Scottish Golf Limited

The SLGA and SGU have now officially amalgamated and Scottish Golf is the new governing body for the sport of golf in Scotland. Eleanor Cannon is the first ever chair of Scottish Golf.

If you have missed some of the coverage in the media you can catch up now.

·         Online coverage

New look Scottish Golf website: http://www.scottishgolf.org/

BBC website: http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/golf/34408692

Bunkered: http://www.bunkered.co.uk/golf-news/scottish-golf-body-officially-launched

Sponsorship Awards: http://www.sponsorship-awards.co.uk/news/scottish-golf-tees-new-brand-and-aberdeen-asset-management-partnership

·         Broadcast coverage

Eleanor’s radio interview with BBC Scotland was aired this morning on Good Morning Scotland, and look out for a further feature on tonight’s Reporting Scotland.

Sky Sports also featured the launch, with their piece aired at various points on Sky Sports News today: http://www.skysports.com/watch/video/10013104/lawrie-merger-is-fantastic-news

Eleanor video on Scottish Golf TV: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACmQDgBTyQY with further video messaging from ourselves to come from the likes of Paul Lawrie, Marc Warren, Carly Booth and Pamela Pretswell.

·         Social media

As mentioned, our social media handles have now changed to @ScottishGolf on Twitter and Scottish Golf on Facebook, so make sure you are following us. It’s been a busy day on social media with further messaging from us later today / tonight so get involved! Those celebrating the good news with messages today on Twitter include Pamela Pretswell, Fred MacAulay, Wallace Booth, Gabrielle Macdonald, SSE Scottish Hydro, GolfKings and Aberdeen Asset Management.

Thanks also to all staff who contributed to our Thunderclap which went out at 12 noon on social media, with a reach of over 250,000.

Images from the launch can also be viewed at our Scottish Golf Flickr page: https://www.flickr.com/photos/scottishgolf/