Golf: Sporting all-rounder figures as Formby’s new captain

Jun 3 2008 by Our Correspondent, Liverpool Daily Post

Sporting all-rounder figures as Formby’s new captain

HUGH SMYTH, former amateur footballer and cricketer who has been playing golf since boyhood, is the 2008 captain at Formby.

Smyth, who was born at Waterloo, Merseyside, qualified as a chartered accountant in Liverpool in 1966 and worked for Bents Brewery/Bass Charrington until 1970 before joining a multi-professional architectural practice in Preston.

He returned to Liverpool and worked for three years with a firm of stockbrokers and since 1976 he has been in general accountancy practice. He is now semi-retired and operates a small practice from home. He played cricket for about 20 years, for Hightown, Northern and Formby.

He also played football for Liverpool Ramblers AFC, until, as he puts it, ‘anno domini’ crept up in the early 80s. The Ramblers, one of the oldest amateur clubs in the country, celebrated its 125 birthday last year. Smyth began playing golf when about 12, with friends from Holmwood School Formby.

He joined West Lancashire Golf Club in 1954 and Formby in 1969. He has been house chairman and treasurer. He has played golf off a single figure handicap but says he is “now closer to 20 than 10!”