PRESENTATION DINNER A change to the way the annual prizes were presented this year has proved an outstanding success. For various reasons the prizes won during Cross Week were presented…

RYDER CUP PLAYER VISITS MACHRIE When Costantino Rocca, Mike Nicholson, Distillery Manager and Murray Bremner, the Whisky Trades Heritage Director visited Machrie recently, the sun came out after a dull…

TRUE TO LIFE A recent article in a Sunday newspaper reminded me of a joke Alistair McLachlan tells (again and again). The paper related the story of four elderly golfers…

KILDALTON CROSS WEEK 1996 Success, success and more success. These are the only words to describe Islay Golf Club’s annual Kildalton Cross Week. User friendly course, largest entry of competitors,…

Lagavulin Quaich Islay Golf Club’s oldest trophy has returned to the Club after almost a hundred years. In 1894, Sir Peter Jeffrey Mackie, the owner of Lagavulin Distillery, together with…

RING OUT THE OLD With the ceremony of the keys imminent the incumbent managers, Anthony Chick and Philip Wain were invited by the administrators to dispose of all remaining stocks…

TEMPERATURES AND EAGLES SOAR OVER MACHRIE CLUB CHAMPIONSHIP The temperature was the first to rise as we headed into the annual Cross Week on 29th July 1995 on Islay’s Machrie…