The January Mixed Texas Scramble proved a closely contested affair at the club on Saturday 14th January.
The quartet of Ray Bevan, David Elbourn, Graham Wright and Toni Shirley won the event with 71, nett 62-and-1/8.
Nick Wright, Ian Hardwick, Roger Adams and Christine Machin finished runners-up with 72, nett 62-and-3/8 from Adrian Riddell, Peter Mundy, Suresh Advani and Teresa Donnelly 71, nett 62-and-3/4.
Nearest the pin winners were Robert Owen (7th), Ian Griffiths (10th) and Steve Westley (18th).

Meanwhile, Ashley Bartlett celebrated after hitting his first hole-in-one on the 131-yard 7th hole in general play on Friday.

Former Kenilworth Golf Club member Jamie Elson finished runner-up in the Johannesburg Open which finished on 15th January.
Jamie, who began his golfing career at Crewe Lane, carded a magnificent nine under par 63 in the final round to hold the clubhouse lead on 16 under par.
But he missed out on winning his first European Tour event by just one shot after South African Branden Grace returned a final round 72 to finish on 17 under par.
After carding a first day 63, he fell back on the second day with a 75 before a third round two under par 70 kept him in contention.
Jamie, 30, then produced a stunning final round which included six birdies on the opening nine holes.
He added another birdie on the 16th and completed a marvellous day with an eagle on the 18th.
Jamie, who holed a 40-foot birdie putt on the final green of the European Tour's qualifying school at the end of last year to secure his card, could then only sit and watch from the clubhouse.
But he had to settle for the runners-up spot again, just as he did in Madeira last spring, as overnight leader Grace held his nerve to take the top prize.
Jamie picked up a cheque for £123,000, more than double his previous biggest pay day, which put him third in the order of merit for this year's Race To Dubai.
Elson's only win came in the Finnish Open on the Challenge Tour the year he turned pro in 2003 .

Congratulations from all at Kenilworth Golf Club

I am holding a Ping Fitting Day on Friday 3rd February. Click here to find out more.

Steve

Steve yates

Club Professional

Click here to find out about early season indoor training packages available from James and myself.

Steve

Steve Yates - Club Professional

Dear All

Every year a group of enthusiastic volunteers meet on Tuesday afternoons at 1.00 pm and help clear the plantations of fallen branches and other debris.  I would be very grateful if anyone would like to come along and help the usual regulars.  Our first meeting of the winter will be next Tuesday 06 December.

Warm clothing required.

Kind regards

David Hart

Course Committee.

The annual meeting of the HIA Golf Day saw a number of well known sportsmen take on the challenge of Kenilworth Golf Club.  One of our members Alfie Cuffaro volunteered to make a subsitute appearance for the Jockey's team captained by double Grand National winner Carl Llewellyn (Party Politics & Earth Summit). 

Pictured: Carl Llewellyn, Alfie, Jodie Mogford & Alan O'Keefe.

Tuesday night saw Kenilworth Golf Club crowned champions of the Mid Warwickshire League.  KGC beat Leamington 3.5 v 2.5 to seal a well deserved victory after being runners-up last year.  Finham fell at the last hurdle crumbling to a defeat by Hearsall 2.5 v 3.5 to finish runners up.  Peter Hall and David Howe managed the team though a hard fought season using 19 players in total.

Peter would like to thanks all the players for their contribution and believes this is a success that we can all share in and augers well for the future.

Mid Warks Squad.

Elliot Forbes, Peter Hall, Daniel Howe, Robert Owen, James Lamond, Ben Hammond, Daniel Lane, Dave Howe, Aled Edwards

Mike Antona, John Close, Richard Keegan, Dave Matthews, Craig Owen, Maurice Langman, Johnny Joseph Carling, Philip Adcock

& Ian Gough.

