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Hello Golfers,

Welcome to another edition of our newsletter, we hope you are well and have been enjoying some good golf in the sunshine. It has been a busy week at the Club with light greens maintenance on Monday, club fixtures and golfers in for lessons and working hard on their games. Enjoy the read!

Member news

Captain’s Tour de France

The Men’s away trip this year took 36 of us to Deauville in northern Normandy, playing five courses along the way. First stop was Etretat, a cliff-top course an hour short of our base at l’Hotel du Golf, Deauville. Nathan Holt took the individual money with an impressive 39-points, followed by Steve Knight and Pete Thompson tying on 37-points.

Day-2 was at Deauville on the course attached to the hotel. A good course, particularly the back-9, and a pairs better-ball win for Graham Marshall and Paul Fredericks.

The third day took us to Champ de Bataille, just over an hour from Deauville and a hilly forest course where Dave Martin amassed an impressive 35-points, closely followed by Keith Foreman and Neil Berryman.

Day-4 was hosted at the close-by St Julien course where the irrepressible Keith Foreman and Ian Smith hit 43 better-ball points.Day five started with an early departure from our hotel of 4-nights, across to Belle Dune where Chris Ellis won with an impressive 36-points on a very windy but sunny day.

After all of the five rounds, our champion of the week was Graham Marshall with 181 points, Steve Knight was second overall and winner of Div. 1 (below 12 handicap) on 173, then Pete Thompson a fine third with 170.However, it wasn’t all about the golf!

There was much banter and good humor, as well as incredible generosity with over £1,300 donated to Little Miracles by way of fines and returned winnings. A testament to the spirit of the tour and the enjoyment had by us all over the five days. My sincere thanks to everyone that travelled.

Mike Walters - Captain

It wasn't all golf!

View from the 10th tee at Etretat

Competition news

Captain’s Charity Day - 26th June

After a very wet day before, the Charity Day thankfully turned out fine and dry. We had 25 teams of 4 playing in the Open Am-Am event, with many teams travelling from away and raised over four thousand pounds for the Little Miracles Charity. The overall winners were local lads and last group out, Micky Greenaway, Paul Law, Karl Douglas and Ryan Slater with 88-points.

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Men’s Club Championships - Qualifier 2

Division 1

1st - Adam Barker 83-15=68
2nd - Colin Pogson 82-14=68
3rd - Stefan Salerno 72-4=68

Coming up...

Friday - Men’s Exchange Day 10.30am-12.30pm

Saturday - Anglian League Practice round 2pm-3pm

Sunday -Anglian League Vs Nortfolk 8.15am-9.30am and 1pm-3pm

Monday -Golf Stewards Assn 10am-1.30pm

Tuesday -Ladies Bogey Cup 9.15am-11am

Junior news

The NGL League…

Our junior teams made a great start to their NGL League campaigns over the weekend.

PMGC A had a hard fought home draw against a strong Overstone team. Jacob Williams led from the front securing a good win on 16th playing steady golf. Euan Herson slipped to a rare defeat 3&2 with his opponent using his shots well. Morgan Cresswell was steamrollered on the front 9 against an opponent rolling in multiple nett birdies but fought back to keep the score respectable and lose on 16th green. So it was left to Captain Kai Raymond to win comfortably 5&3 with a very solid par golf display to secure the match half 2-2 and a respectable start in the league.

PMGC B secured a league double against Rushden to put themselves in a very strong position at the top of their league. Jade Roberts came up against a bang in form Rushden Junior Captain (and Milton player!) Hannah Talbot and lost out in the country. Emily Horsted made it 7 out of 7 wins for PMGC Juniors this season with a well-played 4&3 victory. Megan "down the middle" Chandler continued her great form of late to close her game on 14th green. So it was down to league debutant Ellie Horsted to bring home the points. A score of 5up at the turn but a brave fight back by her opponent saw Ellie only 2up by 14th tee with the pressure on. A huge drive down 14 restored the balance and Ellie eased the team to victory by a 4&3 margin.

