Greetings from John Murray
Moray Golf Club - PGA Golf Professional
It’s been a rather windy week as Hurricane Clara hammered the UK. It’s made playing golf a tad tricky, however, although it’s been a little quieter, some of our hardened members have still taken on the Links.
As a result of the weather, Sunday’s winter cup only had a total of 9 players take to the course and nobody took to the course on Tuesdays Seniors Winter Cup. Let’s hope the weather improves for the coming weekend and let’s a few more of you out on the courses.
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On the Tour
Golf's governing bodies are planning a review of equipment rules in a bid to curb increasing hitting distances, which they see as "undesirable and detrimental". In their latest Distance Insights Report, the R&A and USGA declared action is needed to reduce the length the ball travels if the sport is to thrive in the future. The report states the average hitting distance across the European Tour and PGA Tour has increased at a rate of about one yard per year since 2013.
The R&A and USGA were concerned the developments could compromise the challenges presented by many courses, while citing that longer set-ups are more expensive to build, operate, maintain and place greater pressure on the environment.
So is it all down to changing equipment and ball or can we make other changes to protect the future of our courses and our game? Surely shorter courses with tighter lines of the tee, tricky hazards and green complexes can ensure that the game doesn’t just become a long drive contest!
It will certainly be interesting to hear what comes out of this review and I’m sure we will hear about its findings in due course.
Elsewhere and the chat has on tour has been surrounding the news that a proposed Premier Golf League is being considered away from the current European and USPGA Tours. It certainly still seems to be early days with this idea but it’s certainly got the players and those involved with the tours talking.
However, PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan and European Tour CEO Keith Pelley have sent strong-worded memos to their players warning of the risks of going with the new tour and how it would affect their tour membership. Watch this space!!
Proposed Premier Golf League Format
- 48 Players
- 18 events (10 in USA)
- 54 holes - No Cut
- Individual & Team League Format
- $10 million individual purse per event
- $2 million for winner
- $40 team fund - $14 million split between winning 4 man team
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New Champion of Champions Event
This coming season we are planning to introduce a new weekly nearest the pin competition during each of the Saturday competitions.
This will obviously be a completely optional event and the weekly entry fee will be £1. The weekly winner of the competition shall receive a dozen TaylorMade TP5 Golf Balls (RRP £50) and each weekly winner will qualify for an end of the season event which will take place in October in our Indoor Performance Studio where we will have a Champion of Champions.
The overall winner shall collect the 1st prize of a TaylorMade SIM Driver.
More information in the coming weeks
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Valentines Special Offer
Fed up of playing or practising in the wind, rain and cold?
Why not book yourself into our Indoor Performance Studio where it’s always the perfect golfing weather!
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We are running a Valentines Special Offer in our Indoor Performance Centre.
Why not take advantage of this offer and get 2 hours for £50 (usually £40 per hour) or why not get 5 hours for £100! These offers can be used for social gameplay (over 15 courses), club gapping or just some practice.
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Valentines Offer - 5 Hour Simulator Practice Sessions
Why not buy some quality practice time in our state of the art simulator from Foresight Sports. These sessions can be used for practice or simulation play. This voucher entitles you to 10 x 1/2 hour sessions.
Click here to claim yours.
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Valentines Offer - 2 Hours for £50
This voucher entitles the person access to the state of the art indoor studio at Moray GC for 2 hours of simulator play or practice.
Click here to claim yours.
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Win a New TaylorMade SIM Driver (Worth £429) Thanks for everyone who bought a raffle ticket over the weekend.
We still have tickets available at £2.50 each or 5 for £10 and the draw will be made on Saturday 14th February.
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Final Clearance Sale
We have further reduced all of our current clothing stock to try and clear some space for the new seasons stock which will be arriving shortly.
The majority of all our clothing has been reduced to 1/2 price with the exception of our club knitwear at 40% discount! We also have a £15 (or Less) Clearance Rail with discounts of around 75% OFF!
We will also have some limited shoe and bag special offers once again to give us some space for the 2020 seasons stock.
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Srixon 4 for 3
We are bringing you a fantastic opportunity to stock up on your golf balls for the season ahead.
Not only are we offering FREE personalisation on your golf balls, but we will also give you a FREE dozen balls when you purchase 3 dozen.
Click here to order your preferred model.
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Winter Cup - Week 15 - Saturday Division 1
Stephen Houston (7) 39pts, Frank Rollinck (8), Ken Scott (7) 38pts, Brian Ross (9), Iain Macauley (8) 37pts Division 2
Andrew Botley (12) 43pts, Steve Harding (15) 37pts, Jay Anderson (11) 36pts, Mike Bradley (21), Alex Miller (14) 34pts Magic 2s were worth £23 to the following players:
Brian Ross, Steve Harding
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Winter Cup - Week 15 - Sunday Division 1 (1 division as only 9 players total)
Sandy Bruce (17) 37pts, Brian Ross (9) 36pts, Keith Ingram (7), Neil Todd (12) 35pts
Magic 2s
No 2s on so pot carried over to next Sunday
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Winter Cup Aggregate Scores Click here to view the current aggregate scores after week 15. Your aggregates on each course won’t be available until you have posted 3 scores.
