John Yuill's Club Championship! 

The weather has played a big part in both The Open at St Andrews and the Seniors British Open at Sunningdale recently and so it proved for our own Men's Club championships last Sunday. The forecast was spot on with rain forecast from about 11am which would continue throughout the day. It proved a tough challenge for the field of 60 golfers and the variable standard scratch score was pushed out to 74. 

Congratulations to John Yuill (78, 76 ) on winning the Scratch Club Championship for 2015. John's gross score of 76, in the worst of the conditions was the best score in the afternoon and was finished off with what proved to be an all-important birdie 3 on his last hole. He was joined by Ed Harper (77, 77) and Ken Parsons (75, 79) in the sudden death play-off. Although the standard of golf dipped in the play off for all the players, which is understandable in the conditions John was able to close out the title on the fourth extra hole. Very well played John. 

The Reynolds Salver the Club Championship for handicappers 1-18 was won by Derren Williams who playing off a 12 handicap managed to win by 7 shots with scores of nett 66,75=141 from Adam Dyer nett 148 in the runners up spot. Well played Derren. And to complete the Championship weekend Gerry Johnstone won the Ennion Salver on Saturday for handicappers 19-28 when he amassed 42 points to win by a clear 4 points. 

Well done to everyone who played and managed to complete their rounds.

   

Birthday Girls Janice and Jackie 

A lot of party fun and laughter was to be heard last week in the clubhouse when a joint birthday celebration was held for Janice Mansfield and Jackie O'Gorman. 

Janice and Jackie's regular playing partners all decided to get together and by the looks of it a great evening was had by all. 

Congratulations from the Pro Shop Team.



New PING irons just arrived in store for launch today

Unlike many golf companies that release new models at an alarming rate PING Golf, incidentally still family owned, only come to market with new products when they are an improvement on their existing equipment. This week Mike Probert our PING representative presented to us two new models PING i and PING GMax irons. The GMax will be of particular interest as the clubhead design will benefit many golfers at the Links just because it is so easy to use. Field results that I have personally seen have already confirmed this to me. The clubhead design has the single most influence on ball flight than any other component that goes to make a golf club. To complement the clubhead PING for the first time have increased their shaft selections available helping the club fitter maximise the club benefits to the golfer. Book a fitting today and see how much improvement you can make. 

Ladies End of Season Sale Up to 50% OFF 

We have come to the end of the Summer Season and it is time to clear out and make room for the New Autumn Winter clothing which will be arriving very soon. Our End of Season Sale will have discount of up to 50% OFF. See grid below for numbers of garments and their sizes we still have available.



Day out at Aldeburgh 

I spent a lovely day out at Aldeburgh Golf Club this week with Linda. She has once again, and you won't be surprised, been sales employee of the year and this was her treat. As you know Linda is great fun and she has allowed me to share with you a video of her attempts to extricate herself from one of the many cavernous bunkers at Aldeburgh ( simply click on the image). I have to say though that she would probably got out of any of our bunkers at the Links but with the wooden sleepers adding to the intimidation factor Linda had her work cut out.



Junior Coaching during the Summer Holidays 

Both Richard and Jonny have organised some coaching programmes for the youngsters over the school summer holidays. We are very keen to get as many children introduced to golf as possible so we have made available plenty of dates and times over the break to hopefully suit all. 

The dates are as follows:

Tuesday 4th August 10.30-12.30 or 1.30 -3.30 
Thursday 6th August 1.30 - 3.30 
Monday 10th August 1.30 - 3.30 
Wednesday 12th August 1.30 - 3.30 
Friday 21st August 1.30- 3.30 
Tuesday 25th August 2.30-4.30 On course challenges. 

Sessions will be limited to 8 juniors per lesson at a cost of £15 each. There are discounts available with 4 for price of 3 across the dates. Please call the Pro shop on 01638 662395 to book your place.