Hello golfers,

Welcome to the latest edition of our weekly newsletter. In this week's email we talk about some offers running in-store, and we have a brilliant video of some of your favourite European Tour golfers giving the public some (interesting) coaching advice. 

Enjoy the read.

Ladies Captain Winter Competition

Colchester Golf Club’s Ladies Captain, Renate Clarke, held her winter competition last week at the Club.

Played in a Texas Scramble format the winning team of Heather Dennis, Philippa Deman, Bridget Whitworth and Daphne Bloomfield returned a respectable score of 59 nett to sneak ahead of second place by just half a shot.

The second placed team of Nikki Bryant, Jenny Mitchell, Fiona Prentice and Patricia Walker returned 59.5 nett to secure their position in the field of sixty-four players.

Third spot and back from the winning group were Pat Kettle, Nesta James, Chris Clarke and June Warburton with a score of 64 nett.

Away trips

With the rest of the club settled into winter golf it is the time of year where groups of members go off and play courses, mostly in Suffolk and two of the larger groups took advantage of a cold, bright, cloudless day to play at Rushmere and Woodbridge Golf Clubs.

Lead by Bill Hart some nineteen members availed themselves of Rushmeres’ hospitality where Mike Horley scored 40 points playing off a fifteen handicap to beat Club Captain Mike Withers (10) by one point. The minor placings were separated after a countback and third place was awarded to Glenn Sibbons (11) with Michael Blakebrough (10) slotting into fourth.

Meanwhile Paul Nunny had a group at Woodbridge Golf Club where Alan MacNaught (5) took the honours with a more modest 32 points. Second placed was ex-member and guest Duncan Smith who wrestled his place after the countback from Geoffrey Johnson (17) both returning 29 points.