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Senior Winter Cup [Wk.15/Old] (CSS M. 72; L. 76)
J. W. Stephen (6) 42pts; C. C. Vincent (12) 40pts; R. G. MacPherson (8) 39pts; J. K. Gable (12), J. Dennis (12), J. C. Macgregor (13) 37pts; A. Cowie (13) 36pts.
Magic 2s we’re worth £24 to the following players:
John C Macgregor
Ball Raffle
5 Balls - Mick Bradley
5 Balls - Bill McLean
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Indoor Winter League Leaderboard After Week 9: Dieselini Dads - 135
46 Seatown - 131
Fireside with Fin - 130
Twa Ramsay’s - 127
Mon The Hoops - 125
Zanussis - 122
Slayers - 122
Sheeezus Old Boys - 121
Crab Bastards - 119
Para Putters - 118
Mystic Dunes - 118
Elgin’s Pros - 117
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Valentines Dinner & Disco Our caterers, Eat on the Green are putting on a Valentines Menu for Friday 14th and Saturday 15th February. Prior booking is advisable by calling the catering team on 07973939623 or 01343 812018 option 6 2 Courses £22.95 or 3 Courses £25.95 We will also have our resident DJ Ryan Rattray playing on Saturday evening in the clubhouse for those of you looking to extend your evening into the early hours! I’m sure Ryan will happily play your requests whether that be a love song or a more upbeat party anthem!
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Night golf We still have a few places left for our night golf event which takes place next Saturday evening. We have created 8 shortened holes ranging from between 100 - 200 yards. We will have red glow sticks surrounding the hazards, white glow sticks marking the fairways and green for the putting surfaces. The flags and tee boxes will also be illuminated and each player in a team will be given a different coloured golf ball to make it easier to identify. The cost of the event is £15 per person and this covers the cost of the materials, golf balls and some prizes. |
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First Shotgun Start 6.30pm and the Second Shotgun Start 8.00pm The event will be a team event with 2 players per team and a better ball format over the 8 hole course. Anyone interested in playing please sign up through the Pro Shop. Teams must include at least one member but members guest are welcome. |
Chinese Buffett, Casino Night & Envelope Draw - Saturday 14th March “Eat on the Green” are Putting on a Chinese Buffett in the Dining room on Saturday 14th March. This will then be followed by a Casino Night including Poker, Black Jack and Roulette. In order for this event to be a success, we do require some helpers on the evening. Therefore if anyone is a dab hand at any of these games and fancies helping out for a couple of hours on the night then it would be greatly appreciated. Click here if you can help on the night. |
We are also seeing the return of our envelope draw. The first prize is going to start at £500 cash and tickets will be going on sale next week from the bar.
It will be £5 per ticket and the first prize draw will be made on the Casino Night on the 14th March and a list of future prize draws will be available soon.
A full list of draw rules and regulations will be posted in next weeks newsletter. |
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Break Through with Karl Morris
Sunday 8th March - 7pm - 9pm We are delighted to be welcoming one of Europe’s leading Golf Performance Coach to Moray Golf Club on Sunday 8th March at 7pm. Karl has worked with and achieved success with SIX Major winners and over a 100 PGA Tour, European Tour, LPGA and Ladies European Tour golfers.
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It is now beyond a shadow of a doubt that to be the best you can be, involves a combination of training both Mind and Body. matter what level of the game you play, we can help you become a better player and enjoy your golf that bit more Tickets will be £20 and are available from the Pro Shop or through the Secretary’s office.
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Winter Programme Despite the poor weather over the last week, Kevin and his team have been working hard on finishing their winter programme.
The team have just finished rebuilding and reshaping the last of 26 bunkers over the previous few months. The last couple were the fairway bunkers on the left side of the 12th Old and also the right greenside bunker on the same hole. The greenside bunker has been reshaped making it more visible from the fairway and the fairway bunker has gone from 2 bunkers into just the one. As with most of the fairway bunkers the aim make them more playable and easier to move the ball further up the fairway. Here are a couple of before and after shots from their latest work.
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Many of you will be looking to replace your shoes when the season gets underway and when that time comes, pop your head in-store as we have a fantastic selection of new styles available, including these gems from adidas... |
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adidas' 2020 footwear collection |
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If you're after something a little bit 'out there' then adidas' Codechaos will be right up your street. They look fantastic and have a brilliant new outsole that will provide super grip out on the course. |
We know they won't be for everyone, which is why we also have traditional looking shoes such as the Tour360 XT and SL, as well as the stunning new adicross Retro. |
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