Sad Death of Hadrian League Founder
|
|
|
|
REG LUKE, Life Vice-President and one of the Founders of the Hadrian League, and a Past Captain of Bedlingtonshire Golf Club, has died just one day short of his 86th birthday.
Reg was born in Alnmouth in 1924 and grew up there with his sisters Marjorie and Enid. From a young age he was a keen sportsman playing football, cricket and athletics and he would earn extra pocket money scrambling around Bracken Hill searching for and selling lost golf balls which probably led to his lifelong love of golf.
After serving in the Army and the Navy during the War as a telegrapher Reg became a teacher at Ashington Hirst South Boys School. He progressed in his chosen profession eventually becoming Head Teacher at Wark upon Tweed and Newbiggin and then as a lecturer at Ponteland College.
The foundation of the Hadrian Golf League in 1974 was the brainchild of Reg Luke and Dick Routledge, who were the Captains at their respective Golf Clubs at Bedlington and Stocksfield, and it was they who identified a need to provide competitive league golf for their players. Reg became the first Secretary and Dick the first Chairman (later that year Keith Almond of Hexham Golf Club became the first President).
However prior to this Reg had also been part of the Organising Committee when Bedlingtonshire Golf Club was at its planning stage.
Although he managed to keep in touch with friends he met through playing golf, age increasingly makes it difficult to keep in close contact, however his many golfing colleagues remember him with warm memories and we at the Hadrian League recognise the debt of gratitutude we owe to his foresight.
GO BACK TO NEWS INDEX
|
