Golfers first performed on the hyperlinks of Chanonry (now Fortrose & Rosemarkie) in 1702, with data additionally revealing an AGM in 1793 making it the 15th oldest recorded golf membership on the planet.
When you possibly can boast the one hyperlinks play in your area of Ross-Shire, you’re on to a winner – and the membership’s membership of greater than 1,100 displays its recognition, not solely regionally however more and more from abroad, all keen to take in historical past and gorgeous coastal views on a singular Championship course.
The membership wished to mix historic and fashionable and sourced altering room specialists Fitlockers to improve the boys’s and ladies’s rooms below a clubhouse improve together with trendy new patio space seating 30 (pictured above.
“Steel lockers had served us since 1989 and we wished to maneuver into the twenty first century,” says Membership Supervisor Mike MacDonald. “We had the price range so contacted a number of suppliers and Fitlockers responded rapidly. David Fitchett visited us to debate our necessities and created a design and structure reflecting members’ wants.”
The membership earmarked the previous professional store (new workplace and professional store construction opened in 2020) to increase provision, leading to a women’ locker room of 24 golf bag lockers and 12 holdall items, with 120 golf bag lockers and eight holdall lockers within the males’s.
Bench seating, noticeboards and storage areas full the fitout, all in engaging gentle oak, with brass lock and key safety and carpeting all through, together with seats and locker tops.
“David was nice to cope with and displayed intensive information of laying out optimum altering areas,” Mike provides. “Air flow holes within the strong oak flooring of their golf bag lockers additionally supply a key profit in serving to scale back condensation.”
