It has been a great week for our lady captain as she completed a hat-trick of wins in seven days. Her team were victorious on Saturday in the Captain's Challenge, beating the captain's team by twelve points (559 v 547).
She then followed this, with a one up win with Matt in the second lady captain & pro charity challenge against Ann Arber and Jenny Parsons. Another close match played in great spirit and the matches are proving very popular.
I was delighted for Carol Newbrook last week as she won the silver division in the first medal competition of the year with a net 74, one shot ahead of Hilary Stanton and Enid McVittie. Carol's group short game lessons are obviously paying off, well played Carol.
In the bronze division it was Alison Barber who shot the lowest score of the day, a net 73 to win by four shots from Christine Owen.
The annual Cheshire v Sandiway match took place on Sunday with the Cheshire team winning 14-4 although Chris Harrison the county captain claimed some bragging rights with a win over the northern order of merit champion Sam Prince of Northernden Golf Club. The other winners on the day were Shaun Reid and Grant Little in the foursomes, Mike Kelsall (7&6) and John Andrews (2up) in the singles.
#100Girls
Our quest to introduce 100 girls to golf for our Centenary year is going extremely well, Matt, Ruth Elliott-Smith and I have been busy this week as we delivered our first FREE taster session here at Sandiway on Saturday. Six girls turned up and thoroughly enjoyed the session, we now hope they will return in a couple of weeks and start a six week passport course. We also visited Hartford Primary School on Tuesday and had twenty five seven year old girls enjoying their first taste of golf.
The Masters sweepstake did not take long to fill up and all the players have now been taken, with only ninety players in the field this was always going to be the case. The prizes for this year's Masters sweep is as follows:
1st Prize = £75 shop credit
2nd Prize = £50
3rd Prize = £25
Worst score of the week = sleeve of Srixon Z Star balls
Worst player after two rounds = sleeve of Srixon Z Star balls
Leader after round one = sleeve of Srixon Z Star balls
Leader after round three = sleeve of Srixon Z Star balls
Only nine more days left for you to take advantage of the 4 for 3 Titleist Pro V1 offer which includes FREE Personalisation. Take advantage of this great offer by clicking on my website. www.garethjonespga.co.uk
Our sale over the last few months has helped give us the room we needed for our spring/summer collections. The shop is looking fantastic now with a wider range of hardware, trolleys, bags, clothing and shoes than ever before.
Our spring/summer clothing has been arriving over the last few weeks, and Matt and I have been busy unboxing and displaying it. We are stocked up with top brands such as FootJoy, Galvin Green, Glenbrae, Rohnisch, Green Lamb, and Daily Sport.
Hope you all have a wonderful Easter and I will see you at the club over the weekend.