Geoff Berry

Hello golfers,

Welcome to another exciting edition of the weekly newsletter bringing you all of the latest goings-on from around the club.

Competition news

Competition round up

It was good to get out on the course again on Sunday to play in the Captains Charity Day which was a great success which you can read all about on the Captains Blog on the website. The scoring was best 2 from 4 with 3 to count on the short holes and the winners were Dave Kimpton ,Paul Smith Richard Kimpton and Paul Halliwell with 96 points beating seasoned campaigners!!! Brian Daly,Phil Brown,Jim McKenzie & Geoff Smith on a card playoff.

Saturdays End of Season Stableford produced some great scores with Colin Brown winning Div 1 with 40 points which I'm sure will please Kev!!! Second with another great score of 39 points was Richard Fitzgerald who beat playing partner Lee Moores on a card playoff.

The best score of the day was in Div 2 by Mike Sarath with 42 points followed by Lee Foxcroft with 39 points and Matthew Earp in 3rd with 38 points. There were 21 twos worth £6.80 each.

The Ladies St Andrews meeting on Tuesday was won convincingly by Shan Ashcroft with 100-29-71 followed by Pam Darch with 104-26-78 beating Deidre Watson 108-30-78 on a card playoff.

Those of you wishing to play winter league the closing date is this Sunday. Please try and have the correct entry fee of £15 as we a short on £5 notes.

Pro's news

Caroline

Caroline continued her good form finishing 5th in the Irish Seniors although she was slightly disappointed with her last round and then 5th in the British Seniors with 72-78-79 at Royal Belfast last week.

Play was abandoned on the 2nd day after Caroline had played 2 holes meaning 34 holes on the last day on a very wet course which was closed for two days after the event had finished.

She slept well that night!!!

The course was a good test having recently taken on a complete redesign of all the Bunkers meaning a Driver was not the club to use off the tee on several holes. The greens were also very undulating running at 11 on the stimp meter meaning you had to get it on the right part of the green or you were liable to putt off it!!!

That means Caroline has finished 2nd in the England Golf Lady Seniors order of merit which I have put below. The top 7 below now go to Newport next week to play for England in the Home Internationals.

Paul Waring

Paul Waring had an up and down week in Portugal last week finishing strongly with 4 birdies on the last 5 holes to make the cut on the mark and then having a disappointing middle to his 3rd round. I’m sure he will be hoping the 11th hole has a redesign!! as he struggled there last year as well. His 67 final round moved him up to finish 39th and hopefully give him some confidence for this weeks event at Close House.

I have added Rod’s latest newsletter below for you all too read.

Course news

Green's newsletter - 27th September

Thanks to all for repairing pitch marks – I noticed a real improvement last Saturday.

As far as the boundary for trolleys is concerned, it seems my graphic last week has caused a little confusion. I agree that it did not define the perimeter when there is not a bunker towards the rear of the green – the sixth is a good example. The “trolley no-go” distance from the green is the same all the way round as defined by the bunkers wherever they are by that green. I hope this week’s graphic below shows this more clearly.

The reason for the limit is to protect the greens complexes which are the areas to around 35/40 metres from the middle of the green. The improvement in these scoring zones has been remarkable over the past three years. Please help me with the continued improvement to these areas and keep your trolleys, buggies etc away from the greens – the further away the better.

Please don’t look for a red line around the greens – there isn’t one!

Shop news

When they talk, you listen

We’re delighted to announce that FootJoy’s D.N.A. Helix golf shoe will be arriving in-store over the coming weeks. Coming directly off the back of Tour players’ feedback, FootJoy has created an all-round athletic shoe which provides an exceptional level of comfort and flexibility, in a more structured model. Many of FootJoy’s Tour players have already been wearing the good-looking D.N.A. Helix in recent months and now you can, too!