A fairly quiet week at the club with lots of people on their summer holidays.

In the meantime, however, the green keepers and the drainage contractor have been busy with the project to drain the bunkers that suffer the most in the winter, I took this photo of the work being done on the green side bunker on the Parkland first hole.

They are using a different technique with our clay heavy soil combined with a large pipe and a stone soak away covered with a mesh and then a grit on top of that? I think I've explained that like a golf pro but I'm excited that it will do the job!

There were only a few teams in the Texas Scramble but it did produce good scoring, there were 3 teams on 59 point something but the winners with 59.27 were Graham Denham, Phill Mann, Brian Alford and Steve Goater.

This week's video is about maximising your distance. The more of these videos I do now, the more critical I am of them. I feel I miss out too much in hindsight but as it's just me and my iPad I'm doing my best.

I'm on holiday next week so Conrad or Leyon will be doing the newsletter, I'm interested to see how easy they find doing the weekly read and video.

I've ordered myself a new set of irons so I have up for sale my old set, they are TaylorMade RocketBladez Tour 4-PW, KBS Tour shafts, half inch longer, stiff flex. They are in mint condition and I also have for sale 3 vokey wedges 50, 54 and 58 in similar spec and condition if your interested. You're welcome to take them out and we can do a deal?