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Once
a year the Business Ladies of the Tewkesbury Park Ladies Golf Section
spend a weekend away. This tradition was started in 1995 and has carried
on ever since with great success.
We have found that there are some terrific deals if the Away Day falls
over the Sunday to Monday and the price is usually a great incentive
to keep one of our precious holidays free for this occasion.
We
usually have a group of 12 people and Denise Clayson and Christine
Williams are founder members. They haven't missed
a "weekend away" break since the first one in 1995.
Have a look at the Pictures page
for a selection of photographs from our weekends away - some of them
cannot be publicised over the internet but we do manage to get invited
back!
Details of the courses are shown below with contact numbers and
links and again, would appreciate it if you would mention that you
got the recommendation from this website.
If you would like to share your pictures and experiences from any
of your own Club's Away Days, please email
me and I will post them up onto the website if suitable. Not
too smutty please!!
See below for Cirencester Club's "The Great
Escape" - they went to France!
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Date
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Hotel
& Golf Club
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Comments
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Contact
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| Sun
- Mon 24/25 June 2007 |
Menzies
Welcombe Hotel Spa & Golf Club, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire |
A beautiful parkland championship course winding through majestic
trees and lakes with views of the impressive Jacobean Hotel. Well
worth a second visit! |
Tel:
01789 413800
www.bookmenzies.com |
| Sun
- Mon 18/19 June 06 |
Wokefield
Park, nr Reading, Berkshire |
Return
visit to Wokefield. We soon remembered how numerous and large the
bunkers are on this course! Good value though. |
Tel:
0118 933 4078 |
| Sun
- Mon 17/18 Jul 05 |
Breadshall
Priory Marriott Hotel & Country Club, Derbyshire |
Hotel
has 2 courses with the Priory Championship winding its way around
mature trees and sweeping fairways. |
Tel:
44 133 2 832235 |
| Sun
- Mon 8/9 Aug 04 |
Hellidon
Lakes Golf & Country Club, Daventry |
The
course consists of 3 loops of 9 holes - the course would have benefitted
from the focus of the greenkeepers to just 18 holes. |
Tel
0845 1300 700 |
| Sun
- Mon 10/11 Aug 03 |
Bank
House Hotel Golf & Country Club, Bransford, Worcester. |
The
course is quite flat but the lakes and ponds entice your ball into
the water. The evening dinner was excellent. |
www.bankhousehotel.co.uk |
| Sun
- Mon 18/19 Aug 02 |
Vale
of Glamorgan, Hensol Park, Nr Cardiff, Glamorgan, Wales |
Superb
leisure facilities with the championship Lake course being very pictureseque
but challenging. |
www.DeVereOnline.co.uk |
Sun
- Mon
Aug 01 |
The
Abbey Hotel, Redditch. |
Modern
Hotel with good facilities such as swimming pool. Parkland course
with magnificent trees and lakes finishing with a tricky watery 18th
hole. |
www.theabbeyhotel.co.uk |
Sun
- Mon
Sept 00 |
Wokefield
Park, nr Reading, Berkshire |
Excellent
value - tea/coffee and cakes all free! Long flat parkland course
but made interesting with winding streams and nine lakes. |
Tel:
0118 933 4078 |
Fri
- Sun
Oct 99 |
Hawkstone
Park Hotel and Golf Centre, Shrewsbury |
2
contrasting championship courses in protected parkland. |
Tel:
01939 200611 |
Fri
- Sun
Oct 98 |
Bryn
Meadows Golf & Country Hotel, Wales |
Privately
owned friendly hotel and leisure complex. Mature parkland course
with tree lined fairways requiring accuracy rather than distance. |
www.brynmeadows.co.uk |
Fri
- Sun
Nov 97 |
Telford
Golf & Country Club, Sutton Hill, Telford, Shropshire |
Tree-lined
mature course. Large greens. |
golfsales.telford@corushotels.com |
Fri
- Sun
Oct 96 |
Meon
Valley Golf and Country Club Hotel, Shedfield, nr Southampton |
Challenging
course with some wonderful holes. Susceptible to wet conditions. |
Tel:
01329 833455 |
Fri
- Sun
Oct 95 |
Abbotsley
Golf Club and Hotel, St. Neots, Cambridgeshire. |
Small
hotel with comfortable rooms. Parkland course with accuracy needed
on the course |
Tel:
01480 474000 |
| "The
Great Escape" by Heather Morley |
| Firstly
let me introduce you to 'The Great Escape', an annual event for a
group of golfing ladies (a.k.a. 'escapees') from Cirencester Golf
Club, based in the Cotswolds, Gloucestershire. We are all keen
golfers of varying handicaps, with one aim in common to have fun whilst
playing golf, and never to take ourselves too seriously. As well as
golf competitions we have quizzes, and a daily theme competition.
Our themes are varied and the winner is chosen by secret ballot. In
previous years the themes were colours (red, white and blue), shapes
(spots, stripes, checks and diamonds) and this year the themes were,
hats, punk, drink and pink. Thank goodness the French are more relaxed
about golfing attire than in the UK!
This
year our trip took us again to France, playing these golf courses;
" Omaha - there are 27 holes here, we played La Mer, and L'etang.
Quite hilly and we had a windy day, but the views were stunning
and the holes were a challenge. Water really only features on L'etang.
" Golf D'Clecy - after the steep climb to the first tee, the
remaining holes were reasonably level, with beautiful views across
the valley and back towards the club house and hotel. The 18th hole
is a blind shot off the tee, with a dog-leg right to the green.
It's best to lay up to the top of the hill, and a fairway wood across
a large dip to the green. We like to think that we'd play this differently
second time around. We stayed at the hotel and received a huge friendly
welcome, and the food was great.
" Golf Du Caen - again there are 27 holes here, we played La
Plaine, and Le Vallon. The 9th hole is a challenge, requiring a
long drive leaving a long fairway wood to the green over a very
steep deep. We found the walk from green to tee to be very long
and invariably up hill. Nevertheless again a good and challenging
course.
Our
final day is played back in England, on the way home. After last
years aborted attempt due to bad weather, we arranged to play again
at the Royal Winchester Golf Club. The fairways are wide, with elevated
tees and driving into a valley. The back 9 holes are very interesting.
Like last year we received a very warm welcome, and were graced
with our first sunny day of the trip. This was our pink day in aid
of Breast Cancer Awareness, and we were quite a spectacle all dressed
in pink.
Here
is a photo on our pink day, we even played with pink balls and what
a spectacle we made. Whilst playing a group of golfing men returned
a lost pink ball to us. I wonder how he knew it belonged to us?
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Plans
are already being made for the 2008 trip, and thinking up new and
interesting themes!! |
Any
more write-ups from other Golf Clubs? We would love to hear
from you.
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