Good evening, all.

The senior section activities have certainly started to ramp up since the main golfing season started earlier this month. If you’re playing in the seniors’ singles knockout, and you haven’t got a bye in the preliminary round, please try to organise your match as soon as possible, because the first round needs to be played before 9th June, which means you only have about 6 weeks to organise two matches.

Whilst is it great that we have two new clubs for the inter-friendly matches (Sale and Bramhall), it means John Armstrong is particularly busy organising the events, contacting our own members and communicating with the other golf clubs.

Our Treasurer Steve Gosling also has his work cut out, chasing up payments for home and away matches. Please pay your match fees as soon as you know you have been selected for a team.

To help communicate with our own members, John Armstrong has created a WhatApps Group:

WhatsApp Group: Lymm Seniors Matches

We appreciate that not everyone is familiar with WhatsApp, but if you have a ‘Smart’ phone, it is easy to download and use. Please do join the group. John has started to add names to the group to communicate with everyone who wants to play in the inter-friendlies.

I know that many of our senior section use WhatsApp, and would be willing to help novices to get started.

Here is a screenshot of Lymm Seniors Matches group from my own phone. Please not that you can ‘mute’ notifications (to stop your phone pinging incessantly), and just look at the group chat once a day, or more regularly if you’ve got a match coming up.

When you join the group, please only use it for relevant communications. If you want to send jokes that you have found on social media, please keep those to the ‘Sultans of Swing’ group, which, I have to admit, I permanently ‘muted’ long ago!

Match Report for 21 April: Round 4 of the Summer League

Reporter: Peter Willson

Date played: 21^st April 2023
Game played: Round 4 – Summer Session  
Number of cards submitted: 39 – Division 1 – 23 players and Division 2 – 16 players
2’s recorded: Dave Waggitt

Division 1:                       
Winner: Phil Perry – 34 points
2nd: Paul Collins – 32 points (CPO over last 6 holes from Mike Pigott)
3rd: Mike Pigott – 32 points

Division 2:
Winner: Colin Chisnall – 34 points
2nd: Joe Priestner – 33 points
3rd: Sammy Lee – 31 points (CPO over last 6 holes from Andrew Ransom)

Notes
Course drying out – played over 15 holes.
Cold wind – light showers around 12 noon
Handicaps – All correct this week!

Scandal Note!
Phil Perry had an interesting hole on the 12^th:
1^st shot in the pond,
4^th shot into the field OOB
7^th shot front edge of green at least 50 feet away
8^th shot into the hole for 1 point !

Moral: don’t give up or just get lucky!

Tee Booking Schedule tomorrow (Thursday 27th April)

This is the tee booking schedule for play on Friday 12th May. Due to a match against Helsby GC, there will be no league match, and therefore a prize of a bottle of wine. If your name is in the left column, please book for your group. 

Happy Mondays 24th April

Reporter: Peter Willson

16 reasonably Happy golfers set out from the 1st. At least it wasn’t raining and the ground is drying out, but it was nippy at first.

The greens are improving and getting measurably faster.
6 teams: 2 x 2 balls and 4 x 3 balls – played Team Stableford although there was some confusion over the format at first. A re-think needed I feel.

The winners – Steve Barlow, Steve Gosling and John White – 94 points or 31.3 per player
2nd – Mike Bennett and Richard Yates – 59 points or 29.5 per player
3rd – Pete Broady, Ken Narraway and Peter Willson – 81 points or 27.0 per player

Welcome new member !

A warm welcome to Steve Bramhall, who joined us this week. I asked Steve if he would like to introduce himself, and he has kindly provided the following:

“When I retired in 2017 from over 50 years of full-time work in the construction industry, I undertook to play more golf and to improve. After three more years of part-time work, I undertook to play more golf and to improve. In the process of moving to Grappenhall Heys, I have recently joined Lymm Golf Club and I intend to play more golf and to improve! We’ll see! Wendy, my wife of 46 years and our 3 children and 5 grandchildren, in Jersey, California and Thelwall Village, all tell me that they have heard this before!”

Newsletter Editor: Mark Pickles