9^th Hole Closure 3^rd-7^th  & 10^th-11^th October

Please be aware that we are carrying out extensive drainage work on the 9^th hole which will result in the entire hole being out of play during this time. Please note that it will be playable, however, on the weekend of the 8^th & 9^th of October.

Players are asked to walk the hole using designated routes as set out on the course.

Please accept our apologies for the disruption.

Players are welcome to use the 1^st hole on the Little Bristol Course to complete an 18-hole round during this time.

For more information about the works click here.

Thank you for your cooperation.

The Golf Operations Team

From the Senior Captains

So three quarters of the year gone with Xmas fast approaching. We have been really lucky having such fantastic weather over the summer-let’s just hope there isn’t too much payback in the winter months.

Firstly, can I congratulate Dave and his team for the fantastic condition of the course. Not just the greens which are fast and true but the condition of the fairways too with such little rainfall are excellent.

Senior’s matches have continued a-pace- though we only now have 3 left in October. We had a very good away win at The Kendleshire 3.5 to 2.5 and completed the double at home 5-1. Their team commented on how good our course was playing. We narrowly lost away at Stockwood Vale 4-3, also lost away at Chippenham 4.5 to 2.5 and had a good thrashing at St Pierre 7-1. The home game at Clevedon was rightly abandoned as it fell on the day of The Queen’s funeral.

Can I take the opportunity to thank Ben and all the catering and bar staff for looking after us so well with our home matches.

Our Wednesday get togethers continue to attract excellent numbers with regularly around 50 playing.

Tony Edwards literally walked away with the August medal with a net 63 (6 clear of his nearest challenger- what a bandit) and September’s medal was won last week by Gordon Wadey with a net 71. Round 6 of our ASDA Trophy was won by Kevin Mortimore with an excellent 42 points.

Seniors continue to show their mettle on a Saturday too-as I type this Pat Boyle has won our stableford today with 42 points (an excellent gross 77 with the greens in some very tricky positions). Neil Luczynski will be 2^nd in Div 2 today with 39 points closely followed by Mark Dee with 38.Rob Matthews the week before won the September medal with a superb net 63 and Mike Smith won the stableford the week before with 39 points.

Seniors rule the Saturday comps!!

Hope these sorts of performances translate into the Intersection Match later in October or have we peaked too early.

18 of us are venturing off to Old Thorns next week for our Autumn Break and I’ve run out of my supply of performance enhancing drugs (I just in case anyone was thinking of reporting me).

From The Men’s Captain

Hi all,

We are quickly reaching the end of another golfing season, and as this is the case the days get shorter as most likely will my newsletter, with less to report.

Despite the summer nearing its end, we have been privy to some great end of season golfing weather, and I must start by saying thank you to the green staff. The course is playing great and is in wonderful condition.

On the competition front, we had some big events and order of merit competitions.

Starting on the 3^{rd of} September we had the Committee Cup, which is a Stableford format and Division 1 was won by Barry Gibb (39 points), and Division 2 by Phil Thomas with 40 points.

In the order of merit medal on the 17^{th of} October Rob Matthews won the day with a nett 63 (Gross 78 of 15 handicap), whilst Barry Gibb provided the lowest gross on the day with 74.

Well played guys and great to see Barry Gibb finishing the season strong as he moves into hibernation for the winter to follow his beloved Liverpool!!!

One more that I must add has to be last weekend in the Race to 54 where Pat Boyle cleaned up with 42 points, proving that golden oldies still have a strong presence in the men’s section!!!!

In September we also completed the Singles Scratch knockout where Will Thomas narrowly beat Dan Hayward in the final on the 18^th hole. A fitting end that the 1^st and 2^nd in club champs fought it out. Congratulations on terrific seasons for both of you guys.

On 25^th September the Mixed Club championships were held and congratulations to Tony and Nicola Edwards winning with a nett 62. Hopefully you were able to celebrate with some of the booze out the barrel recently won by yourselves!!!!

As the season closes to an end, we still have a few competitions to be decided for the names to go on the boards.

This Saturday sees the Two Bridges trophy, medal event, and good luck to all in the search of board bragging rights.

We also have the completion of the knockouts.

In the pairs, we have the final of Adam Simms / Sam Deacon against last year’s winners Pete Belmore and Gary Taylor.

The singles will be contested by Alex Campbell and Rob Caul.

Good luck to you all in the final’s guys.

With the completion of these competitions in October, we will soon know our Order of Merit winner, who will of course be crowned along with all our other competition winners at the Presentation evening on the 24^{th of} November. Invites will be out soon and look forward to seeing you all then.

The only other one from me, which I know Sue has touched on as well, is our penultimate captain’s charity day on Saturday 8^th October which will be a Texas scramble format with each player only allowed 3 clubs and a putter. If you haven’t entered, please do so fast as few limited spaces remain. It is a shot gun start at 08H00 and I look forward to seeing you all then.

In the meantime, enjoy that end of season and take care.

James