He said: "Your dishonest conduct was over a period of some five years when you were the head professional at Royal Winchester Golf Club. At Salisbury Crown Court, Wiltshire, Judge Andrew Barnett sent Hunter to prison for five years, castigating him for exploiting the club's trust with his fraud which was 'extensive, deliberate and deeply wounding'. An investigation discovered £11,096 in profit from two charity golf days went into Hunter's bank account and less than £50 was given to the charity.ĭespite Hunter's defence that he simply got his maths wrong with the green fees and had used the money from the charity days to pay for the events, a jury found him guilty of four counts of fraud. Steven Hunter was Head Pro at Royal Winchester Golf Club in Hampshire - where membership fees are £1,300 a year - when he under-declared the money paid by visitors to play the course and kept the difference for himself.Ī four-week trial heard Hunter was caught out after club staff discovered 'consistent' discrepancies, totalling £109,375 over a period of five years. A professional golfer at a historic course has been jailed for five years after he was convicted of defrauding more than £100,000 from it in club green fees and charity golf days.
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