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Junior membership
If you would like to join Leamington and County Golf Club as a junior member download the application form and fill it in. Return it to the secretary either by post or putting it through the letterbox of his room at the club. You will then be invited to come and meet him when he will explain all the workings of the section.
Folks 31st August
Its Amy again!
Well done to her after scoring 37 points she just pipped Joe Evans who got his first runner up spot with 36 points. Liam scored 36 points for best gross and all the result can be found on howdidido.com
Here is the latest top 5 in the order of merit. James Matharu may of wished that he had played today because Amy has surged infront
Amy Rodger 950
James Matharu 800
Liam Salmon 675
Stan Valentine 600
Niall Salmon 500
Remember the Junior Club Championship is on Sunday 2pm tee off so just turn up before as usual. The event is a best gross prize but we will have a nett one to run alongside it.
There are plenty of order of merit points to be won and I think that the overall winner will be decided after the last comp of the year during October half term.
Folks
What a month, there is so much to report on. The weekly competitions have been well supported once again, so here is a quick overview of the months results
3rd August Medal
Winner: Lee Robinson 67 Runner up: Stan Valentine 67 Best Gross: James Matharu 75
10th August Stableford
Winner: Amy Rodger 41pts Runner Up: Joe Wright 32pts Best Gross: James Hassall
17th August Medal
Winner: Niall Salmon 56! Runner Up: Josh Bailey 60! Best Gross Liam Salmon 82
22nd August Stableford
Winner: Amy Rodger 42pts Runner Up: Josh Bailey 40 points Best Gross: James Matharu
I am running a Junior Order of Merit this year and am awarding points to overall gross and nett winners, runners up and winners of all divisions. We will have a presentation evening during October half term. Its too complicated to bore you with but here is the latest league table.
1 James Matharu 800
2 Amy Rodger 750
3 Stan Valentine 550
4 Niall Salmon 500
5 Liam Salmon 475
6 James Hassall 400
7 Lewis Antrobus 325
8 Josh Bailey 300
9 Lee Robinson 300
10 Shaun Ellis 275
11 Joe Wright 250
12 George Hawkes 250
13 Tom Ley 225
14 Matt Hood 200
15 David Atkin 100
16 Richard McKowan 25
17 George Mcsharry 25
Now there are still 3 events left to score points with. We have a 3 club competition 9am next Wednesday 31st August and the Junior Club Championship is on Sunday 4th September tee off at 2pm. The Junior Club Championship is the big one and an event that i would hope to see everyone, who is able, to turn up for.
I will be sending you all some more info this week on forthcoming events but this is enough for now
What a great game!
Regards
Ian
Junior Competition Results
see results page under Competitions.
Junior Newsletter February 2011 - click to view
Leamington Junior Comps 2011
Watch out for the Juniors about!
2010 has been a very successful year for membership in the Junior Section with a steady influx of new, enthusiastic youngsters ready to take up the challenge of golf. Many of these young golfers have joined as a result of the junior coaching which is open to all 5 – 17 year olds, boys and girls. Not only has regular coaching been organized at Leamington & County Golf Club but also a National Skills Challenge along with Tri and Xtreme golf activities being introduced in the local schools. It is hoped to continue and extend this programme in 2011 and many youngsters will have already got started on this year’s coaching sessions.
To help and support this growing number of new players, a small group has been set up to work alongside the Junior Committee and its chairman, Ian Salmon. The aim of the group is to ensure that young members are encouraged to get the most out of their membership by providing advice and help on securing a handicap, arranging playing partners and the opportunity for making new friends and finally, the chance to take part in competitions.
There are many plans for the new year starting with a Fun Golf evening on Friday 4th March led by Julian and Lee in the Golf Academy followed by food in the clubhouse.
Already our Professional, Julian, has offered to go out on the course with our new young members once the season gets going and Phil Halford, the Vice Captain, will be talking to the group on handicaps and rules etc. Any other ideas and suggestions would be most welcome.
If you are a new young golfer you should have already received some information about the Fun Golf evening. If not, please contact Nancy Williamson or Jane Dennick.
They were up for the challenge!
16 youngsters aged between 6 and 15 took part in the National Skills Challenge at Leamington on 3rd June. This is a challenge developed by the English Golf Union and the English Women’s Golf Association and covers five golfing disciplines: putting, chipping, pitching, bunker play and full swing.
