13/06/2026
As we celebrate our Centenary (of incorporation) we've immersed ourselves in the 100 (plus) year history of the Geraldton Golf Club!
Thanks for Club-member Mary Callaghan who has collated so much of the history including the Newsletters and their contributions from over the years!
This fun little snippet is from 112 years ago - to the day!
𝐅𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐬: 𝐍𝐮𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝟓 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐛𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐍𝐞𝐰𝐬𝐥𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝟖𝟑, 𝟏𝟗𝟏𝟒
(112 Years ago)
𝒪𝓅𝑒𝓃𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝑜𝒻 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒢𝑒𝓇𝒶𝓁𝒹𝓉𝑜𝓃 𝒢𝑜𝓁𝒻 𝐿𝒾𝓃𝓀𝓈* 𝟣𝟥 𝒥𝓊𝓃𝑒 𝟣𝟫𝟣𝟦
𝒯𝒽𝑒𝓇𝑒 𝓌𝒶𝓈 𝒶 𝓁𝒶𝓇𝑔𝑒 𝒸𝑜𝓂𝓅𝒶𝓃𝓎 𝓅𝓇𝑒𝓈𝑒𝓃𝓉 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝒶𝒻𝓉𝑒𝓇𝓃𝑜𝑜𝓃 𝒶𝓉 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒻𝑜𝓇𝓂𝒶𝓁 𝑜𝓅𝑒𝓃𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝑜𝒻 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒢𝑒𝓇𝒶𝓁𝒹𝓉𝑜𝓃 𝒢𝑜𝓁𝒻 𝐿𝒾𝓃𝓀𝓈. 𝒯𝒽𝑒 𝒸𝑜𝓊𝓇𝓈𝑒 𝒾𝓈 𝓈𝑜𝓂𝑒𝓌𝒽𝒶𝓉 𝒾𝓃 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓇𝑜𝓊𝑔𝒽 𝓈𝓉𝒶𝓉𝑒 𝒶𝓉 𝓅𝓇𝑒𝓈𝑒𝓃𝓉, 𝒷𝓊𝓉 𝒶𝓈 𝓉𝒾𝓂𝑒 𝑔𝑜𝑒𝓈 𝑜𝓃 𝓌𝒾𝓁𝓁 𝒷𝑒 𝒾𝓂𝓅𝓇𝑜𝓋𝑒𝒹, 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝓌𝒾𝓁𝓁 𝒹𝑜𝓊𝒷𝓉𝓁𝑒𝓈𝓈 𝓅𝓇𝑜𝓋𝑒 𝒶 𝑔𝓇𝑒𝒶𝓉 𝒷𝑜𝑜𝓃 𝓉𝑜 𝒻𝑜𝓁𝓁𝑜𝓌𝑒𝓇𝓈 𝑜𝒻 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓇𝑜𝓎𝒶𝓁 𝒶𝓃𝒸𝒾𝑒𝓃𝓉 𝑔𝒶𝓂𝑒.
𝒯𝒽𝑒 𝑜𝓅𝑒𝓃𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝒸𝑒𝓇𝑒𝓂𝑜𝓃𝓎 𝓌𝒶𝓈 𝒸𝑜𝓂𝓂𝑒𝓃𝒹𝒶𝒷𝓁𝓎 𝒷𝓇𝒾𝑒𝒻, 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝑀𝒶𝓎𝑜𝓇, 𝑀𝓇. 𝒢. 𝒜. 𝒦𝑒𝓂𝓅𝓉𝑜𝓃, 𝑜𝒸𝒸𝓊𝓅𝓎𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝑜𝓃𝓁𝓎 𝒶 𝓂𝒾𝓃𝓊𝓉𝑒 𝑜𝓇 𝓉𝓌𝑜 𝒾𝓃 𝒹𝑒𝒸𝓁𝒶𝓇𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒸𝑜𝓊𝓇𝓈𝑒 𝑜𝓅𝑒𝓃 𝒻𝑜𝓇 𝓅𝓁𝒶𝓎. 𝐻𝑒 𝒸𝑜𝓂𝓅𝓁𝒾𝓂𝑒𝓃𝓉𝑒𝒹 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒸𝓁𝓊𝒷 𝑜𝓃 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓌𝑜𝓇𝓀 𝒶𝒸𝒸𝑜𝓂𝓅𝓁𝒾𝓈𝒽𝑒𝒹. 