Hello golfers, 

 

Lee Sullivan joins the HGGC Team to offer his expertise on putting! 

Lee started his golfing journey aged 13 years old in his birth place of Liverpool. As a junior golfer he joined Bootle Municipal Golf Club where he was bitten by the golfing bug. After a couple of years learning to improve his golf, he got the opportunity to join The West Lancashire Golf Club on what is now part of the duly named, 'Golf Coast'. West Lancashire is a private members golf club and was founded in 1873. The club has hosted numerous final qualifying rounds for The Open together with top amateur events such as The Brabzon Trophy. 

The day came when Lee decided he wanted to make the switch from the amateur ranks and become a Golf Professional. A decision to enrol on the three year PGA training programme took him on a journey to Kent. Lee spent two years work, learning and studying away from home under the guidance of his PGA training professional and returned back to the North West to complete his third and final year as PGA Assistant Professional at Romiley Golf Club. Lee succeeded in becoming a fully Qualified PGA Golf Professional at the end of 2001 and two years later Lee successfully became the Head Club Professional at Romiley Golf Club. 

Since making the decision to leave a Head Club Professionals role to pursue a career in coaching, Lee has spent the last four years solely focusing on coaching putting 'The Game, within a Game'. Previously to joining my team at Hazel Grove, Lee has spent the last three years working and helping to set-up and establish a local company called Raa Putters Ltd. The company is a U.K. putter manufacturing company who specialise in custom-built putters and are based locally in Macclesfield. 

Lee brings a wealth of knowledge and experience in golf with him to Hazel grove and is steadily building his reputation as a well-respected performance putting coach. He has and does work with many touring professionals including European Tour, European Senior Tour and Ladies European Tour Players as well as PGA Golf Professionals & Elite Amateurs, not forgetting his most important clients being the everyday club golfers, men, women and juniors. 

Lee believes the fastest way to lower scores is by learning to become a better putter, simple. To arrange a putting session with Lee please contact him on 07759 917 518 or email Lee on lee@18putts.com. 


 

Results from the weekend 
Final Summer Medal - 12th September 2015 
1st Steve Mann 73-5=68, 2nd Mike Wild 83-12=71 and 3rd Lee Thorneycroft 76-3=73 

Final Summer Stableford 
1st Bryan Jobling 39pts,  2nd Lee Everett 36pts and 3rd Peter Allen 36pts 

Subsidiary Medal 
1st Steve Mcgahan 80-13=67, 2nd Eric Slater 83-15=68 and 3rd Jonny Turner 83-14=69 

Juniors 18 hole Stableford 13th September
1st Martyn Lamb 36 pts, 2nd Ross Tetlow 35 pts, 3rd James Glazier 32 pts & 4th Ollie Newton 32 pts 

Roll Up Results 10th September 
1st Andy Stone 20pts (£20 shop credit), 2nd Rick Booth 19pts (£15 shop credit), 3rd Greg Aspinall 17pts (£10 shop credit) 

Just let you all know Greg made a hole in one on the 2nd hole!! Well done Greg!!! 

Next Week, 24th September is the last roll up of the season. I have arranged for Andy to do a Curry night after the golf so we can all get together. I would like to say a few words and talk about next years roll up. If you would like to book your name down for the curry please get in touch in the shop or by clicking here and sending us an email. 


 

Avoiding Slow Play

Slow play is increasingly becoming a problem at many clubs, is raising discontent among members and on some occasions it is putting people off from playing golf. Here are some simple tips of ways players can avoid it. 

Slow play tip 1: The main cause of slow play is golfers not being prepared to play when it is their turn. Members of a group should not travel as a pack, with all members walking together to the first ball, then the second, and so on. Each member of the group should walk directly to his own ball and be ready to play when it is their turn. 

Slow play tip 2: When waiting on the tee for the group in front to clear the fairway don't be so strict about order of play. Let the short hitter - who can't reach the group ahead anyway - go ahead and hit.

Please click here for tips 3 - 12.

  

Repairing Pitch Marks On The Greens by Mick Jones

A recent inspection of our greens on a Thursday morning showed lots of unrepaired Pitch Marks on our greens. This inspection followed all sections having competitions on the preceding 5 days with minimal visitors. i.e. We as members are not being diligent enough in identifying and repairing Pitch Marks as we should be. 

A Pitch Mark only takes a few seconds to fix correctly however, a Pitch Mark repaired incorrectly or not at all takes over 3 weeks to heal. 

Please study and understand these guidelines on how to correctly repair Pitch Marks. Correct repair will help protect the grass root system and our greens and benefit all members and visitors to our course.

Please click here to read the full advice on repairing pitchmarks. 


Course Update by Mick Jones

Greens maintenance week took place week commencing Monday 10th August. All greens were micro tined, top dressed and over seeded as required. We had a great turnout of volunteers on the Monday helping to clear the tines. This enabled us to complete the task ahead of the planned schedule. MANY THANKS to all who helped. 

The tasks undertaken through summer on the Greens Recovery Programme are showing fruition and the greens recovery is further ahead than anticipated when we commenced. We have definitely benefitted from doing greens maintenance and micro tining in August (rather than in late Sept/Oct as in previous years) giving greens time to rapidly recover in good growing/soil conditions. Our recommendation and intention is to do greens maintenance and micro tining in April and August going forward. 

As a result Mike Davie believes we will enter the winter months with greens that are stronger and with the best coverage that we have had for a few years.

Click here to read more on the autumn/winter programme.


 

We are hosting an open day at HGGC on Sunday, 27 September from 9am to 12pm. If you like to come along and sample what we have to offer, get some  FREE coaching tips and play a few holes with a club member please come along! 

Click here to find out more about this event. For more information click here to get in touch or ring 0161 4837272 

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Mizuno Fitting Day  
Friday 25th September 1:00pm - 5:00pm

Mizuno are hosting a custom fitting day here at HGGC on Friday, 25 September from 1pm-5pm. This is a fantastic opportunity to try out their brand new iron releases including the MP -5 and MP-25 models, as well as their hugely popular JPX 850 range!

Click here to find out more about Mizuno's hardware line up for 2015. To book you time slot please contact me, or click here to get in touch!