Winter Golf

I have been very fortunate to play competitive Golf in Portugal for the past two weeks. The first event was the Algarvian Senior Masters and I was hosted by my great friend Brian Evans and his wife Sally.

My golf was not the best but hopefully my time spent practicing will be beneficial. The 4 round tournament was won by Pedron Lindhart who holed a great putt on the 72nd green for a 9 under par total to beat playing partner Miguel Martin by 1 shot.

I was sadly languishing in the mid to high 70's with my scores and ended up mid-table. Many of the players use this as a warm up for the European Senior Tour Qualifying School and I wish them all the best, in particular David Shacklady and Jon Cheetham who have been regulars at Our Ashton Pro Am for many years.

The second week I was joined for the Algarvian Charity Pro Am by my team of John Heaton , Andy Bytheway and Phil Smith. We played the event on four magnificent courses at Quinta Do Lago North and South, Pinheiros Altos and San Lorenzo.

There were some glimpses of good golf but again we finished around mid-table with our 19 under par score.

A great week with great friends on superb golf courses in great weather! What more can you ask for? 

Massive thanks to the boys for a great week and good company.


 

Get Fit For For Your Feet

This season we have signed up with FootJoy as a Shoe Fitting Specialist. An incredible statistic tells us that 70% of golfers are wearing the wrong size shoes? In testing it has been shown that there is a 6-21% increase in performance by simply wearing properly fitted shoes.

It is going to be very interesting fitting shoes and finding out the correct fit for each golfer. FootJoy even give the option of having different sized left and right shoes via their MyJoys program.

U.S Tour Pro Steve Stricker wears uneven pairs through the MyJoy program as his left foot is an 11 medium fit and his right is a 12 narrow fit.


New Staff Member Andy Eyre

Hopefully by now many of you will have met our new Team member Andy Eyre, please call in and introduce yourself so that Andy can get to know you all.

Andy is a good player and very keen to learn more about our great game, next week Andy is away at the PGA headquarters at the Belfry for the first of his residential training courses and no doubt will come back enthused by what he has learnt.


New Season, Time for a Change

Many of you will be looking to treat yourselves for the new season and improve your equipment whether it be a new set of irons, driver, wedges or new putter we can guide you through the minefield and help you choose the right equipment at the right price.

We have been using GC2 technology in our Golf Studio now for over 4 years and utilising this technology and our expertise we can help you to improve your game. We offer FREE fitting and expert advice and also provide the Equipment at the best possible prices.

We can offer virtually every model available through our Foremost Network and we have an in Depth fitting service with PING, Callaway, Mizuno, Cleveland, Titleist and TaylorMade.

Click here if you would like to request a fitting.