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The action is hotting up on courses throughout the
North East and Yorkshire.
County champions have been crowned, rivalries renewed and the
season has begun in earnest with many of the early winners featured in
these pages.
We also have a special date at Close House with the ISPS Handa PGA
Seniors Championship coming to the Northumberland course. Our
preview tells you all you need to know about the tournament - which
gives you the opportunity to see some of the legends of the game up close
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support even more high profile events and a big turnout of spectators
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world when it comes to staging golf tournaments.
Close House also hosted a major charity event last month which
featured some of the biggest names in the world of sport and
entertainment raising an incredible total of more than £500,000 for the
Children’s Heart Unit at Newcastle’s Freeman Hospital. Find out who was
there on page 10.
One of the most encouraging trends in the region is the rise of the
juniors in both the men’s and ladies’ game - not least in Durham where
the top four in the Ladies County Championship were all teenagers.
Judging by the number of junior golf initiatives being undertaken by
our clubs, it is a trend that is set to continue - although there is plenty of
evidence within this magazine that there is plenty of life left in some of
the older generation of golfers too.
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reviewed on page 42 and the sponsors of our new Ladies Greensomes
tournament - for being named the country’s Large Hotel of the Year at the
VisitEngland awards for excellence.
It is a timely reminder - no matter where you look in this region - there
are unrivalled facilities in and around so many of our golf courses.
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04-15 TEEING OFF
County champions crowned,
teenage sensations, holes-in-one
and CHUF charity champions
18-25 TEEING OFF
Trophies for Matthew Webb and
Graeme Storm plus a round up
of the latest EuroPro Tour news
27 TOUR LIFE
Chris Paisley’s tour diary
44-51 GOLFER NEWS
Round up of the latest regional
and national golfing news
52 TRAVEL
We take a trip to Austria
54 TIPS
Putting your best foot forward
56 MATCH PLAY PAIRS
Latest results and draw
FRONT COVER
Close Encounter: We catch up
with Carl Mason and preview
the ISPS Handa PGA Seniors
Championship at Close House
57 LADIES GREENSOMES
Who plays who in round one?
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NORTHERN GOLFER 03
TEEINGOFF
Minnikin
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A
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the long wait for his
second Northumberland
County Strokeplay
Championship in a dramatic finale
at windswept Newcastle United.
The 35-year-old Northumberland
County captain overhauled
Hexham’s Jonathan Richardson
and then clinched the title in a
two-hole aggregate play-off to
leave Richardson with his second
successive runners-up spot in a
county major.
It looked to be Richardson’s day
when the Hexham player shot a
superb third round 67 in which
he needed just 20 putts. It was a
remarkable score in the windy
conditions and gave Richardson a
healthy eight stroke lead.
But with the wind gusting up to
40mph in the final round, scores
soared, none more than Richardson
who stumbled to a closing
round of 84 with a double bogey,
bogey finish.
Minnikin holed a tricky putt on
the last for a round of 76 to force
a play-off then claim his second
county strokeplay crown to go with
the one he won in 2003 and his 2013
Andy Minnikin with the County Strokeplay trophy
County Championship victory.
“I was beginning to wonder when
I’d win this title again, which is a
great honour,” said Minnikin, who
two weeks previously was also the
winner of the county North and
South Trophy.
“So far it has been a fantastic
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“I won the 2013 County
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“Jonathan will win one of these
eventually, he’s too good a player
not to,” he added.
Minnikin is now within one win
of picking up all five of the county’s
biggest trophies after beating Phil
Ridden on countback at City of
Newcastle Golf Club for the North
& South Trophy. He now only
needs the Fenwick-Smith Trophy to
complete a full set.
“This is my first win in the North
& South Trophy and now I have a
chance to go for the last of the ‘big
five’ at the Fenwick-Smith later this
season. It would be nice to finish
off the set, as well as being county
captain and playing more than 75
times for the county.”
Minnikin beat Ridden (also 6970) on countback with Jake Storey
finishing third on 141 (73-68) and
Mark Wharton finishing fourth
(71-70). City of Newcastle’s Jack
Hermeston finished in ninth place
after rounds of 74 and 72.
Meanwhile, Northumberland sit
top of the Northern Counties Golf
Union League following a derby win
over Durham at Blyth Golf Club.
Northumberland, who won both
Andy Minnikin with the County Championship trophy
the foursomes and singles sessions
to record a 10.5-7.5 win, welcomed
back Phil Ridden to the team after a
stint in the professional ranks.
Ridden, who teamed up with
Newbiggin’s Craig Penny in the
foursomes recorded two points
on his return – beating South
Moor’s Chris Handy 2&1 in the
afternoon singles.
Minnikin said: “Winning the
first game of the season against our
closest rivals is a great way to start
the year.
“Coming off a heavy defeat at
the hands of Durham last season at
George Washington to post a result
and sit at the top of the table after
the first round of matches is great.
“We’ve worked hard over the
winter to get the guys playing
together and build a real team
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to build that throughout the season.
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very good players coming back into
the team made all the difference.”
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TEEINGOFF
Hat-trick for Aisbitt
Third county title follows a tense
four-hole play off
R
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his third Durham County
Championship after a
nail-biting four-hole
play-off to see off the challenge of
Tom Smith.
Aisbitt, 41, won his first title in
2003, triumphed again last year, and
had a chance to clinch his third title
when he faced a three-footer for
birdie on the 72nd hole, lipping out
on the final green. The par meant
a round of 72 for the Brancepeth
golfer and a four-round score of 291,
the same as Eaglescliffe’s Smith,
and a three-hole play-off at South
Shields in testing conditions.
When Aisbitt three-putted the
par three first hole it was advantage
Smith - who made a par. The second
hole of the play-off (the 17th) was
halved in par fours before both
players went for the green at
353-yard 18th - Smith catching
the greenside bunker and Aisbitt
finding the green and two putting
for a birdie to tie the scores as
Smith made par.
Now in sudden death, the playoff moved back to the first hole with
Smith finding a bunker his tee shot
while Aisbitt was 35ft above the
hole. This time he two-putted while
Smith splashed out to 10ft and
failed to make his par.
“If I have learned anything in
golf it’s that if you just have to
hang around and be patient,” said
Aisbitt. “The conditions were brutal,
as bad as I have ever played in
this championship, and patience
certainly was the key.”
The last golfer to claim a hattrick of Durham wins was Tony
McLure, who won his sixth title
in 2000.
Richard Aisbitt with the Durham County Championship trophy
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Hall triumphs in
teen takeover
Youngsters dominate championship as
Jessica Hall wins again
T
he future of Durham
County women’s golf
flooks bright after
another exciting
championship this year.
Bishop Auckland’s Jessica Hall,
16, retained her county crown by
beating close friend Alex Stevenson,
14, in the final.
Furthermore, beaten semifinalists Briony Bayles and Kitana
Hollins are both 15 years old.
Rarely can the last four in the
county championship have been
so young, and after Jessica set the
record for being the youngest-ever
winner last year at 15 years and two
months, there was a possibility that
someone even younger could win it
this time around when Alex made it
to the final. She came close too with
Jessica winning on the 15th hole.
The weather was tough at
Barnard Castle as well, bitterly cold,
with a testing breeze but several
players returned excellent scores in
the qualifying rounds.
Kitana Hollins gross total of 147
was particularly impressive, closely
followed by Jessica on 148.
The semi-finals and final had to
be postponed because of torrential
rain before Alex beat Kitana while
Bishop Auckland teammates Jessica
and Briony went all the way to
the 18th.
Just 24 hours later Jessica had to
take her first GCSE exam. “It was
English Language, I think it went
OK, and I want to go to Durham
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I know how important all of my
upcoming exams are. This is my
final year at Barnard Castle School
so I am putting golf on hold now
until after my GCSEs.”
Jessica arrived at the
championship after finishing
23rd at the Irish Girls Strokeplay
Championship. She added: “It was
strange because Alex and I are really
good friends. It was quite hard to
play her in the final because we play
together all of the time, we travel
away to national tournaments and
often room together. It was a nice
feeling to win for the second year in
a row. I finished really strongly, with
a run of birdie, birdie, eagle.”
Jessica hopes to combine her
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Hats off to Rockliffe
Resort prepares for Trilby Tour’s return and
bumper Northern Masters
T
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on its way back to
Rockliffe Hall.
One of the UK’s most
prestigious televised amateur golf
tournaments, the William Hunt
Trilby Tour will be at the Darlington
course on June 30.
The event will be the fourth time
Rockliffe has hosted the Trilby Tour,
with this year’s Matchplay event for
single and pairs competitors set to
take place over the championship
course. In hosting an event on this
year’s tour Rockliffe joins other
high profile courses including the
Buckinghamshire, the London Golf
Club and Stoke Park.
Around 1,000 golfers compete
in the Trilby Tour each year, taking
part in regional championships
across the UK.
Rockliffe has been home to the
European Senior Tour’s English
Senior Open for the last two years,
attracting international names
and Ryder Cup stars such as
Ian Woosnam, Mark James and
Sam Torrance.
Earlier this year the course was
awarded the 59Club’s Gold Flag, the
industry benchmark recognising
the best membership clubs and
commercial venues, as well as
picking up a gold award for its
greenkeeping team.
Rockliffe Hall’s golf and estate
director Davy Cuthbertson said:
“We’re very much looking forward
to welcoming the Trilby team back
to Rockliffe Hall as it’s always a
lively event. It’s also a great chance
for us to showcase our outstanding
facilities to a whole new group of
golfers from around the country.”
Meanwhile the Northern Golf
Masters returns to Rockliffe - bigger
and better for 2015.
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Last year’s NGM winner Sam
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The best amateur golfers in the
North of England will compete
over the course on September 13 as
the Northern Golf Masters returns
for the fourth year running - this
time as part of the Durham County
order of merit. Category one golfers
from across the North East, North
Yorkshire and Cumbria are now
invited to apply to enter with places
this year limited to 42. Jonathan
Ward, Durham County secretary,
said: “The Northern Golf Masters is
a quality event so it made sense to
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We round up of the latest holes-in-one
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S
am Robinson came close
to an incredible quartet of
holes-in-one in the Durham
County Championship at
South Shields.
The Tyneside club player stood
on the first tee in the first round at
Shields and promptly aced the 176yard hole.
He went on to shoot 73, three
behind first round leader Michael
Shotton from the Cleadon Hills club.
The next day he hit the pin at the
first with his tee shot on the way to
another 73.
In the third round, he hit the pin
at the first again, finishing with a
round of 72.
On the final day, he just missed
the flagstick and closed with a 74 to
finish in third place.
Hartlepool’s Paul Auton also had
to get the drinks in after a spectacular
ace at his club’s 358-yard par four
10th. Not surprisingly, Paul used a
driver to ace the hole while playing
with Thomas Lowther in the Club
Cup. He went on to shoot a nett 65
for runners-up spot and become a
category one handicapper.
Russell Rickaby, 47, from Ingleby
Barwick clinched a limited-edition
BOSS watch for achieving a hole-inone at the 162-yard par three 17th
at Wynyard Hall. Also winning a
BOSS watch is retired major Roger
Woolsey, 72, from Sheriff Hutton.
The former Ganton secretary aced
the 165-yard par three 10th while
playing in the monthly stableford.
It was his fourth ace, but his first
in competition and the watch will
be nice replacement for one he had
stolen while on a cruise.
Megan triumphs
Huddersfield’s Megan Lockett beat
Emma Brown (Malton and Norton)
2&1 in the final of the Yorkshire
County Women’s Championship
at Ganton.
Lockett had been taken to the
22nd hole before triumphing in
her quarter-final with Lucy Eaton
(Skipton), and then saw off Lees
Hall’s Holly Morgan on the last green
in her semi-final.
Brown reached the final with a
5&3 last-eight success over Abigail
Smee (Ganstead Park), and a 3&2
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NORTHERN GOLFER 09
TEEINGOFF
Ferrie’s
triple
success
T
hree-time European Tour
winner Ken Ferrie did the
double in the Hadrian
Healthcare Group ProAm at Whickham Golf Club.
Ashington’s Ferrie made the
best use of the relatively benign
conditions to shoot a new course
record 67 for the remodelled
Hollinside Park layout.
Ferrie’s two under-par total
remained the mark until Stephen
McNally matched it to make it a tie
for the top pro’s prize.
It was Ferrie’s turn to catch
up when his Hadrian team of Ian
Watson, Alan Rankin and Michael
Farry posted 120 to match the 18
under-par score of Paul Stead, Lee
Myers and Stephen Swainston and
pro Mathew Webb of the Pullman
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The winning Hadrian team
Motors Team. The Hadrian team
- winners last year - took the top
prize again on countback.
Petch Butchers, represented by
Paul Lupton, Frank Stephenson,
Jonathon Stephenson and
pro Jonathon Lupton finished
third with a 16 under-par total
of 122.
The longest drive was won
by Adam Coleman of Rowland’s
Accountants and nearest the
pin at the 17th hole was claimed
by Mark Renney of the Parker
Tiles Team.
Slaley Hall
Steely display
Pauline Sheffield led the qualifiers
in England Golf’s Grand Medal
north regional final at Slaley Hall
in Northumberland.
The Moor Allerton golfer posted
an excellent three-over-par 78
on Slaley’s Hunting Course to
win by two shots from Parklands’
Candy Brown.
Richmond’s Karen Jobling
and Olivia Jackson (Pannal) both
shot 81, followed by Gosforth’s
Samantha Fletcher on 82 along with
Rebecca Ferguson (Tynemouth) and
Chester-le-Street’s Monique Mackay.
They were among the 10
qualifiers who will head to the Grand
Medal Final at Frilford Heath on
August 13 with the qualifiers from
five other events.
The event is a feature of the
new Golf Week festival, staged by
England Golf to create a national
grand finale for a host of handicap
and team championships. All the
regional finalists had returned the
best four scores at their club in the
England Golf Medals during 2014.
TEEINGOFF
Samantha Taylor with the County Championship trophy
Taylor triumphs
Tynemouth golfer takes the honours
W
hen Samantha Taylor
injured her left hand
she must have feared
the worst for her
golfing future.
But if anything the setback
inspired her to take her game
to a new level and she has been
rewarded with a string of good
performances in the US and her first
win in the Northumberland County
Ladies Championship.
The 20-year-old Tynemouth player,
who is on a golfing scholarship at
King University, in Bristol, Tennessee
defeated defending champion Ami
Storey (Close House) 2&1 in a hardfought final which was played, at
times, in torrential rain, hailstones
and brilliant sunshine.
Both players had comfortable
wins in their semi-finals, Samantha
defeating Morpeth’s Grace Anderson
6&5 and Ami getting the better of
Bamburgh’s Nicky Rose 5&4.
With her mum Sharon caddying
for her, Samantha was never behind
in the final and the contest ended on
the 17th with a 2&1 win.
“It’s nice to finally get my name
on the trophy,” said Samantha.
“I’ve never made it to the last day
before. I’ve tended to do well in the
qualifying and get to the latter stages
of the matchplay. I’ve played better
since I came back from the injury. It
happened at Sevierville in Tennessee.
“I was in the rough and because
it’s Bermuda grass, it’s thick, I could
just see my ball and I hit down and
just after I hit the ball there was a tree
root which I didn’t know was there.
“I heard a crunch and knew
something had happened. My left
hand was in a cast in November and
December but I worked hard on my
physio and I progressed from there
- especially with all the practise and
hard work I did on my short game.
“I’ve been at King for two years
and have another two to go. I’m in
the golf team and I’ve been quite
pleased with my results - I came sixth
in Conference Carolina final and was
named in the All Conference Team of
the Tournament.
“I think I will know in the next
year and a bit whether I have a chance
of making a career playing golf. I play
or practice nearly seven days a week
and I’m playing in as much as I can
back here in England as well as in the
USA just to try and assess where I am.
“My mum and dad (Sharon and
Stephen) are really supportive. They
are very proud of me and it’s nice to
have them see me win something
like this.
“No-one in my family plays and I
took the game up after watching the
Open Championship on TV.
“I started when I was about 13. I
just picked up the club and I went on
from there.”
