WELSH GOLFING UNION:
MIKE COLE ELECTED PRESIDENT

Mike Cole was formally elected President of the Welsh Golfing Union at a meeting of the Council on 27 February 2000.

Mike, who is past Chairman of Tredegar Park Golf Club where he has been a member since 1966, will hold office until February 2002 when he will be succeeded by Brian Andrews, the current Chairman of the Welsh Golfing Union's Championship Committee.

Mike has served on the Welsh Golfing Union Council since 1983 during which time he has demonstrated great versatility sitting on a variety of Welsh Golfing Union Sub Committees whilst also representing Wales on a number of external bodies. In recent years Mike has chaired the Boys Committee and the Welsh Golf Course Committee represented the Welsh Golfing Union on the Golf Foundation and he remains Wales' representative on the Greenkeeper Training Committee.

Mike, who succeeds John Roger Jones as President, is determined to carry on the good work of this predecessors whilst also developing his own ideas in the vital areas of Junior and Senior Golf.