Pick your landing spot!

The short game is without doubt the most important part of the golf. It determines your final score, as well as the momentum that you have throughout your round.

Course conditions, weather conditions and situations constantly change on each and every shot. The one thing that doesn't change is where you are trying to LAND the ball. You could be playing the 5th hole on one Saturday morning with the green wet and receptive, and have to land the ball as close to the flag as you possibly can. The following week, if there is a lack of rain, and some dry conditions, you may have to land the ball before the downslope to get it near to the flag.

When you practice your chipping, do not practice to a target, practice to where you want the ball to land. I find a very easy drill is to place a towel on the chipping green, and try and land the ball on the towel with 20 or so balls. Keep changing clubs, and move the towel accordingly. This will definitely improve your results.

   

 

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James Angel took the glory in a day of scratch competitions at Colchester Golf Club. 

On a day where two scratch competitions were in progress Angel's par equalling 70 was just enough to secure the recently inaugurated John Thorogood Trophy. 

One under on the front nine he dropped two shots on the 11th and 12th but a birdie on the challenging 18th saw him return with a comforting par round. 

Not that his round was free and clear of the pack as Jason Nicholls was just one shot behind. One over on the front Nicholls matched two birdies with two bogeys on the back to record a 71. One further shot behind on 72 was Richard Withnall, taking fourth spot was Alan Sharrocks with a 73.


Running concurrent with this competition was the Seniors Scratch Championship, which was claimed by Brendan Booth. 

His 76 gross was shared with Tim Logan who although having the same score lost out after a countback. 

John Dornan and Alan Macnaught with gross 77s took third and fourth place.


Liz Duthie (23) won the ladies' Sixty Plus Bowl with an impressive 40 points. Hardly putting a foot wrong she edged one point ahead of Judith Robertson (17) in this Stableford competition. In third place was Val Doubleday (27) with 37 points. In the Support Stableford Hayley Joel cracked in a striking 45 points from her 32 handicap well ahead of second placed Helen Tarttelin (12) on 37. Jane Reed (12) was third on 32 points.

There was no doubt who won the Junior Club Championship this year, Jason Nicholls. With rounds of 77 and 74 Nicholls was nine shots ahead of second placed Joseph Jackson who returned rounds of 82 and 78. Harry Hills, Junior Captain, lost his way in the second round after returning 72 in the first, when a gross 90 spoilt his chances.

Prior to Finals Day this coming weekend a number of the Club's knockouts have already been settled. Jane Reed who after a tight struggle against Judith Robertson finally won out on the 18th green and won the ladies' Bentley Green competition. 

Joan Cotterill and Paul Smith are now the holders of the coveted Jubilee Cup after holding off a fierce challenge by Annie Johnston and Bill Eke. Steve Sharman and Lionel Keightley won the Men's Foursomes Knockout, and finally Ben David won the Ian MacLean Putter, after knockout rounds from the top eight players in the Club Championship.