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CHARITYGOLF
Support for
Hospice
Crook will be aiming to hand over
another big cheque to Butterwick
Hospice this year.
Sean Lauder, last year’s captain,
followed in his predecessor’s
footsteps and chose to support
Butterwick Hospice as his charity of
the year and handed over a cheque
worth £3,300.
Sean organised and took part
in various fundraisers throughout
his year as captain, including a
Three Club Challenge where eight
members played at three golf
courses in one day.
This year’s captain Dennis
Pinkney has again chosen
Butterwick as his charity to support
and his first fundraiser is his
Charity Golf Day on July 11 and
teams are invited to enter at £120
for a fourball. The event has a
shotgun start and there are prizes on
a number of holes. To enter
tel 01388 603 003 or go to
www.butterwick.org.uk/crookgolf
Boost for
Boro
Middlesbrough Football Club
Foundation held its first golf day
with former players Danny Mills,
Gary Pallister and Craig Hignett
among the competitors.
The event was held at Rockliffe
Hall and Diane O’Connell, the club’s
fundraising and events officer, said:
“Our first charity golf day was an
overwhelming success, raising a
significant amount of money for our
life changing community projects.
Thank you to all those who
took part and we look forward
to seeing everyone again
next year.”
The Foundation is an
independent charity
founded in 1996
with an aim to help
a range of people
across Teesside
through a number
of sports, health
and education
projects.
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Alan
Shearer with
Ant and Dec
Lee
Westwood
Celebrities
have a heart
Big names in sport and entertainment turn out in
force to raise money for CHUF
S
ome of sport and
entertainment’s
biggest names led
by Newcastle United
legend Alan Shearer took
part in the Have a Heart
Trophy at Close House to
raise money for the Children’s
Heart Unit at Newcastle’s
Freeman Hospital.
Shearer was joined by celebs
including Ant and Dec, horse
racing legend A P McCoy,
Strictly Come Dancing’s
Anton du Beke, former
world boxing champion
Glenn McCrory, Olympic
athlete Jonathan
Edwards and Close
House’s attached
professional Lee
Westwood - plus a host
of other big names at
the Heddon-on-the-wall course which is owned
by Graham Wylie.
Wylie said: “What’s great about this event
is that it’s a celebrity pro-am and people
who have been here every year such as Lee
Westwood, Alan Shearer and Ant and Dec are great supporters of the club and attract
other celebrities.
“The unit at the Freeman is a world-class
facility and they perform open heart surgery
on children every day. They save many, many
lives including that of my daughter so it’s an
important cause to me.”
The tournament raised more than £500,000
- enough to buy four new ECHO machines.
Shearer said: “You can tell how much this
means to Graham. He’s a determined guy
and he normally gets what he wants. Fingers
crossed we can raise a lot more money for
the charity.
“This is a great event. I do this because
I want to give something back. Like a lot of
the lads here, I was a lucky. I got paid to play
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football which was my dream and I
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Shearer, in fact, has netted
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and he added: “I thought more about
raising money for charities towards the
end of my football career, especially
when I had my testimonial match at
St James’ Park. I donated the money
made at that match to North East
charities because to me, it was never
really my money.”
He’s a regular visitor to his own
Alan Shearer Centre, in Newcastle,
which is a specialist facility for
disabled people and he took part in
Benfield Motor Group’s charity golf day
which raised money for Newcastlebased Prince’s Trust as well as the
CHUF event at Close House.
He also joined Ant and Dec at
Slaley Hall for a charity golf day in aid
of the Youth Ministry Team’s Youth
Village in the Derwent Valley recently.
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TEEINGOFF
Andy’s still
handy
Paisley shows his pupils how to win
A
ndy Paisley is more
known for his coaching
theses days but he
proved he can still
mix it with the best when he
won the Northumberland and
Durham Open.
The Hexham pro was the only
player in the field of 60 at Ponteland
to record two sub par scores (71-70)
on his way to winning the area’s
oldest open trophy.
The Ponteland course was
in magnificent condition and
its greens running at 12 on the
stimpmeter provided a stern test,
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while a good breeze, especially
in the afternoon, added to
the difficulty.
Paisley’s three under-par total
of 141 left him two shots clear of
Graeme Bell (Eaglescliffe) and Tim
Dykes (Penrith). One shot further
adrift on 144 were Westerhope’s
George Cowan (75-69) and James
Harper (The Wynyard Club) with
rounds of 71 and 73.
Over the newly-constituted
course, Mathew Webb (Bedlington)
set a new course record in his
morning round with a four underpar 68.
Andy Paisley
Meanwhile Close House’s
Jonathan Lupton won the final Pro
Series with a four-under-par score
of 68 at Teesside while there was a
five-way tie for second place on one
under-par.
The players tied were Mathew
Webb (Bedlington), David Clark
(Morpeth), George Cowan
(Westerhope), Vince Guest
(Teesside), and Darren Crowle
(Middlesbrough Municipal).
Lupton’s win pushed him to the top
of the Order of Merit on 587 points
overtaking leader Craig Goodfellow
(Penrith Golf Centre), on 481 points
- Goodfellow dropping to second in
the table.
TEEINGOFF
Eastern
promise
Winning ways continue for Stephen while
Darlington duo make the Brabazon
Y
orkshire’s Stephen East
has picked up the 2015
seniors amateur season
where he left off last
year…with a win.
The Moortown player heads
for The English Senior Amateur
Championship this month with the
Portuguese Seniors title already in
the bag. He finished five shots clear
of the field in Estoril with scores of
69, 72 and 70.
East added that title to an
already impressive record which
took him to the top of the England
Golf senior order of merit for
2014 with wins in the English and
Spanish seniors, runners-up places
in the British, Scottish and Irish
seniors and fourth place finish
in the European seniors. In his
“previous life” as he puts it, East
won the English mid-amateur
three times as well as the British,
European, Portuguese and French
mid-amateur titles.
This year he faces an
international challenge in his
defence of the English senior title
at Worplesdon and West Hill as
the championship is open for the
first time and has attracted players
from Wales, Ireland, Scotland,
Switzerland and Australia as well as
Andrew Wilson. Inset: Stephen East
a huge entry from England.
The competitors include all of
last year’s senior international caps
including Longhirst Hall’s Tony
McLure, 2013 champion Richard
Latham (Woodhall Spa), Tyrone
Carter (Stevenage), Clive Jones
(Toulouse), Alan Mew (Stoneham)
and Andrew Stracey (Denham).
Meanwhile, Darlington duo
Andrew Wilson and Aaron
McManus led a clutch of North East
players into the Brabazon Trophy.
They will be joined in the line-up
at Hollinwell later this month by
Shipley’s Will Whiteoak, who led
the qualifying at Clitheroe with a
three-under-par 68 plus Lindrick
pair Jonathan Thomson and Nathan
Fell, and Martin Brown (Pike Hills).
McManus carded a 72, one overpar, to finish 15th and his clubmate
joined him by carding a 73.
Whiteoak won the North of
England Youths at Middlesbrough
last year.
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COURSEREVIEW
Handsome
Harrogate
Alan Hedley takes a trip to North Yorkshire and finds
a course in great nick
I
mmaculate. That’s the word that springs to
mind when you play Harrogate.
The oldest club in Harrogate - where
European Tour player John Parry learned
his golf - is a real beauty, a riot of colour with
rhododendrons and azaleas, bluebells and
cowslips as June gets into full swing and it’s well
worth a visit.
A reasonably flat, tree-lined course of close
to 6,250 yards off the back tees, Harrogate is a
strategic test of golf with well-placed bunkers and
copses plus a few streams and ditches to catch
the unwary. Meanwhile the mature trees make
the course more difficult than its length suggests.
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The course is the work of three classic course
designers in Sandy Herd, Harry Colt and Alister
MacKenzie and the club, wisely, has only sought
to improve what they have with Jonathan Gaunt
recommending some new tee complexes, green
surrounds, water features and bunker renovation.
There has also been improvements made
to the club’s magnificent practice facilities and
significant woodland management to restore the
native moorland characteristics.
That work is ongoing, but with the original
Colt/MacKenzie mounding and bunkering
well-preserved, the course is a real joy to play
especially the five par threes, two of them
stretching to more than 200 yards.
There are also five par fours of more than 400
yards, three of them in the last four holes which
makes for a strong finish.
One of those par four tests comes as early as
the second hole, which is effectively a double dogleg with seven bunkers and three ditches, and at
429 yards it’s a crunching par four.
You will hope to have made birdie at the first
with this one up second followed by a testing par
three of around 170 yards with a green ringed by
bunkers and water, and trees left.
Big hitters can get it on the 274-yard par four
fourth and maybe it’s only a long iron or rescue/
COURSEREVIEW
FACT FILE
A friendly welcome is assured at
Harrogate
hybrid for most but it is a real birdie chance.
The fifth, at 219 yards, is a belter of a par
three and there are chances at the sixth if you
hit the fairway and at the par five seventh
which is a three-shotter for most with water in
the way.
The front nine ends with another long
par three at 227 yards and by now you know
Harrogate gives you chances to score but will
punish you if you are careless.
There are also chances early in the back
nine as the 10th is a short par four but beware
of the out of bounds while the par five 11th
is reachable in two and the short 12th is
theoretically the easiest hole on the course at
stroke 18. The signature hole, it is played from a
raised tee to a tricky green (see factfile).
It is not easy from there on in with a long
par four at 13, a 467 yard-hole with a blind tee
shot and out of bounds down the right side.
That is followed by a tricky par three and
then four tough finishing holes, three of them
over 400 yards - the dog-leg 15th at 406 (plus
water and out of bounds), the massive 16th at
455, the 17th at just under 400 and the treelined 18th (with out of bounds right) at 411.
Good luck!
A very visitor-friendly club - the hospitality
in the lovely clubhouse is second to none
- Harrogate also has five-day and flexible
memberships and the creation of a 18-hole
short game course has helped to attract junior
and beginner golfers.
CONTACT
Harrogate Golf Club, Forest Lane Head
Harrogate, HG2 7TF
Tel 01423 862 999
Professional 01423 862 547
Web www.harrogate-gc.co.uk
Email [email protected]
Harrogate will have
another busy year as it stages
the Vardon Grip Trophy next
month with England Golf’s
fsenior men’s and women’s
North Tournament at the club
in September.
The success of the inaugural
Vardon Grip Trophy last year
meant it has become a firm
fixture on the golfing calendar
as well as a Yorkshire Order of
Merit event.
This year’s tournament will
be played on July 1. Entry
forms are now available on
the Yorkshire Order of Merit
website or from the club
GREEN FEES
£30, £25 after 4pm
Juniors £15
Buggies £25
Electric trolley hire £7
TOTAL DISTANCE
White tees - 6,241 yards
Yellow tees - 6,092 yards
Red tees - 5,711 yards
FEATURES
18 holes parkland/moorland golf
Clubhouse with lounge and balcony
Restaurant
Changing rooms
Plenty of car parking
Professionals shop with PGA Professional
tuition and indoor studio with
GC2 launch monitor
Extensive practice ground/facilities
18-hole short course
CADDY’S TIP
Find the fairways from the tee is essential.
It may not always be a driver.
SIGNATURE HOLE
The 12th. A lovely par three of 179 yards.
The hole is framed by a bunker and trees
with the tee shot played from a raised tee.
There is out of bounds right and a clutch
of bunkers and trees on the left as well. A
cracking hole.
ALAN HEDLEY’S VERDICT
I can’t stress how much of a pleasure
it is to play this course. It proves golf
doesn’t have to be played on a 7,200
yard layout to be a test. You will
probably use every club in the bag
and will thoroughly enjoy it
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TEEINGOFF
Parry for
US Open
Yorkshire golfer John Parry has
qualified for this year’s US Open.
The 28-year-old from Harrogate
came through qualifying to clinch a
place at Chambers Bay this month.
The Harrogate player has an
incredible record when it comes
to qualifying having negotiated the
six-round European Tour qualifying
school on three occasions.
He has also now booked his
place in the US Open for the second
time in three years. He shot rounds
of 66 and 69 at Walton Heath to
claim one of the 11 spots in the
115th US Open at Chambers Bay
in Washington.
“I’m becoming a qualifying
expert,” said Parry, who finished
sixth at qualifying school in
November, a result that has seen
him rediscover his form and he is
now inside the top 100 on the Race
to Dubai standings.
Walker
Cup tickets
Tickets are now on sale for the
Walker Cup match which will
be played at Royal Lytham and
St Anne’s on September 12-13.
The 45th Walker Cup will see
the Great Britain and Ireland team
look to win back the trophy after the
USA’s convincing 17-9 victory in
the 2013 match at the National Golf
Links of America in Southampton,
New York.
Notable players that have
competed in the Walker Cup include
the 2015 Masters Champion Jordan
Spieth, of the United States, who
won both his singles matches at
the 2011 Walker Cup at Royal
Aberdeen, and world number one
and 2014 Open Champion Rory
McIlroy who played in the 2007
match at Royal County Down.
Daily tickets cost £30 for adults
while juniors under 16 years
of age will be admitted free
of charge when accompanied
by an adult. Tickets can be
purchased online at
tickets.randa.org or
tel 01334 460 000
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Graeme
Storm after
winning
the Footgolf
Challenge
Putting his foot in it
Footgolf puts Hartlepool pro on course for a good year
A
new coach - and a game of Footgolf
- have inspired Graeme Storm to
ignite his European Tour season.
Storm had made just three
cuts in 12 tournaments when he teed up in the
BMW PGA Championship, but he arrived at
Wentworth with a trophy already in the bag and
a new coach behind him.
Storm’s reward for changing his
coach was a tie for 33rd place in
Barcelona. He then followed a first
round 78 with a superb 64 on his
way to a tie for 22nd place and a
cheque for more than €50,000 at the
PGA Championship.
That result took his winnings
in two events to nearly €70,000
and up to 131st in the
rankings - a big step towards
retaining his card, something
which he left very late
last year.
The 37-year-old from
Hartlepool said: “I got
chatting to Jamie Gough,
the brother of the former
Everton defender Richard
and I liked what he
was saying.
“I asked him to take a
look at a few things and he
took me back to basics. I’ve
been trying to get back to
drawing the ball, which is my
natural shape but I’ve struggled with that for the
last 18 months.
“I felt I just needed a change of scenery with
regard to my coach and it looks like it’s paying
off. After a slow start to the year it’s something to
build on and with Jamie always on tour, it’s good
to know he is there to talk to.”
Storm’s preparations for Wentworth were also
a little unusual in that he went and won a threeman battle of Footgolf at Ritchings Park, 10 miles
from Wentworth.
The Rockliffe Hall Tour Professional said:
“GAC, one of my sponsors who have a base on
Teesside, lined up this game with two other
Race to Dubai golfers, George Coetzee and
Byeong Hun An.
“I could not kick the ball to start with then
I birdied the last hole to win. It was a bit of fun
and I enjoyed it. It’s totally different to golf and
perhaps that helped me to relax.”
However, it must have been a little dispiriting
to turn up at Wentworth and post a first round
78, but Storm followed with a superb 64 and he
nearly holed-in-one again on tour - which would
have brought his second BMW i18 car in a matter
of months.
“I only missed two fairways in the 78 so the
signs were there,” said Storm. “I actually didn’t
drive it as well in the 64 as I did the day before
but I made some good putts in the second round.
“I was close to holing out twice and it was a
bit surreal after winning the car last time. There
were lots of ‘oohs and aahs’ and both shots were
pretty good.”
Graeme Storm is an ambassador for global logistics provider GAC.
For more information visit www.gac.com.
TEEINGOFF
EuroPro’s
summer swing
Region’s courses ready to welcome Tour
T
he HotelPlanner.com
PGA EuroPro Tour’s 2015
season is in full swing and
after the recent Dawson
and Sanderson Foreign Exchange
Classic on Longhirst Hall’s Dawson
Course, golf fans in the North
East have three further visits from
Europe’s leading development tour
to look forward to this summer.