Twenty-four teams from eleven clubs competed in the annual Kenilworth AM AM at the club on Friday 22nd July.
The quartet of Stuart Cluff, Alan Cluff, Daniel Cluff and Lee Ryan finished convincing winners by amassing 100 stableford points.
Countback was required to determine the runners-up spot with Martin Parfect, Alan Saul, Dennis Pick and Michael Ravenhill edging out Richard Symonds, Ali Peebles, Tony Sollis and Keith Hoskin by virtue of a better back nine after both teams finished on 95 points.
Rob Owens, Steve Burrows, James Eccleston and Richard Moon finished third on 93 points from Jim mcCarthy, Ken Rawlins, Lynda McCarthy and Toby Powell 91, while the foursome of club captain Patrick Fleming, Alfie Cuffaro, Elliot Forbes and Michael Antona completed the prize-winning frame with 90 points.
Richard Joyce, Everard Peters, Peter Mundy and Chris Gardiner took the best front nine prize with 46 points, while Jill Harrison, C Harrison, A Williams and G Williams recorded the best back nine with 47.
Nearest the pin prizes were won by Mike Hughes (2nd), Dennis Blasdale (4th), Brendan Fenerty (7th), S Pretty (10th) and D Walker (18th).

The Club's submission is available for members to view in the HS2 folder in the Members' section of the website. This document will was approved by the Management Committee on 11th July and has now been submitted to the Government.

Jim McCarthy

Chairman of Management Committee 

David Butcher, Chairman  of Acorns Children’s Hospice, received a cheque for £8400 from Richard Joyce, Immediate Past Captain, and Angela Bradley, Immediate Past Ladies Captain, on 13th June.The money was part of the £12000 raised for charity during the 2010/11 year. The remaining £3600 of the charity funds have been donated to Zoe’s Place Baby Hospice.The funds were raised for last year’s Captains’ Charity, thanks to the generosity of  club members and from a donation of £600 from the Match it! Fund of DHL UK Foundation, where Richard Joyce was a Senior Manager with Exel Logistics

Attached photos of Andy Sullivan from Nuneaton receiving the Kenilworth Classic Salver from Sue Taylor daughter of Bob who sponsored the 36 hole scratch event.

Andy playing of +4 returned a gross 70and 69 to win the tournament for a second time against a field of 51players with handicaps of up to 9 representing some 28 other clubs.

Comments from players competing in this yearly event stated that the greens were the best they had played on this year, a great tribute to Kenilworth Golf Club and our greens staff.

 Elliot continued his recent success by winning the Warwickshire Matchplay last weekend.   A tremendous result and follows on a winning fortnight.

The weekend before Elliot finished runner-up in the Warwickshire Amateur Championship at Maxstoke Park with rounds of 70 & 72 for a total of 142. This placed Elliot just two behind Tom Ibbertson from Hearsall who posted rounds of 72 & 68 to give a total off 140. For the full set of results go to  www.warksgolf.co.uk.

 Elliot's other achievements over the past 12 months are:

1. Breaking through to the Warwickshire 1st team.

2. 5th in the Midland Order of Merit.

3. 2nd in both the Finham Bowl and Oak Trophy.

 He has also supported the club over the past 5 years and has been ever present for the clubs MWL team playing at No. 1.

 Congratulations Elliot and we look forward to more good news in the year ahead.

Our own Daniel Lane  has earned the once in a lifetime opportunity to play golf with some of the games leading European Tour players and celebrities at the national Golf LIVE show.
The three-day show starts at the London Golf Club in Kent on Friday, May 20 and 15-year-old Lane, a four handicap golfer and current Warwickshire under 16 captain, will partner David Howell in a three hole exhibition match on the opening day against Nick Dougherty and Thomas Levet who will be joined by their celebrity partners one of whom will be golfing enthusiast, DJ Spoony.
Lane, a student at Princethorpe College, was given the opportunity to take part in the Golf LIVE Three Hole Pro/Celebrity Challenge, sponsored by Jaguar Cars, as an ambassador for the British Junior Golf Tour after being named as the tour’s Player of the Year for 2010/11. 
A delighted Daniel said:“I’ve been lucky to play golf at some top venues with the BJGT including Sunningdale, Woburn, Woodhall Spa, The Belfry and the 2010 course at Celtic Manor. This is the icing on the cake and I am very grateful to tour director, Steve Adams, who will be caddying for me at the London Golf Club next week.”

