{"id":479,"date":"2023-03-29T20:28:27","date_gmt":"2023-03-29T19:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/boltongolfcaptains.co.uk\/?page_id=479"},"modified":"2026-04-26T16:07:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T15:07:07","slug":"welcome","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/boltongolfcaptains.co.uk\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center has-accent-2-color has-text-color has-larger-font-size\"> WELCOME<br>  TO<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center has-accent-2-color has-text-color has-larger-font-size\">BOLTON &amp; DISTRICT SOCIETY OF GOLF CAPTAINS<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-large-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The Society was formed in 1959, to maintain and develop the bonds made by golf club captains in their year of office.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-sitetext-color has-text-color has-large-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Bolton &amp; District Society of Golf Captains now consists of 13 affiliated clubs, and a membership in excess of 300.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">EACH YEAR A NEW CAPTAIN AND A NEW PRESIDENT WILL BE SELECTED BY THE MEMBERS AT THE AGM .<br>THE CAPTAIN &amp; PRESIDENT DUTIES WILL THEN BE TO SUPPORT THE INCOMING CLUB CAPTAINS AND TO REPRESENT THE SOCIETY AT  FIXTURES HELD AT MEMBERS GOLF CLUBS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">THERE ARE MANY GOLF CAPTAINS SOCIETIES AROUND, TO WHICH LINKS CAN BE MADE, THUS CREATING THE OPPORTUNITY TO ENCOURAGE INTER SOCIETY BONDS BY ORGANISING INTER SOCIETY GOLF MATCHES AND ARRANGING SOCIAL OCCASION<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-rounded\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-id=\"1264\" src=\"https:\/\/boltongolfcaptains.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/DSC02545rev-a.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1264\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-rounded\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-id=\"1265\" src=\"https:\/\/boltongolfcaptains.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/DSC0254-SGrev1-800x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1265\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-large-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>PRESIDENT ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,&amp;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.. CAPTAIN<br>MR STEPHEN HAZLITT &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.&amp; ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,Mr STEVE GALLAGHER<br>BOLTON OLD LINKS GOLF CLUB ..<\/strong>&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&amp;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;<strong>TURTON GOLF CLUB<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WELCOME TO BOLTON &amp; DISTRICT SOCIETY OF GOLF CAPTAINS The Society was formed in 1959, to maintain and develop the bonds made by golf club &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1011,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-479","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/boltongolfcaptains.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/boltongolfcaptains.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/boltongolfcaptains.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boltongolfcaptains.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boltongolfcaptains.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=479"}],"version-history":[{"count":30,"href":"https:\/\/boltongolfcaptains.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1288,"href":"https:\/\/boltongolfcaptains.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/479\/revisions\/1288"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boltongolfcaptains.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/boltongolfcaptains.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}