The European Tour’s satellite in
the UK and Ireland has an August
triple-header in the region with
a return to Slaley Hall (August
12-14) followed by a debut on the
schedule for Close House (August
19-21) and the first four-day event
on a European Tour satellite taking
place at Moor Allerton (August
26-29). All three events are offering
free spectator entry throughout
the tournament.
Offering direct access to the
Challenge Tour through the final
Order of Merit, PGA EuroPro Tour
players will compete for more than
£800,000 of prize money in 2015,
with the top five golfers at the end
of the season awarded a category
on the 2016 Challenge Tour.
Highlights of the tour can be
seen on Sky Sports 2 every Tuesday,
with coverage from Longhirst Hall
broadcast on June 16 with repeats
Chris Halley
on June 17.
Among the region’s players on
this year’s tour, Malton & Norton
Golf Club’s Chris Halley has made
a strong start to his second season
on the EuroPro, finishing in a tie
for fifth in the opening event of the
season at Celtic Manor.
For more from the EuroPro Tour go to www.europrotour.com
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TEEINGOFF
Community
golfs
together
Hanif Malik, Howard
Sommers, Naveen Ahmed and
Danny Taylor.
Leeds Golf Centre has launched
a Community Cup tournament
in a bid to strengthen cultural
relationships within the city.
The tournament - which it is
hoped will become an annual event
- saw members from the Muslim
and Jewish communities come
together at Leeds Golf Centre for an
18-hole team challenge.
The two teams of 12 competed
for the Community Cup on the
Wike Ridge championship course
and finished the day with a meal in
Nineteen Bar and Grill.
The idea for the tournament
came from Naveen Ahmed,
managing director of Parklane Group
of Companies, who own Leeds
Golf Centre, and his friends Altaf
Sadiq, Jeremy Barnett and Danny
Taylor, who are both members of the
Jewish Golf Society.
Naveen explained: “We were
playing golf one day and we
thought, ‘wouldn’t it be great to start
an annual golfing tournament to
strengthen our local community’.
“Leeds is home to a diverse range
of communities and we wanted to
create an event which celebrates
and builds relationships between
cultures and ethnicities. The day
went really well and everyone really
enjoyed it!
“Following this year’s success we
plan to run the tournament annually
with the hope of expanding it across
the country and getting different
societies involved.”
Danny added: “It was a unique
occasion, enjoyed by all, and played
in the best of golfing traditions,
despite the autumnal conditions!”
To find out more about the
Community Cup, contact Leeds Golf
Centre - www.leedsgolfcentre.com 20 NORTHERN GOLFER
Matthew
Webb
Webb snares
top trophy
Bedlingtonshire assistant pro dominates championship
M
atthew Webb gave himself a
career boost - and kept his
investors happy - by winning the
Galvin Green PGA Assistants
Championship Midlands qualifying event.
The Bedingtonshire assistant pro travelled
from the North East to top the leaderboard at
The Warwickshire course at Leek Wootton.
He dominated the event to record a four
under-par round of 68 to win by three shots
ahead of Adam Keogh of Spalding Golf Club.
Webb headed the 16 qualifiers for the
£32,500 grand final to be held at Coventry Golf
Club on August 5-7.
Webb, 25, is the son of Bedlingtonshire’s
head professional Marcus Webb who devised an
investment scheme to get Matthew started in
the professional game.
Individuals can buy into a share option and
then profit from a potentially successful career.
“That’s been going for about three years
now and I’d really like to thank people for
getting behind me and sticking with me,” said
Matthew. “What it has done is get me into the
sport as a professional when I started out fulltime and playing events on the Sunshine Tour
for example.
“Now I’ve decided to do the PGA course
here, working with my dad as an assistant at
Bedlingtonshire.” The win is a welcome return for
Webb after a couple of bouts of injury and illness
- he suffered from tendonitis in his hands thanks
to practising too much and then a stomach bug
hit him at EuroPro Tour qualifying.
But he has been in the winner’s circle already
this season - proving he is a good investment.
He finished joint first in the NE/NW PGA
Westerhope Pro-am playing with local team
Pringle Building.
A five under-par 67 tied him with Sam Oliver
(Linden Hall/Macdonald Hotels) while his team
finished on 130 to be tied third.
He has also been making waves on the Gecko
Tour in Spain in the last 12 months. He was
the top British player with a sixth place finish
(75-69-73) on the first week of the Tour and he
put together a string of decent results to finish
seventh in the final order of merit.
Those results included a top 20 at Rio Real
in Marbella, 10th place at Torrequebdra and
Parador (Malaga) and a tie for third place at
Lauro where he was six under-par despite
finding the water at the last hole.
That seventh spot in the ranking brought
an invitation to play on the Alps Tour in France
this month, but Webb had to turn it down
because of tournaments here he is already
committed to.
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mini tour
Sponsors support search for future stars
D
irect Golf has teamed up
with the Peter Cowen
Golf Academy to sponsor
the Yorkshire junior mini
tour this summer.
Based on eight tournaments in
Yorkshire, both Cowen and Direct
Golf are keen to attract entries from
further afield.
The tournaments are played over
nine holes from the blue junior
tees and are for golfers aged six to
16 with parents and grandparents
encouraged to be involved and act
as caddies.
The best five scores from the
eight tournaments will count in
the Direct Golf Order of Merit
and tournaments are planned
at Tankersley, Phoenix, Wath,
Rotherham, Waterfront, Bondhay,
Grange Park and Doncaster.
One of Europe’s best golf
coaches, Cowen has always
been interested in, and backed,
junior golf and his academy is
all embracing.
Last year saw visits by a party
of disabled children, including a
gifted autistic player who has a
Matt Fitzpatrick
decent chance of representing Team
GB in the next Paralympics and
many youngsters have taken their
first steps towards taking up the
game at his Rotherham base.
The academy has produced
players including Danny Willett and
Matt Fitzpatrick to name only a
couple and many big names still
come to him for advice.
For more information on the PCGA junior tour go to www.pcgajuniortour.com To celebrate the return of the
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Edwards
on song
Simon Edwards
Simon Edwards led from start to
finish in the PGA North England’s
Golf Coast Pro-am, and the
Windermere professional saved the
best until last when he completed
the final five holes at Royal
Birkdale with three birdies and an
eagle to pick up the trophy.
His six under-par 66 put him
out of sight of the rest of the field in
the 54-hole competition in which
he posted a round of 71 in the first
round at Formby and matched the
figure in the next at West Lancs.
Edwards, who ended the week
with an eight under-par total,
finished 10 strokes ahead of
runner-up Aran Wainwright from the
Mid Yorks.
It was his second win of the
year following his success in the
Golfbreaks.com Pinehurst Pro-am
at Kiawah Island’s Turtle Point
last month.
208 Simon Edwards (Windermere)
218 Aran Wainwright (Mid Yorks)
221 Gareth Jones (Sandiway)
221 Danny Greenwood
(Forest Pines)
244 John Wells (Snainton) &
Scott Jackson (Disley)
Coming up
Roses
Yorkshire battled back from a 5-1
foursomes deficit to force a 9-9
draw in the Northern Counties
League Roses clash at Hillside.
Darryl Berry, the Yorkshire
skipper, said: “We were 5-1 up
against Lancashire back in 2012
and they came back to win so we
knew turnarounds could happen.”
And indeed it did with Yorkshire
taking 4.5 points from the first five
singles on their way to a draw.
22 NORTHERN GOLFER
Members and guests at Terry Wright’s retirement dinner
Flamborough’s
new chairman
Arthur
Woodhouse
Wright time to go
Stalwart bows out after sterling service at Flamborough
F
lamborough Head chairman Terry
Wright has stepped down after an
eventful 40 years on the Yorkshire
club’s committee.
Terry joined Flamborough in 1968 and was
elected to the committee and became vicecaptain three years later.
He was instrumental - with the help
and support of many others - in raising a
substantial amount of money which enabled
the purchase of the land and the building of the
new clubhouse.
Captain in 1978 when the new clubhouse
opened, Terry became house chairman the
following year and then course chairman, a post
he held for 27 years.
During that time he negotiated the purchase
of more land from Mr and Mrs Robert Lamb
to extend and develop the first tee and second
and 18th greens as well as the installation of an
irrigation system.
In 2006 he was unanimously elected
chairman, but now he has decided it is time
to stand down. He is succeeded by Arthur
Woodhouse, a member of 20 years and a former
Rabbits and Club Captain as well as House and
Building Chairman.
Other members elected to the management
committee are Derek Hill (House and Buildings
Chairman) Pete Dyson (Course Chairman)
plus Mrs Pat Thornton and Chris Feast
(committee members).
Title still up for grabs
Former European Tour player Nick Ludwell
and Tim Dykes shared the spoils in the
penultimate PGA in England Wales (North)
Mansell Finishes Series at West Lancs. They both grabbed an eagle, Selby’s
Ludwell on the second to go with five birdies
and Penrith’s Dykes on the fifth as he made
gains on six other holes.
It is still all to play for in the Order of
Merit and with 400 points at stake in the
final fixture at St Anne’s Old Links the top
11 professionals will all be in contention.
Ringway’s David Brunton is 43 points ahead
of second place Dykes with Bramall Park’s
Oliver Whiteley lying third - 21 adrift.
67 Nick Ludwell (Selby), Tim Dykes (Penrith)
69 Simon Edwards (Windermere), Oliver
Whiteley (Bramall Park), Jon Bevan
(Rhos on Sea), James Wilkinson (Brampton)
70 Ryan O’Neil (Penwortham)
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Festival
success
Five-day event attracts fantastic support
C
lose to 2,500 competitive
rounds of golf and
somewhere in the region
of a quarter of a million
shots briefly sums up the 2015
Bridlington Golf Festival.
The figures highlight how big the
five-day event has become since
1994, and the 22nd Festival was
clearly a success for the hundreds
of golfers who visited the town
to compete in 13 tournaments
over Bridlington’s three courses Bridlington, The Bridlington Links
and Flamborough Head.
The week started and ended in
glorious sunshine but in between
golfers battled gale force winds,
heavy rainfall, hailstorms, and
bitterly cold temperatures.
However, the event was enjoyed
by all those who travelled to
Bridlington from all corners of the
UK and also some keen golfers
from Holland.
Golf Festival officials thanked
East Yorkshire Events for their
support as well as Lloyd Dowson
Chartered Accountants, St Quintin
Arms (Harpham), Thorpe Hall
Caravan and Camping Site, Buffalo’s
Fine American Restaurant, The
Ransdale Hotel and Flamborough
Head Golf Club B&B.
More than 60 youngsters took
part in the festival curtain raiser
and the highlight of the day was an
exceptional nett 59 from Rudding
Park member E Chesnick while
talented youngster Matty Raybould
Max Brompton withFlamborough Head captain Kevin Davey
from Bridlington Golf Club won the
best gross prize with an excellent
score of 69.
Georgina Hirst won the Silver
Salver for recording the best girl’s
score of the day with a fantastic
score of 75 (nett 70). The team prize
was won by Flamborough Head’s
line-up of Georgina, Jenson Stork,
Daniel Artley and Lara Ackers.
The Trophy for the best score
from a player 12 and under was
won for the second year in a row
by Jenson Stork who scored an
impressive nett 63 while Amy
Staveley (Scarborough SC) won the
girls nine-hole competition with
28 points and the boys event was
won by Jo Louge (Scarborough SC)
with 29 points. The team of Ryan
Galloway, Samuel Boyes, Harry
Hornby, Ross Danby and Lucas
Markwell won the five hole team
scramble competition.
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August
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24 NORTHERN GOLFER
The glass-fronted workshop at Ulitmate Golf
Driving for change
Bringing Carlisle’s facilities back to their best
T
here is a new team in
charge at Carlisle Driving
Range aiming to restore
the popular venue to the
standing it once enjoyed.
The man behind the changes
is former Arcot Hall assistant
professional Daniel Hookway, who
took over the complex just under
a year ago and has worked hard to
bring it up to scratch with his team
of Jimmy Latta, Stuart Rafferty and
Russ Jones.
Currently re-branded as Ultimate
Golf, it is set to be re-named Tour
Performance Golf as improvements
continue to be made. Hookway said:
“From day one it was clear that we
needed to present a new identity with
a new set of values to draw old and
new customers to the site.
“That’s why the range was
rebranded as ‘Ultimate Golf - Your
One Stop Golf Centre’ and why we’re
in the process of changing to Tour
Performance Golf which is a real
statement of intent for what we are
looking to achieve.
“This area as a whole is largely
starved of decent practice facilities
with the council-run Swifts driving
range being closed for six months
in the winter and no other floodlit
driving ranges until you hit Penrith
or Dumfries.”
Hookway and his team began by
updating the essentials - new balls
and mats followed by new lighting
and a fresh paint job.
More recent improvements
include a robotic ball collector and
grass cutter while new bay dividers
and targets, including nets that light
up. Next year several par three holes
with all weather tees and greens and a
mini-golf course are planned.
“We have the only European Tourtrained club technician in the region
in Jimmy Latta,” said Hookway. “He
has a wealth of experience building
and fitting clubs for the best players
in the world while working for Srixon/
Cleveland, Callaway and Ben Hogan.”
Latta’s input has led to the range
being selected as Orka Golf ’s national
fitting centre for the North of England
and Scotland based in a workshop
renovated to the specifications of a
European Tour truck.
It is possible to watch Latta
building clubs first hand as there is
a glass wall to the workshop while
alongside is a high-spec indoor fitting
bay with Foresight Sports GC2 with
HMT launch monitor.
Top-rate instruction is available
with PGA Teaching Professional
Stuart Rafferty as well as Daniel and
the newest member of the team
is Titleist Performance Institute
trainer Russ Jones, who has been
involved with pros Zane Scotland and
Adam Gee.
“We have recently refurbished a
training room for Russ to deliver his
services where he provides screening,
training and remedial massage
services designed to improve your
performance on the course through
strengthening, stabilising, mobilising
and injury prevention. Our focus
remains to deliver tour-level services.”
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PROFILE
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26 NORTHERN GOLFER
PRO -FILE
STEVEN
FAWCITT
AGE: 29
TURNED PRO: 2009
H/CAP: TWO
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS
I finished third in the PGA Assistants Championship and
had a couple of top 10s on the EuroPro Tour, but didn’t
do much as an amateur. I got into coaching and turned
pro after I’d been to university. I have a few players on my
database including Harry Bateman who has won on the
EuroPro Tour.
WHAT ARE YOU DOING THIS SEASON?
I’m heavily involved in the Qhotels junior initiative
at Slaley Hall and we’ve been awarded TripAdvisor’s
Certificate of Excellence thanks to our state-of-the-art
facilities including the floodlit academy, dedicated short
game areas, covered bays and top golf courses.
We have made incredible strides with our junior section
including offering free junior membership at Slaley if their
parents are members, which is fantastic and can only help
improve the future for the resort and the game. We hope
that it will encourage parents to bring their children along
for coaching and membership is available for £100 to
juniors if their parents aren’t members.”
HOW DID YOU GET INTO THE GAME?
I picked up playing the game from my dad, Bob. When we
moved to Morpeth, my dad and our next door neighbour
starting playing golf and then me and my brother joined
them and took them on. I actually had a hole-in-one when
I was 12 just after starting to play...and I haven’t had one
since, but I live in hope!
I didn’t really think about golf as a career until I’d been
to Northumbria University and gained a BA (Hons) in
Sports Coaching. Then I turned my attention to coaching
golf specifically and then a job at Morpeth with the late
Martin Jackson came along and I qualified as a PGA
Professional in 2011 and in April 2014 I began working
at Slaley Hall as the Head Teaching Professional.
WHAT DOES THE FUTURE HOLD?
I really enjoy coaching at all levels but I would like to
eventually work on the European Tour with some of the
top players.
CHRISPAISLEY
Chris
Paisley
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TOUR LIFE
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CHRIS PAISLEY
Since my last column I have played two tournaments:
The AfrAsia Air Mauritius Open and the Spanish Open. I
made the cut in both events and finished 29th and 49th
respectively. I feel like my game is in fantastic shape
and that some great results are coming.
