Hello golfers,

Another great week at the club and great support was seen for the Autumn meeting. Welcome to the latest edition of our weekly newsletter. In this week's email, we review yet more news from the club, talk about how to adapt from one shot to the next and we also have our final video in the 'Improving your driving' series from Andy Sullivan. Enjoy the read.

Goal setting for next season

It seems so early to be thinking about next season already but now is the time to start planning. Try and have a think about your summer of golf and whether you achieved your goals and ambitions. If you did, are they the same again next year or are you setting the bar higher?

It would really help me and more importantly yourself if you take some time to analyse your year and look at some of your strengths and weaknesses. Look for patterns in your scoring, are there certain holes you play poorly, does it take you 3-4 holes to get going? These are the sort of questions I would start to look at in order to build the winter plan so don't get left behind and act now!

Junior coaching dates

We are delighted to say our junior classes start on Saturday, 14 October, times are 10am-11am and 2pm-3pm.

If you would like your child to participate then please click here or pop in to the shop and register your interest.

Slippy grips will make you hold onto the club tighter and will effect your swing and as we all know correct grip pressure it very important.

Having good grip on your shoes is just as important so let us re-stud your shoes! This is all part of the service we provide and we can get all this done on the same day if you are in a rush.

Click here to get in touch or come speak to us in store.

Men's Autumn Meeting report

Despite a forecast of pouring rain all day, 57 players lined up for the morning of the Autumn Meeting. Drizzle turned to rain but, after about five holes, the weather brightened up and stayed that way until lunch. The course was playing long and the worms had been active so Preferred Lies were in operation. General consensus was that around a nett 70 would win and that is how it turned out with Rob MacDonald carding a nett 69 to win the Way Challenge Salver.

In the scratch competiton, Ian Oakes won the Denham Putter with a gross 74 thus completing the set of both the Spring and Autumn meeting in the same year.

The Don Howard Salver, for the best aggregate nett Spring and Autumn meeting score was won by Al Gordon following up on his win in the Spring Meeting.

Pat Murphy O'Connor (2018 Vice-Captain) stood in for the Captain to present the trophies after lunch, as well as presenting Mark Giblin with the Turtle Dove as the inaugural winner of the Winter League.

Lunch was, as usual, excellent. A disappointingly small number of people played in the foursomes for the Rowley Morris Tankards after lunch and had to really shift round the course as, with the meeting having been put back to October and a gloomy day, light was fading fast after 6pm as the players came in. The Tankards were won by Mike Ewart & Richard Carey with 32 points.