Delegations from the two organisations met at the Hillview club in Clonmel under the chairmanship of Ernest O'Brien Hogan, then President of Hillview and later Patron of the Union. The first meeting ended with an agreement to set-up a Joint Sub-Committee of the two organisations to draft a detailed Constitution for a united union, to look at and make recommendations on all areas of difference and to propose the arrangements by which unity could be achieved.
The sub-committee's work was finished in June 1960. The first Convention of the Pitch and Putt Union of Ireland was held on Sunday 9 October 1960, in Clonmel. The Officers elected were:
President - P. A. Murphy (Ardnacrusha)
Vice President - Jimmy Vaughan (Ierne)
Secretary - Capt. Larry Furlong (Lumville)
Treasurer - J.F. Irwin (Highfield)
It had 42 affiliated clubs - 28 in Leinster and 14 in Munster. The first set of rules which were produced in 1968.
Club development came about in a number of ways
- Community groups founding a local amenity
- Factories building a facility within their premises
- Sports and social sections of companies founding a course
- Courses set-up on spare ground adjacent to football/rugby/GAA pitches
- Courses set-up within hospitals as a recreational facility for patients and staff
- Societies without a course setting-up a club and using an existing commercial course
- Courses began as a commercial green-fee only outlets and a club was subsequently formed
- Recreational outlets set-up by urban or county council
- Courses within army complexes
A Coaching Programme was set-up in 1978 but, despite trojan efforts by the National Coaching Panel, it was not overly successful. In 1991, along with about fifty other national sporting governing bodies (NGB), the P.P.U.I. instigated a National Coaching Development Programme (NCDP), in conjunction with the National Coaching and Training Centre at the University of Limerick.
The Central Office of the P.P.U.I. was set-up during the '60s and operated from a premises in South Frederick Street, Dublin. In 1972, it moved to Suffolk Street for twelve months before switching to the northside and Shandon Gardens, Dublin 7. Central Office moved in 1990 after the P.P.U.I. successfully applied for space in the House of Sport, an office facility for smaller national sporting governing bodies, organised by COSPOIR (the Irish Sports Council), with the kind assistance of O'Neills, the sports clothing company. Since then again thanks to the foresight of the Irish Sports Council the Union's administrative base is in a modern office complex in Park West, Dublin 12.
In 1991, the Union appointed a full-time Development Administrator. At present the Union employs 3 full-time staff, who deal with the day-to-day operations of the Union.
Publicity in Ireland is much improved in recent years with significant Teletext, Radio, newspaper and magazine coverage.
Today there are approximately 125 affiliated clubs with roughly 12,000 members, in 19 counties. The PPUI host championships and competitions at National and Provincial level with each County Board organising championships in their respective areas.
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