Good Evening

As I said at the prize giving ceremony we are delighted to have had seven new members join us this calendar year.

I know I can count on you to make them feel welcome.

The new R&A handicap rules are starting to make them selves felt with handicaps for existing members increasing over 28 and new members getting handicaps ranging from 28 to 46.

I am sure with the spate of Qualifying competitions in May, some of these handicaps will come down sharply.

A reminder to new players, whilst we don’t want to race around the course, we would like to avoid elongated rounds, a good pace helps the rhythm of the round

So make sure where possible you don’t wait before a player has played his ball before going to your ball and taking out the appropriate club.

When you go to the Greens make sure your trolley is on the side of the green to exit to the next hole.

I have also been asked to remind players not to talk when a player is about to take a shot.

Can the senior members of a grouping assist in helping other players with these etiquettes

We had a Quiz night this Wednesday evening at the Lord Kitchener, where 24 members turned up. Obviously I would have liked more members to galvanise themselves and join in

This was well organized by Glyn Rees, it was fun, informative and the food was good

The Winners were the Daly’s and the Pitchforth’s who all won wine and chocolates and the Daly’s and the Barnatt’s won the raffle prize of two excellent bottles of wine.

The point of the evening was to raise money for our charity this year Bowel cancer and we raised £92 on the night.

Patsome Pairs was a triumph of design over practicality!!

Anyway Kevin and myself finally managed to concoct the scores so the winners were

1. Roger (The Dodger) Laban and Jim Whalley 38 points
2. Tony Ward & Brian Floyd 33 points on countback
3. Ken Gregory & Ron Deacon 33 points

I have taken down the sign up sheets for the Monthly Medal on the 3^rd May and the Reg Mills Trophy on the 8^th May.

If anyone has not entered and would like to let me know before the end of this weekend .

There are sign up sheets up for the following in the Sports Bar, if you can’t get there e-mail me

Invotech 17^th May

Steve Putt 24^th May and I will put up the sheet for the Summer Stableford R2 29^th May next week.

The club are asking us to confirm numbers and tee times the day before so if you want to play you have to sign up for these qualifying competitions and not turn up on the day

There is a Roll Up on Tuesday, as we have a team away to Radley, Cliff Smith with be the master of ceremonies

Regards

Rod