Men' Winter League

I am very happy to announce that after a long, well fought Winter League series, Bill Allison and John Rice are the Champions! Pictured is The Captain and Bill with his arm around an invisible John. Well done to Bill and John who played superbly throughout the nine rounds, winning three and only dropping a mere four points from a maximum 250. They were pushed hard by Mark Bennett and Steve Parsons who eventually finished runners-up and also Trevor Cowley and Malcolm Walker who came storming up the table on a late charge but could only manage fourth place. Other fine performances were from the pairings of Declan O'Brien and Adam Crockford (third) and Richard Halifax and Martin Cooper (fifth). For all the other places please click here or head to the results board in the men's locker room.

We adjusted the formats this year to try and give you as much golf as possible, dropping the Foursome events, and it is on the Competitions and Handicaps agenda to discuss ways of continually improving the event and increasing participation. I will let you know of any improvements after the meeting.

Ladies Medal

Well we certainly had extremes of weather for the Ladies Medal. Saturday was lovely and sunny, however Tuesday was absolutely awful and hats off to the few die-hard ladies who braved it. The overall winner was Nifa Patel who has recently came across from The Academy Section, a fantastic round Nifa just beating Claire Morris on countback with 69.

 

Course News

Some of the more observant of you may have noticed that I have been out there with my white spray paint on the tee boxes, my plan this season is to square off all the teeing areas. This will give a far cleaner and smarter look and reduce the turning tyre marks at each end of the tee boxes. So once the grass really starts growing you will see a marked improvement in the look, care and attention to our teeing areas.

What's coming up at the Club?

The Knock-out Competitions - I have just put up all the sign-up sheets for all the upcoming knock-out competitions:

• The Bessell Edwards - Men's Pairs Foursomes - £10 entry per pair.
• The Everrett Cup - Men's singles - £5 entry.
• The Brodie Helder - Mixed Pairs Foursomes - £10 per pair.

The entry sheets are situated on the men's competitions board and you must pay your fee at the bar to insure entry.

The Captain's Farewell Bash - For all of those who have entered a team for this fun day, please click here to see the start sheet to find your allocated starting holes. It is a shotgun start at 9.30am followed by lunch and prizes and I still have a few spots available if you are an individual or you have a team. Please click here to contact the pro shop and I will do my best to get you a game.

Captains Drive-In (Sunday, 20 March) - Come and support all of the NEW Captains as they blast a ball up the 18th in our time honoured tradition. Gents if you would like to play in the morning get yourselves entered in for the Garrett Cup, the first of the year's trophies. We will also be presenting last year's knock-out trophy winners as well as crowing The Winter League Champions. It is always a great day with golf, prizes, a charity 150 yard challenge as well as a couple of beers to toast our new captains!

Pro-Am 2016

Just a note for your diaries for all those of you who normally play in Epsom's legendary Pro-Am, and also for those of you who would like to experience our flagship event for the first time. This year we are hosting the Pro-Am on a Saturday, 2 July, the members' sign-up sheet will go up in April but make sure you reserve the date.

Every year many of our members enter a Corporate Team which gives you hole sponsorship, advanced entry, top Regional Professionals, prime tee times, adverts in the programme and entrance to the Corporate prize of a golfing trip to Spain or Portugal. So if you are interested in entering a corporate team at a cost of £400 (plus VAT). Please click here and contact me at the pro shop and I can give you further details.

New Odyssey putters arrive in store...

Please feel free to pop down and try any of the new range and we can offer you the best advice to fit the ideal putter to you and your stroke.

Cleveland Wedge fitting weekend - Saturday, 2 and Sunday, 3 April

One of the most important areas of the game is your approach play from 100 yards in, so making sure that you have the correctly gapped wedges in your bag is a must. I have just installed the Cleveland wedge fitting system into the Swing Studio which gives you the opportunity to try out the different style heads and all the loft options to make sure can control those yardages. Plus as an added incentive to come and give them a try, I will also be running a nearest the pin competition over the weekend with the winners taking home a Cleveland RTX wedge (loft of your choice).

Click here and contact the pro shop to book a fitting.