA Nomads Golf Clubs as well as those affiliated to us in
other parts of the world.
Formed
in 1960 as a result of the break up of the NUMICS
industrial golf organisation the "Follow the Sun" NOMADS Golf Club
came into being officially in April 1960, with 106 Founder Members attending the
first monthly meeting scheduled for the first Saturday in May at the Glendower
Golf Club. The meeting was washed out and the second attempt at Parkview was
also partially disrupted by rain so it was June before the first complete
official NOMADS meeting took place, this time at the Irene Golf Club.
The success of the new club was immediate and membership numbers soon rose to
the point where it was closed as it was impossible to accommodate all those
wanting to play. This led to the arrangement of away tours to the Eastern
Transvaal and Durban where games were played against local clubs.
The emphasis of the Nomads Golf Club is to encourage Members to play as many of
the monthly meetings as possible. This has the resultant effect of restricting
the overall Membership of any Club to about 200 Members. To accommodate as many
players as possible the Transvaal Club devised a policy of playing some of its
games mid-week (Thursday) and the remainder of their games over a weekend.
Due to either family or business pressures, some of the Members could not play
at one or the other time and this enabled the Club to swell its Membership for
some while. However even this failed to reduce the continued pressure to
increase the Membership level of the Transvaal Club.
As a result it was decided in 1966 that a Northern Transvaal Club (now
called Northerns) would be
formed with a group of Founder Members mainly originating from that contingent
of Transvaal Nomads whose residential qualifications placed them more in the
Pretoria than the Johannesburg area.
Several years later, in 1978, a similar situation resulted in the formation of
the Eastern Transvaal Nomads Golf Club (now called Easterns) for whom the residential qualification
tended more towards the East Rand area.
