His Excellency

William Humble Ward 2nd Earl of Dudley 1867-1932. Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland between 1902 and 1905 and Governor-General and Commander-in-Chief of Australia between 1903 and 1911

Hon, Cyril Ward

1876-1930 reached rank of Captain in the Royal Navy. A commander of the Division of the Grand Fleet between 1914 and 1917.

Sir Hon. John Hubert Ward

1870-1938 educated at Eton and fought in the Boer War 1899-1900 and WWII reaching the rank of Lieutenant and was highly decorated and was bestowed a Knighthood.

Hon. Robert A. Ward

1871-1942 and was a Lieutenant in the service of the Worcestershier Imperial Yeomanry. M.P. for Crewe between 1895 and 1900 and fought in Boer War between 1900-1902.

Hon. Edward Gibson

A measure of the man (or the competition) is that the year he took up golf he entered, more by accident than design, the Swiss Amateur Championship and won. Gibson was a member of the winning side, Trinity, in the first Irish Senior Cup in 1900 played at Portmarnock. He joined Royal Dublin in 1897. A graduate of Cambridge result in an Ad Eundem degree from Trinty allowing him to play for the Dublin University Golf Club.

Lord Lurgan

William Brownlow, 3rd Baron Lurgan 1858-1937

Lord Hyde

George Herbert Hyde Villiers, 6th Earl of Clarendon 1877-1956 and was an Extra Aide-de-Camp to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland between 1902 and 1905.

Joe Hamill

The Ardglas Professional

Mr H.M Cairnes

Hugh Cairnes b. 1868 was once referred to as the Father of Portmarnock where he was a three-time captain and also was a member of the Royal & Ancient Championship committee. Irish Close Champion 1907 and runner-up 1906, 1925 and 1927 and runner-up in Irish Open Championship 1908.

Captain Greer

May refer to Captain G.W.Greer whose name is synonymous with Lurgan Golf Club and its foundation.

Mr Mure Ferguson

Born Pertshire 1855, runner-up British Amateur Championship 1894,1898. Captain of Royal & Ancient 1910 and charactured by Spy in the Vanity Fair prints.

Mr Edward Blackwell

Born St. Andrews, Fife in 1866. Runner-up British Amateur 1904 and the longest driver amongst the amateurs of his day. Darwin claimed that Blackwell hit the ball 'malignantly hard' and in 1892 drove a gutty ball 366yds considered a world record at the time.

Mr John Ernst Laidlay

1860-1840. British Amateur Champion 1889,1891 both at St. Andrews defeating Leslie Balfour and Harold Hilton respectively and was runner-up in 1893 at Prestwick. Truly one of a few first-class amateur players that existed in the nineteenth century. Attributed with have first discovered was is now referred to as the Vardon Grip.

Mr J. Crawford Hutchinson

James Crawford Hutchinson, a Scot by birth, was likely an older and less accomplished golfer than his brother, Cecil Key Hutchinson

Mr L. Balfour Melville

Born Edinburgh 1854, British Amateur Champion 1895, runner-up 1889 and represented Scotland in Rugby, Cricket and Golf and was also an accomplished tennis player. Captain of Royal and Ancient 1906 and of the Honourable Compnay of Edinburgh Golfers 1902/03.

Mr Cecil Key Hutchinson

1877-1941 educated at Eton and served with the Coldstream Guards. CK lost to Robert Maxwell in the final of the Amateur Championship at Muirfield in 1909. Later in life he turned to golf architecture helping James Braid design Gleneagles and reconstruct the Ailsa Course at Turnberry.