On Friday, 21 August we will be holding the annual Brocton Hall Midland PGA Pro-Am Open. This is a special year as it will be the 10th consecutive running of the event and many of the best professionals from around the Midlands have already entered and the tee sheet is filling up. The event has been renowned around the Midland region as having great prizes and for being a great course to compete on and also for being great value to enter.
I'm keen to keep the 10th year as prominent as the previous nine and invite you to take one of the limited number of hole sponsorships available which include:
Team entry into the pro-am
Preferred choice of tee times
Preferred choice of team professional
Advert in the programme
Banners on your sponsored hole
Marketing material in the welcome pack
£3000 amateur prizes
Halfway house refreshments
Two course meal and presentation
All for £275 + VAT which is what many Pro-am's charge for just a normal team entry. Please click here if you would like me to get in touch with you to reserve a slot. Members and non-members can also enter teams to be joined with a professional or bring their own team including their own professional.
24 Hour Golf Challenge
Only four weeks until Steve Hirst, Bill Whittle and I embark on 24 hours of golf - approximately seven non-stop rounds including throughout the night. You can join in by offering to caddie for us or join us for one of the rounds, either for 9 holes or for 18 holes to make up our fourth player. The timings of our rounds will be teeing off at 6pm, 9:30pm, 1am, 4:30 am, 8am, 11:30am, 3pm and surprisingly our 1am and 4:30am slots haven't been taken yet (I think they will be the most fun!).
Click here and let me know which time you'd like to caddie or play with us. I've set up a JustGiving web page for donation to the Birmingham Children's Hospital. Thank you.
The Presidents Day had a full field of 183 competitors or Sunday with Ryan Blower lifting the top prize with 40 points.
The juniors joined in the day by playing a nine hole competition after the main event - well done to all the helpers and volunteers who made this possible and to the juniors who took part and the prize-winners. It was impressive to see the juniors attending the presentation in jackets and ties and all the prize winners were there.
Here is a photo of the juniors with the President -Wilf Sault.
I spent some time snooping around the course and taking photos of unsuspecting golfers for a display in the clubhouse - here's a selection of the photos.
Other scores from the day are as follows:
Winner of the President's Putter - Ryan Blower
Past Captain / President Prize - Phil Jackson
Over 65 Prize - Don Gillam
Division One
1st Ryan Blower (8) 40
2nd Alastair Dawes (12) 39
3rd Neil Johnson (2) 38
4th Lewis Powell (12) 37
Division Two
1st Ian Carlton (16) 39
2nd Don Gillam (15) 37
3rd David Parr (17) 37
4th Nigel Sandy (17) 36
Division Three
1st John Alan Dolphin (22) 40
2nd John Gormley (20) 39
3rd Steven Treadwell (19) 38
4th Brian Sumner (21) 37
Congratulations to the Lady President, Monica Tedstone, for a great day which was won by Linda Nash with 33 points. Other scores:
Division One
1st Gill Bloxham (15) 33
2nd A L Whiteman (21) 32
3rd C M Davies (9) 30
Division Two
1st L Nash (23) 31
2nd Barbara Jean Dewhurst (26) 32
3rd A C Graham (24) 30
Division Three
1st D Pugh (30) 31
2nd Jan Baker (30) 31
3rd Ruth Angela Byers (34) 29
The Scratch team had a great win against Moor Hall to the tune of 7-1. Great confidence led by Neil Johnson to take into the all-important away fixtures.
In the workshop this week:
Taylor Made SLDR re-shaft Aldila
PING G5 Re-shaft Graphite Design
Srixon 545 irons - KBS C-Taper Lite
Srixon 545 driver - Kuro Kage shaft
Cleveland RTX wedges - KBS Hi-Rev 2.0 shaft
Mizuno MPH5 irons - Nippon 950 shaft
Tour Edge 3 wood - Aldila shaft
Mizuno Fli-Hi hybrid - Project X
Don't forget these offers on NOW:
Wedges - Cleveland Golf - buy one get, get one half price (£99 full price)
Golf balls - Srixon buy three dozen logo's or personalised and get a fourth dozen free of charge PLUS no printing or setup charge.
Shoes - Ecco shoes, free wooden shoe trees with each pair.
US OPEN SWEEP - only One week to go to get your ticket - £3 a go.
