Captain’s
Newsletter : October 2019
Dear
Member of Clays Golf Club
Firstly,
I would like to bring everyone up to date regarding our recent Charity Day. 116
players took part in the competition and enjoyed an excellent carvery meal from
Hayley afterwards. Apart from the people who played on the day, a number of
members who weren’t able to take part made a donation towards the funds and some
of our members sponsored either holes or the individual prizes. I and Malcolm
Williams, member at Clays and Chair of the Wrexham Prostate Cancer Support
Group, are delighted to report that a total of £3759 has been raised, with more
donations promised. Malcolm and I would like to thank sincerely everyone for
their fantastic generosity; we very much appreciate the support that we have
received from members, families and friends leading up to the day. I will give
details of the prizewinners later in the newsletter.
I
mentioned in my previous newsletter that we will be holding Presentation Day on
Saturday, 9th November. This will be a shotgun start team competition
in the morning and all members are invited to take part but, particularly, our
Honours Board Finalists. Following completion of the round we will announce the
results for the morning’s competition and immediately go on to present the
Honours Board trophies. Our Club President, Gareth Roberts, is currently
organising the updating of the new Honours Boards ready for the big day. I very
much hope that you’ll take part in the golf and stay to congratulate this
season’s champions. The sign-up sheet for taking part is in Reception.
It has
been a very difficult time recently for our greenkeeping staff with such heavy
rainfall over the past few weeks and this has put back some of the course
maintenance and development work that they had planned. Please give the staff
priority whilst they carry out this essential work over the coming weeks and
months. With current ground conditions, it is inevitable that large divots will
be taken when playing a shot, deep pitch marks will be made as the ball hits
the green and the sand in bunkers will become compacted. Please give some
thought to supporting the greenkeeping staff and taking your fellow players
into account by filling any divots as best you can, repairing any pitch marks
on the greens and raking bunkers.
Some
R&A posters will be appearing on various noticeboards soon with suggestions
regarding Ready Golf and the pace of play. Please have a look at these and
consider if there are any ways in which you can adopt any of the suggested
points.
Finally,
having held a very successful charity day, we would now like to turn our
attention to raising funds for the club. The Club Council have discussed a
number of ways in which we would like the club to develop and further enhance
members’ enjoyment of their golf on the course. These include contributing
towards the purchase of an air compressor, hopefully for installation sometime
in the new year, and the possibility of a halfway house in the future. We have some
social events in the next couple of months and we would aim to raise some funds
for the club during those two evenings. There are a number of posters around
the club with details of these and it would be great if we could sell
sufficient tickets for them to go ahead after the disappointment of having to
cancel the Cheese and Wine evening.
Thanks
again for your ongoing support.
Have
a good month’s golf.
Nigel
Davies nigeldavies78@gmail.com
Club
Captain
Club News
:
I
am delighted to pass on the news from Josh, our General Manager, that we now have
302 full members. Clays’ next goal is to push on now and reach 350 by the end
of the membership renewal period in 2020.
Congratulations
to the Clays Ping Mixed Team for
coming 3rd in the Ping Wales Knockout Competition at
Cotterill Park, Cardiff.
Congratulations
to the Clays Ladies Team who won the Border Cup Challenge, a competition
between Mile End GC, Henlle GC and Clays.
Congratulations
to Chris Jones, our Immediate Past Captain, and to Russ Adamson for being
outright winners of the recent Seniors Open held at Oswestry GC with a
fantastic betterball score of 45 points in difficult conditions.
The
Seniors played their last match against Mold GC away winning 5½ to 4½ . The Seniors have had a successful
year in their Inter-Club matches, playing 11 matches, winning 7 and losing 4.
On
Saturday, 23rd November there will be a Curry and Quiz Night costing
£8pp. Tickets can be obtained from Hayley.
The
club weekend Winter Turkey Trot competitions have begun and will continue on
either a Saturday or a Sunday through the next couple of months, with a turkey,
whisky and wine available to win each time!
These
will culminate in the final Turkey Trot and Presentation to be held on Saturday,
21st December. Further details can be found in Reception. Please
support as many of these fun competitions as you can.
The
'Clays Golf Christmas Draw' is now underway in Reception at £2 a square or 3
for £5. First prize is a 7 day Clays Golf membership and other prizes include a
large turkey, a bottle of scotch, wine and chocolates.
There
will be a Clays Christmas Open taking place on Saturday, 28th
December. This will be a Texas Scramble competition for teams of 3 or 4 players
and teams can be mixed with Men, Ladies or Juniors off Yellow/Red Tees. Entry
fee is just £6 for Members and £10 for Visitors. Prizes include meals out,
rounds of golf at other courses and golf products from Ben at Fairway Golf. This
is another event in which we are hoping to raise funds for the new air
compressor that I mentioned earlier and your support would be very much
appreciated.
Some
members have mentioned to me that the bell by the 18th tee doesn't seem to be
used very much these days, perhaps because of its location, and we have
suggested having it moved to between the 18th green and 1st tee, in other words
pretty much along the path that most people use to walk off the course. Josh
has confirmed that this work is to be included in the greenkeeping team’s
winter projects.
Just
a reminder that we now have new scorecards and the stroke indices on some of
the holes have changed which could well affect the number of shots available on
these holes.
Club
Results :
Congratulations
to those members listed below on their recent golfing success.
Seniors
October Medal :
Division
1 :
1st
Tony Harcombe 2nd
Dave Palferman
Division
2 :
1st
Steve Monk
2nd Ken
Tieszen
Thursday
5th September : Seniors 9 Hole Competition:
1st
Irwin Elkin 2nd
Roy
Jordan
Club
October Medal :
Division 1 :
1st
Iwan
Bonds 2nd
Richard Collier
Division
2 :
1st
Gareth Roberts 2nd Paul Stevenson
Past
Captains & Officers Honours Board competition 2019 :
1st
Dave Palferman 2nd Bob Brown
Charity
Day :
Team
Prizes :
1st
Phil Jones Ant McAllister Matthew
Nicholas Kevin Todd 79pts
2nd
Paul Stevenson Dave Riley Graham Davidson-Clarke Shaun
Powell
78pts
3rd
Tony Jackson Graham Bryne Dave
Reece J. Atherton 72pts
Individual
Prizes :
Nearest the Pin Maureen Elkin
Straightest Drive Robin Holden
Longest Drive Shaun Powell
Nearest the Pin in 2 David Boove
Dates for Your Diary :
2nd
November Club Monthly
Medal
7th
November Seniors Stableford
Medal
9th November Presentation Day
12th
November Seniors Ken
Lawrence Memorial
Club
Council meeting
16th
November Turkey Trot :
South African Pairs
19th
November Seniors Winter
League 1
23rd
November Turkey Trot :
Pairs Greensomes
Curry
& Quiz
24th
November Christmas Mixed
competition
26th
November Seniors Winter
League 2
30th
November Turkey Trot :
Individual Stableford
1st
December Ladies
9-Hole comp & Christmas Party
3rd
December Seniors AGM
5th
December Seniors
Stableford Medal
6th December Clays Christmas Party!
7th
December Quarterly
& Monthly Medalsholly
10th
December Club Council
Meeting
14th
December Turkey Trot : 2
Ball Texas Scramble
17th
December Seniors 9-Hole
comp & Christmas Party
21st
December Turkey Trot
Finale : Six Six
Six
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