Archive for February, 2011

Long drive 787 yards!!!

It never ceases to surprise me at the changing standards in golf performance that at one time warranted a mention in the record books, and is now accepted as fairly mundane. I am now in possession of the Golfers handbook for 2010. It is an expensive tool, but invaluable to club secretaries as it contains [...]

Vale of Llangollen Golf Club recover from the deluge

Well, it appears that the rain and the consequent flooding has abated to the extent that the Vale of Llangollen played on grass for their Sunday morning round this week after last week’s deluge and accompanying flooding put about a quarter of the course under fast flowing water. The river level dropped quite markedly and [...]

River Dee overflowed at Llangollen Golf Club

Sunday evenings at 6.00 p.m. and I can guarantee that Phil Coleman of the Vale of Llangollen Golf Club will ring within seconds of the big hand reaching the top of the hour.  Such it was last Sunday, and he was full of graphic descriptions of the low lying holes on the golf course that [...]

Beating golf balls into the distance

A week of mellow weather and the lure of the practice ground was decidedly present last Tuesday, but I fought off the feeling and put new glass in the greenhouse door instead. Standing beating golf balls into the distance is very therapeutic at times, but there is no doubt that it can get cold after [...]