The new Golf Academy has got off to a flying start and James and I are absolutly delighted with the set up, the way it works and by the response from members and visitors for lessons and club fitting.

It really is the best way to learn and the fastest way to improve. Early sessions paid dividends for Everard Peters in the Mitchell Goblet Qualifier with a best of day net 63, then James Leggitt went straight from the Academy to win the A Division in the April Extra Medal.

To book a session in the Academy call James or me on 01926 512732 

Steve

 The Club proved the perfect hosts for the Kenilworth Mayor’s annual charity golf day.
An enjoyable and successful day, which was expertly organised by club secretary Rob Griffiths, club captain Patrick Fleming and ladies vice-captain Sue Draper, raised the impressive sum of  £1,880 for the Waverley Day Centre which is the Mayor’s chosen charity.
Seventeen teams contested a stableford competition over the  course which was in excellent condition
Imaginative team names, such as ‘Sayitasitis’, ‘Elcapetano’, ‘3 Men & A Little Lady’ and ‘Norfolk & Chance’ made for a fun atmosphere. 
Holes were sponsored by various companies such as Costa Coffee, Carrick Travel and Mercia Carpets, while prizes were donated by Underwoods, Steve Yates Pro Shop, as well as members of the club.
With the score cards in and Mayor-elect Cllr Dave Shilton and Cllr Pat Cain in attendance, a delicious three-course meal was enjoyed before the winners were announced. 
Cllr Dave Shilton presented the prizes with The Fieldgate Flyers, consisting of Mike Hastings, Graham Parker, David Muir and Richard Fee, emerging triumphant.
Last Minute, made up of Ali Peebles, Jim Lynch, Andrew Kennedy and Sam Dalton, were the runners-up, while Bogeymen, comprising Rob Blacklock, Charles Smith, Gerry Higginbotham and Mike Morris finished third.
Nearest the pin winners were David Muir, Ron Saywell, Mark Evans, Peter Mason and Mike Carrick. 
Chris Satch won the men’s longest drive and Angela Bradley won the ladies longest drive.

The latest  Captain's Newsletter can be viewed by clicking here 

In conjunction with Radio 4 Clare Balding visited Kenilworth Golf Club to record an edition of a series of programmes looking into the history of various towns and associated sporting clubs that have grown up in and around their local area.  Clare had a busy day visting Leamington Spa's Tennis Club, KGC and then on to Bournville Hockey Club.

Walter Hogarth kindly provided the historical information for the programme and acted as Host for the visit.

Clare was very interested in the club and had a personal tour of our new golf academy - see attached.

The official opening of the club's new Coaching and Fitting Studio  was in safe hands as former England goalkeeper Peter
Shilton cut the ribbon on Saturday 9th April. Shilton, who is England's most capped footballer, was joined by Club Captain Richard Joyce to open one of the most technologically advanced coaching studios and golfing academies in the Midlands.

The club's professional Steve Yates and fellow PGA professional James Crompton will staff the studio using cutting edge technology to help golfers of all abilities analyse and improve their game as well as providing the basis for
precise club fitting.

Bookings can be made by calling Steve  or James  on 01926 512732.

Directors Mike Hastings and Jim McCarthy recently met with Michael Coker, a  long standing local councillor, to discuss local development issues.

Michael advised that all of the earlier plans for housing development in the area had been set aside. A new plan is being developed and the firm indications are that any threat from development in the Crewe Lane area has very significantly receded.

