Good afternoon golfers, I hope you are all welland playing some good golf. 

Dustin Johnson's victory in the US Open wassomewhat surrounded in controversy, where afterthe round he was given a 1 shot penalty forbeing found to cause his ball to move. I am surea lot of you have seen the video footage of thisand find it as baffling as I did. I wonderwhether the penalty would have stood if he onlywon by 1 shot? It must have been difficult forthe chasing pack and for the leader, as nobodyknew what score was leading, the golf DustinJohnson produced during the final round(especially the last hole!) made him a veryworthy winner!

 

Fri - Seniors Match Vs Stoke Rochford8.45am-10.00am 
Sat - Men's Match Vs St Neots 2.00pm-3.00pm 
Sun - Early Bird Cup shotgun at 5am 
Mon - Nothing in diary 
Tue - Ladies Exchange Day 9.15am-11.00am 
Wed - Captains Charity Day 8.30am-3.30pm

 

Ladies Match Report

We had this match report sent in by ChristineGoodall for the recent LadiesCecil Leitch game: 

"A 5-2 win today means we are still in the race.All players contributed to the spread of shotsand gave their utmost effort. 

One more game at home on Thurs 30 June againstDaventry to go. Again we need a win. 

I shall be tearing my hair out over the nextcouple of days to come up with the final team. 

A big thankyou to all for the continuing teamspirit and enthusiasm. Now to crack open thatbottle of red!" 

Christine 

Best of luck to the team for the last game!

Ladies Invitation Day 

1st Joyce Sergeant and Liz Holbrook 41 points 
2nd Rachael Fisher and Margo Lerin 40 points (onc/b) 
3rd Gill Preston and Georgia Sly 40 points 

Ladies Medal Cup 

1st Janette Hill net 72 
2nd Linda Gill net 74 

Men's Paten Cup (Bogey format) 

1st- Lou Manganiello 0 
2nd- Sion Lewis -1 
3rd- Joey Hedman -1 
4th- Patrick Dolan -1 5th- Alex Thurlow -1

 

Driving Range Closures 

The Range will be closed on the following daysand times for academy coaching: 

Thursday - 3.30pm -4.30pm 
Saturday - 9am-11am & 2pm-5pm

 

We both played in the Open Qualifying atLuffenham Heath on Monday, in wet and windyconditions the course held up very well,unfortunately our games were not up to scratch.Adam scored 75 and I shot 76. Many thanks to themembers who came along in the terrible weatherto support us. 

Last Thursday we both fared better in the StokeRochford Pro Am, Adam shot 67 to finish jointfirst, and I finished one shot back with 68. Myteam and I finished 3rd in the team event, whichwas a great result. Well done team! 

In the coming weeks we have a few Pro Ams; wehave 2 spaces to play in the Wellingborough Proam on the 8th of July and 2 spaces for theNorthants County Pro am on the 11th July, pleasecontact us if you would like to play.

 

This week's tip is about pitching practice. 

A lot of golfers struggle to pitch the ballproperly, firstly due to bad technique andsecondly often because of fear of a bad result,which is either a fat or a thin. Making distancecontrol next to impossible. So what generallyhappens is people take a 7 or an 8 iron and tryto run the ball low up onto the green. Thistactic is a good one providing there is nobunkers or rough in your way, although at timesdistance control can be tricky. 

At PMGC the greens are fairly small and wellprotected with bunkers and semi rough, in orderto save shots round the green we need to be ableto play a shot that flies fairly high and stopspretty quickly upon landing. 

Try this drill, when you are at home in thegarden or on the short game area take a long teepeg and push it into the ground so only a littleof the top of the tee is above the grass. Nowmake some practise strokes at the tee peg andnotice where you club contacts the ground.Providing you are not taking dinner plate sizesdivots you can get away with hitting slightlybefore the ball, but ideally we would like tocontact the ground where the tee peg is andbruise the ground after the tee peg. If youcannot hit the tee peg consistently, you willstruggle to be consistent with a ball on theground. This is a great way of helping to buildconfidence and get your pitching back on track. 

So practice striking the tee peg until you cancompletely remove it from the ground and youwill be surprised how much better your pitchingstarts to become. Please see the videoon our YouTube channel for moredetail about the setup and technique requiredfor the pitch shot.

 

Our first PMGC Circuit training Session takesplace this evening, these sessions will becontinuing next on the 30th June 6.30-7.30pm,and on the 14th July 6.30-7.30pm. 

We expect these will book up quickly so please contactus to book your space. Remember the aim ofthese sessions is simple- get a week's practicein 1 hour! 

Following on from our successful short gameclinic earlier this month we will be running aDave Pelz short game testing session. This is atest that the best players in the world do towork on their short game, it has 8 tests, from50 yards, to short shots around the green. Atthe end of the session you will be able to seeyour short game handicap and compare yours tothe best players in the game. It doesn't matterhow good your short game is there is always roomfor improvement. 

The first session will be Tuesday the 5th July7pm - 8.30pm contact us to book.

 

Special Buy- Callaway Supersoft GolfBalls 

Buy 12 balls and receive a sleeve free.This has been a very popular golf ball, with lowcompression, this suits slower swing speeds andplayers looking for soft feel on and around thegreens.