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| Worldwide
Tournament Golf Team Classic 2008 National Final - 2 June
2008 |
A
team of ladies from Tewkesbury Park Golf Club and a
team from Foxhills Golf Club were the winners, coming
first and second respectively, of the Worldwide Tournament
Golf Team Classic National Final held at The Kendleshire,
nr Bristol. They competed against 10 teams of
4 ladies from all over Britain who had qualified by winning
their league or league playoff, the league matches being played
during the Winter months. The prize for winning
the tournament is a fantastic all expenses paid trip to play
in the Grand Final of the WTG Ladies Team Classic in Kitzbuhel,
Austria which takes place between 13th July to 18 July
2008.
The pairs from Tewkesbury Park Golf Club were Christine Williams
(13) playing with Sue Tamblyn (17), and Glo Slatter (12) playing
with Fiona Hudman (9) who, off 3/4 handicap, scored 38 and
41 stableford points respectively. Christine and
Glo were lucky enough to qualify for this event in 2006 (see
below.)
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| The
Foxbridge Charity Invitation "Silent" Auction items
- Saturday 30 September 2006 |
Foxbridge
Golf Club, Plaistow, West Sussex and
Laura Davies raised money for Great Ormond Street Hospital
Children's Charity.
In order to raise funds for her charity walk of the
Great Wall of China, Laura agreed to take part in a charity
shoot out at Foxbridge Golf Club on Saturday 30 September
2006.
Laura is not only a great British ambassador for ladies golf
but she is a tireless supporter of charities. Long may she
reign!! |
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| MW
Golf Team Classic 2006 Grand Finals
16 July - 22 July 2006 |
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scenery and wonderful weather met the winning teams from the
National Final held on 8 June 2006. The teams
(2 ladies teams, one from Tewkesbury Park and one from Sapey,
including 3 mens teams from Sittingbourne, Meon Valley and
Henley Golf Clubs) played at the beautiful Schwarzsee course
and stayed in the immaculate and pretty Rasmushof Hotel in
Kitzbuhel, Austria. The area is stunning with the backdrop
of The Alps always somewhere to be seen. |
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exquisite Rasmushof Hotel has its own 9 hole par 3 course
which is no push-over. Drivers needed from
some tees. The course is laid out on the hillside which
becomes the famous World downhill skiing course in the
winter. You can putt in the finish area of the legendary
Hahnenkamm ski race! |
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With
panoramic views of the Astberg, Rauher Kopf and Wilder
Kaiser peaks, the Schwarzsee golf course has a lot to
offer.
Surrounded by mountains, forests and meadows the course
has water obstacles, flat fairways 1 - 9 and hilly profiles
of holes 10 - 18. |
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Fun
was had at the Tyrolean evening.
Annette and April found some more fun paragliding
down from the mountain to the hotel giving the spectators
at the pool a wave!
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The
mens teams from Sittingbourne, Kent (the eventual grand
winners) and the runners up from Meon Valley and Henley
Golf Clubs.
I'm not sure who the lady gatecrasher is!! Probably
"Netty" from Sapey GC........(the eventual
ladies winners of the tournament). |
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Glo
Slatter, Michelle Frain, Sally Morgan and moi (Christine
Williams) posing against the backdrop of those magnificent
mountains. Can you blame us?!!!
The air was so clean and fresh you wished you could
bottle it. |
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The
town of Kitzbuhel is a stroll away from the hotel. Great
shops!
Another golf course is shown on the right. |
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ladies teams, from left, April Whetton, Michelle Frain,
Tina Wooldridge, Annette Kirk, Glo Slatter, Sally Morgan,
Pat Watkins and Christine Williams, celebrate at the
end of the week. Everyone agreed that
it had been a fantastic experience and our thanks go
to Carole Couchman and John Gale who accompanied us
and organised it so successfully.
If you need details of how to enter
next year email info@amgolfevents.com
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| MW
Golf Team Classic 2006 National Final - 8 June 2006 |
A
team of ladies from Tewkesbury Park Golf Club and Sapey Golf
Club were the winners, coming first and second respectively,
of the MW Golf Team Classic National Final held at Staverton
Park Daventry. They competed against 8 teams of
4 ladies from all over Britain and Northern Ireland who had
qualified by winning their league playing during the Winter
months. The prize for winning the tournament
is a fantastic all expenses paid trip to play in the Grand
Final of the MW Golf Ladies Team Classic in Kitzbuhel, Austria
which takes place between 16th July to 22nd July 2006.
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First
place went to Tewkesbury Park Golf Club (from left Glo Slatter,
Christine Williams, Michelle Frain and Sally Morgan). |
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The
ladies of Tewkesbury Park Golf Club and Sapey Golf Club celebrate
and look forward to the Grand Final of the MW Golf Ladies
Team Classic in Kitzbuhel, Austria. |
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| Open
Golf Club Competitions |
Open
golf club competitions, set up by two golfing enthusiasts,
aims to help you find golf competitions throughout the UK.
