Nevil Bland

How are you all doing out there? Hopefully your house has become an 'Isolation Inspiration Station' and you've got plenty of plans for when you get back out to the golf course? I know there's far more relevant news topics than golf but hey, I'm

Hello Golfers,

How are you all doing out there? Hopefully your house has become an 'Isolation Inspiration Station' and you've got plenty of plans for when you get back out to the golf course?

I know there's far more relevant news topics than golf but hey, I'm a Golf Pro at a great golf club with great members and I live and breath the game, I wear Brocton Hall underpants (Hmmm, there's an idea!) and I'm going to keep focusing on the positives in all this and keep you inspired to return to this game with even more zest and vigour than ever before.

I'm sitting here looking over the putting green and it's a beautifully frustrating sight as the greens have been tined, dressed and mown and are looking better and more colourful every day. Similarly all the divots have been raked off the fairways and top dressing applied, when we get back out there's not going to be a divot or a pitch mark anywhere.

For the members, I've been posting daily videos and questions on Facebook on the Brocton Hall Tuesday Social page - it was already set up to share the results of Tuesday Social competititons and already had lots of members so it was the easiest way to communiacate regularly. There's been some really funny ideas for names of the holes at Brocton, we're onto hole number 5 today. Just search for Brocton Hall Tuesday Social and ask to join.

The coaching videos are a series in which I'm giving you the 'Secret Sauce' of how golf swings work and this imformation is rarely seen and is often a Game Changer for people. It's currently only for Brocton Hall members on the Tuesday Social page and also on the Brocton Hall Juniors Whatsapp but I'll share it further afield in a few weeks.

We've been super busy and I've taken the opportunity to Spring clean after 18 years at Brocton. We've cleared out and tidied every room, stock checked everything, painted, planned, tidied up all the computers files and I've event taken the till system home and work on that in the evenings.

More importantly, whilst the shop is closed, I'm here to take your subs by credit card if you wish and I'm available to contact if you have any queries about your golf, the current situation, your future plans or even if you just want to have a chinwag. Personally, it's been nice to have some time to talk and I've had lots of Facetime and Zoom meetings with a wide variety of people including my old boss and fellow Assistant from 20 years ago, a personal and business coach and some industry guru's. I've got two meetings set up today and tomorrows is a 7:30am get together of 40 pro-active golf pro's from around the UK and all these meetings get me so motivated for the future.

The lockdown calendar

We came across a lockdown calendar last week and it revealed some highly amusing answers for the team, so we wanted to get you involved too!

All you need to do is match your birth date and your birth month with the answers given and you’ll create a brilliant lockdown scenario, like these:

Baking with Rory McIlroy
Cleaning your car with Fred Couples
Taking your bins out with Tiger Woods

It’s a little bit of fun whilst the majority of us find ourselves at home, so click the link below to take part. Don’t forget to email us your scenarios at the end!

View lockdown calendar here.

Weekly quiz

Something new for our readers

Us golfers are competitive at heart, so we thought we'd try to harness some of that spirit by introducing a new feature to our weekly emails.

We're going to kick things off next week with our very own Masters Quiz - it was supposed to be Masters week after all - so be sure to do some research before then!

For now, we have put up a short poll on our website that we'd love you to answer by clicking the button below. We'll let you know the results next week.

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Weekly challenge

It’s times like these when thinking outside the box can result in all sorts of fun. So, we’ve rummaged through the garden shed and come up with a little game for you to try at home! If you don’t have any buckets or pots to hand, try creating different sized rings using string, tape or even ties – this would make it indoor friendly too.

The set-up

Mark out your hitting zone like we’ve done using a mat in the image above. Then, from smallest to largest, lay your targets out so they get progressively bigger as they get further from the hitting zone. You then need to decide how many points each target is worth, with more points awarded to the smaller targets.

How to play

The great thing about this game is that you can play it by yourself or with the rest of the family. If you’re giving the challenge a go alone, you have five balls to get the highest score possible. You can play the same way with others or you can set an overall target score (e.g. 50 points) and the first person to reach that score wins!

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Golf at home

This part of our newsletter is all about trying to keep your golf game ticking over whilst we’re being told to stay indoors. With putting being such a vital part of lowering scores out on the course (and the easiest to practice at home), we’re going to kick things off with a simple putting drill for you to try.

The set-up

Grab your putter, six golf balls and a tee peg. Place the tee upside on the ground – this will be your target. From here, measure out a putter’s length from the tee and place a ball down. Repeat this five times at equal distances apart so that you have a circle of golf balls surrounding the tee peg – just like in the image above.

Too easy? Make it harder

Your goal is to go around the circle and hit the tee peg with each putt. However, if you miss, you’ll need to go back and start again – a nice way to mimic some pressure from the golf course. If you complete the circle, keep going until you miss to set yourself a target to beat next time or try increasing the distance of each putt from the tee.

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Video of the Week

What's Padraig Harrington laughing at here? Well, if you ever needed reassuring that even the world's best golfers are human, give this video a watch! Enjoy.

European Tour | Worst Shots (14 Club Challenge)

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