Douglas (Doug) Tully, the deputy chairman of the club committee at the Royal & Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews, has died suddenly after a heart attack at his home in Broughty Ferry.
Mr Tully, who was also a long-serving member of Panmure Golf Club, was 68 and had been a member of the R&A since 1990.
A lifelong fan of the sport, Mr Tully had been playing golf with his son at North Berwick only a few hours before he died on Sunday.
As a member, captain and council member at Panmure for 35 years, he was held in extremely high regard, having won the individual club championship on five occasions.
He won every knockout title available to him in the singles, team and mixed events at Panmure at least once.
A regular competitor in events at St Andrews, he had also scooped both the Eden Trophy in 1970 and the Calcutta Cup in 1997 with different partners.
Mr Tully also played rugby for and captained Edinburgh Borders, Panmure and Perthshire clubs as well as being capped for North and Midlands.
Born in Edinburgh in April 1943, he was educated at George Watson’s College before taking up a career in insurance with Sun Alliance in Edinburgh.
He met Beatrice and the couple moved to Dundee in 1968, when he became an insurance inspector with the firm.
Mr Tully became an insurance broker, latterly with Marsh UK in South Tay Street, before retiring in 2003.
He is survived by wife Beatrice, son David, daughter Kathryn and four grandchildren.