Listed are all types of competitions, Am-Am, better ball,
ladies golf tournaments to name a few.
They also feature Golf breaks, Driving ranges, Golf Days
and Golf Winter specials.
If your own club is not registered please encourage them
to join. The savings for your club on printing and postage
will be substantial once the site takes over from the A4
folders currently used. This will help keep your club subscription
charges down!
Get
your own club to register and your club competitions will
be promoted. This is the way forward! Click
the logo to find out how.
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| Children
in Need Charity Golf Days |
Leaderboard,
which owns four high quality courses in the south of England,
raised £35,000 for Children in Need through a successful
series of fundraising golf days.
The cash was raised courtesy of charity days at The Oxfordshire
near Thame, Chart Hills in Kent, Dale Hill in East Sussex
and Sandford Springs in Hampshire.
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Pictured
is Leaderboard Group chairman Paul Gibbons with Pudsey
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Pudsey
seen here with Dickie Davies, the president at Sandford
Springs.
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| NSPCC
Ladies' Golf Classic - Grand Final 2005 |
The
Grand Final of the NSPCC Ladies Golf Classic took place on
an overcast, but warm day at the stunning Forest of Arden.
Ladies from across the UK came to the venue of the British
Masters representing their region, having qualified through
their own clubs and then the Regional Finals. |
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I
was kindly invited, together with Mandy, to play on the
last day as guests and we accompanied the last two competitors,
Lorraine and Janice (pictured in the middle), little knowing
then that they were to become the eventual winners!
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| Barry,
one of the organisers from www.teamfrith.com
had the camera turned on him - but he seems to be enjoying
himself! |
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Lorraine
and Janice who had travelled all the way from Lisburn Golf
Club in Northern Ireland didn't appear to be aware of the
large stretch of water on this hole and came away with a
Par.
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You
never know who is watching you in the Forest of Arden!
This beautiful course runs through a Deer park on the back
nine holes. What with the deer, water and fauna it is most
difficult to focus on keeping your ball in play.
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As
you would expect, the Final was fiercely and closely contested,
with three of the first four pairs in the clubhouse scoring
36 points.
Then, with only one more group to come in, Kathleen Henderson
and Jan Mackie from Moor Allerton Golf Club came in with
a fantastic 38 points.
It looked as though they would be taking the title, but
with a 2 pointer on the tricky 18th, it was the ladies,
Lorraine McAleese and Janice Orr who had travelled
all the way from Lisburn in Northern Ireland who took the
title with a score of 39.
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Third place went to a count back, with Ann Elliott and Tracy
Bazell of Dorset Golf Club just pipping Sue Harvey and Cathy
Wheatley of Forest Pines.
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Fifth
place went to Hilary Smyth and Joan Caw of Pannal Golf Club
with Margaret Maisey and Holly Small from Ellesborough Golf
Club in sixth place.
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Waspe and Nicola Stevenson (Stowmarket Golf Club), Irene Mitchell,
Sue Mortimer (Wycombe Heights Golf Club) and Linda Beasley,
Camille Tooze (Hawkhurst Golf Club) all tied for 7th place. |
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prizes were presented at the Grand Final in the evening by
Janet from the NSPCC, held in Marriott Forest of Arden Hotel.
After the prize giving, the winners, Lorraine McAleese and
Janice Orr, thanked the Forest of Arden for the hospitality,
all of the ladies for their enjoyable company over the past
couple of days, Team Frith for their organisation and hoped
that the money raised would go towards helping the NSPCC in
their aim to end cruelty to children. |
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For
information on how your club can take part next year, (2006)
email Louise
Brown, pictured here, of Team Frith or visit their website
www.teamfrith.com
for more details.
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| The
Daily Mail Foursomes Competition 2004 |
EVEN
A CHAMPION LIKE VIVIEN CAN FALL AT THE FIRST HURDLE
A lifetime of golfing achievement, it would seem, is no guarantee
of success in the Daily Mail Foursomes.
Just ask Vivien Saunders. The former women's British Open champion
and England national coach, who was awarded the OBE for services to
the sport in 1998, fell at her first hurdle in last year's event -
one of her first back in the amateur ranks.
Vivien and Julia Sales, a two-time foursomes finalist, from Cambridge
Meridian, were beaten 3&2 Moat House's Izzy Dear and Grace Eastment
in the second round after receiving a bye through the first phase. |
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Vivien,
now in her fifties but still playing off plus two, said: 'We actually
scored very well. I think we were one under par standing on the 12th
tee, but we were still two down. That is what sometimes happens in
handicap events.' But Vivien said: 'We will be back entering next
year. It is such a nice tournament.'
