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ANNE’S TRIPLE CROWN OF SHROPSHIRE TITLES

A picture here of the four semi-finalists alongside the Ludlow GC Lady Captain as the south Shropshire club hosted the recent ladies senior county championships. Eventually the final was contested by Anne Weetman (far left, of Llanymynech GC) and Ann Peters (far right, Shifnal GC.)

In defeating her rival 3 & 2, Ann Weetman became one of a rare bunch of golfers to have won all three county titles in her career, junior, ladies and now seniors.

50,000 steps and 12 birdies for the Kedleston quartet

On Monday 28th June Kedleston Park members Andy Barker, Matty Allen, James Kingswood & Dan Smith played four rounds in one day to raise money for Prostate Cancer. With short breaks in between rounds, they walked 25.5 miles (50,000 steps), played 1409 golf shots, burnt over 2,500 calories and managed to finish at 7.05pm, after a 6am start. Having pledged £10 per birdie themselves, with dodgy putting and a battle for bragging rights, they managed to achieve a creditable 12. At close of play on the 28th June, a total of £1,690 had been donated to this worthy cause.

Prostate Cancer is now the most commonly diagnosed cancer in the UK, killing one man every 45 minutes in the UK. That’s why these members golfed the distance and took on The Big Golf Race, to help keep men in the game for longer.
Unfortunately the weather wasn’t overly kind to them, as shown in the picture below on the 12th green.

HS (High Speed) 125 for Harry and Lee

Stone Golf Club in Staffordshire are celebrating their 125^th anniversary this year. Two club members, Harry Brundrett and Lee James took on a big challenge on Monday June 7^th, playing 125 holes to mark the anniversary in style, beginning at 4am and finishing, no doubt a little golfed out at 10pm.

As Stone is a nine hole course that’s quite a few trips around the course, they went round in 1,082 shots between them and walked over 40 miles carrying their own clubs, stopping only for a change of clothes and quick refreshments.

Club members were out in support to encourage them on and Harry and Lee managed to raise over £2,000 on the day for this year’s captain’s charity, Stone Community First Responders.

Sam’s final flourish scoops title

Wishaw Golf Club’s Sam Easterbrook has just won his first International title, the Scottish Boys U16 Championship held at Dumfries and County Golf Club 6th-8th July.

16 year old Sam headed to Scotland on form and finished his three rounds in this event in style with a four under par 65 to add to his 66 in round two and 70 in round one.

His six under total was enough to win by two shots over England’s Freddie Turnell and Josh Berry.

It wasn’t all plain sailing, contained within his second round were two double bogies which would normally be enough to rock the steadiest of ships. It seems however that Sam remained unfazed as his third and final round was bogey free! – You can’t get much more solid than that!

(PHOTO CREDIT SCOTTISH GOLF)

Jeff makes history

Name: Jeff Ashley Age: 86 yrs (D.O.B 13th June 1935) Member of Ingestre Park (Staffs) since 18th May 1989 (32 yrs) – Lowest handicap reached – 11

Competition: Men’s Saturday July Medal -Score: 90 / handicap 25 / nett 65 Not only did Jeff win his division but he won the whole comp too. We believe he is our oldest member to win a monthly medal. When being congratulated by members he was quoted by simply saying “every dog has his day.”

Thanks to Ben Smith – IPGC PGA Coach for the words.

Long serving Nick bows out at TLGC

On Tuesday, June 29^th 2021, The Leicestershire Golf Club said goodbye to its longest serving member of staff, Assistant Head Greenkeeper Nick Root. After an amazing 52 years of unbroken service, Nick has called time as he looks forward to not waking up at 5.00am, especially on those cold dark winter mornings!

Nick joined TLGC in 1969 at the age of 15 and as you can see from the photo below, he could easily have picked up a guitar instead of a spade! The music world’s loss was the club’s gain and as President Peter Brookes said, when presenting Nick with a retirement card signed by the members, along with a cheque and gift vouchers, “Nick has dedicated his life to TLGC and we owe him a debt of gratitude. We wish him a very long and happy retirement.”

Nick who remembers hand-mowing the fairways and greens and planting the majority of the trees at TLGC, was also presented with a voucher from the Lady President, Jane Jelley and Lady Captain, Lucy Pover. A shy and quiet person, Nick did not want a big celebration but was happy his fellow greenkeepers joined him for a drink on the practice green. Nick stated “Happy to pass on the baton to my son, Nathan. I have enjoyed my time at TLGC and will miss the members and my fellow greenkeepers.”

Have a long and happy retirement Nick and the club look forward to seeing you on the “right side” of the course as you enjoy your rounds of golf!

The Leicestershire Golf Club extends a very warm welcome to new Course Manager, Steven Hardy, we’ll be catching up with him in a future issue 0f the magazine.

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