If you’ve ever wondered what to do with those old golf clubs of yours then read on – we might just have the solution for you!
In this week’s missive we also review Sunday’s Junior Awards dinner, the men’s Bogey 3 and the Poppy nine hole competition. And we finish with some great photos sent in by two of our members. Please enjoy the read.
GolfClubs4Cash
I’m delighted to announce that we are hosting a GolfClubs4Cash Trade in Event here at HGC on Tuesday 5th December from 10am – 1pm.
Any clubs that you have gathering dust in your garage or elsewhere can be brought along and you will be given a quote. If you decide to proceed with the transaction, the money will be yours to spend as credit within the Pro Shop.
As you’d expect, GC4C use a grading system for valuing the clubs so the better condition the more you will be offered. You can then decide whether you’d like to proceed or not – the choice will be yours.
If you can’t make it to the day, please bring in your clubs to Will, Phil or I in the Pro Shop and we can pass them onto GC4C on your behalf.
End of Year Junior Awards Dinner
On Sunday, we hosted our sixth End of Season Junior Awards Dinner. We had an excellent turnout for the event including lady captain Jan Ravenscroft and junior captain Matthew Hodder – the gentleman captain Roger Laitt was really disappointed to have missed it but unfortunately had a prior engagement.
We were due to have a nine hole match beforehand but we made the decision to call it off as the weather was just dreadful.
At 5pm, we had a great roast chicken main course followed by crumble afterwards and then we went onto the presentations. Firstly, I did a recap of the year detailing the results from the Adult Junior Competitions, the individual junior competitions, how we’d gone on in the Mid Cheshire Junior League (MCJL) and other noteable performances.
We then got to the four awards of the night:
- The Coach’s Award for consistently having a great attitude and being super enthusiastic went to Xander Macklin
- The Most Improved Player Award went to Olly Mills. Olly has worked hard on his game over the season and is now a regular in the men’s comps having the pleasure of competing with his father and brother. His handicap index has dropped from 39.4 to 22.6 in 2023.
- The appropriately named Golf Fanatic Award goes to Ollie Grieves who aside from playing in everything he could at HGC, spread his wings and competed further afield at Crewe, Carlisle, Selby, Barrow & Adlington GCs.
- Finally, the Giving Back Award went to Matthew Hodder who has worked hard on his own game but has also been a great help in his position as junior captain and is a wonderful role model.
Bogey 3
Congratulations to Chris Hinton for being the only player in the field to beat the course in Bogey 3 on Saturday with a fine score of two up in beautiful sunshine but very wet ground conditions. Paul Taylor was second with all square and Adam Hyde finished third with one down – perhaps Adam’s practice session in the simulator the day before helped him groove his game?!
Poppy Competition
Ian Goulty was the men’s winner with 20 points and Kairen Seaton won the ladies event with 19 points. There were then six players in tied third place with 17 points.
As with Bogey 3, well done to all the players for battling round in really challenging conditions.
Photos
Thanks to Bob Siddle for these early morning photos of greenkeeper Dave Taylor hard at work before Saturday’s Bogey 3. The impressive mushroom photo comes from Terri Broadbent.
