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.

 

Junior Camp

This week we have been busy with our first junior camp of the summer holidays. Derek and I had our hands full as we had 38 juniors aged between 6-14 years taking over the practice area between Monday and Wednesday. Thankfully we didn't have them all at once and we were very lucky to have dry weather over the 3 days.

It was great to see such a good turnout for the coaching and we already have a good number booked in for our 2nd date which is the 8-10th August. That should just about give us enough time to recover from this week's sessions!


Titleist Fitting Day

This coming week we have a Titleist Fitting Day at the practice area on Tuesday, 11 July between 2.30-6.30pm. These 1/2 hour sessions are FREE of charge and allow you to come along and try out the current Titleist range including Irons, Woods and Wedges. We still have a few slots left so why not come down and put your current equipment to the test against the Titleist range and see if it can make a difference to your game.


Tour News

The European Tour now travels closer to home and we should have an exciting few weeks golf with the Irish Open, Scottish Open, the Open Championship and finally the Moray Open making a very busy month in the golfing world! 

We now have our usual Open Championship Sweepstake in the shop at £2.50 per square with prizes for the top 3 players and best and worst rounds each day


 

Monthly Medal [4] (CSS 73) 

Division 1 
G. C. Devine (5) 68; C. J. Smith (5), A. Kennedy (8) 69; Jamie Edwards (5) 70 J. W. Stephen (7), D. M. Thewliss (6) 72; M. Aspinall (5), I. H. Campbell (6) 73 

Division 2 
S. Rothnie (12), N. Sabiston (16) 69; J. S. Mitchell (11), P. V. Page (12), G. Roberts (13) C. McConnachie (18) 70; G. Sutherland (14) 71; R. Denning (12), J. S. Flett (11), M. Atherton (10), C. G. Ironside (11), D. K. Campbell (18) 73 

Magic 2's were worth £6 to the following players: 
Iain Meggat, Bob Adams, John Martin, Bob Macpherson x 2, Neil McCulloch, Ben Spoor, Dave Thewliss John Dawson, Mark Aspinall, Jamie Edwards, Liam Mitchel, Neil Smith, Jim Murphy, Paul Page x 3, Les Smith, Stewart Rothnie, Alistair Noble 

We didn't have any Ace's on Saturday but member Paul Page managed something which doesn't happen too often when he managed to make 2's on each of the Old Courses par 3's. I'm pleased to say that Paul did indeed pay for magic 2's before he teed off!


Capro Cup Points 

Check out the updated Capro Cup standings after week 4 and 5 by clicking here and the results by clicking here. 


 

Senior Stableford [3] (CSS 70) 

AW. Miller (14) 42pts; R. G. MacPherson (8) 39pts; A. R. Souter (14) 38pts; P. Smith (7) K. Harrison (6) 37pts; W. A. Smith (15), J. G. Doherty (18), M. I. Boaler (16) R. Crane (10) 36pts; P. Forsyth (19) 35pts. 


Senior Medal [4] (CSS 74) 

A. R. Souter (14), J. S. Rae (15) 73; G. Williamson (12), H. Pertler (23), R. G. Main (15), A. G. Neish (12) 74; D. A. Terron (20) 75; W. Stewart (5), M. R. Bradley (21), W. A. Smith (15), G. M. Stewart (12) 76. 

2's worth £11 accredited to shop accounts: 
James Stephen, Jim Rae, Kenny Harrison


 

Ladies 9 Hole Stableford (CSS N/A) 

J. Pickthall (27) 22pts; J. McPherson (12) 20pts; W. Devine (14), E. Johns (15) 16pts M. McConnachie (15), A. Pickthall (25) 15pts. 


Ladies Captain's Prize Stableford (CSS 77) 

E. Docherty (3), E. Bullmore (15) 35pts; E. Munro (17) 33pts; J. McPherson (24) B. Hendry (15) 29pts; I. Smith (18) 28pts 


Ladies Breast Cancer Charity Stableford (CSS 71) 

A. Main (18) 37pts; B. Hendry (15) 31pts; M. Ingram (19) 29pts; D. Crane (19), J. Pickthall (52) 28pts. 


Ladies K.S.M. Foursomes (CSS N/A) 

E. Munro & A. Park (22.5) 85.5; J. McPherson & I. Wilson (20.5) 92.5


  

Abercromby Cup 

The scratch team had a successful home first leg win against Cullen GC in the Abercromby Cup. Moray won the first match 7-1 which gives them a nice lead going in to the tricky second leg at Cullen. Here's hoping that it's a strong enough lead to see us into the next round.


Handicap League 

Moray beat Forres 6-2 in their latest Moray & Nairn Handicap League match and moved top of the league after the win.


 

Hole in 1 Club 

Congratulations to Ally Noble on achieving his first hole in 1 on the 11th of the New Course this week. 

Ally was partnered by Freddy Peterkin and used a 5 Iron for his first ace......Well Done Ally!


 

Special Offers 

In order to clear some room in the shop we are looking at thinning out some of our current clubs and bags and so are offering the following deals on standard stock only (no custom fitting available). 

We have recently had news that there will be some new PING product arriving in-store at the start of August with G Series Driver, Fairway, Hybrid and Irons all getting a facelift. We have seen some photo leeks at the US Open with a number of players putting it straight into play.

PING G Series 
- 10.5 Degree LS Tec in R or S Flex - Only £259 (Save £40) 
- 3 Wood SFTec Regular - Only £149 (Save £50) 
- 3 Hybrid Stiff - Only £139 (Save £40)

We also have a number of Ex-Demo Drivers and Fairways now available to purchase with Drivers available for £179 and fairways at £119.

Mizuno 
- JPX900 4-PW Forged 4-PW Stiff Only - £749 - Our Price £649 (Save £100) 
- JPX900 Driver S or R Flex - £349 - Our Price £279 (Save £70) 
- JPX900 Fairway S or R Flex - £249 - Our Price £179 (Save £70) 
- JPX900 Hybrid S or R Flex - £199 - Our Price £149 (Save £40) 
- T7 Wedges - £109 - Our Price £89 (Save £20)


 

Titleist Fitting Day 

- Tuesday, 11 July 2.30pm - 6.30pm 
- FREE Fitting Appointments 
- Visitors Welcome