{"id":805656,"date":"2026-10-17T14:52:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T14:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/805656\/"},"modified":"2026-10-17T14:52:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T14:52:10","slug":"centenarian-marked-100th-birthday-at-hexham-golf-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/805656\/","title":{"rendered":"Centenarian marked 100th birthday at Hexham Golf Club"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Margaret Montgomery celebrated the milestone at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hexham-courant.co.uk\/news\/hexham\/?ref=au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Hexham<\/a> Golf Club, where she has been a member for 40 years.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>Margaret Montgomery (Image: Supplied)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  She took to the first tee alongside Lady Captain Joan Smith on Tuesday (October 13).\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  A large gathering of lady members had assembled to celebrate the occasion, and they cheered and applauded as Margaret confidently struck a perfect drive straight down the fairway.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>Margaret played with her lucky golf ball, the very ball she used to score a hole-in-one on the fourth hole 35 years ago (Image: Supplied)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Margaret was playing with her lucky golf ball, the very ball she used to score a hole-in-one on the fourth hole 35 years ago.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>Her birthday cake (Image: Supplied)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  After her tee shot, the group gathered in the clubhouse for speeches, cake, and a toast.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Margaret has played regularly since retiring four decades ago and won her most recent competition at the age of 96.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>Margaret has been a member of Hexham Golf Club and played regularly there since retiring 40 years ago (Image: Supplied)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  She described golf and the friendships she has made through it as the secret to her long and happy life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Margaret Montgomery celebrated the milestone at Hexham Golf Club, where she has been a member for 40 years.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":805657,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-805656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=805656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805656\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/805657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=805656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=805656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=805656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}