He also outlined the consultation process for the proposed high speed rail link (HS2).An amended route for the Stoneleigh area was under consideration and, since our meeting, a revised route has now been recommended, the details of which are sketchy but are of increased concern to the Club. This issue, together with all other considerations on the route will be part of the consultation process which is scheduled to commence in spring 2011. Michael alerted us to the very strong challenge to the viability of the business case for HS2 that has been presented to the Government by the HS2 Action Alliance. If this challenge is successful then the whole scheme is dead.

We will continue to closely monitor developments on your behalf.

As a result of a course assessment by the Warwickshire Union of Golf Clubs on 28 June we have received a new Standard Scratch Score for the two courses as follows :-

White Tees – 71

Yellow Tees – 70

As a result of this new rating we have taken the following action:-

1. New tee markers have been placed on each hole.
2. The white, yellow and red tees on each hole have been marked with new wooden tee markers indicating length and revised stroke index.
3. The stroke indices on some holes have been changed to accommodate the recent changes.
4. A new scorecard has been issued incorporating these changes. This card has space to mark a fourball. Click on the image to see a full size scorcard.

 Please be aware when playing stableford format or match play that the stroke indices have changed.

 Richard Joyce

Captain

27th July 2010.

Jeremy Wright MP took time this week to meet with Kenilworth Golf Club Directors Alan Pulham and Mike Hastings. They took Mr Wright on a tour of the course and clubhouse and used the opportunity to discuss local development and transport issues and how the Club fits into the local community. It was Mr Wright’s first visit to the Club and he is now aware of our major areas of concern and has promised to keep in contact over the coming months.

Despite claiming that he plays golf infrequently and badly Alan and Mike did their best to convince  Mr Wright that this would not be sufficient grounds to debar him from membership!

The English Golf Union and the English Woman's Golf Association are to launch a system that will identify the competitive nature of an individual. Approved and supported by CONGU the "Inactive / Active Handicap" will identify by the use of an indicator whether an individual has competed in qualifying competitions and as a result returned information on their playing ability.

The system will be launched in January 2010, but requires players to have submitted at least 3 qualifying scores (including Supplementary Scores, Extra Medals, 9 Hole Extra Medals and Away scores) during the calendar year 2009 if they wish to avoid an inactive handicap for 2010.

Qualifying scores of less than 3 are not permitted to be carried over from one year to the next (no topping up) e.g. 1 score in the current year and 2 in the next year. Non Returns in a qualifying competition will not be accepted as part of the 3 qualifying scores.

Those members not meeting the requirements will automatically be identified by with an "I" (inactive) on any handicap certificate or handicap list published by CONGU. This situation is reversed on a member fulfilling the requirements above. Example: 12(I).

An inactive (I) handicap can still be used for social golf and those competitions for which an active status is not an entry condition.

KGC have not yet decided on whether to impose an entry condition that requires an active handicap for specific competitions Club or Opens and none will apply during 2009. Irrespective of that decision all members will be allowed entry into qualifying competitions to provide as much opportunity for the removal of the inactive (I) handicap. 

KGC will be permitted to exempt players from an inactive (I) handicap for injury/illness that has prevented them submitting the required number of scores during the calendar year, this will also apply to transferring members who have submitted cards at another club and new members entering the club and are being issued with their first CONGU handicap.

Any member falling into these categories should advise M&C before

30th  November 2009.

 You may well be asking yourself what are the benefits of the system.

• Firstly it will enable event organisers to run competitions, both Club and Opens, without the fear of players entering with "false" handicaps.
• The system should encourage more individuals to submit qualify scores, thus improving the accuracy of member's handicaps throughout England.
• Following monitoring and review of the number of scores required to maintain an active handicap it may be possible to review Clause 25 (Lapsing of Handicaps) of the Unified Handicapping System.

 Further information is available on the EGU & EWGA website (www.englishgolfunion.org) or (www.englishwomensgolf.org)

or  email M&C -  comps@kenilworthgolfclub.co.uk

Match & Competitions

04/02/09