In this week’s missive, we look at news from the world of professional golf, a great win for the HGC ladies, other competition results and photos from Ollie Grieves frrom Selby GC.
Men’s Professional Golf
Well in the world of men’s professional golf the merger of LIV golf, the PGA Tour and the DP world tour came as a huge shock on Tuesday. It will be very interesting to see how all this plays out in the media over the coming weeks and months.
A much more heart warming story from the professional game that was trending on Twitter earlier in the week was about Viktor Hovland. He won the Memorial on Sunday and then the following day, he was spotted caddying for his friend and former team mate at Oklahoma State, Zach Bauchou, who was attempting to make it through to the final stage of US Open qualifying in Columbus, Ohio. Very classy Viktor…
Bell Cup
Well done to our ladies team that deafeated Ringway at home on Sunday to progress to the fourth round of the Bell Cup. The score was 4:2 when the final match was called off the course. We will play Prestbury in the next round but as I write this, it has not yet been confirmed whether this match will be at home or away.
The team below are left to right: Sally Wright, Louise Gerald, Tiff Fielden, Anne Webster, Rosie Gerrard (team manager & co-ordinator), Helen Davies, Gillian Brogdon and Irene Kirk.
Medal 3
Congratulations to Mark Savill for winning Medal 3 on Saturday with a nett 68. Andrew Cowan was second with a nett 69 and John Kennedy finished in third place.
Interestingly, there’s still a dearth of twos with only four being recorded over the two days of competition.
Ladies Competitions
In last week’s 18 hole Max Medal competition, there was a tie at the top with three players on nett 70. Emma Daynes won on countback, Tiff Fielden was second and Vicki Wells was pushed down to third.
The same thing happened in the nine hole max medal with three players tied at the top. The winning score was nett 34. It was Mary Cockbain who finished on top in this event following the card play off. Sue Bromley was second and Fredda Hunt was third.
Mid Cheshire Junior League at Crewe GC
Olly Mills and Will Grant represented Hale in this fourth fixture of the six event series on Sunday. Will did great in his first MCJL event and Olly had his best performance to date recording 33 stableford points on a course that he had never even seen before. Olly also played in his first men’s comp the day before so very well done sir!
The next event is here at Hale on Sunday 25th June with tee times booked from 2pm onwards.
Ollie on Tour
We mentioned Ollie Grieves’ golfing travels in last week’s newsletter and he’s been away again last weekend, this time playing at Selby GC in his third Northern Junior Golf Tour event. This was his best performance to date as he finished joint second with a nett +1.
Thanks to Ollie’s grandfather and HGC member John Book for sending over the wonderful photos below (I hope the newsletter does them justice as I have to make the image size considerably smaller) and we’ll finish with a lovely quote from John:
“Ollie seems to relish the new courses challenge which he hasn’t seen any of these before the day he turns up to play, but also great that friendships with boys from golf clubs all over the North are being made, all in all a great experience in progressing with this wonderful game, and cannot wait until Barrow in July.”
