Good afternoon golfers,
Its been a busy week here at the club. Stephen and his staff have now completed greens maintenance, which has included 8mm tines, verti cutting, top dressing and rolling. The maintenance has gone well, with the greens putting nicely straight away!
Studio Update
The studio build is coming on really well, with the new doorway being installed, plastering being completed and internal walls and flooring being put in for the putting area. In the next couple of weeks the majority of the building will be finished, please be aware access to the extension is now in the shop, but is only open for the workmen to get in and out to complete work. Thanks for your understanding and patience throughout this period, it's getting close now...
DK Firman
Congratulations to Richard Cole on wining the DK Firman for the 10th time against Dominic Ralfs, finishing 1Up in a close match where there was only ever one hole in it.
Bank Holiday Greensomes
First place - Lee Talbot and Jade Roberts (45 points), second place - S. Johnston and Lisa Johnston (42 points) and in third place - A. Dewhurst and M. McKendrick (39 points).
Aaron's Golf
Aaron has being showing some signs of form in recent PGA events, finishing tied sixth in the Northampton Pro-Am and finishing tied third in the Midlands PGA Trainee Strokeplay at Wishaw Golf Club. Aaron is planning on playing as much as possible this season so if you are interested in playing in a Pro-Am or two, please contact us here ASAP.
Tip Of The Week
Thanks for all of the feedback for last week's tip of the week looking at controlling your swing on competition days, this week Adam looks at lob shots around the green.
Click here to check out the video.
Junior Newsletter
It has been a busy Easter and a successful period for Milton's juniors. Robin Williams put in a tremendous performance in one of England's premier scratch competitions for Under 18's, The Peter McEvoy Trophy at Copt Heath. Rounds of gross 74, 70 and 65 saw Robin going in to the final round as joint leader and a final 74 saw Robin finish in a highly creditable fifth place. In a tournament where players higher than a scratch handicap were balloted out, and with many competitors two years older than Robin, this bodes well for a busy season when Robin will tackle some of the top amateur events in Britain.
Milton's Michael Wood won the Junior Club Championship at Royal Birkdale with a gross 76, reducing his handicap to eight. Michael was presented the trophy by the Royal Birkdale Club Captain who will also hand over the Claret Jug to The Open winner in July.
Closer to home Michael then took the Keith Bass Trophy at Milton, in an event which also saw great scores by many of our younger juniors with Shivani Karthikeyan shooting nett 65 and Imraan Shirazi shooting nett 66.
In the Reg Lambert Trophy match against the PMGC seniors, the PMGC juniors triumphed 4.5 to 1.5. The star performers were Jade Roberts and debutant Emily Horsted who won 7&5.
The next day the PMGC Juniors beat the County Girls team 8 - 6. There were several new faces in the PMGC team which featured six of our own girl players and these included fantastic debut wins by Shivani Karthikeyan and Ellie Mae Horsted. With all these new young players now breaking into our junior teams, it's great to see the next generation of our academy players improving fast with Esha Araf winning the latest academy event with 45 shots for nine holes.
Finally a big thank you to our members for your support as we have had quite a few junior tee reservations during the Easter Holidays and your understanding and patience is very much appreciated.
Regards,
Charles.
Upcoming Events
We have a number of events coming up at PMGC this week, including:
- Thursday - Nothing in diary.
- Friday - National Grid GS - 10am-10:30am.
- Saturday - Junior Match vs. Bourn - 2pm - 2:45pm.
- Sunday - Guy Hassall Trophy - 11am - 1:30pm and Hollingsworth B vs. Kingsthorpe - 2:45pm - 3:15pm.
- Monday - Nothing in diary.
- Tuesday - Ladies Captain Charity Golf Day - 9:15am - 11:30amm and 1pm - 2:30pm.
- Wednesday - Men's Mid-week Medal.
Click here to get in touch for more details about any of our upcoming events.
Titleist Ball Fittings
We have a Titleist Ball Fitting Event on Saturday, 29 April running from 9am to 1pm. If you are coming, or are interested in coming, please let us know ASAP as we need a minimum of four people for this to go ahead.
Click here to get in touch to book your spot.