This is a far cry from two years ago when I had far
less trust in my own ability to go and compete on the
European Tour. I have developed a lot both physically
and mentally since my first year on tour in 2013. Following a reasonably successful trip to Mauritius
and Spain, I was fortunate to be part of the Children’s
Heart Unit Fund (CHUF) golf day at Close House.
Graham Wylie has a very close connection to the charity
and the amount of money he has helped raise over the
years is incredible. It was an honour to be part of the
event once again. I consider myself extremely fortunate
to be associated with an organisation that places so
much emphasis on giving back to the community. Many
of the auction items caught my eye but everyone else’s
generosity far outweighed my budget!
Unfortunately, my current category means I have
missed out on playing the BMW at Wentworth and the
Irish Open. I would have loved to have had the chance
to play but I am using these two weeks off to refresh and
sharpen my game ahead of two tournaments in Sweden
and Austria. I have spent a lot of time with my brother,
Andy, and my coach, Andrew Nicholson too. Since my
game is in good shape we have only made the odd tiny
tweak here and there. I have also been working hard in
the gym following some issues with my back in Spain.
Thankfully, it feels 100% again.
The best news is that my wife, Keri, just arrived from
America and is going to travel with me for the rest of the
year. This
is something
we areGOLF
both very
excited about.
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Doing it the
Pennine Way
Beautiful courses fly the flag for tourism trail
F
ixby and Woodsome Hall
are flying the flag for
Yorkshire in a new trail
aimed at the travelling
golfer which has been launched to
coincide with the 50th anniversary
of the Pennine Way.
The Pennines Golf Trail,
showcasing five scenic courses in
the foothills of England’s mountain
spine, aims to attract golfers from
home and abroad who appreciate
scenic beauty as they line up
their putts.
Straddling both sides of
the Pennines in Yorkshire and
Lancashire, the trail has been
designed so visitors can choose
to play all the courses over a
week while enjoying some of the
legendary northern hospitality
along with some fine local cuisine. The five clubs in the group are
Fixby (Huddersfield), Woodsome
Hall, Clitheroe , Manchester and
Pleasington. The cluster provides
great value for money, as well as a
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Mason’s
sure to
go Close
Dean Bailey catches up with 25-time European Senior Tour
winner, and three-time PGA Championship winner, Carl
Mason ahead of his trip to Close House
T
he renaissance of the senior tour is one
of golf ’s greatest stories in recent years.
From Bernhard Langer’s reign at the top
to Tom Watson almost winning the Open
Championship in 2009, and most recently Colin
Montgomerie winning three senior majors, the list
of players who have enjoyed arguably the best days
of their careers having passed the 50 mark grows
every year.
For Englishman Carl Mason, who won two titles
on the European Tour in 1994, turning 50 brought
with it a run of success which saw him win 25 times
in the nine years from 2003-2011, and break the
records for total wins and career earnings on the
European Senior Tour.
“I had a wonderful run when I joined the
European Senior Tour in 2003 and it was an
incredible experience to win so many events – I
never expected to have such a prolonged period of
success,” says Mason. “The golden period to win on
the European Senior Tour is in your 50s and I was
lucky enough to have a fantastic run. I turn 62 in June
and although I find it tougher I’m still competing and
there are, hopefully, still a few wins in me.”
Mason proved he can still compete with the
‘young guns’ on tour with a season opening eighth
place finish at the SSE Enterprise Wales Senior Open
in May. “It was a hard week in Wales on a tough
course and in very tough conditions.
“For my first tournament in seven months I
was very pleased with the result. I still love playing
tournament golf, even in wet and windy conditions
– although I do hope the weather is a little kinder at
Close House,” Mason adds.
Mason was back playing the European Senior
Tour following the winter break and is confident
that he can add a 26th title to his résumé. “It was
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nice to get up among the top 10 in Wales so early
in the year. My game was good and hopefully I can
get a bit of form going as we get into a run of events
this summer.
“When you get to this age you have to keep
playing and work hard to stay fit and healthy. I do an
hour and a half in the gym five days a week and play
nine holes or so every afternoon. You have to work
out nowadays. The guys on the senior tour have really
been taking their fitness seriously and doing more off
the course in the last 10 years.
“I didn’t start working out properly until I was
50 so had a bit of catching up to do. I’m very happy
that I did because its kept me playing and competing
into my 60s.
“It worked for me, but I did once pass Tom
Watson on the way to the gym and he told me I didn’t
need to work out, playing golf every day was his
secret. Each guy is different, I suppose,” he adds.
Mason tees it up at Close House for the ISPS
Handa PGA Seniors Championship looking to
add a fourth Seniors Championship title to his CV
following victories in 2004, 2007 and 2009.
“As one of the only four-round events in our
season, it really is like a major championship for us.
Because of that, it was one I wanted to win right from
the start of my time of the European Senior Tour and
I’ve been lucky enough to win it three times.”
Mason last won the PGA Seniors Championship
at Slaley Hall - having won at Stoke by Neyland in
2007 and Carden Park in 2004. “To add a fourth title
at Close House would be really special,” he says.
“It would be fantastic to add a second win to my
CV in the North East too.
“We’ve always had good support in the North
East, with big crowds turning out every time we are
in the area. It’s important to keep coming back to the
North East, whether it’s the senior tour or, hopefully,
the main tour in the near future. It’s good for the
game, and our profile, and for the fans.
“It’s also very important to me to support events
played in England. We are coming off the back of a
tough time for golf tournaments across Europe. We
should have more tournaments in England, across
all the tours, and I would love to see six or seven tour
events in England every year.”
With thousands of fans expected at Close House
over the four days, what, in Mason’s opinion, can they
look forward too?
“Hopefully the spectators will get something out
of seeing guys who aren’t trying to obliterate the golf
ball on every shot. Our game isn’t all about length;
it’s about skill - more of an old-fashioned game if you
like. There is a lot more skill in the game with the way
we move the golf ball up and down and left to right
and I hope the guys will take away a bit of that and
understand that the game isn’t all about hitting it
as hard as you can and heading off to find it. I hope
they’ll find that entertaining and that we have an
exciting finish on Sunday.”
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Carl Mason with the
PGA Seniors Championship Trophy
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Who to watch
Sam Torrance
Born 1953, Scotland
Turned pro 1970
A two-time winner of the PGA Seniors Championship (2005 and 2006)
and a 21-time European Tour winner. Torrance won the European Senior
Tour Order of Merit for the third time in 2009; that season including
victory in the DGM Barbados Open, his 11th on the Senior Tour. He
captained the European Ryder Cup team to victory at The Belfry in
2002, 17 years after holing the winning putt at the same venue. He was
awarded an MBE in 1996 for services to golf and the OBE seven years
later for his inspired Ryder Cup captaincy.
Fraser
Mann
Born 1960, Scotland
Turned pro 1979
Winner of the 2015 Senior PGA Professional Championship, Mann
secured him a place in the ISPS Handa PGA Seniors Championship in
May this year. The Carnoustie-based club professional eased to a six-shot
victory in the event at Foxhills having last played the Tour in 2011.
Gary
Wolstenholme
Born 1960, England
Turned pro 2008
Wolstenholme had two top-10
finishes in 2014, including a tiedsixth place in the French Riviera
Masters. A three-time winner
on the European Senior Tour, he
was the 2011 Senior Tour Rookie
of the Year having enjoyed a
successful amateur career, playing
in six Walker Cups and winning
the Amateur Championship in
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James
Graeme Mark
Born 1953, England
Turned pro 1976
Bell
Born 1963, England
Turned pro 1997
Bell joined fellow North East professional John Harrison on the Senior
Tour after winning one of the six cards on offer at the 2015 Qualifying
School. The Hartlepool golfer missed out on a full card in 2014 after
leading at the halfway mark, but secured his spot this time. Attached to
Eaglescliffe Golf Club, he will be hoping to make an impact having played
a handful of events to date; his best finish a share of 26th place in the
PGA Seniors Championship.
The European Ryder Cup captain in 1999 at Brookline, James won his
second European Senior Tour title in 2009 when he defeated former
Ryder Cup teammate Eamonn Darcy in a play-off to win the inaugural
Mallorca Senior Open. He became the first European golfer to win a
US Senior Major Championship in 2008 at the Ford Senior Players
Championship – adding to 18 European Tour titles. James has also made
seven Ryder Cup appearances.
Paul Wesselingh
Born 1960, England
Turned pro 2008
Wesselingh won twice in 2014, at
the MCB Tour Championship and
the WINSTONgolf Senior Open.
He capped a remarkable rise from
long-time club professional to
the summit of Senior Tour when
he topped the Order of Merit
after winning four times in 2013
including successfully defending
his title in the PGA Seniors
Championship with a magnificent
final round 64 before triumphing
in the Bad Ragaz PGA Seniors
Open. He has represented GB&I
against the US in the PGA Cup on
six occasions and won both the
European Club Pros and Glenmuir
PGA Professional Championship.
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Des Smyth
John Harrison
Born 1953, Ireland
Turned pro 1974
Born 1960, England
Turned pro 1977
A five-time winner on the Senior Tour,
Smyth’s last win came at the 2012
Travis Perkins plc Senior Masters at
Woburn. That win, plus another five top10 finishes saw him claim ninth in the
Order of Merit in 2012. He won three
Senior Tour titles in 2005, including
the SBC Classic and the Liberty Mutual
Legends of Golf on the Champions Tour,
rounding off the season by lifting the
Arcapita Seniors Tour Championship.
Harrison made a successful return to
the Qualifying School to secure another
season on the Senior Tour in 2015
having previously joined the Senior
Tour by winning the 2009 Qualifying
School. He has enjoyed a number of solid
performances in the years since, with his
best finish to date a share of third place
in the 2012 Van Lanschot Senior Open in
The Netherlands. He made it a hat-trick
of Harrisons on the Senior Tour in 2009,
following in the footsteps of elder brothers
Philip and Steve. Played on The European
Tour in 1984 but has spent most of his
career concentrating on his job as a club
professional at Matfen Hall. As a coach
his successes include two-time European
Tour winner Kenneth Ferrie.
Santiago Luna
Born 1962, Spain
Turned pro 1982
Winner of the ISPS Handa PGA Seniors Championship at Stoke by
Nayland in 2014, Luna claimed his maiden Senior Tour title in his
sixth appearance when he held off home favourite Sam Torrance over
the Torrance Course at Fairmont St Andrews in 2013. He also finished
runner-up in the French Riviera Masters and the English Senior Open as
he ended his rookie campaign in eighth position on the Order of Merit.
The Spaniard’s maiden victory in St Andrews came 15 years after one of
his career highlights also occurred at the Home of Golf when he defeated
Tiger Woods in the semi-final of the 1998 Alfred Dunhill Cup (71 to 72).
He reached the milestone of 500 appearances on The European Tour at
the 2005 Abama Open de Canarias.
David J Russell
Born 1954, England
Turned pro 1973
Russell landed his maiden Senior Tour
title after nine runner-up finishes when
he won the PGA Seniors Championship
in 2010. Four other top ten finishes saw
him end the year in sixth place on the
Order of Merit. Part of Ian Woosnam’s
backroom team at the 2006 Ryder
Cup, he has recently focused on golf
course design, notably at Archerfield
in Scotland. A two-time European Tour
winner, Russell is also chairman of the
Senior Tour Committee.
Gordon Brand Jnr
Born 1958, Scotland
Turned pro 1981
Brand captured his second Senior
Tour title in 2013 with victory in the
WINSTONgolf Senior Open in Germany;
his first coming at the Jersey Classic in
2011. He won twice in his rookie year
on European Tour in 1982 and played
in the Ryder Cup in 1987 and 1989,
helping Europe to win the trophy on US
soil for first time. He recorded a total of
eight European Tour victories between
1982 and 1993.
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Home
comfort
SENIORSCHAMPIONSHIP
John Harrison and Graeme
Bell hope to take advantage of
local knowledge in their quest
to win the ISPS Handa PGA
Seniors Championship
N
John Harrison and Graeme Bell (inset)
orth East duo John Harrison and
Graeme Bell made sure of their places
in the ISPS Handa PGA Seniors
Championship at Close House
with gritty performances in the Senior PGA
Professional Championship.
While Matfen Hall’s Harrison and Eaglescliffe
pro Bell were expected to be given sponsor’s
invites, they removed any doubts at Foxhills
Golf Club in May with both players finishing in
the top 10.
Harrison finished in a tie for fourth place
in the event as Scotland’s Fraser Mann sealed
his first victory in style. Bell will be a little
disappointed as he faded after leading the field
at the end of the first round.
Mann, who also qualified for the Close House
tournament, eased to a six-shot victory at the
Surrey club as Harrison shot rounds of 71 and
74 to be in the mix before a closing round of 79
pushed him back down the field.
Bell led after a first round 70 with Harrison
close behind but rounds of 78 and 77 scuppered
his chances as Mann shot rounds of 73, 70
and 73.
“I played well all the way until the 18th,” said
Bell of his opening round where he eagled the
third and birdied the fifth, 12, 13 and 15.
“I hit a good tee shot and a good second shot,
yet it went out of bounds. I took it back and hit
another good shot and that almost went out of
bounds too.
“I then managed to duff a chip and hole a chip
for a six. There may have been some doom and
gloom but I think I got away with it as it looked
like being at least an eight!”
Harrison has had to bide his time for a return
to the senior tournament scene and he expressed
his delight at being back competing with his
PGA peers.
“Having been a PGA Professional all my career
I missed not playing in the flagship event, which
this is for me, so it’s nice to be back.
”It’s also nice to have qualified on merit for
the tournament at Close House. I’ll be playing
in everything I can manage this year - although I
may have to qualify for the Seniors Open.
“I played really well at times at Foxhills and
was pleased as it’s the best I’ve played in a while.
I putted very poorly and that was down to being
a bit rusty.”
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The ISPS Handa PGA Seniors
Championship will be played over
the Lee Westwood Colt Course at
Close House, which was designed
by Scott Macpherson and officially
opened by Westwood in May 2011.
For the championship, the course
will be played from the 10th,
meaning players will start and
end their rounds around the PGA
Academy and Exhibition Village.
Here’s our guide to where
to watch all the action.
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COLT COURSE
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2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
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YARDS
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4
3
4
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36
471
399
184
462
175
373
412
526
430
3,432
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13
14
15
16
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397
355
340
199
370
422
483
437
206
3,209
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KEY HOLES
HOLE 4 PAR FOUR, 462 YARDS
HOLE 5 PAR THREE, 175 YARDS
HOLE 9 PAR FOUR, 430 YARDS
The fourth is the first opportunity to open
your shoulders with a generous fairway to this
462 yard hole. The fairway is well defended by
four large bunkers, with two more protecting the
front and right of the green. When the flag is front
right, play right. Otherwise, the left side is best.
Par is often a good score here.
Another strong par three, the fifth is one of the
most picturesque holes on the Colt Course.
The shortest hole on the course, as well as the
smallest green, this one may yield a birdie or two.
At the ninth, there is more trouble than just the
fairway bunker to the left of the fairway. A
Ha-Ha wall runs down the right side of the
fairway - which is also the best side to approach
the green from - giving you a shot to the green up
its long axis. The green is well guarded with a wall
and a bunker, as well as the old Ice Lake around
the right side and stretching across its front edge.
HOLE 12 PAR FOUR, 340 YARDS
HOLE 18 PAR THREE, 206 YARDS
EXHIBITION VILLAGE & GOLF FUN ZONE
The final hole and one of the most difficult on the
course, the 18th plays very long from the back
tee. The green is narrow from front to back but
with lots of room on the right half of the green.
The Exhibition Village, located around the PGA
Academy at Close House – adjacent to the first
tee, hosts a number of activities for all the family
as well as hospitality units and amenities.
Exhibitors include Collingwood Insurance,
Speedflex, Hadrian Healthcare, A-Belco, Mill
Volvo, Benfield, Lloyd BMW, Antalya Golf Resort
and the Close House retail outlet.
There is also a Heineken bar, golf simulator,
and the chance to sharpen your game with a free
lesson from a PGA Professional.
