Duncan Abbott

Hello golfers,

As I set here writing this newsletter we have the first snow of the winter, but with the Swing Zone in the shop you can still continue to practice and play whilst the course is closed. The costs to use the Swing Zone are as follows:

5 minute warm up - £3.
10 minute warm up - £5.
30 minute practice - £12.50.
60 minute practice - £20.
Two hours game play - £35.
Three hours game play - £45.
Four hours game play - £50.

Remember you are paying for the time used, not per person, so if four of you wanted to play nine holes you can split the cost amongst four of you, so for example for a four ball to play nine holes, which takes about two hours, that will cost you only £8.75 each...

Click here to get in touch for more details.

Academy news

Lessons in the Swing Zone

One person that benefited from time in the Swing Zone and a lesson last week was Ray Pope. Ray has had a superb season and is probably one of the steadiest golfers in the club off his 11 handicap, but Ray wanted more. He felt he could always shoot around his handicap, but never felt he could shoot the real low one because of the inefficiencies in his swing. Basically he wanted to hit the ball higher and longer. For those that have seen Ray's swing, he has a very individual swing. He starts very low to the ground in his set up, but actually gets back to a good position at impact, but because of his style of swing he does suffer from a low hook. During the hour in the Swing Zone we spoke about how to control the clubface though the ball and not letting the hands turnover too much through impact which produced the low hook. We also spoke about the lie on his current clubs, they were too upright for him thus the heel of the club was catching the ground and turning the clubface over too. After a couple of little adjustments to his swing and more importantly, a lot more understanding of his swing, plus an adjustment and clubs, all of a sudden Ray produced the round of his life to win last Thursday’s Mid-week Stableford with an incredible 45 points. Well done Ray who also achieved one of his life time goals by getting his handicap cut to single figures for the first time...

I’m not saying this can happen to everyone who comes to see me, but just by giving Ray a little more understanding of his unique golf swing and what he does well when he hits good shots, it certainly helped him! Click here to see what you could gain from a lesson with your PGA Professional.

Competition news

On the Course...

On to competition news now and we’ve already heard about Ray’s heroics in winning Division One in the Mid-week Stableford, but Hayden Grand also produced a good score of 41 points to finish second with Les Dukes third with 39 points. In Division Two Tony Bushkes won with 39 points, beating Tony Cranny in to second with 38 points.

On Sunday the men played the Todd and Turner Mugs which is a pairs fourball betterball stableford competition where Andy Klein and Keith Newberry won with a fine 47 points, beating Dave Wooden and Mark Everard and Ray Pope and Stuart Pearce in to second with both pairs getting 44 points.

Pro's news

Royal Cromer Pro-Am

On to my golf now and last Friday I took the man of the moment Ray Pope, Stuart Pearce and Mark Chorley to Royal Cromer for the latest Norfolk PGA Pro-Am. Unfortunately for Ray it proved a bit to be after the Lord Mayors show as he didn’t have his best game, but all four of us contributed fairly to our 4-under-par score in the best of two scores to count on every hole format, on a course that was playing very long. I myself should of won the individual prize for the Pros, but one bad tee shot on 16 and a couple of missed putts cost me the title as I shot 75, with winning score being 72, but at least it was nice to be in the mix again. With one more event for the year at Sheringham in a couple of weeks time I’m determined to get that illusive win!