Hello golfers,

Welcome to the latest edition of our weekly newsletter. In this week's email, we discuss whether slow play is coming to an end, we have our final video from Ian Poulter looking at hitting a hybrid from the rough and we explain why we stock a particular brand in-store. Enjoy the read.

Team Stableford - Wednesday, 18 October

First place - Ian Campbell, Derek Milne, Iain Wilson, and Kenneth Hunt (83 points), second place - Martyn Deck, Hugh Graham, Harry Little and Max Dowling (81 points) and in third place - George Richer, David Jackson, Peter Brown and Ken Fraser (81 points).

Pro Stableford - Saturday, 21 October

First place - C. Routledge (34 points), second place - H. Sutherland (34 points) and in third place - S. Harrop (33 points).

Pro V1 Draw

This week's winners of the Pro V1 draw were M. Armstrong, R. Richie and A. McVitie who all won a sleeve of three golf balls.

Lessons of the week...

It has been another busy week for golfers on the practice tee this week with plenty of improvements being made. Pictured first is Ajay who has been working on P1 of the swing, limiting right arm rotation and maintaining width in the takeaway to increase consistency and accuracy of his strike. The second video shows Alan working on his understanding of the arc to the putting stroke and putting it in to practice on breaking putts.

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Is slow play coming to an end?

The Rules of Golf are undergoing dramatic change at the moment as the R&A and USGA – golf’s two governing bodies – look to bring the game inline with today’s needs. Their Rules Modernisation initiative includes several updates that’ll hopefully bring about a faster speed of play and shorter rounds of golf; no one wants to be taking 4+ hours to play 18 holes.

Well now the European Tour want to do their bit and to be fair to them, they’ve been at the forefront of modernising golf with innovative events such as Super 6 and GolfSixes. This week they’ve introduced a new event onto the 2018 calendar – the 2018 Shot Clock Masters. As the name suggests, players will have a strict 40-second shot clock on each stroke in an aim to cut round time by at least 45 minutes. The punishment if they take too long? A one-stroke penalty.

Will it work? Let us know your thoughts

New arrivals...

This week in the pro shop we have received the brand new autumn/winter range from Oscar Jacobson. So next time you are down at the club, make sure you pop into the pro shop and check out these ranges for yourselves.