The Society

David was born in Kirkcauldy, Scotland in 1965. He was literally born with a golf club in his hand, following in the footsteps of his father, who was also a golf professional. David has been playing golf since 1968 and turned professional in 1981. Worked at Blairgowrie GC as an assistant pro from 1982-87, then moved to Sweden and has worked at Öijared GK, Nora GK and Hulta GK. At Hulta, he has been club manager since 2009.
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His love for true links golf began at en early age which was quite normal as he had easy access to many of the worlds best links courses on his doorstep. David lives and breathes links golf and hickory golf  and is a true ambassador to the core.

Jan E. Espelid was the Editor in Chief of Norsk Golf, the official magazine ofThe Norwegian Golf Federation, from 1999 to 2010 . Since 2011 Jan has beenthe publisher and editor of the golf news web site Golferen.no and of the Golftravel site Migrant Golfer.com which is published in English.

Jan is a member of Moss & Rygge Golf Club in Moss, Norway, and of HumewoodGolf Club in Port Elizabeth, , considered to be the only true links course in SouthAfrica.

Jonas is a golf journalist and publisher who grew up in southern Sweden but started playing golf in Australia. With 30 years of experience playing and writing about the best golf courses, he has a special connection to links golf and has played 75 of the 249 links courses in the world.