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Home Putting Tuition

Whilst at home, the one thing in your golf game that is easy to work on is your putting. For this reason, Sam has put together a package that allows you to work on the correct technique so you can hit the ground running when we finally get back out on the course.

This will make sure that you are making good use of this time at home and your golf game isn’t going to decline in these coming weeks.

This is going to be a new venture for Sam but this is how it will work:

1) Email Sam to express your interest on samsharpepga@gmail.com. He will then set you up a profile on our online learning platform called CoachNow.

2) Sam will reply to your email with confirmation that your account has been set up and instructions on how to upload the videos of your stroke.

3) You will then video your putting stroke from the following angles – Face on, Down the line and behind the putter. He has made a video of the angles to help you know what he is looking for.

4) Upload the videos to your CoachNow app).

5) Your stroke will be analysed and Sam will make a video demonstrating what needs to be worked on and how you can do this.

6) Finally, after a week of working on the stroke, he will ask you to repeat the process to check your progression. This will be followed up with notes on how you are getting on and if there are any points that still need addressing.

The total cost of both weeks is £30 and he hopes that this will allow people to keep their putting going in the right direction for the 2020 season (When it gets here).

If you have any questions regarding this, Sam has access to emails so he will get back to you as soon as he can.

Last week Charles did a rules quiz for the juniors and for a bit of fun I thought I would see how the members would fair?

Please post your answers to pgcproshop@live.co.uk the winner will receive a free online lesson whilst you are isolated at home.

Junior Rules Quiz

Round 1 - Equipment

1.    What is the maximum number of clubs you can carry in your bag?

10    14   There is no limit

2.    You play a shot with your sand wedge from under a tree on the first hole and you hit the tree and your shaft breaks - can you ask your Dad to run back to the car and lend you his sand wedge for the rest of the round?

YES    NO

3.    You bang your driver onto the ground in anger after hitting a poor tee shot on 3rdtee and the driver head falls off - can you ask your Dad to run back to the car and lend you his driver for the rest of the round?

YES    NO

4.    You play a bunker shot and it flies across the green and hits your partner’s golf bag. What happens
You incur a two shot penalty
You incur a one shot penalty
No penalty

Round 2 - Putting

1.    You are on the green and putting – there is a pitch mark, a damaged old hole and a spike mark on your line on the green? Which can you repair?

ALL THREE    SPIKE MARK ONLY     PITCH MARK ONLY    PITCH MARK AND OLD HOLE NONE OF THEM

2.    You are off the green and want to putt. There are two pitch marks on your line, one on the green and one off the green, which can you repair

BOTH    PITCH MARK ON GREEN ONLY     PITCH MARK OFF GREEN ONLY    NEITHER

3.    You putt and your ball hangs over the edge of the hole, how long are you allowed to leave it before you hole it out
As long as you feel the ball is still in motion
10 seconds
As long as it reasonably takes you to walk to the hole plus 10 seconds

4.    When marking your ball on the putting green you accidentally nudge the ball forward. How should you proceed
Replace the ball and take a one stroke penalty
Replace the ball no penalty
Round 3 - Advice
1.    On the first tee can you ask the person playing with you in the medal how far it is to the lake?
YES     NO

2.    As you approach the first green another junior is on the second tee – can you call across and ask him how fast the greens are today?
YES   NO

3.    On the second tee in a junior medal one of the people you are playing with hits a great shot 3 feet from the flag. Can you ask him to show you what club he hit?
YES NO
4.    Your Dad is walking around spectating – you hit a poor tee shot on the first but you have 180 yards to carry the lake – can you ask your Dad if you should lay up or try and carry the lake?
YES NO

Round 4 - Bunkers

1.    A ball lies in the bunker against a rake and it is clear the ball will move when the rake is moved. What is the correct procedure?

Let the ball roll into a new position and play it from there
Replace the ball where it was before the rake was moved

2.    You are in a bunker and there is a broken twig from a tree just behind the ball, can you move it?
YES
NO

3.    You are in a bunker and there is a plastic bottle just behind the ball, can you move it?
YES
NO
(Lesson you can move a non-natural object in a hazard)

4.    You are in a bunker and there is a stone just behind the ball, can you move it?
YES
NO
ONLY IF IT SAYS SO IN THE LOCAL RULES

Round 5 – Various
1.    In a junior medal, you play a ball from the wrong tee yellow/white   red/blue  – you hit it into the rough and then you realise you have played it from the wrong tee

You must play another shot from the right tee for no penalty
You must play another shot under a two-shot penalty from the right tee

