It's the start of September and let's hope for a good month of weather with just over 3 weeks till the Ryder Cup 2014. Over the next few weeks we have a wide range of things going on within the Pro Shop including some fantastic shop offers and promotions and also a Ryder Cup 2014 special club house sale with some amazing offers and discounts available. As mentioned last week, 2014 will also have a Take On The Pro's Challenge for the members which will involve a friendly 4ball better ball match against myself and Simon. This will be a fun but I'm sure a competitive match to see who can rise to the challenge, a sign-up sheet with dates and times will be going up on the Pro's Notice board soon, so feel free to put your name down if you fancy a challenge.

We still have many fantastic offers and promotions in the Professional Shop including the following:

• Titleist Pro V1 for only £39.95
• Srixon AD333 & Soft Feel any 2 dozen for £29.99
• Men's Shorts 40% off
• Men's Shirts £15.00 off
• All golf bags £15.00 off
• All Ladies clothing 30% off

Re Grip offers

You often ask yourself the following question, HOW OFTEN SHOULD I GET MY CLUBS RE-GRIPPED ?

As a rule of thumb, you should re-grip once every year or every 40 rounds. Regardless of how often you play, ozone, heat, dirt and oils are constantly at work breaking down the materials that make up your grips. Granted, frequent play and personal preference may dictate re-gripping sooner, but with normal use there's enough degradation of the material after a year to warrant fresh grips. Keep in mind that grips lose a significant amount of their original feel long before they become hard and slick. Because it happens slowly over time, most golfers fail to notice it. That's important to remember because just a tiny, imperceptible slip at contact will be magnified to many yards by the time the ball reaches its target. Many people find that getting in the routine of re-gripping every Spring as the golf season "officially" begins is the easiest way to remember.

UTx

We have a wide selection of grips in store including Golf Pride Tour Velvet, Tour Decade, Golf Pride Tour Wrap, Lamkin Crosline, Lamkin UTx and many more brands. We have many great deals on re-gripping from discounted multi buys when re-gripping 5 clubs or more.

Demo Day

We still have places available on our Yonex Demo Day on Friday 5th September from 10.00 am to 2.00pm with a wide range of Irons, Drivers, Fairway woods and Hybrids for you to try. Custom Fitting is such an important thing which is sadly over looked by many club golfers. Having your clubs fitted to you personally is the way to improving your general game buy obtaining a better quality of strike and more distance with the correctly fitted clubs, do you have the right size grips for your hands? Having a grip that is too small for you can increase the amount of hand rotation through impact causing you to hit the ball left of target and grips that are too big for your hands can have the reverse affect and decrease the amount of hand rotation causing the ball move right of target. Making sure you have the correct lie angle is so very important. By having an Iron that is 1 degree out for you can cause you to miss your target by up to 5 yards...... if your club is 2 degrees out up to 10 yards off line, it is proven that the average golfers clubs can be between 2 and 3 degrees out.

So feel free to come along to the Demo Day on the 5th September and be fitted for free and try the full range of Yonex clubs.

Seniors Coaching

Starting on the Thursday 11th September there will be seniors coaching running from 10.00am - 11.00am on a weekly basis so feel free to put your name down on the sign-up sheet.

Ladies Coaching

Simon is running the ladies coaching which is still on a Tuesday morning from 10.00am - 11.00am again on a weekly basis so feel free to sign up for any sessions that have free slots.

Simon will be offering lessons for a special introductory offer of just £15.00 for 30 min and 1 hour lessons for £29.99. He will also be offering FREE 15 min lessons on Putting, Chipping and Bunker play so please feel free to come into the shop to book a time in his diary.

Ashford Golf Club Pro Am 2014

On Friday 17th October 2014 we will be having the Clubs Pro-Am. This will be a fantastic day and is available to club members and also non-members. The day will consist of 18 holes Pro Am format with the best 2 nett scores out of 4. Each team will consist of 3 amateurs and 1 Professional. The day will include some amazing team prizes and also individual prizes such as nearest the pins on the par 3's and also longest drive for the amateurs. There will also be a lovely buffet included and will be and all round fantastic days golf and socialising.

The cost is £40.00 per person for club members and £80.00 per person for non-members to enter. There will be entry forms available from the Professional Shop and will also be around the clubhouse. Please click here to contact us in the Pro Shop if you have any questions or queries.