Hello golfers,

Welcome to the latest edition of our weekly newsletter. In this week's email, we give you some updates from around the club, our 'Tips from the Tour' segment continues with a video from Ian Poulter, and we look back on a special achievement by a talented English golfer. Enjoy the read.

Firstly thank you to all of you that posted feedback about the newsletter. I did reply to you all only to discover I had made the schoolboy error of sending them all back to 'noreply@'.

I am basically going to take Graham Denham's advice and also take on-board all of your ideas, but I do need you all to understand this is not the club's newsletter, it is from me.

One thing that cropped up was my lack of details about ladies competitions as they don't have a fixture list.

The remaining two competitions for ladies are a Stableford this week on the Parkland and the Greenwood Competition is the 23rd-29th October.

Going forward into November I want to try a monthly competition where you can play either course in November once. This will give the ladies two opportunities a month through the winter to get a qualifying card in.   

Another regular comment was about more instructional videos. Now this is where you maybe able to help me, as we are desperately short staffed, so if anyone knows of a young adult looking for some shop hours or potentially move into a career in golf, please put them my way so I can be freed up to get out on the course.

Competition news

Congratulations to this weeks divisional winners. Division One won by Jamie Callahan with 39 points, Division Two was won by Dave Jolliffe with 40 points and Division Three was won by Dan Manion with 42 points.

This week is a return to proper golf with a Medal on the Greenwood.

The first man to ever do this...

It was very much a case of ‘by how many’ for Tyrrell Hatton on Sunday afternoon as he headed into the final round of the Dunhill Links Championship with a five-shot cushion. The Englishman finished his round with a 24-under-par total to successfully defend the tournament he won a year earlier, the first golfer to ever achieve the feat.

With the Dunhill taking place across St Andrews, Kingsbarns and Carnoustie, it’s a great opportunity to see who copes best with the unique challenge that links golf presents. On Friday, Tommy Fleetwood took apart Carnoustie to shoot a course-record 63, meaning  he possessed course records at two of the three courses at that point in time. That was until Ross Fisher’s Sunday exploits at St Andrews, which saw him post a new record with an 11-under 61 after a three-putt par at the infamous 18th.

Fleetwood will certainly head into next year’s Open Championship at Carnoustie with positive thoughts, whilst links golf clearly brings out the best in Hatton’s game. Maybe we'll see an English name on the Claret Jug for the first time in over 25 years next July….