Martin Dempster: Dodds deserves chance to reinvigorate club scene

The strange thing about the per capita fee paid by Scottish golfers is that the vast majority don’t even know they are paying it. That’s because it is incorporated in their club membership subscription and, let’s face it, even when it rose above a tenner for the first time in recent years, no-one really noticed. Those who do know about it, frequently ask the same question. “What does Scottish Golf do for me?” And, until the clubs became more of a priority in the past few years rather than sending out teams around the world and arranging national events, the answer to that was “little or nothing”.