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.
This week I've been trying to tie up a few loose ends before I head off to warmer climates for my annual holiday to Dubai and it looks like I've timed it perfectly just as the winter weather seems to be hitting us. I'll be heading to the final event of the Race to Dubai, the DP World Tour Championship. It's all to play for as Rory McIlroy and Danny Willet are neck and neck going into the event and it's sure to be a great golfing spectacle as always.
While I'm away I'll be leaving you in the very capable hands of Derek, Julieann and Ben. They will look after any queries you may have and Derek will be available to help with any swing flaws you may have or equipment help you may be after.
Last week we had one of our active members say farewell to move back to England. Jack (I'll play in any weather) Baillie took part in his last winter medal with the seniors before moving back down south. Jack saved his best golf to last finishing 3,2,4,3 over the last 4 holes on the Old Course as he bid farewell to the club.
It has been a pleasure getting to know Jack over the last few years and I'm glad to hear he will be returning for a holiday to Moray next summer.
The winter cup had another good turnout last weekend with 39 playing on Saturday and 38 on Sunday. Last weekend's full results are now available on both noticeboards, or click here to view the full results from Saturday, or click here to view Sunday's results.
On Saturday, Lynne Tough won Division 1 with 41 points, 4 shots ahead of the chasing pack featuring Terry Scholefield and Iain Meggatt on 37 points.
In division 2, George Sutherland took the spoils with 38 pts while Neil J Smith was 2nd on 36 pts, one ahead of Sandy Dixon in 3rd place on 35 pts.
This week the tables turned in the magic 2's with Michael Anderson the lucky recipient of £32 for his 2 at the 15th hole on Saturday....Well Done Michael!!
On Sunday, Graeme Hamilton took top spot in division 1 with 38 pts, ahead of Craig Annette (37pts) and Neil Stewart on 36pts.
In Division 2, Steve Harding blew away the rest of the field with a whopping 43 pts to win by 7 shots from Gordon Lennox (36) with Greg Madigan one back on 35pts.
Steven reduced his winter handicap from 18 to 15 with this score. It must have all been down to the new TaylorMade R15 Hybrid that he won in our Bonus Ball Raffle...Well Done Steve!!
Sundays 2's were worth £3.90 to the following players - Neil Stewart, John Petrie, Alan Cowie, Rupert Hornby, Gary Cooper, Graeme Hamilton, Shona Reid and Alan MCWilliam.
Still a better return than you would get from your local bank!!
Win a set of Titleist AP1 Irons for only 1p...
We are now selling tickets 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 have the following prizes up for grabs:
1st place - Titleist AP1 4-PW
2nd place - Titleist 915 Driver
3rd place - Titleist Cart Bag
4th place - SkyCaddie Aire
5th place - Vokey 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.
We are looking forward to a Black Friday at MGC!!
This year we have decided to follow the big shops and the Americans and have our very own BLACK FRIDAY event in the Pro Shop on Friday, 27 November. We are even going to extend it until Sunday, 29 November for those of you that work on a Friday!!
I'm certainly not expecting queues outside the shop in the morning and we are not planning to open at 6am, but we will have some special offers on clothing, shoes, balls, gloves and equipment. We will also offer discounts on lessons taken between Jan - Feb with a 30 min lesson for only £20.
Here are just a few tasters to get you started:
- 25% OFF Current Autumn/Winter Clothing
- 3 for 2 on all gloves
- Dozen Golf Balls Deals
- Equipment Clearances
- Cost Price Shoe Clearance
- Bargain Rail
Why not drop in and see if you can grab a bargain for Christmas!
For any Ladies out there, unfortunately we don't have much clothing in at this time of year, but we will give you 20% discount to anything ordered from the Glenmuir Autumn/Winter collection over this weekend.
Click here to find out more about the Glenmuir clothing range.
What to get the Kids this Christmas? 
We now have our full range of MKids Junior Clubs in stock. This new range of junior clubs come in 6 colour coded options for height, have Graffaloy shafts and Lamkin grips, so are top quality products.
Starter sets are available with a fairway wood, 6, 8, PW, putter and bag from £129.99. There are also additional irons available as well as drivers and hybrids to complete a full set of clubs.
Perfect for any children in your life for Christmas!!
What about that BIG KID I hear you say!!!
We have just taken stock of some new bags in time for Christmas. The PING Traverse Cart bag is compact and lightweight and is available in 4 colours or the PING DLX Cart bag is PING's Premium cart bag which is larger, more durable and available in white or black.
We will even be offering £10 OFF any of these new bags in next weekend's Black Friday Event!
Or What about a GPS? We have some great options in GPS, with the
SkyCaddie Aire II or Watch available at only
£129.99 with no annual fees for life.
If you like extra information and you like your gadgets, then maybe the
SkyCaddie Touch is better at
£299.99. This does everything but hit the shot!!
There is a year's
FREE membership with this one and then a
£29.95 yearly charge after that.
If you prefer a laser rangefinder then why not go with the lightweight
Nikon Coolshot 20 at only
£199.99. This picks up exact flag yardages for the perfectionists out there as well as hazards. If you have no idea what I'm talking about then why not come in for a chat and even ask us for a demo on the course to see how they can help your game!!
If you've no idea how far you hit each club in your bag then we are offering a
½ price distance gapping session at only
£15 where we will go through all your clubs and work out your yardages for you.
And finally...
Titleist FREE ball personalisation offer 
We recently launched our ever popular Christmas ball offer where we will give you
FREE personalisation on Titleist's great range of balls. These make fantastic gifts, as well as being a great opportunity to stock up for 2016!
Click here to find out more about this offer, or to place your order.
Use your creativity to with a £50 VoucherAnd as a little incentive to get the creative juices flowing, anyone who places an order and tweets us the 'stamp/message' that you would put on your ball along with the hashtag
#FTBP will have their tweet put in a ballot to win a
£50 voucher.
I look forward to seeing what you can come up with.
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@jmurray255.
Colin and James after holing out at the 16th Old noticed that Colin had putted out with James's ball and vice versa. Both players were certain that they had holed out with the balls they had played from the 16th Tee. Thus it was concluded that they had exchanged balls during play of a previous hole or between two holes. James looked at Colin and asked "Are we both disqualified"?
Fortunately Bob was driving off the 17th and was on hand to settle their query.
If it cannot be established that the balls were exchanged during play of a hole Colin and James should be given the benefit of the doubt and it should be assumed that the balls were inadvertently exchanged between the play of two holes in which case No Penalty would be imposed. A ball played from the teeing ground into the hole is Not a Wrong Ball.
