Club Personalities

We are honoured to have the well known and well respected Mr Iestyn Tucker, past President and a member of our Golf Club whose record as an amateur player will surely never be bettered. With a record of playing in the Home Internationals from 1949 to 1976 his list of achievements would fill a book - a selection follows:-

• Match play Champion of Wales
• Stroke play Champion of Wales
• Walker Cup trialist twice
• Captain of Welsh team for 3 years, also Captain of Welsh Seniors
• Welsh Seniors Champion 3 times, runner up 1995
• Duncan Invitation Putter tournament - winner 3 times

Club champion, County champion, County Seniors champion, County Captain, played 90 Singles and 90 Foursomes matches for Wales and was in the European team championships for Wales for 4 years

Iestyn has "holed in one" on 26 occasions and has held the course record for 16 Welsh golf clubs. He is held in such high esteem that he has been made an Honorary Life Member of 4 golf clubs and Honorary Member of 12 other golf clubs.

He has been a member of The Monmouthshire Golf Club since 1948 and is well respected for his advice, leadership and dedication to the Club, always conducting himself in the exemplary way which has been the hallmark of his life.

As well as being one of the best amateur golfers Wales has ever produced, Iestyn has also devoted much of his life to the administration of the game, ensuring that it continues to develop for the benefit of those who play at all levels. He is also an Honorary Life Member of the Welsh Golfing Union having held roles as County Representative, chairman of Selectors, Vice Chairman, Walker Cup Selector, Chairman and President prior to this.

Joan Neville J.P., Immediate Past President LGU

Another honour for the Club was the appointment of Joan Neville as the President by the Executive Council of the LGU at the Annual General meeting in January 2007. 
She is the 22nd President since the position was instigated in 1908 and will commence her three years in office in succession to Catherine Booth.

Her career in golf administration started soon after she had joined her home club of The Monmouthshire in Abergavenny in 1962. She was the ladies captain there in 1972 and again in 1992 and is now a Vice President of the club. She was also a member of Royal Porthcawl for 27years.

Joan  commenced a 16 year spell on the Executive Council of the Welsh Ladies’ Golf Union in 1980 and was Chairman in 1995-1996. She served on the LGU from 1987-1990.

Throughout the 1970’s and 1980’s Joan played for both club and county teams, a leisure activity that had to dovetail with her duties as a Justice of the Peace which ran from 1967-2006. 

She is married to Kevin, a retired GP, and they live in Blaina in the ‘Welsh Valleys’, 10 miles from Abergavenny.

In expressing surprise at being asked to be President she said, “I retired from the court at the end of March and had started to wonder how I would fill my day when, out of the blue, four days later, I received the call inviting me to be President.

“It is a great honour to be asked and I am delighted to accept the nomination. I am certainly looking forward to working with our team of dedicated staff and officials in our common aim of taking the LGU forward into the 21st Century.”

Club Captain	Ladies Captain
John Miles	Shirley Edwards