HARGA Public

Harrogate Area

Rabbit Golf Association

Mission

To stimulate, promote and encourage competitive golf for players with a WHS Handicap Index of 15 and higher who are:

Subscribing / Playing members of the constituent member clubs of the Harrogate Area (YRGA)
Members of their own Rabbit Sections

To have its own Officers and Council responsible for arranging Rabbit golf competitions, inter-club and inter-area matches, and social functions.

To operate within the constitution and rules of the Yorkshire Rabbit Golf Association.

Link to HARGA Officers & Council Workspace (Restricted Access)

The HARGA Council consists of: Elected Officers (President, Vice President, Secretary, Treasurer, Competitions Secretary, Press Officer); YRGA Representative; HARGA Club Rabbit Captains & HARGA Club Rabbit Secretaries (or nominee) and the active past HARGA Presidents. HARGA Club Rabbit Vice Captains are invited to join meetings in a non-voting capacity.

The restricted workspace includes the online version of the HARGA Directory, an online calendar of events, meetings and fixtures, recent meeting agendas and minutes, index of past meeting minutes and the latest version of the HARGA Constitution .

2026 HARGA President's Message

Welcome to HARGA 2026

It is an honour to be nominated to be president of the Harrogate Area Rabbits Golf Association for 2026. I would like to thank my club Pike Hills for nominating me for the position. I know that the club fully support the Rabbits Section and our involvement in the Association.

I would like to thank Bill Barnett for the way that he conducted himself as President and represented our area last year. One thing that I learnt being Vice President is that there is a lot of golf to be played and quite a few meetings to attend as well.

Some older people here will have seen me representing Pike Hills in the last century as the first time that I was Rabbits Captain at Pike Hills was in 1997. In that year I used to get phone calls from our HARGA representative to pick him up from home at a certain time for each meeting. I think that he regarded me as being his personal chauffeur as he never once took me anywhere! I was Rabbits Captain again in 2023 after my handicap had started its upward march and have been acting as our representative since 2022.

I aim to continue the tradition of Rabbits golf in that it is to be enjoyed and not to be taken too seriously and we become friends after our matches. There are plenty of opportunities to play in HARGA competitions and those for the Yorkshire Rabbits Golf Association as well. Last year as Vice President I became more involved in the running of the Rabbits in Yorkshire and played some interesting golf courses. I am delighted that Phil Grant will become Vice President of the Yorkshire Rabbits Golf Association next month at the Yorkshire Rabbits AGM.

I hope that everyone enjoys playing in our events this year and hopefully the weather will be as good as it was last year.