What’s in your bag? No, not a courteous enquiry from the local Police force, but a question regarding the changes that have been made to the contents of our golf bags these last few years.
Watching the BMW sponsored championships from Wentworth last week it was interesting to note the variety of clubs that the modern [...]
The Welsh Open Youths championships take place at Wrexham golf club next weekend with practice rounds on Friday 28th May and the seventy two holes event occupying the following two days with thirty six holes of play scheduled for each day.
The standard of entry has been exceptional in that the complete list of starters commences [...]
The windswept links of Prestatyn golf club were the scene last Saturday of the opening two rounds of the 2010 Clwyd Open Championships to be followed on Sunday with the concluding thirty six holes around Wrexham golf club for this prestigious Golf Union of Wales Merit Award standard event.
For those of you familiar with Prestatyn, [...]
When Jack Nicklaus first emerged on the golfing scene as an overweight teenager with a blond crew cut in the fifties, he was greeted as the replacement to Arnold Palmer who was ten years older but fought for years to gain any sort of popularity in a nation of golfers who adored Palmer and his [...]
With the Clwyd Championships but eight days away from today’s date, the annual Welsh Merit Award competition has attracted a very strong field for the seventy two holes event which plays over the Prestatyn links on Saturday 8th May and then concludes at Wrexham for the deciding thirty six holes the following day.
The closing date [...]
Peter Alliss always makes me laugh. His commentary on the Masters at Augusta was a master class in understatement and reminiscences drawn for over sixty years associated with the professional game. Son of a famous golfer, Percy Alliss, he was born in Berlin and served a professional at many British clubs before retiring and entering [...]
An initiative by the Golf Union of Wales introducing a “Golf awareness Week” has been directed at golfers who play the game but are not members of a recognized golf club, and towards people who may have fancied a try at the sport but have found the opportunity has not presented itself in a customer [...]
Just over thirty one years ago, the then secretary of Wrexham golf club, Major Peter Hume, made an inspired choice of assistant secretary when he interviewed and appointed Pam Oldfield to the position. With her background in banking, and attention to detail regarding the club day to day accounts, she rapidly became an indispensable part [...]
The squad of James Moore, Nick Hodge, Jack Neal, Jordan Sweeney, Mike Flyn and Callum Jones combined to finish ninth in the team event.
James Moore particularly showed great promise with a gross 74, while the team score was an aggregated score made up of the best gross and four best nett scores from each team.
The [...]
Three Wrexham Golf Club teenagers took the Flintshire and Denbighshire Ladies’ Championships by storm last week when, as well as one of their number winning the championship, they collectively won the gross and net team prize for the local club.
Old Padeswood golf club hosted the championships last Wednesday and Thursday in what can only be [...]