Greetings golfers,

Welcome to the latest edition of the weekly Alderley Edge Pro Shop newsletter. As you can see, everything is a little different this week as we have a new template. We hope you enjoy the new template and newsletter.

This Week at Alderley Edge

Friday, 14 JulyLadies Friendly Vs Congleton – Home
Saturday, 15 July – Captain’s Prize – 1st Round – Click here to enter
Saturday, 15 July – Captain’s cocktail evening and disco
Sunday, 16 July – Captain’s Prize – Round 2
Sunday, 16 July – Sunday Carvery – 2-4pm – Contact the catering team to book
Monday, 17 July – Junior Roll Up – 4.15pm
Tuesday, 18 July – Ladies EWGA Medal – Click here to enter
Wednesday, 19 July – Seniors Vs Hazel Grove – Home

MDGA Alliance Foursomes

Alderley Edge managed to beat Davenport in the Manchester & District Golf Alliance Foursomes on Friday night by 5 matches to 2. We're now in the last 16 of the competition, only 2 matches away from the Finals day. Our next opponents won't be known for a couple of weeks. Many thanks to Paul Penney for organising the team, his combinations are clearly inspired. Well played team!

Professional’s Prize

Thank you to everyone who supported my Pro’s day, it was great to see so many of you playing and enjoying yourselves. I had a great time doing beat the pro competition out on the 4th and 6th holes. Shot of the day goes to John Roberts, who his tee shot to about 8 feet on the 4th.

Tom McDermott came 3rd with 38 points off 27 (now 26). Gerald Tatlock came 2nd on countback with 40 points off 19 (now 18).

The overall winner of the Professional's Prize was Joe Yakub with 40 points off 28 (now 26). Well done Joe!


Captain’s Prize to the Ladies

A grey day was brightened considerably by the great humour of the Ladies playing for the Captain's Prize on Tuesday. Olwen Davies deservedly won the nearest the pin on the 6th, only a couple of feet from the pin. Pam Butler won the 9-hole Stableford that was played on the same day. In 3rd place was Sue Kendrick on a card play-off with 94-19=75. Second was the Lady President, Valerie Hornsby, with the best gross of the day, 90-19=71.

However, the overall winner was Helen Thomson with a 96-27=69. It was particularly impressive as Helen only received her first handicap earlier this year and is rapidly improving. Many congratulations to Helen.
The Captain would like to thank all the Ladies who took part for making it a great day.

Want more distance? Are you turning your hips in the backswing?

This week I thought I would discuss ways to increase your distance. Those of you who have been into my studio have probably used the K-Vest and know what a great tool it is. One of the areas we commonly look at it hip rotation in the backswing. Lack of hip rotation can cause a steep or ‘over the top’ downswing, but more importantly it will lead to a lack of clubhead speed.

The two examples below demonstrate this:

As several people have mentioned, it is great knowing that you need to turn your hips more in the backswing but actually doing it is not easy! As Ian mentioned without the K-Vest playing music when he reached 40 degrees of hip turn, he would never have been able to have changed it.

If you want to gain more distance and see if your hip turn is the problem, please click here to book a lesson, we offer a 30 minute introductory lesson for all new customers for £9.99.

Open Sweepstake – Squares filling up!

You have one week left to get your name down for The Open sweepstake. The cost is £2 per square and it is filling up so get your name down now!