Happy Golfing New Year
Xmas and New Year celebrations are over and we are back into it with a mind on the new season ahead. What will 2017 have in store for your golf?
We will be here to help you in any way we can, be it lessons, clothing or equipment, advice on where to play, advice on the rules, repairs, custom fitting, event organising, Golf days, which horse to back in the 3.30 at Kempton you name it and we are more than happy to help or advise.
The Xmas Draw
The Xmas draw was 'drawn' out on Friday 30th Dec in the Clubhouse with a fine bunch of chaps who had had quite a day!... I will shorten the story down for your ease of reading but basically these golf crazy chaps had set off at 6:30 in the morning to play golf at the delightful Ganton GC.. Twas a very frosty morning and in high spirits with 95 miles to Ganton they went on their way.
They stopped at a café 'the dandy highwayman' about 28 miles short of Ganton to freshen up and no doubt have a bacon sarny, I think it was here that someone called Ganton to enquire as to the playing conditions on that day… No temp greens but no putting allowed was the answer..hit to the green then go and pick up and move on to the next.
Not impressed at paying £50 for a walk round our troop headed for the winter golfing mecca (not the bingo) Doncaster..Wheatley GC to be precise, well here they encountered a course white over with frost, on 18 temp greens and more surprisingly packed with golfers, it was here I am told that thoughts turned back to good old Wortley GC.. the ultimate in millionaires golf..
Sure we had a few temps ..all 18.. but at least they could get on and play. So after a 120 mile round trip starting at 6:30 that morning the crew arrived at Wortley at around 11 O'clock to a hero's welcome and a nice relaxed game of golf followed by food and being the audience and adjudicators for the Xmas draw 2016.
Thank you to all who entered this years draw. We sold just short of 1250 tickets and had 8 prizes to the value of £700. (Prizes are Vouchers to be spent in the Shop)
Winners:
Steve Thomas - £200
Mick Gosney - £150
Alan Calderbank - £100
Mike Toon - £80
Walter Scott - £60
Tom Collings - £50
Graham Brough - £35
Paul Fox - £25
Congratulations to all the winners.
Winter League
Lots of Winter League news since the last newsletter. On the 17th Dec we played the 5th event, this was won my Father who had a sneaky bit of coaching at Sandhill driving range on the Friday night and it paid off with his 38 points good enough to take the max 15 points towards the order of merit. David Cross continued his fine form with 36 points and we had a few first timers opening their accounts in the league who grabbed some points notably Doug Johnson who finished 5th and got 10 points.
The top 3 were…
1st - H Crawshaw - 38pts
2nd - D Cross - 36pts
3rd - M Richardson - 35pts
Full results follow this link…
The event on Xmas Eve was won by Jason Allsebrook playing in only his 2nd event, his score of 34 points was matched by Garry Needham also playing his 2nd event but a better back 9 gave him the 15 points. Further good performances by OOM Leader David Cross 32pts and in form H Crawshaw 33pts pushed them higher up the OOM.
Top 3...
1st - J Allsebrook - 34pts
2nd - G Needham - 34pts
3rd - S Newton - 33pts
Finally the last event of 2016 New Year's Eve. 45 entries was excellent on New Year's Eve and this event was won by Graham Brough with a fantastic 41 points, 4 points clear of his nearest rival Ducan Exley who tied with Gary Charlesworth on 37 points.
Top 3...
1st - G Brough - 41pts
2nd - D Exley - 37pts
3rd - G Charlesworth - 37pts
The OOM after 7 events is taking shape but with 11 more events there is plenty of time for a push from the pack. Full results and OOM follow this link.
New Products
Lots of new products are set to come into the shop over the next few months so keep an eye out for the 2017 ranges.
This Weekend is Winter League 8 on Saturday and Winter Stableford round 4 on Sunday. Ladies Winsomes Number 4 will be on Tue 10th Jan.
