Member Len Nieuwenhuis was having a lesson withthe Colchester Golf Academy this week, and wemade some great improvements in the session. Oneof the reasons that I wanted to use Len as anexample this week is because the area that weworked on is a major problem in the game ofgolf. Although Len has a fantastic swing path,where he is consistently coming from the insideof the golf ball (which initiates a draw shot),the clubface was too much of a factor in theresult of the shot. With the clubface beingclosed, the loft of the club was affected aswell as the direction. This means it doesn't getthe height that you are hoping for.  

  

We worked on increasing the loft on his golfclub, and once we had, Len was hitting the ballmuch higher, consequently much further. Theperception of less loft means more distance, isvery much incorrect. Maximise your golf clubs totheir full ability.



We have the new ProQuip waterproof line instock. The full suit is £179.99 instead of £199.99R.R.P

Until Thursday, 1 October, Colchester Pro Shop arehaving 20%  off alltrolley bags in the shop. We currently arestocking Titleist, PING, Srixon, Puma andMotocaddy bags.  

  


Keith Jacobs played the outstanding round of hisgolfing career last weekend at Colchester GolfClub. His gross 70 from an eight handicap was anamazing round. In a combined Medal, for under 12handicaps, Intermediate Cup for 13-18 handicapsand Rabbits Cup for 19 and above his return wasthe round to beat all rounds and gave him arunaway victory by five shots in medal section. Heproduced a card of equal bogeys and pars, threeeach on the front and two each on the back butmost impressive of all was that knowing his cardwas likely to be exceptional he kept his cool andfinished birdie, par, birdie, par, par. It was around for him to savour. 

In second place was Steve Wynne (4) with 67.Wynne's only blemish was a bogey on the secondhole, otherwise he would have shared the lowestgross with Jacobs. Mike Sutton (9) was just theone shot behind Wynne in third place and startingto show his true form was Roger Wright (5) whoshared nett 70 with Matt Black (9), they took 4thand 5th spots. 

Intermediate Cup

Ali Hall (14) comfortably won the IntermediateCup. His round of 67 nett was two shots betterthan Michael O'Sullivan (15) who took second placewith nett 69. John White (13) returned a net 71 totake third place with Stuart Bark (18) in fourthwith 72.

Rabbits Cup

AndrewJones, playing off his 23 handicap carried awaythe Rabbits Cup with a nett 71. He was able tokeep two shots clear of Michael Deeks (20) byparing the two thorny finishing holes 17 and 18. 

Jim Bentley, last year's winner, was third with anett 76 from his 22 handicap. 

Young Cup

The Young Cup, for 21 handicaps and above, hadLinda Freeman and Beverley Parker as finalists andwas played in dryer conditions. With the leadchanging hands frequently neither player was ableto establish any form of dominance. Parker wentone up on the par five 15th and with the 16thbeing halved holes were running out forFreeman. An excellent match was finally concludedwith Parker winning the 17th to tie up the matchtwo up with one to play. 

Bentley Green Cup

The Bentley Green Cup, played for by 20handicappers and below was between two in-formplayers, Shelley Persent and MaureenDevenish.      

Starting out in the dry, they managed to get 10holes in before the rain came, and rain it did.Persent established an early lead but Devenishstarted to haul her in winning the 13th, 15th and16th. By the 17th Persent was two up and with theatmosphere tense enough to cut. 

The hole was eventually halved to give Persent thevictory by 2&1. 

Braiswick Plate

The last matchplay final was the Braiswick Platewhere Cassie Cunningham (4) was playing DuncanStewart (10). Giving shots was just too much forCunningham and Steward ran out the winner of thisall section plate competition.