Ganton Golf Club support their local Rescue Team charity.
The Scarborough and Ryedale Mountain Rescue Team has received a donation of £1,500 from Ganton Golf Club following its nomination as the Captain’s Charity for 2021/22.
Founded in 1891 and situated between Scarborough and Malton, Ganton is one of the finest Championship golf courses in the world – and one of only four in the UK to have hosted the Ryder Cup, the Walker Cup and the Curtis Cup, the major biennial team events against the United States.
In July 2021 Ganton was the venue for the R&A Senior Amateur Championship, won by the World No1 Senior Amateur, Gene Elliott from America. In the following month the Club hosted the English Amateur Strokeplay Championship for the Brabazon Trophy, won by Yorkshireman Sam Bairstow from the Hallowes Club in Sheffield. Both tournaments attracted large international fields.
In presenting the donation David Bentley, Captain of Ganton Golf Club for 2021/22, said “We are delighted to support the invaluable work of the Scarborough and Ryedale Mountain Rescue Team. From their operating base just a few miles from Ganton’s Clubhouse, their highly skilled team of over fifty volunteers undertakes many difficult, and at times hazardous, rescue missions each year across the North Yorkshire Moors, the Yorkshire Wolds and rural area as far west as York and south to Selby”.
Ian Hugill, Public Relations Officer, on behalf of Scarborough and Ryedale Mountain Team said “Formed in 1965 as Scarborough and District Search and Rescue Team the charity has had its busiest ever year during the pandemic in 2021 with 124 incidents.
Funded entirely by financial gifts, grants and the kindness of our local community and businesses we are truly grateful for this very generous donation when there are so many other deserving charities struggling to raise funds at this difficult time.
David and the wider membership of Ganton Golf Club are truly helping us ‘save lives in wild and remote places’ as the donation will go directly to operational running costs”.
Pictured here at Ganton Golf Club are SRMRT’s Sarah Herbert, David Edwards, Sam de Belle and Search Dog ‘Slate’, along with Ganton’s Captain David Bentley, Club Secretary Gary Pearce and Golf Professional Gary Brown.
