Farmer takes the helm at Ormskirk

Feb 12 2009 by Our Correspondent, Ormskirk Advertiser

WEST LANCASHIRE farmer John Woods is the 2009 captain at Ormskirk Golf club.

He was educated at Malvern College and after National Service in the Army returned home to help his father Gilbert, a former member of Ormskirk, run the family farm at Aughton. He is the fourth generation to look after the farm.

Mr Woods began playing golf with a friend at Formby Ladies more than 50 years ago before joining Ormskirk in 1960. He is a member of the Northern Cricket Club and a member and former president of the Liverpool Ramblers Football club.

He has two sons, James, a member at Ormskirk and Robert, a member at Formby.

Before becoming captain at Ormskirk his proudest moment in golf was becoming captain of the Old Malverian Golf Society when they won the Halford Hewitt, a prestigious foursomes competition played against the old boys of more than 60 other schools, for the first time and also the Grafton Morrish, another competition for schools old boys.

His wife, Gillian, is a member at Ormskirk and Formby Ladies