The undernoted e-mailed information has been received from a solicitor acting on behalf of the former Secretary of the South Ayrshire Junior Golf Club :-
" To Alasdair Malcolm
I am a solicitor instructed by Mr John McKenzie in connection with the comments attributed to you which appeared in an article in this weeks Ayrshire Post about the South Ayrshire Junior Golf Club.
My client takes great exception to your comments. Firstly he advises the difficulty with the website was technical problem of which he was unaware until Friday 19th June at around 4pm. He took steps to sort the problem immediately after it was brought to his attention and the site was up and running again within 30 minutes. My client has asked me to stress that the temporary problem with the website was definitely not, as you suggested in the article, a result of any deliberate action on Mr McKenzies part. Our client is at a loss to understand why, if you were aware of the website problem prior to the afternoon of Friday 19th June, you did not contact him to advise of this.
It is interesting that notwithstanding the fact that the website was fixed and accessible by 19th June you did not mention this in your comments to the Ayrshire Post and in fact the article states that plans are ongoing to create a new website which implies there was still a problem with the existing site, which was not the case for almost 5 days before the Ayrshire Post was published.
I am instructed by Mr McKenzie to seek an apology from you for the comments attributed to you in the newspaper, in particular your claim that the website problem was a ‘childish and petulant gesture’. If you do not issue an apology immediately my client will have no alternative but to consider further action.
As your comments were made in your capacity as the President of the Ayrshire Golf Association please provide me with contact details for the Secretary of that organisation as my client also wishes his complaint to be made to the Committee.".
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