Richard Crawshaw

Hello Golfers,

Welcome to the latest edition to Wortley Golf Club weekly newsletter. We hope that you're having a good week on and off the golf course.

Enjoy the read.

The Masters

It's Masters week!

Masters week, is it the best week in golf? It is certainly up there. The amazing course and surroundings a perfect tonic for our eyes after a long winter. The 2018 Masters looks set to be another exciting week with many top players rounding into form and fortysomething Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson playing the type of golf that has made them legends. Masters week certainly marks the start of the golfing season for many and with our first event of the year ‘Meet the Captains’ happening on Masters Saturday let’s hope it sets us off on a great Summer of golf. Good luck to Mick Ward and Val Bellamy the captains for 2018 who will ‘Drive in’ at around 9am on Saturday morning, here is to a great year for you both and pair of straight drives to start us off.

Competition news

Winter Competitions

The Winter competitions are now all completed even if the Winter weather hasn’t quite got the message that we are done! The Winter League, Winter Stableford and the Good Companions all have worthy winners and tales of triumphs and disasters to go with them.

We will start with the Winter League. We managed 11 Winter league fixtures in the 2017/18 season which given the terrible Winter is not bad at all, last year we managed 18 fixtures so that is evidence should it be needed of the tough winter we have endured. This year’s order of merit and Winter League Trophy was won by John Richmond with a total of 58 points. In second was Adrian Barnes some 13 points behind on 45 and tied third was Richard Williams and Steve Osguthorpe on 44 points. Prize vouchers will be given to the top 10 in the Order of Merit as well as spot prizes for best score, best eclectic and most twos over the season.

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The Winter stableford winner is the player who returns the best 3 scores from 6 Winter Stableford’s over the winter period and this year the winner was Marc Whittles with 38+35+44 totalling 117 points, Marc won by 3 shots over Chris Goodchild with 38+36+39 for 113 total and in joint third place was Stuart Davies and Tony Burgess with a 111 total.

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The Good Companions, a pairs Greensomes Competition is also decided with a best 3 rounds from 6 format, Keenly contested this season with 5 pairs in with a chance to win with 1 round to go. In the end it was decided by 0.5 of a shot with John Richmond and Shaun Gregory beating Hugh Crawshaw and Malcolm Richardson by this narrowest of margins.

The ladies had their own Winter League this year for the first time which was won by Carol Kelly with Janet Moorhouse a close runner up.

These two also finished first and second in the ladies Winter Eclectic.

I would like to take this opportunity to offer congratulations to all the winners and commiserations to all the runners up and hope everyone enjoyed taking part in these off season events. Let’s hope it’s a long balmy Summer and Autumn before we mention Winter golf again.

Fitting days

Get yourself booked...

We have two demo days coming up at the end of April. We have Wilson coming on Friday 27th April from 11am until 3pm down on the practice area and we also have Lynx on Monday 30th April from 2pm until 6pm again down on the field of dreams. If you are interested do speak to someone in the Pro Shop and we can book you a 30 minute fitting on the launch monitor, always an interesting and who knows, maybe a beneficial 30 minutes that could help your golf in 2018.

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Club news

AGM

I would like to thank Gordon Jowitt and Peter Marsh the outgoing Greens and Hcps chairs for their support over the last few years, both have served the club well over many years and I hope to see you both playing with less stress in 2018.

I would also like to wish Paul Hutton (new Greens Chair) and Andrew Wright (new Hcp Sec) all the best in their new roles at the club.

Upcoming events

Saturday 7th April - Meet the Captains
Sunday 8th April - Mixed v Sickleholme
Sunday 8th April - Parent/Grandparent and Offspring

Promotion news

Motocaddy madness in-store

If you're considering an electric trolley then listen up. Motocaddy's M-Series range folds down 40% smaller than traditional electric trolleys, making it ideal for anyone with space restrictions. What's more, for a limited time only, if you buy any M-Series Lithium trolley you will get a travel cover worth £34.99 for FREE.

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Put your name up in lights

It only comes around once a year and it’s that time again - Masters week! The first Major of the year takes place at Augusta National this week, which we always take as a sign that the season is getting underway. With this in mind, we have one question for you: are you ready to play your best golf this year?

Maximise your potential
We've all sat looking at the honours boards in a clubhouse before, admiring the one name that appears to be on most and thinking 'wow, they must be pretty good!'

Well, how good would it feel if that name up in lights was yours? If you come and speak to us we can talk about your strengths, weaknesses and goals for this season and look at the best way to help you achieve them, whether that’s a one-off fault-fixer lesson, regular sessions to aid your consistency or perhaps a look at your equipment.

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Pushing the boundaries

If you don’t want to worry about charging your battery after every round but still want a trolley to help you around the course, this brand new push model from Motocaddy - a world's first - could be the answer.

This new Motocaddy CUBE CONNECT push trolley is perfect for any space-conscious golfers. For starters, you get a soft-touch handle, simple two-step folding system and generous storage space, including an under-handle net and accessory compartment.

Its key feature, however, is its on-screen GPS that provides front, middle and back distances to the green. This screen also displays the par of the hole, a clock, a round timer and receives call, text and social media alerts - these are completely optional so you can turn off notifications if you wish.

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New: PING G700 iron

It's always interesting to see how golf's biggest brands go about trying to improve upon the products they already have in their ranges.

PING's newest iron - the G700 - follows the recent trend of a hollow-body design, which helps to create their longest and highest flying iron to date.

This is a little bit special.

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We hope you enjoyed our newsletter. If you have any queries or questions please pop into the shop and feel free to ask. Regards Richard.

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Sheffield
S35 7DF

Phone: 01142886490

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