𝒲𝒾𝓉𝒽 𝒶 𝓂𝑒𝓂𝒷𝑒𝓇𝓈𝒽𝒾𝓅 𝑜𝒻 𝑜𝓃𝓁𝓎 𝒶𝒷𝑜𝓊𝓉 𝒻𝑜𝓇𝓉𝓎, 𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓎 𝒽𝒶𝒹 𝒹𝑜𝓃𝑒 𝓌𝑒𝓁𝓁 𝓉𝑜 𝑒𝓍𝓅𝑒𝓃𝒹 £𝟩𝟢 𝑜𝓇 £𝟪𝟢 𝑜𝓃 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒸𝑜𝓊𝓇𝓈𝑒. 𝐻𝑒 𝑒𝓍𝓅𝓇𝑒𝓈𝓈𝑒𝒹 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒽𝑜𝓅𝑒 𝓉𝒽𝒶𝓉 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒸𝓁𝓊𝒷 𝓌𝑜𝓊𝓁𝒹 𝓅𝓇𝑜𝓋𝑒 𝒶 𝑔𝓇𝑒𝒶𝓉 𝓈𝓊𝒸𝒸𝑒𝓈𝓈, 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝒶𝓂𝒾𝒹 𝒸𝒽𝑒𝑒𝓇𝓈 𝓂𝒶𝒹𝑒 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒻𝒾𝓇𝓈𝓉 𝒹𝓇𝒾𝓋𝑒, 𝓌𝒽𝒾𝒸𝒽 𝓌𝒶𝓈 𝓃𝑜𝓉 𝒶 𝒷𝒶𝒹 𝑜𝓃𝑒. 𝒮𝒾𝓍 𝒽𝑜𝓁𝑒𝓈 𝓌𝑒𝓇𝑒 𝒾𝓃 𝓊𝓈𝑒. 𝒟𝓊𝓇𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒶𝒻𝓉𝑒𝓇𝓃𝑜𝑜𝓃 𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓇𝑒 𝓌𝒶𝓈 𝒶 𝒸𝓁𝑜𝒸𝓀 𝒸𝑜𝓂𝓅𝑒𝓉𝒾𝓉𝒾𝑜𝓃 𝒻𝑜𝓇 𝓁𝒶𝒹𝒾𝑒𝓈, 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝒶 𝒸𝑜𝓂𝓅𝑒𝓉𝒾𝓉𝒾𝑜𝓃 𝒻𝑜𝓇 𝑔𝑒𝓃𝓉𝓁𝑒𝓂𝑒𝓃, 𝒾𝓃 𝓌𝒽𝒾𝒸𝒽 𝒶 𝓃𝓊𝓂𝒷𝑒𝓇 𝑜𝒻 𝓅𝓁𝒶𝓎𝑒𝓇𝓈 𝓉𝑜𝑜𝓀 𝓅𝒶𝓇𝓉. 𝒜𝒻𝓉𝑒𝓇𝓃𝑜𝑜𝓃 𝓉𝑒𝒶 𝓌𝒶𝓈 𝓈𝑒𝓇𝓋𝑒𝒹 𝒷𝓎 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓁𝒶𝒹𝓎 𝒶𝓈𝓈𝑜𝒸𝒾𝒶𝓉𝑒𝓈 𝑜𝒻 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒸𝓁𝓊𝒷 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝓉𝒽𝑒𝒾𝓇 𝒻𝓇𝒾𝑒𝓃𝒹𝓈.
𝑅𝑒𝒻: 𝒢𝑒𝓇𝒶𝓁𝒹𝓉𝑜𝓃 𝒢𝓊𝒶𝓇𝒹𝒾𝒶𝓃 𝟣𝟥 𝒥𝓊𝓃𝑒 𝟣𝟫𝟣𝟦
𝐀𝐝𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐈𝐧𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧:
Office bearers at the time were:
President, Mr J.G. Pottenger
Captain, Mr A. MacVean
Vice-Captain, Mr E.N. Knight
Financial Secretary, Mr J.S. Cummins and Hon General Secretary, Mr A.T. Mills.
The committee included Messrs I. Flegeltaub, H.W. Ramshaw, A.W. Banks, L.F. Krauth and the auditor, Mr A.T. Lasscoek.
𝐅𝐮𝐧 𝐟𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐬:
Many of you will be interested to know that the Mayor, Mr Kempton, was Don Breen’s (former Member) grandfather. Mr and Mrs Kempton made a great contribution to the community during the war years.
📸 Photo credit Above Socials