Our 4th Club - NORTHERNS
(formerly Northern Transvaal)
FOUNDED: April 1967
SHOW-THE-FLAG:
SPONSOR CLUB: TRANSVAAL
COLOURS:-
shirt: LIGHT BLUE
trousers: DARK BLUE
FOUNDER CAPTAIN: MELLO McROBERT
FOUNDER MEMBERS: 65
CAPTAINS:
| YEAR |
NAME |
| 1967 |
MELLO McROBERT |
| 1968 |
ARTHUR FERNEYHOUGH |
| 1969 |
BERT PISTORIUS |
| 1970 |
TOODLES McKAY |
| 1971 |
LEN SMITH |
| 1972 |
CON FISHER |
| 1973 |
NIGEL LEATHERN |
| 1974 |
JOHN FRAYNE |
| 1975 |
ALAN WILSON |
| 1976 |
GILLIE SALES |
| 1977 |
GEORGE BOERSTRA |
| 1978 |
VIC THORNLEY |
| 1979 |
ALEC FURMAN |
| 1980 |
GEORGE HARROP-ALLIN |
| 1981 |
RAY HAKIM |
| 1982 |
SYD EALES |
| 1983 |
BOB SYMES |
| 1984 |
CLIFF ENSLIN |
| 1985 |
MARK REIN |
| 1986 |
LEWIS SALTER |
| 1987 |
REIN LOMBARD |
| 1988 |
CARL DYASON |
| 1989 |
DAVE BEYERS |
| 1990 |
JOHNNY McKAY |
| 1991 |
PHILIPPE van ACKER |
| 1992 |
KOBIE du PLESSIS |
| 1993 |
DAVID GOOD |
| 1994 |
ALBIE BATES |
| 1995 |
JAY PREECE |
| 1996 |
ALBERT GOODMAN |
| 1997 |
HERMAN PROST |
| 1998 |
KEITH FRYER |
| 1999 |
CARL HUMAN |
| 2000 |
JAN van STRATEN |
| 2001 |
JOHAN van HEERDEN |
| 2002 |
ANDRÉ WASSERMANN |
| 2003 |
PIERRE OLIVIER |
| 2004 |
DANIE JACOBS |
| 2005 |
MICHAEL STREAK |
| 2006 |
NEILL MALHERBE |
| 2007 |
REIN LOMBARD |
| 2008 |
MARTIN te GROEN |
| 2009 |
GERRIE STOLP |
| 2010 |
TOM NEL |
NATIONAL CHAIRMEN:
| YEAR |
NAME |
| 1970-1 |
ARTHUR FERNEYHOUGH |
| 1977-8 |
JOHN FRAYNE |
| 1979-80 |
ALAN WILSON |
| 1982-3 |
GEORGE BOERSTRA |
| 1989-90 |
MARK REIN |
| 2003-4 |
JAN van STRATEN |
NATIONAL TOURNAMENTS:
| YEAR |
VENUE |
COORDINATOR |
| 1969 |
WINGATE PARK GC |
LEN SMITH |
| 1975 |
ZWARTKOP CC |
JOHN FRAYNE |
| 1981 |
PRETORIA CC |
GEORGE BOERSTRA |
| 1989 |
WINGATE PARK GC |
GEORGE BOERSTRA |
| 1998 |
WINGATE PARK GC |
DAVID GOOD |
| 2010 |
WATERKLOOF GC |
NEILL MALHERBE |
HONORARY LIFE MEMBERS: None to date
BERT HUNT TROPHY
WINNERS:-
1968 NORTHERN TRANSVAAL B
NATIONAL CHAIRMAN
TROPHY: 2000
CURRENT CLUB
CAPTAIN:
TOM NEL
BRIEF HISTORY:
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 that a Northern Transvaal Club would be formed in April 1967, 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.
At this stage it was felt that the Nomads Golf Club had
reached its peak and no other centres were large enough to support a Club,
however, subsequent progress has proved this to be far from the truth.
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