Howdy y'all! 

Here we are again, happy as can be…………………..! Hope you are having a great week so far, sit back, put your moccasins or a face pack on, grab a cuppa and settle down with me for ten minutes!!! 



Have you all been enjoying the (fractionally) warmer weather? We have had couple of "biggie" comps this week, and the report by Paul on these is as follows: 

"The Bristol Tankards was a huge success last Saturday with some nice weather, a beautifully manicured course and fully subscribed field. Players from Oxford, Wales, Gloucester and we mustn't forget Brean, played for the prestigious silver tankards. 

For the second year in a row, two Brean Golf Club members won the event with an amazing score of 45 points. The better ball competition and three quarter handicap reduction doesn't normally produce such a high winning score, but the father and son duo were on fire to win two, top of the range Callaway XR Drivers. Three points back were Mr Chivers and Mr Bishop from Oxford followed by Mr Knighton and Mr Privett from Weston in third position. 

Bristol and Clifton's very own Dan Andrew and Richard Smale scored 41 points with an excellent back nine, to finish in fourth position and win a pair of FootJoy shoes each. Nick Chapple and Danny Savage couldn't quite get the dream score but finished in the prizes in sixth position. 

Unbelievably there were 17 twos! Please note that the twos club winnings for this competition will be allocated as Prize Vouchers via the office and not by the usual way from the notice board in the Pro Shop." 

Thanks Paul. 

I absolutely love these Brean boys, they make me laugh a lot! The Tankards is one of my favourite annual fixtures, it's a great laugh and brill to see so many visitors witness the very beauty of our most wonderful golf club. 

The Ladies also had a good week playing in the Stableford, the winner being Suzi McArthur (41 points OCB! Wow!), followed by Jo Harrison in second place (41 points, also WOW) and Angela Holland in third (36 points) with Vicky Reed in fourth place (35 points OCB). Well played Ladies! 

The weekday medal last week was won by new member Richard Goldberg, pushing Michael Vaughan into second position. 

Paul and Geoff the Captain (pictured teeing off), played at Bowood Golf and Country Club in the Golfplan PGA Captain Pro Regional Qualifier. 

Unfortunately they didn't win the trip to Turkey and fell short of the winning score of eleven under par. Eleven under in a medal two player betterball, three quarters handicap! Around the slog of Bowood!! 

What a week of wonderful golf wizardry! 



 

We have had a week of relative calm in a usual sea of utterly ridiculous chaos, but this is only a temporary respite I promise you! Next week we are uber-busy and the inflatable net goes up and down so much it doesn't really know what time of day it is! So we will fill you all in next week on the WECIL festival and also the Get Into Golf day in town.

I made new links this week just past, and we are now members of Bristol Community Transport. This is a reduced price minibus service for community groups, especially disabled and minority groups. We are often left scratching our heads as to how we are going to get disabled pupils here to join in our coaching groups and festivals, and at the tri golf festival I got chatting to one of the bus drivers who recommended this charity.

I wrote them a lengthy begging letter (it sounded a bit like this: pleeeeease, pleeeease, pleeease!), with loads of pics of what we do, and I was thrilled to be accepted as a member of the trust. Woooo hoooooooooo!! Now nobody will be left behind and we will be able to bring more disabled and able bodied school pupils for tuition and FREE school coaching groups. This makes me glow like an old boiler (mmmm maybe not the best analogy………….or maybe it's more appropriate than I care to admit!!!!) and I am thrilled that BCT will be picking up our Kingsweston special school students for the inclusion festival in September and bringing them here to take part.

   

The great thing about these buses is that they are equipped to take all students with needs. There is a fleet of these with all different capacities, so we should always be able to get one. The cost is much lower than a regular minibus hire, so it is also affordable. So proud to be able to help schools with motability! 


 

The winter is always a dangerous experience for the pro shoppers.....why dangerous I hear you ask? Why not just cold, unpleasant or depressing? Well the reason is that winter heralds the ball washing season! If we don't wash our balls (steady...!), they block up the range machine and we can't be doing with that now can we? So it becomes treacherous because up until now, we have been sticking our balls in a rusty old cement mixer with little or no protection from the weather and it's all a bit of a bloomin' nightmare. Fear not though, brave hearted pro shoppers, for Winnie the Washer is now here to save the day! We are now the proud owners of an automatic RangeMaster ball washer, and I have seen her in action....she's gooooooood! You want shiny balls guys, you got it! 

We are currently trying to make room to sit her next to our range machine in the cubby hole behind the black gates, so she will be in action when it gets a bit muddier! 

This week we also received our new Paul Mitchell Golf Academy England Golf pop up banner from BannerBox - this is very useful in promoting ourselves when we are out on the road, and our logos together look rather majestic! I can't wait to get it out on display next week (but that's nothing compared to the fun of trying to fold the thing back into the bag! Cam has a pop up beach tent and I get hives thinking of folding it back - it's a vision of hilarity me bending the thing and Paul trying to hold the tiny little bag open! Why is it so difficult?).

  

On that note, I am off to fill my vehicle with Velcro targets, inflatable nets, GolfParc and Huxley mats for the next two major PMGA events! Who needs to see out of the windscreen?! Visibility is totally overrated!! Cheers me dears - see you all next weeky woos! 

This week, signing off with us middle names! 

Jasmine, Graham, James, Edward and James!