I hope you've all had a fantastic week on and off the golf course and welcome to another exciting edition of the Moray Pro Shop weekly newsletter, bringing you up to date with all the latest news and gossip from within the walls of MGC.
Well I'm finally acclimatised back to The Moray weather system after my holiday to Dubai. Despite some changeable weather we seem to have dodged the vast majority of the worst weather as usual. Looking at the pictures in the news and many photos of other golf clubs on Facebook, we have been pretty lucky with no real disruption to the course play. Many courses in Perth and the central belt have seen course closures with flooding taking over. That's one of the real benefits we have at Moray Golf Club, with a great micro climate that gives us much less rain than many other areas, and 2 great courses that have excellent drainage and stay pretty dry underfoot for the majority of the time!
I can't believe how fast Christmas is approaching and we now have just 2 weekends before the big day. We (ok mainly Julieann) have been working hard to get our Christmas decorations up in the shop and get into the Christmas spirit.
We have our staff Christmas party this Friday and so we shall do our best to get festive and start the celebrations early!!
Unfortunately I will be in the shop on Saturday (how did that happen?) I'm obviously too nice a boss and need to review for next year! Haha.
We have plenty of great gift ideas for that golfer in your life. However if you can't find anything or your looking for ideas, why not check out our Click and Collect service with Foremost Golf by
clicking here. This will allow you to browse through a huge range of products and get them delivered to us here at Moray
FREE of charge for you to collect at your leisure.
We also have some great stocking fillers available, and if you're still struggling for ideas why not let us make you up one? Get stocking fillers over
£25 and we will give you your very own festive stocking to put everything inside
FREE of charge!
We also have some great deals on golf balls:
Titleist NXT Dozen Now only
£25 or 2 for
£45
Titleist DT SoLo Dozen Now only
£15 or 2 for
£25 How long does your Saturday medal round take to play? It's a hot topic and one which I know frustrates many of you during the summer months.
One such club in the UK decided to incentivise its players. Every group that played in under 3.5 hours was given a
FREE pint after their round!! I could see this motivating quite a few of our members, however I'm not sure the clubs bank balance would be able to deal with the demand!!! Haha.
So how do we combat this? I'd be very interested to hear your opinions on slow play and your suggestions on how we can speed the game up a little.
Click here to leave your suggestions.
Win a set of Titleist AP1 Irons for only 1p!!!!!!
We still have plenty of tickets available for our Christmas Pro Shop Raffle. The format is the same as last year. You pull out a raffle ticket and whatever the value is on the ticket that's how much you pay! If you pull out number 1, you only pay
1p for the ticket. The most you will pay for a ticket is
£5 for number 500 so it's surely worth a go?
We will keep selling these tickets until we are close to selling out and then we will make a draw date at this point.
We will have the following prizes up for grabs:
1st place -
Titleist AP1 Irons 4-PW
2nd place -
Titleist 915 Driver 3rd place -
Titleist Cart Bag 4th place - SkyCaddie Aire II
5th place -
Cleveland Wedge Prizes can be exchanged but must be used within 60 days and cannot be credited to shop accounts to be used at a later date.
Motocaddy Lithium Battery Trolley Offer In the lead up to Christmas we have a fantastic offer on Motocaddy Electric Trollies with Lithium batteries.
These usually start at
£449.99 for the S1 Lithium or
£549.99 for the M1 Lithium. However, buy one of these trolley's at these prices from the shop and Motocaddy will credit you with
£50 upon proof of purchase straight to your bank account!!
It really is as simple as that!
That means the S1 netts down to
£399.99 and the M1 now only
£499.99 which is a great price. Come and try them out and take advantage of this knock down price, or
click here to find out more!
Why Buy Lithium in the First Place????
The winter cup will enter its 6th week this weekend with play over the Old Course.
Last weeks results were as follows:
Winter Cup Week 5
Saturday Division 1
1st -
Terence Scholefield - 38pts, 2nd -
John Petrie 36pts, 3rd =
Darren Dry - 33pts, 3rd =
Atholl Campbell - 33pts, 5th -
Alexander Tweedie - 32pts
Saturday Division 2
1st -
John MacGregor - 38pts, 2nd -
James Spence - 35pts, 3rd -
R John Evans - 34pts, 4th =
Steve Harding - 33pts, 4th -
Anthony Blake - 33pts
2's worth
£2.83 credited to shop accounts:
Gareth John Edwards, Terence Peter Scholefield, Atholl Campbell &
Steve Harding Winter Cup Week 5
Sunday Division 1
1st =
Gavin Fisher - 35pts, 1st =
Iain Meggatt - 35pts,3rd -
William B Johnston - 34pts, 4th =
Stewart Rothnie - 33pts, 4th =
Graeme Hamilton - 33pts
Sunday Division 2
1st -
I Simpson - 35pts, 2nd -
Caroline Denning - 34pts, 3rd -
Barbara Caie - 30pts, 4th -
Richard Denning - 29pts, 5th -
Martin Regan - 28pts
2's were worth
£2.38 credited to shop accounts
Colin Ironside, Iain Meggatt, Andy Donegan, John Davidson, James Miller, Alan McWilliam, Caroline Denning & I Simpson Seniors Winter Cup This week's seniors winter cup had a good turnout with 29 players taking part on Tuesday. Congratulations to
Bill Smith who took the honours with a fine 39pts to pip
Kim Steggall on a better last 9.
Alex Miller was 3rd on 38 pts with
John Macgregor and
John Dawson a shot further back on 37 pts.
MGC Christmas Do DJ's Reggie & Ryan Fantastic Festive Frolic - Friday, 18 December from 7.30pm
3 course meal @
£15 available
Please contact the Bar to book tickets and tables.
Children's Christmas Party - Monday, 28 December - 2pm - 4pm.
Age 9 and under only please
Sign up sheet on the Club notice board
New Years Day Club open from 12pm - 4pm.
Soup and live entertainment.
Playing the 11th (Old) Stephen's drive ended up on the right side of the rough close to the whins. His ball was clear of the whins but his stance would be in them. Studying his options he decided to play the shot with his bag towel wrapped around his back and legs to protect him from their needles. He made good contact and his ball was advanced well up the fairway. Billy who was playing with him questioned if that was permitted under the Rules.
Provided Stephen takes his stance fairly there is no breach of the Rules. However if he had placed his towel on the whin bush to protect him he would be in breach on the Rules for altering the physical conditions with the intent of affecting the playing of the hole, as a result he would lose the hole in Match Play or incur a penalty of 2 strokes in stroke play.
