Hello golfers,

Welcome to the latest edition of our weekly newsletter. In this week's email, we explore how often you hit the fairway compared to tour pros, we review all the latest news from the club, and we also have a video from a European Tour favourite. Enjoy the read.

This week's message

Hi folks,

Another mixed week weather wise for golf with some heavy rain and the odd dry day to keep us golfing as well. Despite all the heavy the rain the course is still in great condition with a lot of good comments coming through about the greens after the aeration work that was carried out last week.

Last week myself and Gareth went away and played a competition up at Largs Golf Club as part of the West of Scotland Alliance schedule. We got a good day for it and the course was in good condition but our golf games didn’t live up to that standard. A real mixed bag by the two of us, you could almost say we dragged each other down, let’s hope it’s better next time.

Hope you all have a good week and the weather stays dry if you are out.

Mark

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Our new junior club champion

This Sunday’s medal saw the boys playing to become the 2017 Junior Club Champion with a good turnout for the event. An 18 hole stroke play qualifier was played in the morning in really tough and wet conditions with the top two nett scores continuing to the match play final in the afternoon. Ewan Allan qualified first after shooting an unbelievable net 59 along with Patrick Smiley.

The match was a tale of two halves with Patrick starting incredibly well and was 7 up through 7 but Ewan manged to find some of his early morning form and got himself back to 3 down until Patrick managed to end the game 4&3

Congratulations to Patrick on his great win and also well done to Ewan for keeping a great match going. It was also great seeing all of the other juniors out watching and showing support to their friends.

Recent results

Autumn Greensomes

1st - Irina Bauba & Pamela Robertson - 70
2nd - Sheila Shedden & Maureen Short - 72 BIH
3rd - Liz Neill & Sheila Bee - 72

New arrival

This week we took delivery of a great range of gents Sunice clothing. The range includes shirts and trousers that are suitable all year round along with padded jackets, gilets and waterproofs for the colder winter weather which is sadly starting to come in. Pop in and take a look at all garments so you are prepared for the cold weather coming in.

Do you know the rules?

Danny stands with his feet outside the 6th teeing ground when playing his tee-shot. His ball is within the teeing ground. What is the ruling?

A. There is no penalty.
B. Danny is penalised two strokes and must replay his tee shot.
C. Danny is penalised one stroke and must play his ball as it lies.

Find out what the answer is in next week’s newsletter.

Did you get the answer to last week’s rule?

Shona hits her approach shot over the green and her ball strikes the grandstand and rebounds into the rough. When she arrives at the ball she sees that the ball has a large cut to its surface. What is the ruling?

A. Shona may substitute a ball and place it on the spot where the original ball lay.
B. Shona may replay her last stroke without penalty with a substituted ball.
C. Shona must either continue play with her original ball or proceed under penalty of stroke and distance.

Correct answer:

A. Shona may substitute a ball and place it on the spot where the original ball lay.

A ball is unfit for play if it is visibly cut, cracked or out of shape. If it is determined that the ball has become unfit for play during play of the hole being played, the player may substitute another ball, placing it on the spot where the original ball lay. See Rule 5-3.