Excessive Put up Golf Membership has introduced, Debbie Rock as Membership Captain for 2025—the primary girl within the membership’s 103-year historical past.
Debbie’s appointment marks one other essential milestone in Excessive Put up’s ongoing journey in direction of inclusivity, progress, and recognition of feminine management in golf.
Debbie’s connection to Excessive Put up started almost a decade in the past when she joined the inaugural WiGs (Ladies into Golf) Programme, an inspiring initiative led by Kate Gregory and the Excessive Put up Professional Staff.
CAPTAINS PLANS
Designed to introduce extra ladies to the sport, the programme set Debbie on a path she by no means anticipated.
Since then, she has gone on to characterize the membership throughout a variety of groups, together with the Woods, Handicap, Combined, Tripartite, and Scratch B and has gained three Honours Board competitions.
Debbie has a army background, being commissioned into the WRAC (Ladies’s Royal Military Corps) from Sandhurst, as a part of solely the second group of girls to attend the distinguished army academy.
Following her service, she continued to maneuver round as an “Military spouse” earlier than settling in Salisbury. Debbie additionally brings in depth expertise in governance and training, having spent 25 years coaching native faculty governors throughout Salisbury and Wiltshire, and supporting governing our bodies by means of difficult circumstances.
WHAT DEBBIE SAID
“It’s an absolute honour and a real privilege to be elected as Membership Captain of Excessive Put up Golf Membership for 2025. I’m extremely proud to tackle this function.
Being a part of Excessive Put up is about extra than simply golf — it’s about friendship, shared values, and a robust sense of neighborhood rooted in custom and a imaginative and prescient for the longer term.
Attending that very first WiGs session set me on a path I might by no means have imagined. To now serve not solely as Women Captain but in addition as the primary elected feminine Membership Captain within the membership’s historical past is really humbling.
This second displays what Excessive Put up stands for — inclusion, alternative, and a willingness to evolve whereas nonetheless honouring the foundations on which our membership was constructed.”
