Happy New Year to all members of the Lymm Golf Club Senior Section!

Welcome to our new website, which you can access from your computer or your smart-phone at the address: lgcseniors.com

For quick access on your phone, you can add this website as an ‘app’ icon (just as you can for any website). If you are unsure how to do this, ask a ‘digital native’ such as one of your Internet-savvy grandchildren.

We will publish a newsletter on here every Wednesday, and we will regularly update the various sections as our golfing year progresses.

The website is at the ‘trial and error’ stage. Suggestions are welcome for improvement, and for topics of interest that you would like to see. If you have any news to report, contact the editors via the ‘report news’ page.

Match Report for 30th December 2022

Individual Stableford, over 10 holes.

Winner: Tony Lambert, 25 points.
2nd: Les Fecitt, 24 points
3rd: John Hayes, 23 points

Well done to Tony, who will be awarded a bottle of wine.

Joe 90?

Yes, Joe Priestner is still 90, but not for much longer! Joe has asked us to join him for a glass of whisky this Friday (6 January). He will celebrate his 91st birthday on Sunday 8th January.

There are surely not many golfers in the world who can regularly beat their age with a gross card. In Joe, we are honoured to have one such player in LGC seniors!

Winter League Starts Friday 6th January

Our winter league (best 5 of 10) starts this Friday, with the first of 10 games. The format is Stableford, and as usual the winner of the league will be the player with the highest aggregate of his best 5 cards.

Please make sure you use your latest LGC Seniors handicap, which you will find on our noticeboard.

We will publish a weekly leaderboard for the league on this website.

There is a small difference to the format this year. We have decided to have two divisions, and therefore two first prizes. To create the divisions, we will take the median handicap (which I think is about 21) and create upper and lower divisions. We will confirm before the end of January (at the next committee meeting) the players in each division, and put a sheet up on the LGS Seniors’ noticeboard. You will remain in your division until the end of the Winter League season, irrespective of any change to your handicap during the season.

The creation of two divisions affects only the prizes. It will not affect the draw for start times on Friday mornings. We will continue to play as one section, i.e. your playing partners are not determined by the divisions.

The Alternative Seniors’ Christmas Dinner

A few of us, including Sammy Lee no less, had an excellent evening at the Choy Hing in Grappenhall. Someone suggested that a snapshot of the table would make a nice postcard for Rob Taylor, who is enjoying warmer climates Down Under. Season’s Greetings, Rob!

It was good to see Pete Broady, who is bouncing back with a new knee, and will doubtless be returning to the golf course soon. As you can see from the picture, Bob Mycock does not look his usual self. I think he was disappointed when Paddy told him that we would not be playing stand-up-sit-down Bingo!

New Member

Welcome to Alan Booth, who has recently joined the senior section.