With the golf course, pro shop and clubhouse shut, for the time being, we’ve tried to get a little creative with our weekly emails. Here’s what you can expect each week:A weekly challenge to attemptGolf at home tips and drills to try Our weekly qu
 
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Hello Golfers,

With the golf course, pro shop and clubhouse shut, for the time being, we’ve tried to get a little creative with our weekly emails. Here’s what you can expect each week:

  • A weekly challenge to attempt
  • Golf at home tips and drills to try
  • Our weekly quiz to see who has the biggest golf brain among you
  • Video of the week

Hopefully, this will provide you with a bit of light-hearted fun during a difficult time for us all.


The lockdown calendar

We came across a lockdown calendar last week and it revealed some highly amusing answers for the team, so we wanted to get you involved too!

All you need to do is match your birth date and your birth month with the answers given and you’ll create a brilliant lockdown scenario, like these:

Baking with Rory McIlroy
Cleaning your car with Fred Couples
Taking your bins out with Tiger Woods

It’s a little bit of fun whilst the majority of us find ourselves at home, so click the link below to take part. Don’t forget to email us your scenarios at the end!

View lockdown calendar here.


Pro Shop ‘Lock Down’ Prize Draw


This week I’m launching my Pro Shop Prize Draw.
The cost is £5.00 per ‘virtual’ ticket or 3 goes for £10.00, payment to be made via bank transfer:


Name: M A Tyler

Sort: 20-45-14

Account: 60111538


*NB. PLEASE REFERENCE YOUR PAYMENT WITH YOUR NAME & PRO DRAW*


All the monies received will be returned as credit to spend in the Pro Shop when we re-open. 
There will be a minimum of 3 prizes and more added if enough entries are received.

The winners will be announced on next weeks newsletter and on my Facebook & Twitter pages.

 Thanks in advance for your support and good luck!

putting drill

Tuition Video - Hole more putts!

This week's video shows you a really simple drill to practice at home, to help you hole more putts out on the course.

Click here to watch the video.

?How are you practicing

I’m sure like me you’re all missing your golf, but that doesn’t mean you can’t do some practice at home ready for when we finally get back out onto the course


Send me some pictures of your home made practice set-ups, mine's pictured on the left

 

 

 

Target
course pictures

Bracken Ghyll Needs You!


The timing of this crisis couldn’t have been any worse for the Club with membership renewals now due!


Head Greenkeeper Rob and his team are continuing to do essential maintenance on the course, ensuring we have a fantastic course to play when we all finally return.

 
Please, if you can, contact the club and pay your subscriptions. I know it’s a lot to ask, but the future of this amazing club is in your hands.


Please keep well and your loved ones safe.

Mark

 
 
Weekly quiz

Something new for our readers

Us golfers are competitive at heart, so we thought we'd try to harness some of that spirit by introducing a new feature to our weekly emails.

We're going to kick things off next week with our very own Masters Quiz - it was supposed to be Masters week after all - so be sure to do some research before then!

For now, we have put up a short poll on our website that we'd love you to answer by clicking the button below. We'll let you know the results next week.

Quiz of the Week
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Weekly challenge

It’s times like these when thinking outside the box can result in all sorts of fun. So, we’ve rummaged through the garden shed and come up with a little game for you to try at home! If you don’t have any buckets or pots to hand, try creating different sized rings using string, tape or even ties – this would make it indoor friendly too.

Weekly challenge - Chipping Snooker

The set-up

Mark out your hitting zone like we’ve done using a mat in the image above. Then, from smallest to largest, lay your targets out so they get progressively bigger as they get further from the hitting zone. You then need to decide how many points each target is worth, with more points awarded to the smaller targets.

How to play

The great thing about this game is that you can play it by yourself or with the rest of the family. If you’re giving the challenge a go alone, you have five balls to get the highest score possible. You can play the same way with others or you can set an overall target score (e.g. 50 points) and the first person to reach that score wins!

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Golf at home

This part of our newsletter is all about trying to keep your golf game ticking over whilst we’re being told to stay indoors. With putting being such a vital part of lowering scores out on the course (and the easiest to practice at home), we’re going to kick things off with a simple putting drill for you to try.

Golf at home - Putting drill

The set-up

Grab your putter, six golf balls and a tee peg. Place the tee upside on the ground – this will be your target. From here, measure out a putter’s length from the tee and place a ball down. Repeat this five times at equal distances apart so that you have a circle of golf balls surrounding the tee peg – just like in the image above.

Too easy? Make it harder

Your goal is to go around the circle and hit the tee peg with each putt. However, if you miss, you’ll need to go back and start again – a nice way to mimic some pressure from the golf course. If you complete the circle, keep going until you miss to set yourself a target to beat next time or try increasing the distance of each putt from the tee.

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Video of the Week

What's Padraig Harrington laughing at here? Well, if you ever needed reassuring that even the world's best golfers are human, give this video a watch! Enjoy.

European Tour | Worst Shots (14 Club Challenge)
 
 
We hope you enjoyed the newsletter. If you need anymore help or advice please pop into the pro shop and we'll be delighted to help.
 
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