Additional News:

New Club Secretary Appointed

Trevor Glover, who has been appointed as our new Club Secretary, is a professional golf club administrator. In the course of his career he has worked for several golf clubs in a similar capacity, including Swinton Park, Withington, and Morecambe. For the past 6 years, he has been employed as the Administration Manager of Lymm Golf Club, in Cheshire.

Trevor, who plays off a handicap of 10, will be taking up his appointment on the 1^st October 2010.

Change to Wednesday Medal Practices

With effect from August’s Wednesday Medal, there will be a “One Tee Start” only. No play, medal or otherwise, will be allowed from either the 7th or 10^th Tees under any circumstances until 10 a.m.

This is to allow Greens Staff to prepare the course properly for the medal without the risk of their being injured by members who do not give Greens staff priority. The first Tee will be open from 7:30 a.m. – to avoid a long wait on the first Tee, those who are able to start after 08:30 are encouraged to do so.

Lady Captain's Day 2010

What a good day it was. The course was in excellent condition and proved a good test for the Ladies of Chesterfield Golf Club. The winners:

Gill Morris won Lady Captain’s Prize with a best net 68 (gross 90).

Alice Ruane  won the Best Gross was with a 79.

Hilary Neale won best net in the Handicaps 0-20 category with a net 69 (gross 87).

Anne Gillam won best net in the Handicaps 21-29 category with a net 72 (Gross 93).

Janet Maskelyne won best net in the Handicap 30-36 category with a net 75 (Gross 109).

Jaci Elliott took the Best Stableford Score with 39 points.

Margaret Fray with a net 33 won the Best Front 9.

Jill More with a net 37 won the Best Back 9.

There were prizes too for Liz Cromwell who won the Committee Prize with a net 73, for Hilary Wildgoose for nearest the line on the 10^th and Ann Lomas for being nearest the pin on the 6^th . The Putting Competition was won by Kim Hopkinson and the 3 Clubs and a Putter winner was Hilary Cherry.

A sequence of photos can be viewed here.

Captain's Day 2010

On a gloriously sunny July 4th, our Captain, John Guard, "entertained" many of the Club members to his annual golf day competition. John's choice of pin position, combined with speedy greens, resulted in some "interesting" challenges. Things were made even more challenging by a rather brisk wind.

Generally, scores were relatively high, but several members excelled themselves under the tricky conditions to record very good results.

Prize winners were:

Captain's Prize - with a net 70 - Ben Strelley

Best gross - with 81 - Lucas Davis

2nd best net - with 72 - Barry Owen

3rd best net (back 9) - Alan Cherry

Best net (morning) - with 73 - Karl Miller

Best net (afternoon) - with 73 - Jonathan Taafe

Best front 9 - net 33 - Paul Broadhead

Best Back 9 - Mike Barker

Best Past Captain - Keith Mosley

Best Veteran - net 74 - Graham Downing

Committee Prize - net 76 - Peter Broomhead

Nearest Pins on Par 3s - Bill Goddard, Alan Scott, Chris Booth and Andy Devine

Andy Devine recorded a Hole-in-one on the 15th.

There were 14 twos in total.

At the dinner, the collection raised £323 for the Captain's Charity.

We have a selection of photographs playing as a slide show:-

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Sheffield League

Once again the Chesterfield players have represented Chesterfield Golf Club with a high standard of golf and excellent conduct. At the end of the season the team missed promotion to the first division by only a couple of points. This is an excellent achievement considering some of its lowest handicap players were not always available for all the matches. However the players who stepped forward did themselves and the club proud and they achieved some good results.

The last two league matches, against Bawtry Golf Club and Crookhill Golf Club, proved very critical but the Chesterfield team members played some superb and exciting golf to win both matches (Bawtry 6-2 and Crookhill 7-1). In both matches their captain Darren Coope led from the front winning both his games. In both the matches Darren was excellently supported by Matt Marriott, Guy Rosewarne, Jamie Bowler and Matt Lawrie. The last game of the season was as exciting as ever with Matt Lawrie winning the last hole with a brilliant birdie 4.

This rounded off an excellent season both for the players and Chesterfield Golf Club in the Sheffield League.

Mens Successes

On Saturday 24^th July, the AM-AM was held to decide who is to represent Chesterfield Golf Club in the Sheffield Union of Golf Club’s Charities AM-AM on 25^th September at Rotherham GC. The successful quartet are J Wheeldon, P R Dunne, P D Broomhead and B Clarke who came in with a net 129, runners up and first reserve for the SUGC Competition are M Barker, A G Drew, D I Platts and A A Cherry, third were P E  White, M Fielder, W L Jardine and A Warwick.

Junior Success

Congratulations to Mark Porter who won the English Schools U-16 National Championship at Delamere Forest.

Senior Ladies Successes

Congratulations to Marie Watson who, after a one day practice round, followed by two 18 hole medal days, won the best nett prize (with 148) at the English Senior Ladies Midland Tournament held at Sutton Coldfield recently.

Congratulations also to Ruth Preston who, with her partner from Maywood GC, won the Derbyshire Ladies Veterans Golf Association "Dorothy Walton Trophy" with a net 62

Senior Mens Success

Congratulations to John East who was runner up in the Gross Prize section of the Derbyshire Seniors' Amateur Stroke Play Championship