In this week’s missive, we have news of junior group coaching, competition results, a Trackman round up, Donald’s birthday party information and even a grace!
As a reminder there are spaces for ladies and men in the nine hole stableford which is taking place on Thursday 10th February.
There are also spaces available for Bogey 5 on Saturday 12th February. There is also an alternate day for the event which is on Friday 11th February.
Junior Coaching
Will Lord is going to start some junior group coaching sessions on Sunday mornings for children aged 7 – 13 years of age. The classes will run from 1000 – 1045 and from 1100 – 1145. The first block of dates will avoid the Easter school holidays and will be as follows:
March 20th, 27th
April 3rd
May 1st, 8th, 15th, 22nd
The price for the seven sessions will be £63.
Any questions regarding suitability, any other matter or if you’re ready to enrol, please contact me.
Men’s January Stableford
Well done to Ian Ponter for winning Saturday’s back nine stableford with 22 points. Pete Turkington was the runner up with 19 points and president Barry Jefferies was third, also with 19 points.
Ladies Greensomes
Congratulations to Amanda Greaves and Corinne Veitch for winning last week’s nine hole greensomes competition with 22 points. Sister-in-law Vanessa Veitch and Mary Cockbain were one point adrift in second place. Pat Jefferies and Diana Harris finished in third place with 20 points.
Trackman
In the table below, you can see the launch criteria golfers need to max out their driving distance potential. You’ll notice that as swing speed reduces, a golfer needs both more launch and more backspin. So my question is, are you playing the right driver for your game?
The opportunity to have a complimentary go in the golf studio with Trackman expires on the 11th February so please make contact if this is something that you would like to do. As you might expect, I thoroughly recommend the experience 😀
From the 1st March 2022, the price of booking the studio with Trackman and all it’s fabulous capabilities will be:
| DESCRIPTION | PRICE |
| 30 minute hire (1 player) | £10 |
| 60 minute hire (1 player) | £18 |
| 60 minute hire (2-4 players) | £22 |
Birthday Party
Thank you to Roger Sheen for sharing the photo and Chris Wood for supplying the text below.
The photo shows the players and non-players at last week’s Tuesday “Roll-up with lunch (and wine!)” – as the Club calendar puts it.
Donald Sutherland is celebrating his 89th birthday with his post-prandial 1980 vintage port (in its magnificent decanter) in the company of John Hughes (92, to his left), John Kinder (82, next to John Hughes), Drummond Sharp (89, right foreground), the President, Barry Jefferies (82) and 14 more youthful members (some only marginally so).
Grace from Friday’s Hot Pot Supper
Andrew Gething suggested that I approach John Gower-Jones to see if he was happy to share his most recent grace which he delivered prior to the Hot Pot supper and Russell taking the floor on Friday. Thankfully he was so here it is. Please enjoy.
O Lord we welcome Russell here, a highly honoured guest.
Not just a splendid golfer, of greenkeepers he’s the best.
We asked some famous people as we knew they’d be impressed.
We knew Prince Andrew would be free, he said “You must be joking –
It’s Tramp for me, no sweat, but first it’s pizzas down in Woking.
Then Boris said he’d love to come, but when he thought again
He realised it’s party night each night at Number Ten.
So Russell it’s just us that’s here: Lord bless our food and wine and beer.
Amen.