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PING Collection Fuse Vibrant Colours with Unrivalled Performance Golf’s leading specialist clothing manufacturer, PING Collection, have launched a forward-thinking new clothing range to cater for golfers of all ages and abilities. The brand’s spring/summer 2013 offering holds an excellent array of golfspecific garments, gathered from years of research dedicated to obtaining simply the best performing fabrics available. PING Collection www.pingcollection.co.uk FootJoy’s Most Comprehensive Women’s Shoe Range For 2013 FootJoy has announced the launch of the extensive 2013 women’s shoe range. Brand new styles in the 2013 range include; women’s Contour™, the LoPro Collection, the Women’s AQL®, SoftJoys® and the Summer Series™. While the Women’s DryJoys®, FJ Sport and LoPro Casual have undergone styling and colourway enhancements. FootJoy www.FootJoy.co.uk Callaway Golf Ignites Explosive Distance With Its New X Hot Drivers Callaway Golf Company today announced its new line of X Hot™ Drivers and Fairway Woods, configured for blistering ball speeds and distance gains. The new line of X Hot Woods are a result of Callaway R&D designing clubs for the best players in the world, and using optimised design progression and adjustability to make them accessible and high-performing for all players. Callaway Golf www.callawaygolf.com 10
A Tribute to Peter Last year, members of Epping Golf Club lost much-loved Peter Cross. He was an enthusiastic and talented junior member joining in 2006, age 14; he had been fighting leukaemia for the last two years. Apart from being academically talented and a county sportsman in many fields, Peter was a fanatical and gifted golfer who was a central figure to the junior section. His death touches many lives at Epping Golf Club. In discussions with Peter’s parents (Jane and Paul) Jane being, a junior section helper for many years, the Course, the Junior organisers, Junior and men’s committees decided to remember Peter in three ways: 1. To rename the November medal the ‘Peter Cross Medal’. Peter won the November 2008 medal with an outstanding score of 70, dropping his handicap into single figures. (In that same year as achieving single figure status, Peter came third in the 36 hole scratch club championship missing top spot by two shots) 2. To establish a junior bursary to fund the coaching and match costs of this booming section and to be named the Peter Cross Bursary. 3. To plant a copse of trees on the course in his name that all can all enjoy as part of the course. Jane and Paul have donated Peter’s cherished chipper (of which he was so fond) as a trophy for the November medal. They have also made a donation to pay for the start of the Peter Cross Junior Section Bursary and for the 60 Silver Birch and Scots pine trees. They have been planted between the two ponds on the 15th hole. Jenny James donated a shirt signed by Ian Pouter that was raffled and raised a further £175 towards the work. The peak of Peter's golfing career came in June 2010 playing a two handicapper at Stowmarket in the Curry Cup, just losing on the final hole. That was the last competitive round Peter had; before embarking on a debilitating course of treatment. He did manage to play 18 holes in the 2011 club championship to his 8 handicap, but had to retire exhausted after 18 holes.
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Announcing The 93rd Essex PGA Open Championship At: Sponsored by: Pre-qualifying: The Championship:: Pro/Am:
Chelmsford Golf Club Burts Potato Chips Thursday March 21st, 2013 Thursday 15 May, 2013 Friday 16 May, 2013
Entries are invited from Essex PGA Professionals and Essex Based Amateur Golfers to compete in the Essex PGA Open Championship Pre-Qualifier at Chelmsford Golf Club There are exemptions as follows: P r o f e s s i o n a l – top 5 players from the 2012 Championship (Horton Am, Hooper, Fryatt Levermore, King, Gray), the past 5 winners of the Championship (with exceptions), the first 7 players in the Essex PGA OOM for 2012 (Levermore, Stokes, Fryatt, Cutchie, Hooper, Scade Taylor), the first 5 players in the East Region OOM for 2012 ( Levermore, Hooper, Pestell, Chase Davis, Baker) The Trainee Champion (Scade and Cutchie) Trainee Matchplay champion to be confirmed. A m a t e u r – any amateur within the top 5 players from the 2012 Essex Open Championship (Ben Horton) and the Essex Amateur Champion from 2012 (Bobby Keeble). For clarification on exemptions please call the EPGA Office. Exempt players still need to enter the tournament. The Final Field will be a maximum of 72 players including all exemptions. Full details and the starting sheet will be published as soon as possible after the closing date but will only be available on the Essex PGA website www.essexpga.com
Cost of Entry for the Championship (including the PQ) is £60 per player Closing date for entries is Monday 11 March 2013 The start sheet will only be published on the website www.essexpga.com The Bird Luckin Essex PGA Open Championship PQ at Chelmsford Golf Club Monday 25 March 2013. Please include a cheque for £60 made payable to ‘Essex PGA’ with this entry (cheque will not be cashed until after the event). Please complete all details, particularly Email Address and Phone Number. Name: ………………………………… Golf Club: …………………………………
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Address: ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………..………………………… ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………..………………………… Telephone Number: ……………………………………………… Email Address: …………………………………………… Signed: ……………………………………………….…………… Date: …………………………………………….…………… Please send this form together with your cheque to: The Secretary, Essex PGA, 27 Willowdene Court, Brentwood, Essex CM14 5ET Telephone 01277 223510 or contact us at essexpga@googlemail.com
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GATHS Welcome to GATHS, a combination of maths and Golf. Ever sat in a maths class and wondered when am I ever going to use this whilst blankly looking at the teacher, day dreaming about playing Amen Corner? I’m guessing you are not alone. This article will help to reveal the maths in golf and the activities that will help improve your practice and game play. Let’s start with a topic that has some obvious applications to Golf. PERCENTAGES. If you take nothing else from this article, remember just one thing: A percentage is a number out of 100 E.g. 23/100 = 23% Writing an amount as a percentage of another: To do this: divide the first amount by the second and multiply by one hundred. e.g. 7 as a percentage of 20 is 7/20 X 100 = 35% Aplication to golf Imagine you had 40 putts during today’s round.You realise that putting has to improve. How are you going to do this? What are you going to focus on? And, how are you going to track improvement? The activity Find 3 types of putts on the putting green: a)Straight b) Left to right c)Right to left For each type of putt have 10 attempts from 3ft, 6ft and 12ft. You may like to use a table to record results. 3ft
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Left to right % success = 17/30 x 100 = 56.7%
From your completed table you can calculate a whole range of percentages. For example you might have sunk a total of 17 left to right putts compared to 23 right to left putts. This would reveal a weakness in left to right putting. Converting these to percentages gives: Right to left % success = 23/30 x 100 = 76.7%
If in future you only have time for 5 attempts for each type of putt you can still use the percentages to compare your results with previous practises. By repeating this regularly you will be able to track improvement and practice more effectively. Sean Sean Walker has been a PE and Maths teacher for 20 years, teaching in the East End of London for the last 12 years. He holds a level 1 golf certificate and has been a volunteer coach at Crowlands Heath Golf Club for the last 2 years. He currently plays off of 5 and will soon be studying to become a PGA pro. Sean is available for maths tutoring for all ages and abilities from primary school to GCSE Maths. Tel: 07712182961 56
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