Glen Scotia’s £10,000 donation to golf club
Glen Scotia Distillery has raised more than £10,000 for Machrihanish Golf Club, a year on from the devastating fire which gutted the iconic clubhouse in December 2018.
Glen Scotia donated a single cask in aid of the golf club’s charity campaign to rebuild the clubhouse. The bottlings have now sold out, raising more than £10,000 for the fundraising drive.
The new clubhouse is set to feature improved facilities, including a swing room, which can be used by professionals and members of the club for training purposes.
The money raised by Glen Scotia’s donated cask will go towards equipment that will be used in the new room, including a simulator.
From the donated cask, Glen Scotia produced 196 bottles of single malt whisky, which were sold at the distillery’s visitor centre. The distillery commissioned a special bottle, which included the golf club’s logo, along with the cask number.
The liquid showcases Glen Scotia’s style – smooth, sweet with real depth, with flavours of fresh tropical fruits, vanilla, malt and oak. Each bottle was sold, with some travelling as far as Sweden and America with their new owners.
Glen Scotia also donated two special bottles that were signed by Darren Clarke, 2011 Open champion, to the club.
The club intends to keep a bottle to display on the new bar, with the other to be included at an upcoming raffle.
Willie Ross, captain of Machrihanish Golf Club, said: ‘We are very grateful for the support we have received from Glen Scotia. They were one of the first organisations to lend their helping hand and to have raised so much money is truly incredible.’ Iain McAlister, manager at the distillery, said: ‘Like everyone else in the local community, we were absolutely heartbroken by the fire at Machrihanish Golf Club.
‘It is central to life here on the remote Kintyre peninsula, bringing visitors to the area and providing a muchloved social destination for locals.
‘It is highly rewarding to be able to support the campaign to rescue the club and I am looking forward to enjoying a dram of our single cask bottling at the clubhouse when it eventually re-opens.’
The destroyed clubhouse was not a listed building and is being redesigned by G1 Architects. The Glasgow practice also redesigned the £10 million St Andrews International Golf Club. Glen Scotia’s sister brand, Loch Lomond Whiskies, is the official Sprit of The Open, golf’s oldest and most renowned championship.