Hello golfers,

Welcome to the latest edition of our weekly newsletter. This week's email recaps a busy few days of competitions, we take a look at a simple way to bridge the gap between your long irons and woods, whilst our video of the week focuses on Rickie Fowler's warm-up routine - how similar is yours to his? Enjoy the read.

Junior Captain's Day results

Millie Billson this year’s junior Captain hosted her Captain's Day on Saturday. Not to be out done Millie won the event chased home by her sister Hattie in second place.

Winning the 9 hole prize was Joe Jaggard and the juniors won the match for the Underwood Putter against the committee.

Congratulations to Millie for the running of a fantastic event and thanks to all those who helped and were involved.

Round up

Mixed Open

There was no home players in the prizes for this weeks mixed Open. The winners came from Bedford with 38 points on countback.

1st - Andrew Bradley & Louise Simons (Bedford GC) - 38 cb
2nd - Columb Harrington & Linda Ryder (Bicester GC) - 38
3rd - Joe Close & Emma Saywell (Kenilworth GC) - 35 cb
4th - Alan Gillett & Charmaine Gillett (John O'Gaunt GC) - 35
5th - Jeff Adams & Jenny Adams (Aspley Guise GC) 34

Nearest the Pin - Ladies 3rd hole - Carol Pennington (Bedford GC)
Nearest the Pin - Men 15th hole - Larry Holder (Oxford GC)

EG Medal and Club competition

Overall winner - Alisa Moore - 74 cb

Division 1
1st - Alisa Moore - 74, 2nd - Gillian Curley - 74

Division 2
1st - Diana Wells - 80

Division 3
1st - Sue Kennedy - 80, 2nd - Andrea Alston - 81

Ladies Texas Scramble event

1st - Di Murkin, Ele Brooks, Viv McManus, Nicola Hoffman - 61
2nd - Barbara Chater, Marianne O’Connell, Alex Zelinski, Di Moore - 62
3rd - Bobby Austin, Louise Hemmingway, Nita Meesom, Alsion Shine - 62.13

Welcome to the team

Two games in the past week or so have seen and improvement in our fortunes.

Firstly we visited Frilford Heath for this season’s return match. Having won the first leg at home 5.5 matches to a half we were set fair with any reasonable performance to retain this version of the Brampton Ram.
In the end we turned in one of our better performances of the season and won away by 5 matches to 2.

Some outstanding performances saw comprehensive match victories by Greg Smart and William Shearer, Dave Barnett and Nick Godden and David Alston and Dennis Walker. The overall tally since introduction of the Brampton Ram is now 19 wins against 8 losses in our favour.

We then entertained Longcliffe for another return match. Earlier in the season we had come away from Loughborough with a creditable half at a course where we and many others tend to struggle. It was nice therefore to record a home win to top that and get the better of them overall for once. The score was 4.5 to 3.5 matches. Tighter than we would have wanted but a good win nevertheless.

In recent weeks we have welcomed some new blood into our team of players. Chris Dowell, Keith Turner, Godrey Hammon and Alan Rhodes have all made their debut and we thank them for their participation and of course would like to see more join them.

Dennis Walker