GOLFERS have been ordered to make their accounts public after a dispute about the way the seniors committee is run.

Former Marlborough Golf Club seniors committee member Richard Willcocks fell out with members after creating a charity calendar for the Great Western Hospital Brighter Futures campaign, eventually raising £420. When production costs started to rise the senior committee voted to end the project, worried it would make a loss.

A later vote found that a majority wanted to continue and the project was re-started. After being criticised for continuing his work, Mr Willcocks felt his integrity and project management skills were called into question and resigned from the committee.

He then asked to see the seniors committee accounts books, which record money typically used to fund Christmas parties and social events. The committee refused, stating only members could access the figures. However the group was later ordered to make its finances public by the club’s overall chairman.

Alan Pardoe, club chairman said: “We are working to resolve the issue. I didn’t see why he shouldn’t see them and have said for them to be made available to all members of the golf club, just as the accounts for the main club are. They should be available in the next 10 days.”

Mr Willcocks, from Swindon, believes the committee deliberately prevented him from seeing the accounts because of the charity calendar feud and has not yet been granted access.

He said: “They should be open and transparent about how they spend money. They are the trustees and guardians of the money but as a member I should be able to look over how the funds are spent. I resigned because they called my integrity into question and accused me of excluding other committee members during the calendar project.”

Marlborough Golf Club is a non profit organisation with any profit reinvested into the club.