Meanwhile, the Golf Fun Zone gives you the
chance to test your putting skills with a series of
challenges (£2 charge).
The 12th is a great example of a risk and reward
hole. Played downwind, some players may take
on the green and many will have short pitches
to a two-tiered green which affords breathtaking
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Behind the scenes
We catch up with the men leading Close House, the PGA and the European
Senior Tour ahead of the ISPS Handa PGA Seniors Championship
JOHN
GLENDINNING
SANDY
JONES
ANDY STUBBS
CHIEF EXECUTIVE
THE PGA
MANAGING DIRECTOR
EUROPEAN SENIOR
TOUR
It is an honour to host the ISPS Handa
PGA Seniors Championship at Close
House, just 10 years into our journey.
To gain the support and recognition
of the PGA and European Seniors
Tour is a seal of approval for the hard
work and dedication everyone here
has shown.
Close House has come a long way
since I first drove down the hill to the
house and original golf course.
From running the golf club in a
Portakabin with a fridge, my desk and
a leaky roof to having two fantastic golf
courses endorsed by Lee Westwood,
the North’s first PGA Academy,
award-winning hospitality, and now a
flagship European Seniors Tour event
is incredible.
This championship is an opportunity
to showcase our facilities and the
quality of the Lee Westwood Colt
Course to an audience across Europe,
as well as welcoming golf fans to
the club.
I hope the fans enjoy the week and
I look forward to welcoming them, and
more, back to Close House – whether
they take on the Lee Westwood Colt
Course or try the game for the first time
at the PGA Academy and the Yearling
par three course.
This year marks a new chapter in
the event’s history with a first visit to
Close House which, in 10 years under
the ownership of Graham Wylie, has
become one of the UK’s finest venues.
The Lee Westwood Colt Course will
provide a fitting test for the cream of
European seniors golf as they contest
one of the most popular events on the
European Senior Tour schedule.
North East golf fans are among the
most passionate and knowledgeable
and I know they will enjoy cheering
on the household names eager to
get their names engraved on the
magnificent trophy.
The standing of this Championship
has been reflected in the great
champions that have lifted the trophy
and it is wonderful to see two-time
champion Sam Torrance back in
the field.
After so many years on Tour most of
the players have enjoyed, and endured,
everything that competitive golf can
throw at them and perhaps because
of that experience they play golf with
a smile.
It certainly makes for a wonderful
atmosphere and I’m sure there will
be plenty to smile about as the action
unfolds at Close House.
The ISPS Handa PGA Seniors
Championship is always one of the
highlights of the European Senior Tour
schedule and the only 72-hole event
outside the Senior majors.
Part of the appeal of this prestigious
Championship has been the venues
that have hosted it, and in Close
House, we are delighted to be visiting
another outstanding course for the first
time. This Championship has a strong
association with the North East of
England and we have always received
magnificent support from the crowds
here, so it is always special to return to
this part of the world.
Last year, Santiago Luna joined the
illustrious list of winners with his twoshot victory at The Stoke by Nayland
Hotel, Golf & Spa, and he defends
his title against another impressive
field of former Ryder Cup players and
European Tour champions.
Our thanks must go to everyone
at Close House for welcoming us,
while we are extremely grateful
to ISPS Handa for sponsoring the
Championship, and our colleagues and
friends and the PGA for organising the
event. We hope you enjoy watching
some of the legends of the game
in action.
MANAGING DIRECTOR
CLOSE HOUSE
38 NORTHERN GOLFER
PGASENIORSCHAMPIONSHIP
PGA Academy
at Close House
Lee Westwood opens North’s first PGA Academy
C
lose House attached
professional Lee
Westwood officially
launched the new PGA
Academy as part of his first visit to
the club of the season.
The PGA Academy is home
to golf tuition, practice facilities
and custom fitting at Close House
and facilities include a floodlit
driving range, designated long and
short game practice areas, a SAM
PuttLab analysis system and a high
performance custom-fitting centre
with the use the Flightscope balltracking radar system.
Robert Maxfield, joint chief
operating officer and property and
commercial director for the PGA,
said: “The new PGA Academy at
Close House is a fantastic addition
to the family of PGA branded golf
academies and courses around
the world.
“The Academy reinforces the
relationship between The PGA and
Close House, whose vision under
Graham Wylie’s leadership is set
to become one of the finest golf
facilities in the UK.”
Wylie said: “This is an exciting
addition to the facilities here at
Close House and means we are now
able to offer the latest teaching
technologies to those wanting
to learn and improve. We are
passionate about providing the
best possible golfing experience for
members and visitors, and the new
academy will enable our instructors
to deliver tuition through the use of
the very best facilities.”
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THE EARLY SEASON BLUES
Many of the golfers I work with
complain about starting the golf
season slowly. Their scores are
inconsistent with some rounds
much higher than they expect; this
then causes frustration. Enjoyment
of the great game then suffers.
But it doesn’t have to be
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The good news is that this is
very common and you can change
it very quickly if you take action.
I’m currently working with a
number of golfers, from beginner to
professional level, who are battling
to overcome these challenges.
One of my approaches is to look
at concentration skills, primarily
where you place your focus on the
shot or putt.
One of the first steps is to
simplify the pre-shot routine so that
you don’t think about 20 swing
thoughts while you are over the ball.
I also look at how you spend
your time between shots and offer
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have thought of. The success stories
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to come from the people who are
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Magnificent Matfen
Having recently received a gold award for the best large
hotel in England, Paul Corney visits Matfen Hall, one of
Northumberland’s gems
L
ocated in the heart of the
Northumberland countryside, Matfen
Hall offers golfers the choice of three
nine-hole loops named Douglas,
Standing Stone and Dewlaw, combining into
three testing 18-hole courses.
Laid out across fabulous parkland, the
fairways and greens are bordered by stunning
mature trees, and while it is an enjoyable
experience for all levels of golfer, many have been
caught out by the River Pont which dissects the
courses, and there is the Ha-Ha wall to contend
with - no laughing matter, I can assure you!
There is also a high quality nine-hole par three
course and Golf Academy where John Harrison,
who coaches European Tour winner Kenneth
Ferrie, heads the team.
The opening hole on the Douglas is a
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generous 495-yard par five played slightly
uphill and a good birdie chance. The second
shot is played over the Ha-Ha wall and
between two bunkers approximately 50 yards
from a two-tier green sloping back to front.
Next is a short downhill par four measuring 260
yards. A three or four iron from the tee should
leave a short pitch between large trees to a
postage stamp-sized green. Come up short and
you will not be laughing as the ball nestles against
the Ha-Ha wall.
At 445 yards, the par four fourth is a real
tester. There is a nest of bunkers on the left
which come into play from the tee, but a long
straight drive should leave a long downhill
approach to a green falling away left and
at the back - this is not an easy green to hit
and a par at this hole is always a good score.
If you have a tendency to leak your iron shots
right, aim left of the green at the 173-yard eighth.
Although there are two bunkers on the left of the
green, it is better to find sand than the lake - at
least you won’t lose a ball!
The final hole on the Douglas loop is a strong
par four measuring 443 yards. With the lake on the
right, trees and a long menacing bunker left, this
is a very intimidating driving hole. A long straight
drive is needed if you want to leave any chance of
getting home in two.
What used to be the back nine of the original
18-hole course, the opening hole on the Standing
Stone loop is a short par three. It may be only 140
yards but any ball left will end up in the Pont.
The fifth hole is arguably the toughest hole
on the course where any shot right will be lost in
the woods and dense undergrowth. This par four
measures 442 yards and with water to carry from
the tee and again for the approach, most players
will play this as a par five and hope for a pitch and
putt to make a four - a bogey is not a disaster at
this one.
At 357 yards, the ninth on the Standing Stone
isn’t a long finishing hole but it does have a tricky
tee shot with the river to negotiate. Do not go right
or you will be tangling with the Ha-Ha wall and
out of bounds beyond. The green is a small target,
bunkered at the front and surrounded by trees.
COURSEREVIEW
FACT FILE
CONTACT
Matfen Hall Golf Club
Matfen, Northumberland, NE20 0RH
Tel 01661 886 400
Academy01661 886 146
Email [email protected]
Web www.matfenhall.com
Matfen provides much more than 27
holes of great golf
Opened for play in 2007 and designed by John
Harrison and Craig Parkinson, the Dewlaw
course has received excellent reviews from
members and guests. This loop opens up
with a 350-yard par four played slightly uphill
and then down towards a green with a huge
bunker encircling the back half of the putting
surface. This is not a particularly difficult hole
providing you miss the three fairway bunkers
from the tee and play for the front of the green.
At nearly 580 yards, the fifth is the longest hole
at Matfen and a genuine three-shotter.
The toughest hole on this loop is the
seventh, an awesome 448-yard par four and a
dog-leg right. Three bunkers protect the corner
of the dog-leg and have to be avoided at all
costs to leave any chance of reaching the green.
With water at the front and surrounding the
right hand side of the green it might be wise for
some to lay-up and settle for a bogey.
A delightful 162-yard par three, the eighth
is played through trees and over rushes. No
bunkers to worry about but beware going
left or you will be reaching into the bag for
another ball.
Following your game at Matfen there is
no better place to relax than in the Keeper’s
Lodge clubhouse - the perfect 19th hole for
golfers, non-golfers and day visitors serving
high quality snacks and meals daily until 9pm.
The clubhouse contains an excellent pro shop,
an impressive lounge bar and restaurant and a
patio area with superb views of the course.
GREEN FEES
Weekday Adults £35, Juniors £20
Weekends Adults £40, Juniors £20
Early bird & Twilight rates available
Buggy hire £25 a round
Electric trolley hire £10 a round
Pull trolley hire £3 a round
TOTAL DISTANCE
Douglas course
White tees – 3,339 yards Par 36
Yellow tees – 3,164 yards Par 36
Red tees – 2,749 yards Par 36
Standing Stone course
White tees – 3,361 yards Par 36
Yellow tees – 3,191 yards Par 36
Red tees – 2,820 yards Par 37
Dewlaw course
White tees – 3,357 yards Par 36
Yellow tees – 3,023 yards Par 36
Red tees – 2,745 yards Par 37
The former home of the
Blackett family, Matfen Hall
has been converted into
a luxurious country house
hotel which offers elegant
accommodation with
53 bedrooms combining
traditional charm and
character with modern
facilities. The two AA rosette
Library and Print Room
Restaurant has a combination
of classic and contemporary
dining in stately surroundings
and there is a superb spa and
leisure club
FEATURES
Three nine-hole loops
Superb practice facilities including a
10-bay covered driving range and a
nine-hole par three course
Putting green
Ample car parking
Professional’s shop
Excellent bar and dining facilities
Sky television
Changing rooms
CADDY’S TIP
If in doubt when taking on the water
hazards or the walls – don’t. Lay-up and
protect your score.
SIGNATURE HOLE
The eighth on the Standing Stone
course is Matfen’s signature hole, a very
demanding 219-yard par three. Many
a ball has been lost in the Pont which
flows adjacent to the green. For those
fortunate to find the putting surface, the
severe slope left to right will test the best
of putters.
PAUL CORNEY’S VERDICT
Whichever loop you select to play, a
visit to Matfen Hall is a must. A superb
setting and a cracking test of golf.
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GOLFERNEWS
Carr’s victory
Oliver wins his first Cumbria Matchplay title
U
lverston Golf Club’s
Oliver Carr picked
up his first Cumbria
County Matchplay
Championship title with a 3&1 victory
over Workington Golf Club’s Ryan
Shuttleworth at Barrow Golf Club.
Carr beat Cumbria teammates
Richard Mewse (one up), five-time
matchplay champion Will Bowe (one
up) and Rob Spence (2&1) on his way
to the final.
He said: “It’s a relief to pick up the
trophy. I’ve proved to myself I can win
in the bigger competitions and this is
a real confidence boost ahead of this
year’s Brabazon Trophy.
“It was nice to get past Will
Bowe in the quarter finals as he is
an exceptional player and not many
people gave me a chance against him.
The other two games against Mewsy
and Rob were far from easy either.
“It was good to play against a
fellow county player in the final. Me
and Ryan had a great match to finish
off the tournament.”
Playing in the final match of
the week at Barrow Golf Club,
Shuttleworth took an early lead on
the first in blustery conditions chipping in for birdie to go one up.
Carr was one down at the turn but
began to turn the match around with
a birdie on 10 before going one up on
the 11th, Shuttleworth then chippedin again at the 12th for birdie, halving
the match.
The match then swung in Carr’s
favour at the par five 14th where he
returned to one up. He birdied the
16th and closed out the match on 17.
(Left to right) Alan
Shaw County President,
Andrew Edwards County
Captain, Oliver Carr and
Ryan Shuttleworth
Oliver Carr with his
caddy Wayne McDougall
For more from county golf in Cumbria go to www.cumbria-golf-union.org.uk
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SURFACE MANAGEMENT
Having being a greenkeeper and
part of the management team at
Rockliffe Hall for several years,
we continuously look to improve
both the consistency and quality
of our putting surfaces. Over the
years a simple Stimpmeter reading
may have been adequate, whereas
now, we constantly look to new
technologies and equipment to
provide the modern golfer with
what they see as important within
a putting surface. Smooth, firm and
with good pace.
With this in mind, greenkeepers
are now looking more closely
into understanding exactly how
their greens are performing and
investing in equipment such as
Clegg Hammers, Parry Meters and
Moisture Probes. A Clegg Hammer
is a device that measures the
firmness or the shock absorption
properties of a surface. In golfer’s
terms this relates to how a ball
bounces on a green, too soft and
ball may stop instantly, too firm and
ball may bounce through the green,
both potentially penalising a wellstruck shot.
A Parry Meter is pushed across
the surface to measure ‘trueness’ by
replicating a ball roll, it measures
deviations on the surface, combined
with Smartphone technology a
simple app allows us to log this
data in graph form. Lastly the
soil moisture probe lets us closely
monitor available water for the plant
and helps us efficiently replace
water where required. With the aid
of this equipment we can assess
each green individually and tailor
our cultural methods in accordance
with data recorded to maintain
consistency throughout the course.
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GOLFERNEWS
Glory for
Rory
Dame
Laura Davies
(Photo courtesy
Getty Images /
Andrew Redington)
Rory McIlroy with his
PGA medals
(Photo courtesy of Getty Images)
World number one Rory McIlory
picked up another medal haul
at the European Tour’s annual
awards dinner.
McIlroy, an honorary member
of The PGA having played for
Europe in the Ryder Cup, received
the Ryle Memorial for winning the
Open Championship, the Tooting
Bec for the lowest round and the
Braid Taylor Memorial for finishing
as the highest PGA Member at
the championship.
David Wright, The PGA’s heritage
executive, explained: “The Ryle
Memorial medal was instigated in
1920 in memory of Arthur Ryle – a
former chairman of The PGA.
“Rory also collected the Tooting
Bec medal for returning the lowest
18-hole score in the championship.
The Tooting Bec Cup was introduced
in October 1901 when the club
offered a 36-hole championship
to the founding members of
the Association.
“The tournament stopped in
1923 and the general committee
brought in the present conditions in
1924. The Tooting Bec Cup is the
Association’s oldest trophy, predating
the Leeds Cup which arrived
in 1902.
“And finally Rory received the
Braid Taylor Memorial medal which
was introduced in 1966 in memory
of two of our founding fathers and
is presented to the PGA Member
finishing highest in the Open.”
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Her Royal
Highness
The Princess
Royal
(Photo courtesy
Anthony Harvey /
Stringer)
Annika
Sorenstam
(Photo courtesy
Getty Images /
Scott Halleran)
Welcome for
ladies
The R&A has bowed to public pressure
and announced several new women
members ending centuries of male-only tradition
T
he organisers of the Open have at
last removed an long out-of-date rule
by inviting The Princess Royal, Dame
Laura Davies, Renée Powell, Belle
Robertson, Lally Segard, Annika Sorenstam and
Louise Suggs to become honorary members of
the Club.
In September, The Royal and Ancient Golf
Club’s members voted by an 85% majority to
admit women as members for the first time
in its 260-year history and in addition to the
honorary members, a number of women have
been admitted as members of the club with
more set to follow in the coming months.
