Greetings from John Murray
Moray Golf Club - PGA Golf Professional
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.
Capro Cup
With the season fast approaching we will shortly be taking entries for this year's Capro Cup.
I ran this event last year in conjunction with the Ryder Cup and it was such a success that we have decided to try to make this a regular fixture in the diary.
There will be 10 qualifying events over the season which will include 6 Monthly Medals plus 4 extra events. We will have 3 qualifying sections which are scr-5, 6-9 and 10 plus. At the end of the last qualifier, we will release the teams and those who qualify will get team clothing and get to play in the event which will be in early October.
It will follow a similar format to Ryder Cup, with Fourball and Greensomes on the Saturday followed by Singles matches on the Sunday.
Look out for the full details in the next couple of weeks.
Masters Mania!
Can you believe it, the US Masters is now only 3 weeks away! Who will be wearing the famous green jacket come the Sunday Night? Will Tiger Woods ever make another Masters or has injury taken its toll? Who will win the Pro Shop US Masters Sweepstake?
We will be running a Masters Sweepstake at £5 per ticket with the winner picking up an Ltd Edition TaylorMade Season Opener Tour Bag worth £349. We will also have a new TaylorMade Milled Grind Wedge for 2nd place and a dozen of the new TaylorMade TP5 Golf Balls as used by Dustin Johnson for 3rd place.
Each player will be sealed in an envelope. You will select an envelope at random and write your name on the outside. We will then reveal the draw of players names once all envelopes have been sold prior to the 1st round on Thursday.
Want to Win Your Money Back?
We are also going to run a promotion in-store on PING, TaylorMade and Titleist equipment. If you buy any 2017 Driver, Fairway or Hybrid between Friday, 17 March and Wednesday, 5 April you will stand a chance to win your money back! (In Shop Credit)
PING *If Bubba Watson wins the Masters Get Your Money Back!
TaylorMade *If John Rahm wins the Masters Get Your Money Back!
Titleist *If Justin Thomas wins the Masters Get Your Money Back!
*Clubs must be paid outright in order to qualify for this promotion
Competitions - Winter Cup Week 17
The winter cup is hotting up with just one week to go. On Saturday, Iain Kelman returned a fantastic 40pts on the New Course to win division 1 and take him to the top of the Winter Cup Aggregate on 234 points. Mark Atherton was 2nd on 39pts ahead of a host of players on 38pts.
In division 2, Barbara Caie took the honours with another 40 pts to beat Gordon McDonald into 2nd place on a better inward half.
Sunday saw Colin Ironside take division 1 with 39pts, 2pts clear of Bill Johnston in 2nd place. Paul Grant returned the best score of the weekend with a whopping 42pts to take the division 2 spoils by 7pts ahead of Alan McWilliam (35pts) in 2nd place.
Saturday - New Course
Division 1
1st - Iain Kelman - 40pts
2nd - Mark Atherton - 39pts
3rd - Willie Adams - 38pts
4th - Mark Jones - 38pts
5th - Nigel Parsons - 38pts
Division 2
1st - Barbara Caie - 40pts
2nd - Gordon McDonald - 40pts
3rd - David Provan - 38pts
4th - Keith Rushton - 37pts
5th - Sandy M Dixon - 37pts
Magic 2's were worth £2.20 to the following players:
S Macdonald, J Dawson, C Annette, M Atherton, RG Macpherson, A Kennedy, G Edwards, M Jones, CA Young, P Masson (2), D Scott (2), IM Simpson, G McDonald, D Gee and A Blake.
Sunday - New Course - CSS 72/79
Division 1
1st - Colin G Ironside - 39pts
2nd - William B Johnston - 37pts
3rd - Graeme Hamilton - 36pts
4th - Stephen Dunbar - 36pts
5th - Stewart Rothnie - 35pts
Division 2
1st - Paul Grant - 42pts
2nd - Alan J McWilliam - 35pts
3rd - Stephen Murray - 34pts
4th - George Sutherland - 34pts
5th - Sandy M Bruce - 33pts
Magic 2's were worth £4.57 to the following players:
S Dunbar, B Ross, D Johnston, WB Johnston, AJ McWilliam, I Simpson and Hugh Houston.
Aggregate Leader Board
It's all hotting up with the last chance to improve the overall scores this weekend on the Old Course.
The Winter Cup Final event will be played on Saturday with an improved on the day prize fund. Those who cannot play on Saturday will be given the chance to play Sunday as a final score for the overall aggregate.
Iain Kelman has now stormed to the top of the leader board and has a 2 point lead on Stephen Dunbar who has lead for most of the winter. Nigel Parsons moves up a few points but stays in 4th equal with the biggest mover of the weekend Gordon McDonald who bettered his total by 9 points to join the race for the no1 spot.
The leader board going into the final weekend is as follows:
Click here to view the full list.
A full list of scores is available on the club and pro shop notice boards.
Junior Easter Camp
We're now taking entries for our first junior camps of the year. There will be two camps in the Easter holidays.
Week One will run Monday, 3 and Tuesday, 4 April. Under 10's week 1 will be from 10am-12pm, Over 10's 12.30pm-2.30pm.
Week Two will run Wednesday, 12 to Friday, 14 April. Week 2 Under 10's will be 10am-11.30am and over 10's 12pm-1.30pm.
Enter by calling the shop on 813330, cost for the camps will be £25.
Grip Promotion
We are running a special promotion this month which gives you the chance to get your 7 iron regripped completely free of charge!
This allows you to basically try out a new grip of your choice (stock only).
If the grip is to your satisfaction then we can do the rest of your set. If you don't feel the difference then you keep the grip for FREE.
Time to Trade in that Old Bag!
We have our bag trade in offer on TaylorMade and Motocaddy Bags. Trade in any old bag (not a carrier bag!) and we will give you £20 OFF one of the new season's bags which have just arrived!
Loyalty Rewarded! Titleist 4 for 3 with Free Personalisation
Get your golf balls sorted for the season! Buy 3 dozen and get a 4th dozen FREE of charge.
These balls need to have some sort of personalisation to qualify for the free dozen.
Standard or Special Play numbers
Red or Black Ink
Only 1 deal per person
Free Personalisation
Last Order date 24th April
Can take up to 4 weeks for delivery
While Graeme and Billy were playing in the Saturday Medal the conversation quickly came round to the proposed New Rules. "What are your thoughts on these" Billy asked.
Graeme replied that with 30 major proposed changes it will take time to come to terms with such diversity from the current norm but on first reading the changes all seem to be fair and logical. I particularly like the Fixed Distance (Not Club lengths) to be used for measuring. At present we have 1 Club length for free relief, 2 club lengths for penalty relief, and 2 club lengths for the Teeing ground Definition.
The proposed Rule: Club lengths would no longer be used to measure for any purpose.
The relief area for dropping a ball would have a fixed size of 20 inches (50.8 centimetres) replaces one club length and 80 inches (203.2 centimetres) replaces 2 club lengths.
A re-drop would only be required when a ball comes to rest outside the relief area (bearing in mind the new procedure for dropping a ball) The teeing ground has a fixed depth of 80 inches (203.2 centimetres)
Reasons for the change: The smaller relief area (and not permitting any ball to roll outside that relief area) would usually mean that the player will play from closer to the ball's original spot and the nearest point of relief, than where the player may play from today.
Using a Fixed Distance for measuring would eliminate a number of issues, such as: The inconsistency and potential unfairness of having the size of a relief area differ for each player based on the length of his or her clubs (including eliminating the advantage for players who currently use a long putter for measuring)
