ALISTAIR LOW TO BE CAPTAIN OF ROYAL AND ANCIENT GOLF CLUB

NEWS RELEASE ISSUED BY ROYAL AND ANCIENT
 GOLF CLUB OF ST ANDREWS
The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews has announced Alistair Low as Captain for the year 2011-2012. Each year, the Past Captains meet to decide upon the nomination and the announcement was made today at the Club’s May Business Meeting. 
The new Captain will assume office later this year following the traditional driving in ceremony on Thursday 22 September.
An accomplished amateur golfer, Low won the British Youths Championship in 1963 and reached the semi-finals of the Scottish Amateur Championship in 1964, 1968 and 1970. He represented Scotland at the 1965 European Amateur Team Championship, as well as both the 1964 and 1965 Home Internationals.
Low became a member of The Royal and Ancient Golf Club in 1968. 
He chaired the Championship Committee from 1985 to 1988, before becoming Chairman of the General Committee, a post he occupied from 1991 to 1994. He was also the Chairman of the Scottish Golf Union from 2002 to 2008.
Educated at Dundee High School and St Andrews University, where he graduated with a degree in Mathematics and Applied Mathematics in 1964, Low went on to qualify as an actuary in 1967. From there he would pursue a career in benefit consulting, before retiring in 2000. 
Low resides in Gullane, East Lothian, and is a member of both Gullane Golf Club and The Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers, where he is the immediate Past Captain. Playing to a handicap of four, he is also a member of Boat of Garten, Pine Valley and Caves Valley, and is an honorary member of Royal Porthcawl and Olympia Fields. He is married to Shona, with whom he has three children and four grandchildren, and enjoys skiing and hill-walking.