Greetings golfers, 

Welcome to another edition of your packed e-newsletter full with the latest news from Langley Park. 

Enjoy this week's read. 

Lynne knows her golf!

More importantly Lynne Gimson’s Choice of Rory McIlroy, Henrik Stenson, Jordan Speith, Hideki Matsuyama won the club’s Open Championship sweepstake by 2 shots from E Cleary and Peter Battle. Well done Lynne!

George rose to the occasion

As the sun rose on Saturday morning, all looked to be in order for a sunny day for the Elgood Cup, which for the morning round was certainly the case as George Perry returned a fine nett 65, closely followed by Dan Butler on 66 with Toby Mortimer and Peter Battle on 68.

As the afternoon tee times took to the course, they were, unfortunately, not so lucky with the weather as the sky blackened, and a rather damp afternoon was had, shortly followed with several cracks of thunder and lightning which forced play to be suspended due to unsafe conditions and several greens flooding. Fortunately the weather blew over and, after clearing water off 10 and 11, play restarted for those who hadn’t gone home, but none of those who finished could catch George, although Mason Essam recorded a fine gross 69 in the worst of the conditions!

Captain leads the way

Lady Captain Angela Darby led the way this week in the Ladies Stableford returning a very healthy 40 points to comfortably win Division 1 by 7 points from Sarah Miller and Ann Greatorex. In Division 2, Sally Meighan’s 37 points took top honours, 3 clear of Maddie Simmons and Kiran Bowry while Division 3 went to Leona Bishop with 36, 5 ahead of both Clare Ross and Sharon Ahmed.

Not long to go until Pro's Day

The draw for starting holes will take place this weekend for Pro’s Day. There are still a few spaces left for those of you who wish to enter. The format is teams of 4, texas scramble, 10% of combined handicaps with Ladies teams receiving 3 courtesy shots. There is also a BBQ following the afternoon round, which is available to family and friends. There is a list on the board, so can those of you intending to attend the BBQ please add your names and numbers in your party to the list, so I can keep the kitchen informed.

Draw tickets are still available from the pro shop at £5 each and the winner will be drawn on the day, wining a set of Titleist irons!

A 3&2 loss in Captain/Pro

Andy and I took on Ian Baker and Simon James on Sunday morning and with a few shots flying about we expected this could prove to be a tricky match. After our usual slow start of losing the first, Andy won the 2nd to square it. A few holes were then halved and several putts were missed (mostly from my wafty-putting stroke) meant we crossed the road 2 down.

Simon then started to get into his stride and things were looking ominous. A loss at 12, which was cancelled out by my 3 at 13 and, with 14 halved in birdies and 15 in nett birdies from Simon and Andy, we were left 2 down with 3 to go. Ian’s 4 nett 3 was good enough to close us out and equal the biggest win so far of 3&2.

Well played gents!

Bearwood Lakes Pro Am

Alan Pestell, Alan Brooks and Phil McBrown came to the Bearwood Lakes Pro Am, which is one of the biggest Pro Ams in the country.Teeing off from the 10th we got off to a good start as I chipped in (very rare), and we picked up another at the 11th so things were looking good. My birdie at 13, along with Phil’s nett birdie, helped the cause, as did my holed wedge shot on 16 for eagle! I reached the turn in -3 and the team were -6 which is where we stayed for a while.

I, on the other hand, made birdies at 4, 5 and 6 to get to -5 after a bogey at the first and clung on for -5, 67. This was the leading score in the morning round, but was eventually tied by Charlie Wilson from Princes and then only to be beaten by the very last player in, Guy Woodman from Stoke Park with 65!

All the best Nick

Many of you who know Nick Stewart will be disappointed to learn he is moving on to pastures new. Nick has been a great asset to the Pro Shop team since he arrived in March 2014 from Spain, and has been an invaluable member of staff. He is leaving to join Your Golf Travel (cheap holidays will be available) on 1st September and I would like to wish him well in is new role and personally thank him for all his hard work and support he has provided the Pro Shop over the past 3 years.