PMGC C secured a magnificent win away at Kettering in one of the closest league matches ever seen with all 4 matches decided on the 18th green. Shivani Karthikeyan had a fantastic game which could easily have gone either way. Three putting the 15th from a good position saw Shivani slip behind for the first time but a nett birdie, birdie run on 16 and 17 put her 1up playing the last. A great up and down with Shivani calmly rolling in a 6 footer put Milton 1-0 up. Rylan Thomas battled back from a slow start against Kettering (and Milton) player Chelsey Sharp. The lead swapped hands several times with Chelsey using her 12 shots well. The match stood level on 18 with Rylan giving a shot but a magnificent approach to 6 feet saw Rylan roll in the birdie putt to put Milton in the driving seat. Shivani and Rylan both maintain their 100% records in junior matches this season. Ollie Clark suffered a nett birdie barrage and stood 4 down with 6 to play but some great golf got things back to all square on 18 only for Ollie's opponent Ruby to knock a very tricky downhill chip stone dead for a nett par to win the game.

So it was all down to Milton's ever reliable Oscar Bell to try and secure the team victory. Once again the lead swapped hands several times and once again the match stood all square coming down 18 with a gallery gathering. After both missed the green with their approaches, Oscar and his opponent both had 12 footers to secure the result but both narrowly missed leaving Oscar to roll in a 2 footer for a half and an epic 2.5 - 1.5 win for the team to take PMGC C top of their league.

Congratulations to Shivani Karthikeyan who has qualified for the England Golf "most improved girl golfer" Abraham Trophy at Gerrards Cross Golf Club in August.

Good luck to Oscar Bell who heads to Torrey Pines in the USA this weekend for the IMG World Golf Championships. Go well Oscar!

Charles Gunn

Coaching news

Tip of the week...

Check out this week video and make sure an early extension isn't holding you back!

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Reading between the lines

One of the hardest things in golf is green reading; it is also something that the majority of golfers never learn how to do properly. So, without giving away all the secrets, here are some handy tips to help keep you on track and hole more putts.

High and low

Prior to reaching the green, take note of the high and low points of the surface and where your ball lies in respect to these. This will help you to build a general picture before reaching your ball.

360 picture

If you’re struggling to read which way your putt breaks from behind the ball, try walking around to the other side of the hole as this can often highlight any breaks you may have missed or reaffirm your original read.

Utilise our expertise

To really master the art of putting, book a coaching session with us and benefit from our years of experience as PGA professionals. Here we will teach you the in-depth steps to improving your green reading skills.

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Are you focusing on the wrong thing?

As soon as the ball has left the putter face, we know whether it’s going to be good or not. It’s like a sixth sense, right? But what constitutes a good putt? Many golfers let the final outcome decide this – i.e. whether the ball ends up in the hole or not – but that is arguably well out of our control. So, perhaps it's time to refocus on what we can control?

There are only two things we can really control when it comes to putting. The first is starting the ball on the correct line. Take Tiger Woods for example; the 15-time major winner focuses on a blade of grass he wants the ball to roll over immediately in front of him, which brings the intended target much closer to impact.

The second is getting the ball rolling correctly, which means imparting top spin as quickly as possible after impact rather than having it jumping and skidding in the air.

One way to control our putting is by utilising the technology in Scotty Cameron’s stunning Phantom X putters.

This range of mallet putters is new for 2019 and has been built with forgiveness and enhanced stablility at its heart. On top of this, elongated yellow sightlines help to frame the ball better, enhanced vibration dampening technology improves feel, and a solid aluminium face provides better sound and performance.

This is by no means the only putter available within Scotty Cameron's line-up, so click on the link below to view the entire range.

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Shop online | Collect in-store

We understand the convenience of shopping online from the comfort of your own home. We also appreciate that we can't stock every single product in-store due to limited space.

The answer to both of these is our fantastic Click & Collect service, which allows you to browse a huge range of products online and order to pick up from our shop the next time you're down the club. Have you given it a try?

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Video of the Week

In the final video of this three-part series, world class putting instructor Phil Kenyon talks us through how to improve our focus on the greens. Could the secret really be this simple?

Have a great weekend, happy golfing!

Adam Chamberlain
Peterborough Milton GC
Milton Ferry
Peterborough
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Phone: 01733 380489

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