Greetings golfers,

At the time of writing this week’s newsletter the 146th Open Championship has started at Royal Birkdale. From the very first starters it looks like the golf course will be a tough test for the best golfers in the world this week.

Unlike the last major, the US Open at Erin Hills, Royal Birkdale is not a ‘bombers’ golf course. Course strategy and a good short game will be essential for the winner this week.

The Open returns to Royal Birkdale for the first time in 10 years with Padraig Harrington beating Ian Poulter on that occasion. With both men recently returning to form I’m sure they will be excited to return to a course they both enjoy. For the gamblers amongst us I think both are a good each way bet with my pick being John Rahm outright.

Scotty Cameron and Vokey Experience Day

Thank you to Chloe Rogers from Titleist who ran a fantastic Scotty Cameron Putter and Titleist Vokey Wedge experience day last Friday. Chloe is a fully qualified PGA Pro and formally worked for Titleist at their performance fitting centre at Celtic Manor, her expertise and knowledge of Titleist product made for some great custom fits and some happy golfers.

Also, thank you to everyone who turned up to ‘try’ the clubs and to everyone who had a custom fitting. I know everyone enjoyed the day and can’t wait for their new equipment to arrivel from Titleist.

Sounds impressive!! Simply click the button below to book your custom fit today.

The original Steelhead was one of the most popular fairway woods of all time because of its uniquely beautiful shape and innovative Hawkeye Sole, which enhanced versatility by encouraging smooth turf interaction to promote solid contact from almost any lie.

With the new Steelhead XR Fairway Wood, we improved that iconic shape, made the head more forgiving and easy to launch, and refined the sole to make it even more versatile and playable than the original Steelhead. One more thing: we super-charged it with modern, power-producing technologies to promote more distance, both off the turf and from the tee

I’ve now hit the fairway wood and Callaway’s words are true. If you are in the market for a new fairway (or 2) this could be the club for you.

It is extremely powerful yet easy to flight and the sole design makes it easy to use from a variety of lies. I can remember the original club, which was brilliant, and this new edition has not let the name down.

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July Midweek Stableford

On Tuesday the July Midweek Stableford was held at the golf club and despite the stormy conditions the scoring was excellent, the Mexican Bandits arrived wearing their huge sombreros.

Chief Bandit was Laurie Cassar who won the competition with a huge 42 points, this included a 3 putt on the 9th hole – clearly the only blemish on his card. Despite his brilliant score, Laurie’s winning margin was only one point. However, this was from not one person, or two, but three! David Forrester claimed second on countback with a better back nine of 21 points. Ross Knowlson squeezed into third place with the countback going down to the final three holes, his tally of 8 points beating Barry Wilson – who only finished 4th with 41 points! Very well played to you all.

When questioned about his score Wednesday afternoon Laurie was heard saying later he was going home for some Mexican food for dinner! Maybe this is the answer?!

Two players shared the 2’s pots with Alex ‘Mr 2’ Mullins and Kevin Tapson both winning £24 each.