The “Get into Golf” National Skills Challenge has been developed for young golfers and is designed to be challenging at all levels, but above all it is intended to be…FUN! This certainly seemed to be the case on Thursday with groups of youngsters practising their skills around the practice green and on the field. Parents, grandparents and helpers seemed to be enjoying themselves too. Many thanks for all who came along to help on the day.
The boys and girls were given an official scorecard and now the challenge is on for more practice to improve their scores before the next big challenge in the autumn.
For more information look at www.getintogolf.org/skills
Girls in Golf
Leamington and County are having a great season with lots of girls joining in and enjoying golf. The youngest girl started coming to the coaching aged 5
and is joined by lots more girls up to the age of 17. At the moment the majority are 13 and under. As the club has introduced very favourable subscriptions for the younger player many of them have become members and even started to play in the junior medal competitions.
All this is as well as our Tri and Xtreme golf activities in the local schools.
We have extended our programme to allow boys to join in and we run 4 hours of groups on a Saturday as well as many other activities in the holidays.
Whitnash Family Fun Day
Leamington and County Golf Club were approached by PC Semple, one of the Whitnash Community Police group, as to whether we would run some Tri golf for youngsters at Acre Close in Whitnash on their Family Fun day on Sunday May 16th. The marketing group and the Golf Development team agreed. As a result a team of three, Angela Eadon with Simon Callender as a level 3 professional, and Jane Dennick who has recently become a level 1 PGA coach, went along. Nearly 60 youngsters came and had a go, many of them coming back for further attempts. Simon and Jane gave basic instruction and were rewarding with some instant success stories. Some youngsters were there who have been part of our schools programme and they were able to show how much they had learnt.
Indoors David Beck and Tony Partridge, the club secretary and Captain, had the club display and literature regarding various types of membership.
With the help of a grant we were also able to offer a free golf taster session on the practice field on Sunday May 23rd for anyone who wanted to come along and try. 17 have signed up to it including two families. Further to that three youngsters have joined our junior coaching scheme.
Junior Coaching
Do you play golf or would you like to try it? We are running a course of lessons for you in our indoor academy and practice field. Come and meet other youngsters who are interested in playing the game.
Parents and Grandparents we are looking for young people aged 5 yrs old and above who would like to come and have some fun learning to play golf.
The Skills Challenge and Golf Passport are included, all equipment provided
Lee Brotherhood is a level 3 professional and is running the junior programme
Dates
The dates for the next set of lessons are 25th FEB, 3RD, 17TH, 24TH, 31ST, 7TH April.
I need to tell you all about the plans for the new coaching sessions. As you may or not know the top group are now very successful playing members of the club and as such need a revised type of coaching on the course. So their group will be moved out of our scheme. They also have a full programme of competitions organised throughout the summer.As from now these people will be contacted by Lee for the coaching in the Elite squad and Ian Salmon the junior chairman for everything else.
There will be some people who are members who still need to be in the coaching groups and this is fine. There is not an absolute cut off and whatever is the best for an individual junior will be the way forward.
The new format will be
10 am Beginners of various ages who will be moved to other groups, roughly according to age, when they have mastered the basics.
11 am Improvers aged 5-8
12 noon will be a teenagers group of mainly improvers although new people will be considered.
1pm will be improvers 8-12 yrs old Included in the group will be some competent youngsters who we are going to be encourage to play more on the course, hopefully with the help of parents and club members. It is hoped some of them will get a junior handicap by the end of the summer if not before.
Lee will let juniors know of holiday courses, like the one this half term ones, as they are organised.
The focus for the improvers at 11 and 1 will be both the Skills Challenges, which will probably be held on April 4th And July 6th (these are free sessions), and the Young Masters at Stoneleigh on 11th April that some of you have entered which means how to play a hole and keep score.
The costs are still the same at £24 for the 6 weeks. Cheques payable to Leamington and County Golf Club Coaching and it would be appreciated if you could pay on the first day. I would urge you to email me to confirm your place and please do not rely on me to guess what you want.
The word is out about how successful our juniors are being and we have at least 10 juniors wanting to join the scheme so please book early.
Do contact me if you need any more information.
Remember you do not need your own clubs we will provide them but if anyone has grown out of their clubs and wants to trade up please let me know as we have buyers waiting.
To express an interest either email angieeadon@aol.com or ring Angela Eadon 07979862201
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