Extract
from The Daily Mail - 20th May 2004
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| The
very last Benson and Hedges International Open at The Belfry 10th
May 2004 |
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The winner of
the last Benson & Hedges International Open was Paul Casey
from England.
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| Tewkesbury
Park Competitions |
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The
Golf Section at Tewkesbury Park Hotel and Country Club have a very
busy diary with a considerable amount of Honours Board, Mixed
and Fun competitions being held throughout the
year.
Some Honours Board competitions, such as The Club Championship and
Ladies Open have to be held on determined tees on the main competition
day which is a Wednesday but others can be played on the alternative
day for the Business Ladies which for our club, is the previous
Sunday. Quite often some of the Business Ladies
who have had a good round on the Sunday can be seen doing a Rain
Dance for the heavens to open on the following Wednesday!
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| Qualifying
Competitions: |
| Mail
on Sunday |
| National
knockout competition with matches played against local golf clubs
in the initial rounds. Team of 4 playing difference of
3/4 handicap matchplay. In the event of a tie, the
last players have a "sudden death" playoff to decide the
overall winner to go through to the next round. |
| County
Foursomes Competition |
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pairs winner of the club's knockout rounds go through to following
rounds. The eventual winners qualifying for the Grand
Final. |
| Watson
Williams Trophy |
| Scratch
knockout competition. |
| Douglas
Bader Qualifying Competition (mixed) |
The
winners of Golf Club's qualifying round go through to the finals.
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| "Fun"
Competitions: |
| Title |
Description
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| Magic
Multiplier |
Pairs
competition. Each hole played as stableford and multiply
your score with your partner's. For example, if you score
2 points on the first hole and your partner scores 4, your total points
for that hole would be 8! If however one of you scores
4 but the other has a blob and scores 0, then 4 x 0 = Nothing. |
| 3
Clubs and a putter |
Players
choose which 3 clubs to use - played as stableford |
| Yellow
Ball |
Teams
of 3 - full handicap stableford. Each player in turn
plays a hole with the "yellow ball". Two
scores to count on each hole: the "yellow ball",
plus the better score of the other two players. Total
the scores. |
| Bowmaker |
Teams
of 3 - full handicap stableford. Holes 1 - 6, the
best stableford score out of 3 team members, on each hole to count. Holes
7 - 12, the best two stableford scores of 3 team members to count. Holes
13 - 18, all three stableford scores of team members to count. Total
up scores for holes 1 - 18 for team score. |
| Texas
Scramble |
Teams
of 3 or 4. All drive, best ball is selected and marked. All
players either place (on fairway) or drop at that point and all play
from there. Record the gross score for each hole. Total
up the gross scores, subtract 10% of your total players' handicaps
from the total gross score to give your net score. Each
player must contribute 4 tee shots to the team effort. |
| Bisque
Bogey |
Stableford
off full handicap. Players can use as many shots
as they want but not to exceed your maximum allowance over the 18
holes. For example, if your handicap is 20 you may
decide to take 3 of these on the 1st which you personally consider
to be a difficult hole but none on the 7th which you find easy to
par! You then continue until you have reached your
handicap allowance, selecting and announcing before you tee off how
many shots you wish to take before playing that hole. |
| All
Irons Stableford |
Only
irons and a putter are allowed - full stableford allowance. |
| Am
Am |
Usually
teams of 4 with the best 2 stableford scores on each hole to count. |
| Stableford |
The
Golf Stableford points Scoring System (named after Dr Frank Stableford
at the Glamorganshire Club, Penarth in 1898 when the first Stableford
competition was held there on 30 September 1898.)
The
Stableford system allocates a point's score for each hole that the
player completes. At the completion of the round the player adds
up all the scores for each hole and that becomes their score for
the round.
The
points allocated are as follows against your nett score:
Net Double-bogey (2-over par) = 0 points
Net Bogey (1-over par) = 1 point
Net Par = 2 points
Net Birdie (1-under par) = 3 points
Net Eagle (2-under par) = 4 points
Net Albatross (3-under par) = 5 points
However,
you must also take your handicap into account in determining the
nett par, Birdie, Bogey etc. For instance if you have a handicap
of 18 you are allowed one extra shot on each hole to achieve par
or bogey or birdie etc. If your handicap is 36 you are allowed 2
extra shots to achieve par etc. If your handicap lies between 18
and 36, say 24, you are allowed one extra shot on each hole and
a further extra shot (two in all) on the six most difficult holes
to achieve par etc.
Holes
are indexed on the scorecard according to their relative level of
difficulty. The most difficult hole is classed as Index 1 and the
least difficult as Index 18.
If
there is a tie when all the scores are totted up and the cards compared
it is normal to attempt to separate tied scores on a ‘count-back’.
This is where the score for the last 9 holes are compared and the
highest one is declared the winner. If the score for the last nine
is equal the last six are compared – if the scores are still
tied then the last three and finally the score on the final hole
is used to determine the winner.
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