So it’s all happening now isn’t it? Golf courses have been back open now for around ten days. We had the first ladies major finish on Sunday with Patty Tavatanakit winning the ANA Inspiration in California by two shots. And now the Masters has catapulted into action with perhaps the best 11 holes of golf ever seen – Justin Rose was the man yesterday shooting a magnificent 65 to lead the field by a whopping four shots.
Pro Shop News
I’m excited as the next stage of lifting lockdown takes place on Monday with “non essential retail” being allowed to open. That means you’ll all be able to enter the Pro Shop (with face masks on of course) which is great news.
It also means that the swing studio can now be put back into action. if you recall I invested heavily in this pre Christmas by installing some super powerful lights and some cameras and software to help us seen your swing in glorious technicolour! This doesn’t means lessons will be more complicated – it just makes comparisons so much simpler and quicker to help golfers of all abilities improve.
The swing studio being back in action means that club fittings will be possible. As I’ve mentioned before, I have lots of demos of the latest Callaway and Ping products. To give you an idea, I’ve just had a quick count and I have 16 different irons heads and 31 interchangeable shafts from just those two brands. So please contact me to book a fitting and we’ll make sure you have the best equipment to improve your performance and enjoyment of the game.
Results Round Up
It’s great to actually have some club competition results to report on again! So here’s a quick round up.
Craig Rea won the men’s R & A qualifier on bank holiday Monday with 21 points. The ladies event was so close that even card play offs had trouble separating Jan Ravenscroft and Gwynneth Bramwell so they were declared joint winners with 17 points.
Yesterdays 18 hole ladies stableford was won by Corrine Veitch with 32 points. Tracey Thompson had the same score but was beaten on countack. The very popular nine hole event was won by Mary Cockbain with 21 points.
Congratulations to all you winners – clearly they’ve all been practicing in the garden during lockdown 😁
Ace
Peter Hindle beat Tommy Fleetwood to it on Thursday by getting a hole in one on the second hole. His good friend and next door neighbour Peter Turkington explained that it was a “perfectly struck 6 iron into the breeze, one bounce and in it went!” It was Peter H’s first ace so many congratulations.
Headwear
Conrad Nelstrop wanted me to show off Jonathan Foster’s extreme cold weather beating headwear. As you can see it was a beautifully bright and crisp day from earlier in the week.
