Yelverton Golf Club

President’s Foreword

When I joined Yelverton Golf Club in 1985, the internet, mobile phones, personal computers, e-mail, and digital cameras had yet to become the stuff of everyday life for the great majority of us. These are features of today that have emerged from rapid, almost breathtaking, technological advancements in microchip technology and communications that my predecessors might well have marvelled at. With them has come a raft of new words and expressions – terms such as gigabyte, RAM, cache memory, ISP, wireless routers, texting, e-mail, blackberry, facebook, twitter, (I could go on), and last but not least in this context, Website.
Down the years Yelverton Golf Club has generally kept pace with the times, in those matters that impact upon the efficient running of a members golf club, though the speed of change was much more leisurely in times past. In 1909, five years after its creation, the Club boasted a telephone (Yelverton 18), provided by the National Telephone Company, later swallowed up by the Post Office. On the course such fairway mowers as existed were horsedrawn, until the Club purchased its first piece of powered machinery in 1936 – a tractor, itself not replaced until the early 1960’s.

Today, the green staff are equipped with modern cutting and mowing equipment, the Club’s accounts are computerised, and we all have our piece of plastic to obtain food and drink in the Clubhouse. This latest development – the Website – keeps up with the trend of providing fast, up-to-date, and reliable information via the medium of the internet, for Club members in particular, and for the wider golfing public as well.

What is especially pleasing about the Club’s website is that it has been designed and installed by one of our own – Keith Parriss, the Club’s bar steward. It is an excellent design, that stands comparison with any professionally designed websites of its type that I have seen. Knowing Keith’s enthusiasm for this sector of information technology, I am sure that it will be kept fully up-to-date with current events concerning golf and social activities at Yelverton, and progressively become an authoritative source of background information on the Club generally.

I offer my compliments to all who have been involved in setting up this excellent new website.

Gordon Mott
President
Nov 2009