From the GM’s Office:

It’s been a very busy month at the club with some tremendous golf being played, Steve Roberts winning Howard Lythgoe’’ Vice Captains Day with a nett 61 must be the highlight. The Calvert was a great success and for the first year in a few was full which I believe is a testimony to the quality and reputation of the golf course. I would like to thank the sponsors and particularly Ray Smith from Diageo who continues to be a great supporter of the club also thanks to Ping Golf and Bridgestone for their contribution.

Hopefully you will have received an email or seen the posters advertising the “Introduce a member offer”

Any full member who introduces a friend to the club who then takes up full membership will receive £50 credit on their bar card as well as the new member receiving £50 on their card. This offer starts on July 1st 2009 and will run till 30th September 2009.The current joining fee is £250.00 and the membership fees are pro-rata till the end of the year.

It is not too late to enter the 200 Club and there are slips available in the bar and the Pro-Shop.

Mick Wilson, Club Captain

Hi everyone, I hope you are all well and enjoying the summer golf, our competitions are now in full swing (pardon the pun) and these are being well supported so thanks to all concerned both handicaps and competitors. We have just hosted the Calvert Trophy and once again it was a successful day with our course receiving many compliments, I would personally like to thank all concerned, greens, handicaps and of course Tony & Jane McMunn for all the hard work not to forget Simon & Claire for their part too.

I know that our house and bar team are working to bring us some great functions so keep a look out on the notice boards for up & coming events. Our professional is back on the circuit with a vengeance at the moment so good luck to Mike & watch out Woosy!! Compliments to our find band of juniors also who under Dan’s guidance continue to be a credit to our club and are producing some very good results the team shirts are very smart so keep up the good work. Lastly I wish all of you good golf, success in the up and coming comps especially the majors and I look forward to seeing you all around the club in the near future. Captain

Joanne Startin, Lady Captain.

A&L were proud to host the Lancashire Ladies Vets prestigious Cecil Leach trophy on the 8th June. The ladies had a great day, with wonderful weather and everyone who played was delighted with everything about A&L. Complements were flowing about the course and the hospitality. The competition was won by our own Dee Duxbury and Marina Hardman, who made the most of the home advantage. Well done to Dee and Marina

The ladies major competitions are well underway now. Captain's Day for ladies was a huge success and was won by Olive Moore. Thanks to our Captain for a great day.

I'm looking forward to Lady Captain's day for Juniors on Saturday 27th June and to my Lady Captain's Days on the 9th and 11th July. I hope the sun shines and that everyone enjoys the day. Good luck to everyone.

Lastly, my Lady Captain's Day out this year is on 21st July at Ashton in Makerfield. I'll have a full review in next month’s edition.

Thanks,

Joanne (Lady Captain)

Barry Piggott, Seniors Section Captain
The month of June was a somewhat strange one for the Senior Section. There has been limited success in the leagues, after such good starts, 2 home matches rained off and a further one having to be re-scheduled when a team failed to turn up!!!

One rained-off match was bizarre. The first four ball had just completed the 7th hole when it started to rain. By the time they had reached the eighth green, it was flooded as were most others around the course. Needless to say, match abandoned. Our thanks to the Office for finding  spaces in a busy diary for the re-arranged matches and to the Caterers, especially on the day of the abandoned match, for rushing through the meal several hours ahead of the scheduled time.

The team of George Sams, Ron Stamper and Norman Yates did the club proud in coming third (out of eight) in the Fylde League annual team competition, the Len Hall Trophy. In the individual placing, George Sams was second in the individual placings, the winner having the home advantage of Fairhaven.

The Monday medal and Stableford competitions continue to be well-supported. Thanks to all those that take part, to the runners-up, but especially to the winners: Bill Bannister (Stazicker Shield) and Chris Robertson (Millennium Cup). At the latter event almost £100 was collected in support of the Poppy Appeal.

JUNIORS
The junior section has a mixed month in the NLJGA league, we started the month with a tremendous 15-0 victory at home to Lancaster G.C, then came up against a very good Penwortham side and lost 9-6 at home. Paul Green in singles and Stephen Nixon + Jack Winder in the pairs won both of their games. I was happy to see the remaining three matches all push their opponents to the last hole before losing 1 down. Our next match is away to Heysham on Sunday 5th July.

Nine of our juniors have had their handicaps reduced on general play for their outstanding golf over the past couple of months. Our next competition is Lady Captains Day on Saturday 27th June. All juniors are battling it out for six places for the Charity cup to be held at Ashton&Lea in July, good luck to all juniors taking part. Finally it is nice to see there are now 10 juniors who have reached 15 handicap or better to play in gents’ competitions. Well done boys.

GOLF COURSE

The feedback from the Calvert Trophy about the course was superb and Graham and his team are maintaining the course to a very high level. Summer staff is in place to help keep on top of the maintenance and the general duties during the busy periods.

The greens committee along with Graham are busy looking at the winter programme for 2009/10 with one of the main priorities the drainage, working towards less closures, fewer trolley bans and to stay on the fairways longer.  

SOCIAL

The Thwaites night was a tremendous success and in fact a sell out! Class Catering put on a great buffet and the entertainment from Darren James was superb, thank you to everyone who supported the event. The next club event will be the Murder Mystery Night on Friday 7th August more details will follow shortly.

AND Finally.....

Regards

Simon Plumb
General Manager