The origins of this trophy lie in the discussions which began in 1909, about how the club should mark reaching it’s ‘majority’ i.e. 21 years, in 1910.
It was decided that a trophy should be awarded for the best aggregate nett score from three of the outings played that year. The venues in 1910 were Elie; Gullane; Dunbar and Ferryhills at North Queensferry. The first winner was J. Douglas Gardiner, one of the club’s best golfers at the time. A member since 1905, he won a scratch charm within two years of joining and he showed his quality by also winning the scratch charm in 1910.
At the dinner, held in the Carlton Hotel, he was presented with the Rose Bowl, acquired and engraved for £5 guineas. It is minuted that the next year, when he was again the winner, he was presented with a small replica (at a cost of 12/6) which was his to keep. Future winners also received replicas until 1948 when rising costs made the practice unsustainable and recipients had to make do with a cash prize of £3.3/- and having their name engraved on the trophy. Engraving of names first started in 1913.
Blackford Golf Club
Majority Cup Winners
2024 – Neil Straton
2023 – Tom Maclachlan
2022 – Chris Hardie
2021 – Allan Weir
2020 – No Play – Pandemic
2019 – John Stevenson
2018 – Tom MacLachlan
2017 – Paul Murray-Smith
2016 – Bill Brodie
2015 – Bill Savage
2014 – Blair Malcolm
2013 – David Macaulay
2012 – lain McLeish
2011 – David Macaulay
2010 – David Macaulay
2009 – N.A.G. Harrison
2008 – John Matheson CBE
2007 – M.Thomson / lain McLeish
2006 – D Donaldson
2005 – C.G. Watherston
2004 – C.G. Watherston
2003 – M.G. Thomson
2002 – David Macaulay
2001 – W.K. Wilkinson
2000 – N.B. Richardson
1999 – C.G. Watherston
1998 – G.E. Robertson
1997 – David Macaulay
1996 – R.A. Davie
1995 – Ken Drew
1994 – A.E. Braidwood
1993 – N.B. Richardson
1992 – L.B. Parker
1991 – C.G. Watherston
1990 – H.S.U. Stevens
1989 – C. Brough
1988 – N.B. Richardson
1987 – A.R. Anderson
1986 – M. Mcintosh-Reid
1985 – Brough / Richardson
1984 – R.A. Carlyle
1983 – C. Brough
1982 – P.G.H. Younie
1981 – E.H. Cuthbertson
1980 – J.C. Stevenson
1979 – M. Mcintosh-Reid
1978 – G.B. Ross
1977 – J.C.N. Darling
1976 – D.B. Edwards
1975 – A.B. Donald
1974 – D.B. Edwards
1973 – A. Steele
1972 – A. Steele
1971 – A. Steele
1970 – l. Miller
1969 – E.R. Paton
1968 – W.D. Henderson
1967 – H.H. Millar
1966 – W.D. Henderson
1965 – J.M. Sturrock
1964 – J.H. Mcleod
1963 – T.C. Brown
1962 – K.W. Tulio
1961 – K.W. Tulio
1960 – B.H. Cuthbertson
1959 – T.C. Brown
1958 – J.D.W. Spence
1957 – J.A. Lang
1956 – J.D.W. Spence
1955 – N. Watson
1954 – J.D.W. Spence
1953 – G.A. Tulio
1952 – J.H. Mcleod
1951 – A. Bateman
1950 – D.S. Dougal
1949 – G.A. Tulio
1948 – A.C.M. Fisher
1947 – W.A. Milne
1946 – T. McRae
1940-1945 – WW2
1939 – A.G. Mackay
1938 – T. McRae
1937 – D.S. Middleton
1936 – D.S. Middleton
1935 – W.H. Taylor
1934 – D.S. Middleton
1933 – J.A. Cruickshank
1932 – C.H. Johnston
1931 – W.H. Taylor
1930 – J.H.L. lamb
1929 – T.R. Calder
1928 – A. Richardson
1927 – H.D. Prain
1926 – A. Richardson
1925 – J.J. Lamb
1924 – W. Finlay
1923 – E.J. Davids
1922 – W.B. Torrance
1921 – A.D.F. Torrance
1920 – A.D.F. Torrance
1915 -1919 – WW1
1914 – Geo Graham
1913 – Geo Graham
1912 – F.B. Allan
1911 – J.D. Gardiner
1910 – J.D. Gardiner