2.    Which of the following items can you move if they are in the way of your shot or swing –

red stake
a temporary fence around the green
150-yard marker
white out of bounds post
all of the above

3.    In the junior medal, your partner is a few feet away from the hole and doesn’t mark their ball. You putt from on the green and your ball hits their ball. What happens:
You incur a two-shot penalty
Your partner incurs a two-shot penalty
No penalty

4.    A ball is out of bounds if
To play the shot your feet are beyond the line of out of bounds
Part of the ball is beyond the line of out of bounds
All of the ball is beyond the line of the out of bounds

For juniors and parents, the Golf Foundation team has created the #LockdownKnockdown Challenge. It's designed to have some fun creating your own challenge at home to keep you practising. The link is below to the Facebook page for more information.

https://www.facebook.com/276742745715682/posts/3051550988234830/

Tip of the week

This week Sam and his assistant Maisy, show you how .to improve your strike when putting

Click here to videw the video

Message from our Lady Captain

In 2018 we had the “Beast from the East” and in 2019 we had what I like to call "The rainy season".

Little did Paul and I know that we would be facing such a tough challenge in 2020, along with Seniors Captain Don and Junior Captain Jade.

We are all currently experiencing a traumatic and difficult time in all our lives. We know that we have never witnessed anything like this before, we have to be positive and I look forward when we can all return to normal life and we get back to playing on the golf course.

I was really looking forward to my year as Ladies Captain and if you know me well you would know that I had everything organised well in advance.

I am sure like me you are taking the opportunity to catch up on all those things we neglect during our golfing season and taking advantage of the good weather. At the moment Covid 19 has put life as we know it and golf on hold.

It is, however, sharpening our perspective and shining a light on the true heroes.

Social distancing may mean that we can't come together in a physical sense, but our strength comes from helping one another. I know many of you have been telephoning, using social media to keep in contact with each other. Many people are learning new skills to enable them to do this.

So until the day comes when we can get back on the course, keep safe and I look forward to seeing you across the fairway. I will be the one in the brightly coloured jacket.

Sandra Stout
Ladies Captain

Weekly quiz

Something new for our readers

Us golfers are competitive at heart, so we thought we'd try to harness some of that spirit by introducing a new feature to our weekly emails.

We're going to kick things off next week with our very own Masters Quiz - it was supposed to be Masters week after all - so be sure to do some research before then!

For now, we have put up a short poll on our website that we'd love you to answer by clicking the button below. We'll let you know the results next week.

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Weekly challenge

It’s times like these when thinking outside the box can result in all sorts of fun. So, we’ve rummaged through the garden shed and come up with a little game for you to try at home! If you don’t have any buckets or pots to hand, try creating different sized rings using string, tape or even ties – this would make it indoor friendly too.

The set-up

Mark out your hitting zone like we’ve done using a mat in the image above. Then, from smallest to largest, lay your targets out so they get progressively bigger as they get further from the hitting zone. You then need to decide how many points each target is worth, with more points awarded to the smaller targets.

How to play

The great thing about this game is that you can play it by yourself or with the rest of the family. If you’re giving the challenge a go alone, you have five balls to get the highest score possible. You can play the same way with others or you can set an overall target score (e.g. 50 points) and the first person to reach that score wins!

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Golf at home

This part of our newsletter is all about trying to keep your golf game ticking over whilst we’re being told to stay indoors. With putting being such a vital part of lowering scores out on the course (and the easiest to practice at home), we’re going to kick things off with a simple putting drill for you to try.

The set-up

Grab your putter, six golf balls and a tee peg. Place the tee upside on the ground – this will be your target. From here, measure out a putter’s length from the tee and place a ball down. Repeat this five times at equal distances apart so that you have a circle of golf balls surrounding the tee peg – just like in the image above.

Too easy? Make it harder

Your goal is to go around the circle and hit the tee peg with each putt. However, if you miss, you’ll need to go back and start again – a nice way to mimic some pressure from the golf course. If you complete the circle, keep going until you miss to set yourself a target to beat next time or try increasing the distance of each putt from the tee.

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Video of the Week

What's Padraig Harrington laughing at here? Well, if you ever needed reassuring that even the world's best golfers are human, give this video a watch! Enjoy.

European Tour | Worst Shots (14 Club Challenge)

Have a great weekend, happy golfing!

Adam Chamberlain
Peterborough Milton GC
Milton Ferry
Peterborough
PE6 7AG

Phone: 01733 380489

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