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And also thanks to all the competitors for their support and to the members for allowing the course to be played on. A day like this is a great showcase for the club and as an organiser, it’s brilliant to see how every department of the club runs smoothly every year, including the members volunteering to help:

Halfway house: Lady Captain, Mary Robertson, David Robertson, Penny Matthews, Graham Matthews, Mick Richards, Mary Richards, Di Ferriday, Steve Kanes.

Ball Spotters: Peter Collier and John Perkin

Last minute stand-ins: Maurice Braden, Nathan Cooper, Julian Gibbon, Jan Baker, Owen Mills, Nathan Lamey plus those that offered their help if needed.

Also, thank you to the Captain for presenting the prizes and welcoming everyone. Spare programmes are available if you would like to see them, detailed scores can be found here.

Congratulations to all the winners, hopefully we’ll stage the 15th event next year. Same time, same venue, different pins!

Pro’s Day and BBQ

Date for your diary - Pro’s Day and Party night 23rd September. Bring along your gazebos, marquees, Transporter vans, motorhomes - anything that you can set up on the lawn outside the dining room and we’ll have an outdoor party with a band and a BBQ to celebrate 15 years at the club and utilise the patio space overlooking the lake. Full details will be out next week.

The busy season approaches

Ironically the winter gets busier for me than the summer now which is a nice way around as I’m here more to see the members and play golf with them in the summer and then fully booked throughout the winter.We have lots to do this Autumn and winter and lots for you to get involved in:

Winter coaching - I'll be repeating last year’s popular winter coaching series, this time with a shorter series of lessons and more availability. Last year I had 20 spots and it sold out within 2 weeks. More details soon.

Indoor putting studio - I’ll be converting one half of the studio into a huge putting and chipping green, allowing you to work on your game in the winter and allowing us greater custom fit possibilities.

10 yard challenge - Take a 15 minute challenge to increase your driving by at least 10 yards.

Ball Testing - Once my database is complete, we’ll be able to accurately tell which ball to use in summer and winter within a few shots.

GAP testing - Spend an hour with me on the Quad launch monitor in the studio and figure out exactly how far you should be planning to hit each club.

New clubs - From TaylorMade, Mizuno, PING, Miura and Tom Wishon plus others on the horizon.

Dates for the diary

September

• Professionals events for ladies and gents plus BBQ party night
  
• New clubs launched
  
• 20th Wedding Anniversary!
  

October

• Indoor Putting green finished
  
• Winter coaching begins
  

November

• Busy, busy, busy...

Ladies coaching

I have a group of beginner ladies who come for coaching on Thursday mornings at 11am, I also have another two or three ladies who would like to learn and can’t make Thursdays as Mondays and Fridays are preferable for them. If you know anyone who would like to have a go at golf and can make these days, or prefers other days, please pass these details onto them. Group coaching is a great social and related way to get into golf and also cost effective at just £10 for an hours session including freshly ground coffee! We have equipment that you can use too.

Junior coaching

The new series of junior coaching starts on Saturday 16th September running every Saturday for 6 weeks until half term - 21st October. There are currently two session, 10:00 - 11:00 for improving juniors playing off blue or red tees and 11:15 - 12:00 for younger, beginner juniors. The costs are £48 for the 10:00 course and £36 for the 11:15 course.

I also have a Monday evening session running from 4:30pm - 5:30pm running from 18th September for 5 weeks at a cost of £40 for the improving juniors. If you would like to enrol a young Rory or Lexi for either of these courses, please click the link below.

CONGU handicap juniors (girls playing off red tees and boys playing off white tees) fare better from individual coaching and the cost of this is minimal as well - just £10 for a half hour lesson which can be booked for whatever time suits you. As we progress into the winter months, this is also a great time to have some coaching indoors on the simulator and keep in touch with the game.

Click here to book for individual or group lessons.

Juniors

I had a great email from longstanding Brocton Hall member Chris Phillips last week following the juniors MacFarlane Cup competition:

"Macfarlane Cup takes me back as I played in that as a Junior 2 or 3 times around 1952! Must be one of the earliest Junior Comps around."

What a great advert for the sport this is! I replied to Chris that I bet he wouldn’t have ever imagined being able to email the pro about it years later!

Ladies

Looks like being a good forecast for the ladies Away day on Thursday at Stratford-upon-Avon golf club, one of our Millennium Bowl partner clubs. No doubt the song sheets are ready! Have a great day ladies. When you’re back, come and have a peek in the Pro Shop, we have a large range of sale clothing arriving in time for the Ladies Open next week and of course Brocton ladies will get a few days of having first pick.

Trolley offer

We have a fantastic Powakaddy promotion on at the moment - you get a FREE Pro series or Dry series bag with the purchase of a FW7s lithium trolley, Powakaddy only supply trolleys with lithium batteries now and the free golf bag is valued at £179 so it’s a pretty hot deal. The promotion is on until 11th September so you’ve got three weeks to indulge.

Titleist balls

Titleist are due to release a new ball next year and we have a promotion to sell off the current model of the NXT Tour range. I’ve always found this to be an under-rated ball range and I think part of the reason is that the marketing of them is poor.

In the workshop this week:

• Tom Wishon 730CL driver - S2S Ruby shaft
• Tom Wishon 730CL fairway wood - S2S Ruby shaft
• Tom Wishon 730CL hybrid irons and wedge - S2S Ruby shaft
• Miura K Grind 56 - Dynamic Gold shaft
• Miura Y Grind 51 - Dynamic Gold shaft
• PING G400 Driver - ACCRA FX300 shaft
• Srixon F65 4 wood - ACCRA FX300 shaft
• Nike Covert driver - Fujikura SPEEDER re-shaft
• Callaway XR Pro irons - Shimada Tour X Flex re-shaft
• Srixon H65 hybrid - ACCRA FX300 shaft
• Mizuno JPX 900 Forged long iron - Aerotech Steelfiber shaft
• Srixon Z765 iron - Nippom Modus shaft
• PING S59 re-shaft