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Golf Timebomb. Part 4: How The Herald’s series prompted Paisley GC to put emphasis on youth

A good example of a club where senior members have tackled the fraught issue of mounting subsidies for seniors and voted selflessly to switch them to younger players for the long-term health of the club is Paisley.

There, high on the Gleniffer Braes, is, by various accounts, a large, active and vocal senior membership, powerful enough to present a serious obstacle to any proposal to change membership terms which would require a two-thirds majority of those in attendance.