Hello golfers,

In this week’s email, we cast our eye over an essential item for golf this year, we give you a run down of some of your driver options for 2018, and we review what was almost a magical round for Ted Potter Jr.

Enjoy the read.

Men’s Thursday Stableford

Well done to Colin Miles who returned a very impressive score of 45 points to win the stableford, as you will see from the results below, the scoring was very good throughout. 

Overall Winner

Colin Miles - 45 points

Division one

First place - Michael Cheney - 41 points
Second place - David Barnett - 39 points (cb)
Third place- Martyn Pound - 39 points (cb)

Division two

First place - Colin Miles - 45 points
Second place - Andrew Rudkin - 43 points
Third place - David Goodrham - 42 points

Division three

First place - Chris Dowell - 41 points
Second place - Neil Hufton - 40 points
Third place - Phillip Harris - 39 points (cb)

Winter open Am-Am results, 12 February 2018

The Ladies hosted their Winter Open on Monday, please see below for the results: 

• First place, Viv McManus, Teresa Hammon, Margot Lerin and Kate Nolan - 82 points
  
• Second place, Sue Barrick, Olly Hickman, Annie Goodchild and Alison Harrison - 80 points
  
• Third place, Margaret Tipping, Shirley Morton, Sue Tickle and Suzanne Silvester - 78 points
  

Portuguese Amateur Championship

All the best to members Ben Jones and Charlie Salter as they compete in the Portuguese Amateur Championship this week. You will be able to track their progress via the England Golf website, under fixtures or click here to go straight to the website. 

A great day all round

Last Sunday the juniors hosted their Family Texas Scramble, with competitions being played over 9 holes and 18 holes. With over 60 playing and eating afterwards the day was very well supported.

Captain Leigh Moss welcomed everyone and gave a very good speech before passing over to juniors’ Captain Hattie Billson. Hattie thanked all those that had supported the day and the juniors over the past year before announcing her vice-captain as Luis Witherall.

Thank you to Alex Dunkley who ran the halfway house which was a huge success with juniors asking for her recipes afterwards! Further thanks to Nathan Dennis who kindly donated prizes for the day as well as Sue Barrick for helping it run smoothly.

Hattie and Leigh presented the prizes from the day as well as our trophy winners from 2017. For the first time we had a new trophy to present to the Most Improved golfer which was actually shared by two juniors as there was nothing to split them apart.

The scoring was very impressive with the winning score for the 18 hole competition being a gross 60, nett 52.6.

• 9 Hole Runners Up: Morgan & Quentin Wade, Kieran & Greg Richardson nett 26.9.
• 9 Hole Winners: Reuben Starkey, Toby Sharman, Geoff & Jenny Pook nett 26.8.
• 18 holes 3rd Place: Thomas & Russell Sandiford, Hattie & Andy Billson nett 58.4.
• 18 holes Runners Up: Owen & Darren Watts, Corey Neville & Joe Quinn nett 54.5.
• 18 holes Winners: Josh & Nick Beal, Jake & Simon Richmond nett 52.6.
  

See the full scores from the day below.

Click here to see the dropbox gallery and view all of the pictures from the day.

Give your clubs an MOT before the start of a new season

We are offering our customers the chance to have your clubs MOT'd & serviced at a reduced price in January & February

This offer includes:

• 30 minutes in the studio for Loft and lies checked
• Grips assessed
• Clubs cleaned and grooves checked
• Shafts cleaned
• Loft and lies adjusted as needed

All this for only £49

Offer ends 28th Feb.

59 watch. Again.

How do these guys manage it? Each week we see tour golfers shooting mid-to-low 60s, with a round in the high 60s seeming to be a disappointment for some. It’s incredible to think that these scores are the norm as us mere mortals struggle to get it around 18 holes without running out of golf balls, let alone carding a sub-70 round with such regularity.

Last week it was Ted Potter Jr’s turn to flirt with a 59. Starting on the back nine, the American was seven under through his opening seven holes and stood on the 16th tee 11-under-par for the day. All cameras were pointing in his direction, needing just one birdie on his final three holes to shoot the magic number but, unfortunately, he came up agonisingly short with two bogeys to sign for a 62.