Laura Davies is widely regarded as Britain’s
greatest female golfer having won four Major
Championships and 79 events around the
world. She won the Women’s British Open at
Royal Birkdale in 1986 and the US Women’s
Open in 1987. She played in every Solheim Cup
match from 1990 to 2011 and is the leading alltime points scorer.
A former world number one, she was the
first non-American to finish at the top of the
LPGA money list and also won the LET Order of
Merit a record seven times.
North Berwick hosts new event
A Scottish summer of golf has
been enhanced with the launch of
a new tournament – the Aberdeen
Asset Management Scottish
Open Qualifier.
The new event, which will be
part of the PGA in Scotland’s Tartan
Tour schedule, will carry a £50,000
prize fund and offer five spots in the
AAM Scottish Open at Gullane on
July 9-12.
The 36-hole pre-qualifier in
association with Visit Scotland, The
European Tour and The PGA, will
have a field of 144 entrants and is
being staged at the championship
links course at North Berwick on
July 4-5.
North Berwick Golf Club
(Credit: Getty Images / David Cannon)
The tournament is sure to whet
the appetite of the players, who must
have some direct links to Scotland
through work or birth, given the
rare opportunity to compete at the
AAM Scottish Open, which itself
offers three prized spots at this
year’s Open Championship at St
Andrews – creating a new pathway
to the world’s oldest major. Sandy
Jones, chief executive of the PGA
said: “This event is a superb addition
to the Tartan Tour. Our leading
players will relish the opportunity to
compete for a place in the Aberdeen
Asset Management Scottish Open,
one of the premier events on the
European Tour.”
GOLFERNEWS
Legends
honoured
Nick Faldo and Sandy Lyle have become
honorary members of The Royal and
Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews
T
wo of Britain’s finest ever
golfers, Sir Nick Faldo and
Sandy Lyle who inspired a
generation of players with
their wins in The Open Championship
and the Masters Tournament and
were at the forefront of a new wave
of European golfers who rose to
prominence in the 1980’s.
Now they join fellow Open
Champions Peter Thomson CBE, Gary
Player, Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus,
Roberto de Vicenzo, Tony Jacklin
CBE, Lee Trevino and Tom Watson
in becoming honorary members of
the R&A.
Faldo said: “St Andrews frames
many of my most treasured memories
in golf including those of my second
Open win 25 years ago. I am
honoured to receive this invitation
and look forward to celebrating nearly
40 years as a professional at the home
of golf in July.”
“I am delighted to receive this
recognition,” said Lyle. “It was a
lifetime ambition for me to win The
Open and I will never forget how
it felt to lift the Claret Jug. Golf has
given me a great deal over the years. I
feel privileged to have been invited to
become part of this great Club.”
Nick Faldo holds the Claret Jug
after winning The Open in 1990
(Photo courtesy Getty Images / David Cannon)
Sandy Lyle kisses the Claret
Jug after his win in the 1985
Open Championship
(Photo courtesy Getty Images)
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GOLFERNEWS
In the right frame of mind
Northern Golfer columnist runs workshops to boost your game
H
ow many golfers dismiss
being fit for the game mentally and physically
- as something not worth
bothering with?
Yet the game’s top players set great
store by being fit in both departments
to achieve better results while the
average amateur can better enjoy
what is a technically very challenging
game with some fairly simple
application.
David Charlton, our own Mind
Games columnist here at Northern
Golfer has no doubts about what can
be achieved. A single-figure handicap
for many years, he played at Ryton where he won the club championship
- and now plays at Tyneside. He is also
a keen runner who has completed
many Great North Runs and three
marathons for charity.
In 2008 the direction of his life
changed when he lost his wife to
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cancer and was made redundant from
his job in corporate travel shortly
afterwards. “I decided that helping
people get the most out of their talent
in sport was what I wanted to do and
so I went back to school!
“I completed a Bsc Psychology
at Sunderland University and a Msc
in Sport and Exercise Psychology
at Northumbria University. Since
then I’ve built up strong links with
England Golf and worked with lots
of professional and amateur sports
performers, coaches and specialists
from sports science.”
I see so many talented people out
there in golf who, with more direction
and a helping hand, could do so much
better. They could get so much more
from their golf if they just picked up
the phone and asked for assistance and that’s where I can help!”
Charlton has presented successful
programmes at Tyneside and Hexham
with PGA Coaches Gary Vickers and
Andy Paisley. With Durham County
Golf Union and the Durham County
Golf Partnership, he is in the process
of finalising support initiatives for
parents and young golfers.
Charlton has a series of events
planned including a “Get The Most
Out Of Your Golf ” putting clinic at
Gosforth for the Chris Lucas Charity
Day and a short game clinic alongside
Andy Paisley at Hexham. His Get
The Most Out of Your Golf Clinics
are typically held outdoors and
offer golfers an opportunity to learn
practical skills that top players use in
practise and on the golf course.
“I like to come up with creative
ways to get around to different clubs
and events at an affordable price.
Hosting a ‘Hole Out in Less Shots’
fun seminar is a great way for clubs
or professionals to generate some
income on an evening where I am
David Charlton
happy to present to audiences of
10-100.
“I also run Golf Performance Café
workshops over a cup of tea or coffee
which can be organised for smaller
groups, up to 20 golfers, where I
look to work by myself or to bring in
other specialists.”
GOLFERNEWS
Looking to
the future
Whitburn undergoes improvements on
and off the course
W
hitburn has been
overhauling its
infrastructure to
make sure the
clubhouse and course are fit for
the future.
The Lizard Lane club which
overlooks Marsden Bay and the
entrance to the River Tyne has been
busy both on and off the course.
The club has recently installed an
£80,000 biomass boiler, completed a
£40,000 extension to the clubhouse
with new shower and toilet facilities
and there are plans for a wind turbine
to make the club self-sufficient and
yet more eco-friendly.
The clubhouse lounge has also
been given a facelift while on the
course, new tee box markers, treeplanting and bunker improvements
have been made.
The club also held an open day
to try and attract new members and
also introduce a new generation to
the game. An inflatable driving range
was set up with putting and chipping
competitions and special Trigolf
clubs available for youngsters and all
equipment was provided on the day.
Visitors were welcomed into the
clubhouse and club professional Neil
Whinham was on hand to pass on
some expert advice.
Chairman George Elsom said: “We
want to keep improving facilities for
Whitburn Golf Club
Professional Neil Whinham
members and guests. We have a very
nice lounge, with very good food, and
we have the new showers which are
disabled friendly and even a stairlift.
“We want to encourage more
people to play golf. It’s very healthy
activity to go round the course for
three or four hours and it’s also
very sociable.”
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GOLFERNEWS
Kids go
nuts over KP
Yorkshire club continues to invest in
attracting juniors into the sport
U
nder the guidance of
Director of Coaching
Olly Cross a new junior
academy has kicked off
the season at the KP Golf Course
near Pocklington in Yorkshire.
Open to all kids from the age of
five upwards the academy will be
holding monthly competitions on
a specially-designed nine and six
hole courses.
The first competition of the
year attracted 13 youngsters, an
excellent turnout considering
there was no academy last year.
Henry Lucas was the stand-out
performer, shooting 42 on the
nine-hole course with Harry Morris
50 NORTHERN GOLFER
and Tom Yeomans second and
third respectively, both shooting
53, but young Harry was runnerup on countback.
Four competitors also
competed in the six-hole
competition and this was a tie on
shots, between Kiki Kounavi and
Lily Staveley.
However, it was Kiki that got
full points thanks to a superior
countback score.
It is hoped that the
academy will continue to
grow over the coming year
and provide youngsters with a
solid base to take forward their
interest in golf.
KP Academy coach Olly Cross with his pupils
GOLFERNEWS
2015 Group Golf Packages
Jonathan Pearson
Talent
spotters
 01609 778855
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Yafforth Road, Northallerton, North Yorkshire, DL7 0PE, T&C’s Apply
Clubs supporting junior golf
L
eeds professional Jonathan
Pearson is doing his bit to
promote junior golf.
He has launched
the JP Junior Golf Series with
the endorsement of the Golf
Foundation and backing from
the regional development officers
who are responsible for grass
roots development.
“Too often we see junior golfers
at grass roots level drop out due to
limited playing opportunities and this
has to change,” said Pearson.
“The JP Junior Series of events will
begin in and around the Leeds area in
2015 and look to branch out county
wide in 2016 and will offer kids at
grass roots level the chance to play
golf on appropriate-sized courses.
“Too often children take lessons
on a week by week basis and
never actually get chance to play
or compete.
“Could you imagine if a football or
rugby team trained one night a week
and never actually got to play on a
weekend? It would be unheard of.”
Pearson piloted 10 junior events at
Cookridge Hall last year with children
playing on modified courses, enjoying
relaxed dress codes and with at least
one parent being asked to walk round
- and around 350 children entered
the events.
“All the kids need to play is a
couple of clubs and a parent or
guardian to walk the fairways with
them,” added Pearson.
“It’s a fantastic family friendly
setting and the kids keep coming back
week in week out.
“The children are allocated a tee
off time and the course they get given
to play around is unique to them and
is based upon how far they hit the
ball. As they grow, the course grows.”
“I currently have four events
booked in and around the Leeds area
in 2015 but would love to have more
and my goal for 2016 would be to have
at least one event every week.”
Visit Pearson’s website www.jpjuniorgolf.com, email
[email protected] or tel 07871 068 488
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GOLFERTRAVEL
Westendorf Golf Club
Swing into
Austria
Alan Hedley breathes in the Alpine air on
stunning courses
A
ustria Tirol is winning a
reputation as Europe’s
leading gourmet
golf destination.
At its heart, the famous resort of
Kitzbühel and its quieter neighbour
Kirchberg boasts five fabulous local
courses offering world-class golf and a
satisfying variety of design.
Within a 100km radius, golfers can
discover a further 30 aesthetic and
mature golf courses to complement
the Kitzbühel tracks.
In this beautiful region the
pretty village of Kirchberg has a
52 NORTHERN GOLFER
dormy house with a difference:
Relais and Châteaux Rosengarten
combines top Alpine golf, spa
treatments tailor-made for the golfer,
award-winning cuisine and warm
Austrian hospitality.
In the relaxing surroundings of
his stylish hotel, celebrity chef Simon
Taxacher guarantees every guest a
rare gourmet experience to savour
long after the taste of golf fades.
The Rosengarten offers a flexible
range of golf breaks starting from
€435 per person for the two-night
Life and Style Golf Short Break, which
Rosengarten Golf Club
includes one six-course gourmet
dinner at Restaurant Simon Taxacher,
one five-course dinner at the hotel’s
Rosengarten Light restaurant, one
18-hole green fee (choose between
four local courses) and one 50-minute
spa treatment. There are three, four
or five night and one-week holiday
options enabling beginners, improvers
and experts.
Hotel Rosengarten will once again
host two summer tournaments on
the Kitzbüheler Alpen Westendorf
championship course, which
opened last year. The Rosengarten
Gourmet Golf Trophy take place
this month and The Rosengarten
International Golf Open is on
August 27-30 promising a feast of
golf and gourmandise, involving
stableford competition, gourmet
dining, a kitchen party and live
music. The price is €598 per person
per tournament inclusive of
accommodation and a gourmet golf
programme (€498 for non-golfers).
The Rosengarten is a monument
to the passion and perfectionism
of Simon Taxacher and his partner
Sandra Kobbald, their dedication to
GOLFERTRAVEL
Dunstanburgh Castle
Golf Club
Scenic 18 hole seaside links course designed by the famous
James Braid, adjacent to spectacular Embleton Bay
Westerndorf Golf Course
VISITORS & SOCIETIES WELCOME INCLUDING WEEKENDS
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Coffee & bacon roll on arrival,
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the art of hospitality and their flair
for cuisine and design. Their home is
elegant and relaxing - an idyllic haven
with a Spa, swimming pool and a
glorious mountain backdrop.
GOLF CHOICE
Kitzbüheler Alpen Westendorf, 18h
5920m par 72 (www.gc-kitzbueheleralpen.at): A championship course in
an idyllic mountain setting at 780m,
15 minutes from the Rosengarten:
gently undulating walkable terrain,
a lake beside the clubhouse, a
south-facing aspect, forest and
mountain views. The Rosengarten is
an official hotel partner and offers
guests reduced green fees, beginner/
proficiency courses, three-hour
golf taster courses on Sundays and
preferential trial membership rates.
Kitzbühel-Schwarzsee-Reith, 18h
6104m par 72 (www.kitzbuehel-golf.
com; 5km from Rosengarten): a PGA
tour venue suitable for all standards
of golfer. Plenty of ponds and streams
in play from the first hole; watch
out for the short 16th (mousetrap) –
played across a gorge.
Eichenheim, 18h 6092m par
71 (www.eichenheim.at; 13km
from Rosengarten): a PGA tour
masterpiece by Kyle Phillips
(Kingsbarns, The Grove) with great
views, abrupt elevation changes and
thick forest. A formidable test, in a
beautiful place.
Mittersill-Stuhlfelden, 18h 5720m
par 70 (www.golfclub-mittersill.at;
40km from Rosengarten): a delightful
rustic setting for serious golf on
level ground, with haystacks, a barn,
mountain views of the Hohe Tauern
National Park, water a threat on every
hole and a peninsula green to finish.
Kitzbühel Kaps, 9h 2805m par 35
(www.golfclub-kitzbuehel.at; 9½km
from Rosengarten): Austria’s most
beautiful 9-hole course is only a
par 5 away from Kitzbühel’s church
tower and has been renovated for
extra variety beneath the Kapser
castle. This competitive members’
club has an excellent restaurant and
the highest number of single figure
handicaps in Austria.
Greens Team of the
Year Winners!
Embleton, Northumberland, NE66 3XQ
Tel: 01665 576562
email: [email protected]
www.dunstanburgh.com
Seaton Carew Golf Club
Home of the
Brabazon Trophy 2014
The tenth oldest in England and
a true championship links to
challenge all levels of players
Peter Alliss, a renowned golf commentator for the BBC.
Over the years some of the biggest names have
taken on the Seaton Carew course
and now it is your turn!
To book a tee time, visiting party (discounted rates)
or membership enquiries contact the club secretary
Allison Malham on (01429) 266249
www.seatoncarewgolfclub.co.uk
Reservations: www.rosengarten-taxacher.com
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LEEDS GOLF CENTRE - THE LEADBETTER ACADEMY
MORE DISTANCE
FOR THE SENIOR
GOLFER
TURNING YOUR
BACK FOOT OUT TO
PREVENT SWAYING
This is a tip that is very
specific to senior golfers
with a lot of stiffness
in their joints. If you
have good hip flexibility,
you don’t have to and
should not turn your right
foot out.
To break this down:
if your foot is facing
forward (See red lines),
then your hip is in the
neutral position. During
your backswing when
your body is turning, you
need to have good hip
flexibility to keep the hip
in this neutral position. If,
due to stiffness or pain,
you are unable to keep
the hip neutral, your body
will typically compensate
by swaying to the right.
Swaying in the backswing
is when your body weight
moves to the outside of
your right foot instead
of staying on the inside.
This “slide” helps to get
a fuller swing but is very
bad for your golf game.
(1)
FLAT FOOTED
A golfer that sways in the back
swing is a golfer who is going to
lose a lot of distance and a lot of
accuracy and consistency. You
can easily test this by taking a
backswing and stopping at the
top. Do you feel your weight on
the inside of your right foot or
(2)
has it rolled to the outside of
your foot. If you sway, you can’t
play good golf.
Try turning that right foot
outwards instead and check the
results (See yellow lines). Feel
how much easier the turn is and
how you can keep your hips
from sliding.
WHY THIS IS NOT AS
EFFECTIVE FOR GOLFERS
WITH FLEXIBILITY
By turning the right foot out,
you will have a lot more lower
body rotation away from the ball
in your backswing. One of the
great power generators in golf
is torque, also known as the
‘X-Factor.’ The more you can
separate your lower body turn
from your upper body turn, the
more power you can generate.
