Hello golfers,

Welcome to the latest edition of our weekly newsletter. In this week's email, we say farewell to someone after 40 years in the game, our Video of the Week sees England, France and South Africa attempt to break a golfing World Record, plus lots of information on product in-store and our special offers in the lead up to Christmas. Enjoy the read.

Winter League - number two

Winter League number two on Saturday had an excellent turn out with 71 players taking to the course on a cool wintery day. The winner was Brian Gill with 38 points followed closely by no fewer than six players on 37 points. There were five players on 36 points and with two events completed, we start to see the Order of Merit for this season taking shape with J Richmond leading on 21 points and Kirk Dyson and Peter Saint in second and third respectively with 19 and 18 points.

Click here for full results and OOM. 

Foremost Conference and Awards

On Monday and Tuesday I went to sunny Milton Keynes and the Double Tree Hilton Conference Centre also home to MK Dons Football Club for the Foremost conference and Golf Industry awards.

The awards were hosted by the broadcaster Andrew Cotter and I was nominated for the breakthrough Pro of 2017, which was a great honour. Unfortunately I didn’t win the award but it was still a fantastic evening with awards given out to golf companies and top tour golfers as well as club pros. Motocaddy, PING, FootJoy, Titleist and Under Armour all won awards. 

Lee Westwood got an achievement award and Justin Thomas won player of the year and both sent video message thankyous, which made it a really cool event to be part of and to be nominated was fantastic for me in my first year as a club pro. I’d like to thank all of you at Wortley for your support during my first year. My certificate is now proudly displayed in the shop.

The football pitch picture was the view from my hotel window, there can’t be many hotel rooms with that view.

Golf day

Me and a fellow Pro played golf at Royal Lytham and St Annes last week which was a fantastic. We almost had the course to ourselves apart from the legion of greenkeepers busy fixing the many bunkers in readiness for next year’s Ladies British Open, and the following years Seniors British Open (I’ll still not be old enough to enter lol).

It was interesting to see some fusarium patches on the greens and goes to show that even the best greens can suffer from it at this time of year given the right conditions, overall though the course was fabulous as you would expect and playing into the last hole like so many great players have in the Open was a bit special. If you fancy a trip over to the west coast links the winter rate is currently a mere £135. Bargain!