CROW Nest Golf Club's John Turner is to become president of the Halifax, Huddersfield and District Golf Union in 2017.

The executive committee voted unanimously for the 65-year-old Hove Edge club member to become president elect in 2016 before stepping up the following year.

Former Halifax Building Society executive Turner was club captain of Crow Nest in 2000 and then president for nine years.

His appointment will be rubber-stamped by representatives of the 23 clubs in the Halifax-Huddersfield Union at their annual meeting on Tuesday, March 8.