However, if you do not have the
flexibility in your hips to build up
torque in your body, then you will
end up with lost power.
By turning your right foot out,
you are allowing your whole body
to rotate and are building up
torque against the ground. It is
not as effective as torque in your
mid body, but it will give you
much more power than swaying
will…and better accuracy too.
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Leeds Golf Centre, www.leedsgolfcentre.com
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MATCHPLAYPAIRS
MATCH PLAY PAIRS
1.Newman & Green lost to
Jones & Jones 2 & 1
2. Bailey and Longmire lost
to McPhillips & Beadling conc
3.Bennett & Harmison lost
to King & King 3 & 1
4.Gallagher & Walmsley beat
Martin & Jones 3 & 2
5.Griffin & Williamson beat
Ellison & Jamfrey 19th
6.Sharp & Chapman beat
Kelly & Jenkinson 6 & 4
7.Lillico & Hope beat Wallhead & Lindsay 3 & 2
Preliminary Round Results
8.Barnes & Wailes lost to
McColl & Walton 1 down
9.Wooton & Grieve lost to
Bell & Heslop 3 & 2
10.Crossland & Ward lost to
Murphy & Murphy 1 down
11.Cromar & Dodds beat
Baker & Hunter 1 up
12.Lightle & Gray beat
Basford & Boyle match
conceded
13.Robson & Swann beat Bell
& Walton 5 & 4
14.McIntosh & Watts beat
MATCH PLAY PAIRS
1.Chris Burgess (9) & Steve
Welton (6) (Ramside Hall)
V
Nigel Menzies (6) &
Wayne Jackson (22)
(Houghton/Roseberry)
2.Peter Gallagher (11)
& Neil Walmsley (18)
(Durham City)
V
Graeme Robson (6) & Phil
Swann (15) (Ramside)
3.Brendan Murphy (13)
& Adam Murphy (13)
(Tynedale)
V
Derek Johnstone (21)
& Kevin Lavery (6)
(Parklands/South Shields)
4.Michael Arkle (6) & Brian
Arnott (23) (Rothbury)
V
Steve Urwin (6) & Wayne
Bell (12) (Seahouses)
5.Colin Marshall (15)
& Paul Tindale (12)
(Durham City)
V
Kevin Riley (7) &
Gordon King (16)
(Newcastle United)
6.Gary Stoker (8) & Rob
Lewington (12) (Close
House/Ponteland)
V
Stewart Jones (10 & Alec
Jones (3) (Bellingham)
7.Alec McCoy (19) & Derek
Hicks (16) (Consett)
V
56 NORTHERN GOLFER
Brett Hall (13) &
Philip Bates (8)
(Brancepeth Castle)
8.Alan Slater (14) &
Anthony McKeown (9)
(Ramside Hall)
V
Andrew Bell (9) &
John Harvey (14)
(Knotty Hill/Hartlepool)
9.Douglas Ellison (10) &
Richard Mellor (8)
(Slaley Hall)
V
David McColl (5) & Alan
Walton (6) (Durham City)
10.Andrew Sharp (15) & Paul
Chapman (10) (Garesfield)
V
Ben King (2) & Michael
King (2) (Bellingham)
11.Dave Slipper (20) &
Steve Johnson (0)
(Gosforth/Morpeth)
V
David Lillico (5) & Dean
Hope (6) (Alnmouth)
12.David Robison (5) &
Bill Robison (23)
(Whickham/Hobson)
V
Peter Tracey (14) &
Peter Clayton (18)
(Bedlingtonshire/
Arcot Hall)
13.Alan Brady (13) &
Matthew Harper (6)
(Durham City)
V
Stan Fielding (12) &
Harbron & Ashby 6 & 5
15.Irving & Foxwell beat
Braddick & Howe 5 & 3
16.Hunter & Hunter beat Eyre
& Scambler 2 & 1
17.Slater & Wright beat Nolan
& Ord 2 & 1
Round 1 Draw
Richard Briggs (10)
(Bishop Auckland)
14.Michael Rutter (8) &
Paul Stocks (18) (Ryton)
V
Iain Hughes (17) & Neale
Patterson (14) (Wallsend)
15.Kenny Cramman (7)
& Kevin Cowens (9)
(Newbiggin)
V
Duncan Ince (11) & David
Burns (22) (Backworth)
16.James Patterson (12) &
Robert Patterson (12)
(Garesfield)
V
Terry McGuire (15) & Ray
Glendining (15) (Hobson)
17.Fred Howie (9) &
Howard Woolgar (9)
(Wynyard/Powfoot)
V
Graeme Ogilvie (9)
& Bob Fawbert (11)
(Rudding Park)
18.Ken Bell (9) & Alan Heslop
(16) (Hexham)
V
Griffin (14) &
Scott Williamson (12)
(Stocksfield/Tyneside)
19.Duncan Foster (13) & Neil
Timbey (14) (South Moor)
V
Steve Weldon (9) &
Alan Saunders (11)
(Westerhope)
20.Phil O’Ware (8) & Paul
Gray (16) (Sharpley)
V
Mark Parry (12) & Mark
Grange (23) (Cleveland)
27.Steve Buxton (9) & Dave
Smith (13) (Romanby)
V
David Gray (16) &
Stephen Gray (Saltburn)
21.Ted Cromar (13) &
Graham Dodds (13)
(Morpeth)
V
Russell Hunter (10) & Joe
Hunter (14) (Alnmouth)
28.Malcolm Crowson (16) &
K. Taylor (4) (Oulton Hall)
V
Ian Rankine (12) &
Lawrence Poulter (11)
(Rudding Park)
22.Jeff Lightle (7) & Steve
Gray (6) (Slaley Hall)
V
Stephen Mould (15) &
Ryan Mould (8) (Crook)
29.Ian Telford (12) & Graeme
Wigham (10) (Matfen)
V
Steve Slater (2) &
Gary Wright (12) (City of
Newcastle/Backworth)
23.Stephen Hanson (9) &
Jason Robson (5)
(Castle Eden)
V
Stuart McIntosh (18) &
Craig Watts (7) (Wilton)
24.Philip Young (12) & Ken
Park (17) (Bedlingtonshire/
Warkworth)
V
Malcolm Lumsden (19)
& Richard White (7)
(Wallsend)
25.George Longthorn (14) &
John Bowes (19) (Crook)
V
Richard Stephenson
(7) & Bruce Robson (9)
(Ravensworth)
26.Paul McVittie (13) & Phillip
Ward (13) (Brampton)
V
Ian Irving (12) & Gary
Foxwell (2) (Arcot Hall)
30.Kevin Hill (13) &
Ken Chapman (12)
(Ryton/Garesfield)
V
Jason Budd (11) & Lee
Furber (18) (Crook)
31.Joe Forster (15) &
John Huthart (13)
(Ravensworth)
V
Steve Ingram (9) &
Dave Redford (19)
(Ramside/Consett)
32.Anthony Lawlor (9)
& Stuart Vickery (15)
(Chester-le-Street)
V
Jamie McPhillips (8)
& Craig Beadling (10)
(Romanby)
MATCHES TO BE
PLAYED BY SUNDAY
JUNE 21 2015
NORTHERN
GOLFER LADIES
GREENSOMES 2015
Round 1 Draw
1. Anne Preston (15) &
M. Greatbatch (12)
(Whickham)
V
Carolyn Hibbert (10) &
Julie Armitage (18)
(Boldon)
2. Katrina Davidson (13) &
Sheila Wilkinson (14)
(Hunley Hall)
V
Yvonne Mee (35) &
Barbara Yorke (28)
(Barnard Castle)
3. Christine Walby (15) & Lynda Golightly (18)
(Slaley Hall)
V
Lianne Johnston (14) &
Lynn Steerman (6)
(Ravensworth)
4. Christine Robson (20) &
Nathalie Brown (32)
(Bellingham)
V
Sian Oakley (15) &
Jane Benn (22) (Gosforth)
5. Marie Spence (14) &
Patricia Jose (17)
(Consett)
V
Jane Jones (13) &
Chris Lees (17)
(Bellingham)
6. Ami Storey (+1) &
Claire Brown (4)
(Close House)
V
Iben Cocker (10) &
Valerie Robinson (10)
(Hexham)
7. Lynne Liddle (6) &
Linda Wilson (12)
(Gosforth)
V
Natash Martin (6) & Di
Hindhaugh (8) (Beamish)
8. Linda Bower (22) &
Marilyn Bint (25)
(Ponteland)
V
Bernadette Legg (27) &
Christine Vine (31)
(Gosforth)
9. Sandra Gradwell (25) &
Val Pesara (5) (Hexham)
V
Diana Hutchinson (18)
& Shirley Carruthers (24)
(Bellingham)
LADIESGREENSOMES
Anne
and Bryan
Connolly
display the
prizes at
the Pokhara
Charity Golf
Tournament
in Nepal.
10.Yvonne Setchell (12) &
Lesley Glendenning (14)
(Houghton le Spring)
V
Katie Clark (13 &
Anne Gollogly (11)
(Saltburn)
11.Judi Summerson (19) &
Lorna Christie (22)
(Blackwell Grange)
V
Gerry Longstaff (28) &
Lis Stevenson (26)
(Eaglescliffe)
12.Pamela Moffat (28) &
Dorothy Edwards (25)
(Romanby)
V
Sheila Davison (18) &
Sue Haynes (24)
(Blackwell Grange)
13.Penny Holroyd (21) &
Carole-Anne Lennon (17)
(Richmond)
V
Jane Holliday (20) &
Maria Makin (20)
(Blackwell Grange)
14.Sandra Taylor (12) &
Julie Parry (10)
(Rudding Park)
V
Eileen McMullen (23) &
Sarah Calvert (21)
(Richmond)
15.Christine Ball (18)
& Melanie Hovenden (35)
(Eaglescliffe)
V
Jill Richardson (21) &
Joanne Marshall (18)
(Darlington)
MATCHES TO BE PLAYED BY SUNDAY JUNE 28
Winner
Basanta
with the
signed Rory
McIlroy Open
Championship
flag
Couple’s
quake scare
Charity duo caught up in Nepal disaster
R
ichmond golfing couple
Bryan and Anne Connelly
found themselves caught
up in the chaos of the
Kathmandu earthquake.
The couple, who are members of
the Cleveland Golf Club, are regular
visitors to Nepal where they carry out
charity work but also get involved in
helping Nepalese youngsters to get
into the game of golf.
They have travelled extensively
in the country over the past 13 years
and were coming to the end of a
three month stay with friends in the
capital when the earthquake struck.
They ended up sleeping in
an open field with three or four
thousand others before managing to
get a flight back to the North East.
Their experience hasn’t deterred
them from planning to return to
Nepal at some stage where they
have run several golf tournaments
as well as carrying out their charity
work and they are hoping golf
clubs throughout the UK might
think about holding a charity event
to raise money for the disaster
relief fund.
The latest event they held in
Nepal was at the Himalayan Golf
Club in Pokhara in March where
they were able to present junior
clubs donated by the R&A plus
an Open Championship flag and
T shirt donated by St Andrews
Links Golf Shop and signed by
World Number One Rory McIlroy.
Money raised from the charity
tournament also went to help a
school in Syangja district of Nepal.
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Birtley Golf Club
Portobello Road, Birtley,
Chester-le-Street, DH3 2LR
0191 410 2207
Bishop Auckland Golf Club
High Plains, Bishop Auckland, DL14 8DL
01388 661 618
Blackwell Grange Golf Club
Snipe Lane, Darlington, DL2 2SA
01325 464 458
Brancepeth Castle Golf Club
Brancepeth Castle, DH7 8EA
0191 378 0075
Castle Eden Golf Club
Castle Eden, TS27 4SS
01429 836 510
Chester le Street Golf Club
Lumley Pk, Chester le Street, DH3 4NS
0191 388 3218
Cocken Lodge Golf
Cocken Lodge Farm, Leamside, DH4 6QP
0191 584 1053
Consett & District Golf Club
Elmfield Road, Consett, DH8 5NN
01207 505 060
Crook Golf Club
Low Jobs Hill, Crook DL15 9AA
01388 762 429
Darlington Golf Club
Haughton Road, Darlington, DL1 3JD
01325 355 324
Dinsdale Spa Golf Club
Middleton St George, Darlington, DL2 1DW
01325 332 297
Durham City Golf Club
Littleburn, Langley Moor, DH7 8HL
0191 378 0029
Hallgarth Hotel Golf & Country Club
Coatham Munderville, Darlington,
DL1 3LU 01325 300 400
Hobson Golf Club
Hobson, Near Burnopfield, NE16 6BZ
01207 270 941
Ineos Golf Club
School Aycliffe Lane, Newton Aycliffe,
DL5 6EA.
