Going strong for 70 years!

Congratulations to Chris Phillips who has now been a member of Brocton Hall for 70 years. He plays three times a week and is a very active member and it’s rewarding to think that a sport like golf and a club like ours, can cultivate such a healthy zest for competition, socialising and activity in all weathers over a sustained period.

Just imagine how the course has changed in those 7 decades. A presentation was made to Chris by Club Captain Roger Howarth at the recent Senior’s AGM depicting some of those changes.

Many congratulations Chris!

Tuesday Social

Many thanks to Brocton member Eddie Saunders and his company ES-Print from Hednesford, who produced and supplied the Tuesday Social parking space sign for me.

As the parking space was for charity, Eddie supplied the sign free of charge which is an amazing gesture from him - thanks Eddie, if there is a golfing God, you’ll win the first Tuesday Social event which could be in 3 or 4 weeks’ time.

Have you used the simulator?

The GC-Quad simulator was in use for 3 hours every day this week in-between my lessons/fittings, and the huge putting green addition has made it so much fun to play.

I first contacted the simulator company in December when we had the early snow and as I predicted it was going to be a long winter and unfortunately I wasn’t wrong - it’s certainly been chuffing cold this week!

Click here to book a session.

Division A (congu)

• 1st place - Tom Andrews = 33 points
• 2nd place - Neve Collins = 30 points
• 3rd place - Ellie Treadwell = 29 points

Division B (Club Handicaps)

• 1st place - Fin Musker = 39 points
• 2nd place - Ben Goodall = 38 points
• 3rd place - Max Hunter = 32 points

9 Hole (Club Handicaps)

• 1st place - Richard Haenelt = 17 points

Congratulations to new members James Sutton and Alfie White who played in their first competition at Brocton. Thank you to the helpers Jill Sly, Nicki Bowen and Christine Davies.

After hitting a few shots on the GC-Quad it was apparent that these assumptions were correct. Mike was in attendance to increase his learning so he can verify this! He was hitting his 3 iron over 230 yards on a low penetrating draw flight and as often happens, a golfer who hasn’t hit a driver before will have tried them in the past but without success and this is largely because they will have tried a ‘STANDARD’ driver, one which is too long, too low in loft and too light in weight. The exact opposite of their irons in fact. The solution was to put in his hands, a much shorter, heavier, more lofted driver.

Immediately Paul hit consistent 260 yard drives. We weren’t done there however as his 116mph swing speed means he should easily reach 300 yards with a little tweak to his technique and a lower lofted club, which we managed in the next couple of shots. Modern driver technology helped us here as we selected a driver model which can be adjusted from 10 degrees to 14 degrees. This means Paul is able to go straight out and play with it on a high loft setting, then adjust it to a low loft setting with a simple turn of the key in order to develop his technique with practice.

Fitting 2

The second fitting example was even more unusual as a golfer wanted a club to fit between their 5 iron and their hybrid and fairway wood.

After measuring their 5 iron loft, it was apparent their TaylorMade hybrid had a face which had cracked and caved in, unknown to them. So, we measured the same brand fairway wood instead and that turned out to have a cracked face as well. Never had that before!