Hello golfers,

Welcome to another exciting edition of the weekly newsletter bringing you all of the latest goings-on from around the club.

Final qualifying competition of the year

It was yet another brutal day for the final qualifying competition of the year last Saturday. CSS went up two shots to 74, but that didn’t stop Robert Allison whose round didn’t look to be going anywhere with 13 points after 8 holes, but then a blistering level par last 10 holes and 25 more points saw Robert take Division One with 38 points from the inform Jeff Barnett by one point. Chris Brockbank produced another great score of 38 points which took Division Two and earned Chris an ESR after also winning Captain’s Day this year.

Ladies competitions

All the Ladies matchplay finals have now been completed. The Ryder Cup was won by Suzanne Harley Davies beating Susie Johnson in the final. The J A Sykes was won by Julie Batchelor beating Adele Allen. The Jeken was won by Liz Milner with the Lady Captain runner up again, and Susan and Patsy Mannion were The Centenary winners. Well done to everyone.

No competition this weekend but Winter Bowl qualifier the week after, there are plenty of spaces for ones and twos on the start sheet, either enter on line or call the shop.

Gimme Gimme Gimme night

There are still spaces available for Gimme Gimme Gimme night on the 4th November. Apparently I have it on good authority that it is a really fun evening, murder mystery with an Abba twist! I’m in!!, if you’d like us to put your name then give the shop a call.

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Greens Maintenance

It was greens maintenance this week and Steve had hoped to really get into the thatch layer on the greens by scarifying and sand injecting the greens but on Monday had to admit defeat and stop.

The thatch in the greens (in the top inch) was too saturated and won’t allow the sand to penetrate.  This was very disappointing as the benefits to the greens would have been massive. The 2nd and 5th greens were done whilst trying to adjust the machine; you will see some damage that has been repaired on the 5th green.

The remaining greens were solid tined as a compromise so at least there will be some benefit, they were then top dressed and brushed. Having played on Wednesday the greens still putted really well and as there hasn’t been as much disruption will heal really quickly.