Sec: Patrick Montgomery,
07974 742 679
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Oak Leaf Golf Club
School Aycliffe Lane, Newton Aycliffe,
DL5 4EF
01325 310 820
Ramside Hall Golf Club
Ramside Hall Hotel, Carville,
Durham, DH1 1TD
0191 386 9514
Rockliffe Hall Golf Club
Hurworth-on-Tees,Darlington, DL2 2DU
01325 729 980
Bamburgh Castle Golf Club
The Wynding, Bamburgh, NE69 7DE
01668 214 321
Seahouses Golf Club
Beadnell Road, Seahouses, NE68 7XT
01665 720 794
Saltburn by the Sea Golf Club
Hob Hill, Saltburn by the Sea, TS12 1NJ
01287 622 812
Bedlingtonshire Golf Club
Acorn Bank, Bedlington, NE22 6AA
01670 822 457
Slaley Hall
Slaley, Hexham, NE47 0BX
01434 673 350
Seaton Carew Golf Club
Tees Road, Seaton Carew, TS25 1DE
01429 266 249
Belford Golf Club
South Road, Belford, NE70 7DP
01668 213 232
Stocksfield Golf Club
New Ridley Rd,Stocksfield, NE43 7RE
01661 843 041
Bellingham Golf Club
Boggle Hole, Bellingham, NE48 2DT
01434 220 152
Tynedale Golf Club
Tyne Green, Hexham, NE46 3HQ
01434 608 154
Teesside Golf Club
Acklam Road, Thornaby
Stockton on Tees TS17 7JS
01642 616 516
Blyth Golf Club
New Delaval, Blyth, NE24 4DB
01670 540 110
Warkworth Golf Club
The Links, Warkworth, NE65 OSW
01665 711 596
Burgham Park Golf Club
Near Felton, Morpeth, NE65 8QP
01670 787 898
Wooler Golf Club
Dod Law, Doddington, Wooler, NE71 6AN
01668 282 135
Close House
Heddon-on-the-Wall, NE15 0HT
01661 852 953
Dunstanburgh Golf Club
Embleton, NE66 3XQ
01665 576 562
Roseberry Grange Community
Golf Club
Grange Villa, Chester le Street, DH2 3NF
0191 370 0660
Goswick Golf Club
Goswick Beal, TD15 2RW
01289 387 256
Seaham Golf Club
Shrewsbury Street, Seaham, SR7 7RD
0191 581 1268
Gubeon Golf Centre
Walton Road, Morpeth, NE61 3YJ
01670 519 090
Sharpley Golf
Seaton, Seaham, Co Durham, SR7 0NP
0191 513 1100
Haltwhistle Golf Club
Banktop, Greenhead, NE49 9JR
01697 747367
South Moor Golf Cub
The Middles, Craghead, Stanley, DH9 6AG
01207 232 848
Hexham Golf Club
Spital Lane, Hexham, NE46 3RZ
01434 603 072
Woodham Golf & Country Club
Burnhill Way, Newton Aycliffe, DL5 4PN
01325 319977
Longhirst Hall Golf Club
Longhirst Hall, Morpeth, NE61 3LL
01670 791 562
CUMBRIA
Brampton Golf Club
Talkin Tarn, Brampton, CA8 1HN
01697 72255
Seascale Golf Club
The Banks, Seascale, CA20 1QL
019467 28202
NORTHUMBERLAND
Allendale Golf Club
High Studden, Allenheads Road
Allendale, NE47 9QL
01434 683 926
Alnmouth Golf Club
Foxton Hall, Alnmouth,
NE66 3BE
01665 830 231
Alnmouth Village Golf Club
Marine Road,
Alnmouth, NE66 2RZ
01665 830 370
Alnwick Castle Golf Club
Swansfield Park,
Alnwick,
NE66 2AB
01665 602 632
Arcot Hall Golf Club
Dudley, Cramlington NE23 7QP
0191 236 2794
Macdonald Linden Hall Golf
and Country Club
Longhorsley, Morpeth, NE65 8XF
01670 500 011
Matfen Hall Golf Club
Matfen, NE20 0RH
01661 886 400
Magdalene Fields Golf Club
Berwick-upon-Tweed, TD15 1NE
01289 306 130
Morpeth Golf club
Loansdean, Morpeth,
NE61 2BT
01670 504 942
Newbiggin Golf Club
Newbiggin NE64 3DW
01670 817 344
Percy Wood Golf Club
Coast View, Swarland, Felton,
NE65 9JG
01670 787 010
Ponteland Golf Club
53 Bell Villas, Ponteland, NE20 9BD
01661 822 689
Prudhoe Golf Club
Eastwood Park, Prudhoe, NE42 5DX
01661 832 466
Rothbury Golf Club
Whitton Bank Rd, Rothbury, NE65 7RX
01669 621 271
Wilton Golf Club
Wilton,Near Redcar, TS10 4QY
01642 465 265
Wynyard Hall Golf Club
Wellington Drive, Wynyard Park
Billingham, TS22 5NQ
01740 644 399
TYNE AND WEAR
SCOTTISH BORDERS
Eyemouth Golf Club
Gunsgreenhill, Eyemouth, D14 5SF
01890 750 004
Hirsel Golf Club
Kelso Road, Coldstream TD12 4NJ
01890 882 678
Roxburghe Golf Club
Kelso, Roxburghshire, TD5 8JZ
01573 450 333
TEESSIDE
Billingham Golf Club
Sandy Lane, Billingham, TS22 5NA
01642 533 816
Cleveland Golf Club
Majuba Road, Redcar, Cleveland
TS10 5BJ
01642 471 798
Eaglescliffe & District Golf Club
Yarm Road, Eaglescliffe, TS16 0DQ
01642 780 238
Hartlepool Golf Club
Hart Warren, Hartlepool, TS24 9QF
01429 274 398
High Throston Golf Club
Hart Lane, Hartlepool,
TS26 0UG
01429 268 071
Hunley Hotel & Golf Club
Brotton, By Saltburn, TS12 2QN
01287 677 444
Ingleby Barwick Golf Club
Lullingstone Crescent, Ingleby Barwick,
Stockton on Tees, TS17 5GJ
01642 765 000
Knotty Hill Golf Centre
Sedgefield, Stockton on Tees, TS21 2BB
01740 620 320
Middlesbrough Golf Club
Brass Castle Lane, Middlesbrough
TS8 9EE
01642 311 515
Backworth Golf Club
The Hall, Backworth, NE27 0AH
0191 268 4247
Beamish Park Hotel
Golf & Driving Range, Marley Hill,
Newcastle upon Tyne, NE16 5EG
01207 230666
Boldon Golf Club
Dipe Lane, East Boldon, NE36 0PQ
0191 536 5360
Centurion Park Golf Club
Rheydt Avenue, Wallsend, NE28 8SU
0191 263 0041
City of Newcastle Golf Club
Three Mile Bridge, Gosforth
Newcastle upon Tyne, NE3 2DR
0191 285 1775
Garesfield Golf Club
Chopwell, NE17 7AP
01207 561 309
George Washington Golf Club
Stone Cellars Road, Concorde
Washington, NE37 1PH
0191 417 8346
Gosforth Golf Club
Broadway East, Gosforth
Newcastle upon Tyne, NE3 5ER
0191 285 3495
Heworth Golf Club
Gingling Gate, Heworth, Gateshead,
NE10 8XY
0191 469 9832
Hetton le Hill Golf Club
Elemore Vale, Easington Lane, DH5 0QR
0191 517 3061
Houghton le Spring Golf Club
Copt Hill, Houghton le Spring, DH5 8LU
0191 584 7421
Newcastle United Golf Club
60 Ponteland Road,
Newcastle upon Tyne,
NE5 3JW
0191 286 9998
Middlesbrough Municipal Golf Club
Ladgate Lane, Middlesbrough,
TS5 7YZ
01642 315 533
Northumberland Golf Club
High Gosforth Park,
Newcastle upon Tyne,
NE3 5HT
0191 236 2009
Norton Golf Club
Blakestone Lane, Norton
Stockton on Tees, TS20 3LQ
01642 676 385
Parklands Golf Club
High Gosforth Park,
Newcastle upon Tyne, NE3 5HQ
0191 236 4480
Ryton Golf Club
Clara Vale, Ryton, NE40 3TD
0191 413 3253
Filey Golf Club
Skelton Lane, Wigginton,York
01904 769400
South Shields Golf Club
Cleadon Hills, South Shields, NE34 8EG
0191 456 8942
Forest of Galtres Golf Club
Flaxby, Knaresborough, HG5 0RR
01423 863 444
Tynemouth Golf Club
Spital Dene, Tynemouth, NE30 2ER
0191 257 4578
Forest Park Golf Club
Stockton-on-Forest, York, YO32 9HF
01904 400 425
Tyneside Golf Club
Westfield Lane, Ryton, NE40 3QE
0191 413 2742
Fulford Golf Club
Heslington Lane, York, YO10 5DY
01904 413 579
Wearside Golf Club
Cox Green, Sunderland, SR4 9JT
0191 534 2518
Ganton Golf Club
Station Road, Ganton, Scarborough,
YO12 4PA
01944 710 329
Harrogate Golf Club
Forest Lane Head, Harrogate, HG2 7TF
01423 862 999
Whickham Golf Club
Hollinside Park, Fellside Road
Whickham, NE16 5BA
0191 488 1576
Heworth Golf Club
Muncaster House, Muncastergate,
YO31 9JY
01904 426 156
Whitburn Golf Club
Lizard Lane, South Shields, NE34 7AF
0191 529 4210
Kirkbymoorside Golf Club
Manor Vale, Kirkbymoorside, YO62 6EG
01751 431 525
Whitley Bay Golf Club
Claremont Rd, Whitley Bay, NE26 3UF
0191 252 0180
Knaresborough Golf Club
Boroughbridge Road,
Knaresborough, HG5 0QQ
01423 862 690
YORKSHIRE (EAST)
Malton & Norton Golf Club
Welham Park, Welham Road,
Norton,Malton, YO17 9QE
01653 697 912
Beverley and East Riding Golf Club
Anti Mill, Westwood, Beverley, HU17 8RG
01482 868757
Bridlington Golf Club
Belvedere Road, Bridlington, YO15 3NA
01262 606 367
Bridlington Links Golf Club
Flamborough Road, Marton, Bridlington,
YO15 1DW
01262 401 584
Driffield Golf Club
Sunderlandwick, Driffield, YO25 9AD
01377 253 116
Flamborough Head Golf Club
Lighthouse Road, Flamborough,
Bridlington, YO15 1AR
01262 850 333
Hornsea Golf Club
Rolston Rd, Hornsea, HU18 1XG
01964 534989
Masham Golf Club
Burnholme, Swinton Road,
Masham, Ripon, HG4 4NS
01765 688 054
Oakdale Golf Club
Oakdale, Harrogate, HG1 2LN
01423 567 162
Pannal Golf CLub
Follifoot Road, Pannal, HG3 1ES
01423 872 628
Pike Hills Golf Club
Tadcaster Road, Askham Bryan,
YO23 3UW
01904 700 797
Richmond Golf Club
Bend Hagg, Richmond, DL10 5EX
01748 823 231
Scarborough South Cliff Golf Club
Deepdale Avenue, off Filey Road,
YO11 2UE
01723 360 522
Moortown Golf Club
Harrogate Road, Leeds, LS17 7DB
0113 268 6521
Selby Golf Club
Mill Lane, Brayton, YO8 9LD
01757 228 622
Otley Golf Club
West Busk Lane, Otley, Leeds, LS21 3NG
01943 465 329
Skipton Golf Club
Short Lee Lane, Skipton, BD23 3LF
01756 795 657
Oulton Hall
Rothwell Lane, Oulton,
Leeds, Yorkshire,
LS26 8HN
0871 222 4690
The Oaks Golf Club
Aughton Common, Aughton, YO42 4PW
01757 288 577
Thirsk & Northallerton Golf Club
Thornton le Street, Thirsk, YO7 4AB
01845 525 115
Pontefact & District Golf Club
Park Lane, Pontefract, WF8 4QS
01977 792241
Whitby Golf Club
Low Straggleton, Whitby, YO21 3SR
01947 600 660
Rawdon Golf and Lawn Tennis Club
Buckstone Drive,
Rawdon, Leeds,
LS19 6BB
0113 2506040
York Golf Club
Lords Moor Lane, Strensall, YO32 5XF
01904 491 840
Sand Moor Golf Club
Alwoodley Lane, Leeds, LS17 7DJ
0113 268 5180
YORKSHIRE (WEST)
Scarcroft Golf Club
Syke Lane, Leeds, LS14 3BQ
0113 289 2263
Bradford Golf Club
Hawksworth Lane, Guiseley, LS20 8NP
01943 875570
Cookridge Golf Club
Cookridge Lane, Cookridge, Leeds,
LS16 7NL
0113 230 0641
Wakefield Golf Club
28 Woodthorpe Lane, WF2 6JH
01924 258778
Woodhall Hills Golf Club
Woodhall Road, Calverley, Pudsey, LS28 5UN
0113 255 4594
Dewsbury District Golf Club
The Pinnacle, Sands Lane, Mirfield,
WF14 8HJ
01924 492399
Wetherby Golf Club
Linton Lane, Linton, Wetherby, LS22 4JF
01937 580 089
Garforth Driving Range
Barwick Road, Garforth, Leeds, LS25 2DN
0113 287 1111
OTHER GOLF OUTLETS
Garforth Golf Club
Long Lane, Garforth, Leeds, LS25 2DS
0113 286 2021
Headlingly Golf Club
Back Church Lane, Adel, Leeds, LS16 8DW
0113 267 9573
Ripon Golf Club
Palace Road, Ripon, HG4 3HH
01765 603 640
YORKSHIRE (NORTH)
Romanby Golf Club
Yafforth Road, Northallerton, DL7 0PE
01609 778 855
Horsforth Golf Club
Layton Rise, Horsforth, Leeds, LS18 5EX
0113 258 6819
Aldwark Manor Golf Club
Aldwark Alne,YO61 1UF
01347 838 146
Rudding Park Golf Club
Rudding Park, Harrogate, HG3 1JH
01423 872 100
Huddersfield Golf Club
Fixby Hall, Lightridge Rd, HD2 2EP
01484 426203
Bedale Golf Club
Leyburn Road, Bedale,
DL8 1EZ
01677 422 451
Sandburn Hall Golf Club
Flaxton, York, YO60 7RB
01904 469 929
Leeds Golf Club
Elmete Lane, Leeds, LS8 2LJ
0113 265 9203
Scalm Park Golf Club
Bishop Wood, Wistow Common, Selby,
YO8 3RD
01757 210 846
Leeds Golf Centre
Wike Ridge Lane, Shadwell, Leeds
LS17 9JW
0113 288 6000
Catterick Golf Club
Leyburn Road, Catterick Garrison, DL9 3QE
01748 833 268
Moor Allerton Golf Club
Coal Road, Wike,
Leeds, LS17 9NH
0113 266 1154
Scarthingwell Golf Club
The Scarthingwell Centre, Scarthingwell,
Tadcaster, LS24 9PF
01937 557 878
Hollins Hall
Hollins Hill, Baildon,
Shipley, Bradford,
BD17 7QW
01274 530 053
The KP Golf Club
Pocklington, York, YO42 1UF
01759 303 090
Mid Yorkshire Golf Club
Havercroft Lane,
Pontefract, Darrington,
WF8 3BP
01977 704522
Dynamic Indoor Golf
Wideopen, Newcastle,
NE13 7BA
0191 481 3590
Eureka
Copt Hill, Houghton le Spring,
DH5 8LU
0191 584 1198
George Paylor 5th Tee
5th Tee,Garesfield Golf Club
Chopwell, NE17 7AP
07737 963881
Jeffrey Musgrove Golf Shop
Garesfield Golf Club
Chopwell, NE17 7AP
01207 563082
Leda Discount Golf Centre
Grange Villa, Chester le Street,
DH2 3NF
0191 370 1757
Marshalls Golf
Heworth Golf Club,
Gingling Gate, Heworth,
NE10 8HY
0191 4384223
Gordon Catterill Golf Shop
Middlesbrough Golf Club,
Brass Castle Lane,
TS8 9EE
01642 311766
Philips Golf Discount
Unit 3 Strand Business Centre
Locomotion Way,
Camperdown Ind Est
Killingworth,
NE12 5UJ
0191 268 0008
Riverdale Hotel
Bellingham NE48 2JT
01434 220 254
Snainton Golf Direct
Coast View, Swarland, Felton,
NE65 9JG
01670 787 010
Stokesley Driving Range
Broughton Road, Stokesley, TS9 5JJ
AB Golf
Middlesbrough Driving Range,
Ladgate Lane, Middlesbrough, TS5 7YZ
01642 300 720
Andy Paisley Golf Centre,
Hexham Golf Club, Spittal Lane,
Hexham, NE46 3RZ
01434 603 072
Aslan Golf
Lizard Lane, Whitburn, NE34 7AF
0191 5294210
Bargain Golf
Seaham Golf Club, Shrewsbury Street,
Seaham, SR7 7RD
0191 5130837
& Hobson Golf Club
Burnopfield, Newcastle, NE16 6BZ
01207 271605
Custom Fit Golf
South Moor Golf Club Superstore
Craghead, Stanley DH9 6AG
01207 283 525
Direct Golf
Lullingstone Crescent
Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland,
TS17 5GJ
01642 765 000
The Hobson Golf Range
Hobson Golf Club, Burnopfield,
NE16 6BZ
Tim Jenkins Golf
Cleveland Golf Club, Majuba Road,
Redcar,
TS10 5BJ
01642 471 798
also at Castle Eden Golf Club, Castle
Eden, TS27 4SS
01429 836689
ZFL Golf
Unit 8d,
North Tyne Ind. Estate,
NE12 9SZ
0191 270 2362
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Whorlton Grange, Newcastle upon Tyne,
NE5 1PP
0191 286 9125
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North Cliff Avenue, Scarborough,
YO12 6PP
01723 355 397
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Easingwold Golf Club
Stillington Road, Easingwold, YO61 3ET
01347 822 474
NOR THERN
Ravensworth Golf Club
Angel View, Longbank, Gateshead, NE9 7UU
0191 487 6014
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Not a lot of people know this but
The Masters Green Jacket has a
link with Yorkshire
Yorkshire course Calverley has been saddled with a £100,000
bill after several loose horses ran over the course and police
are investigating allegations that a fence bordering the golf
club has been deliberately cut.
“We keep repairing the fencing but someone keeps cutting it to either
encourage or push the horses through – it’s criminal damage,” said
head greenkeeper Paul Brown.
Three out of the club’s 18 holes were severely damaged and club staff
believe they have managed to trace the horses back to a nearby field.
The club’s commercial manager, Paul Fennelly, said the club had been
in touch with the owners of the field, who had asked for proof that the
horses had strayed from their land.
Fennelly said: “This could shut us down, we’ve got about 600 members
but if they can’t get a full round in they won’t want to stay and we won’t
get any new members.”
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road to to end and turn right, pass
Blomfomtein School and follow
sign to South Moor Golf Club
Your No 1 Discount Golf Store
Shaun Cowell PGA Golf Professional - Tel: 01207 283 525
South Moor Golf Club Superstore, Craghead, Stanley, DH9 6AG
Open Mon - Sun
9am - 6pm
Early opening
at weekends
All major credit
cards accepted