Good Afternoon,

Welcome to this week's newsletter with all the latest news from Hornsea Golf Club.

Enjoy the read.

Stretton's news

So in last weeks newsletter I put up a couple of pictures of how the course was 5 years ago, under water and 7 years ago under snow. Well how that has come back to bite me with us having so much rain, the course became saturated followed by thick snow last Thursday that didn’t really clear until Sunday and left all I can describe as a wet boggy mess when it did go.

I went out on the course a number of times and put videos on Twitter and Facebook to try and keep you all informed as I know you all want to be out golfing, but trust me it was nowhere near playable at all over last weekend. This dry spell has helped a little though and we are now getting back to normal. The slightest bit of rain though will set us back again. Here are a few pictures I took last week.

Tiger’s Return

So after another long layoff through injury Tiger is back playing competitive golf and for the few bits I saw over last weekend at times, he looked very impressive indeed. At times his short game looked a little suspect, but he also played a few sublime chips too. It was his long game to me though that looked amazing. He must be feeling so much better as some of the clubhead speed he was creating was back to the Tiger of old.

Club Presentation Event

This Sunday it would be good to see the clubhouse full as we celebrate all our trophy winners from this past year. We shall be starting at 4pm and trophies will be presented to the Juniors, Ladies, Seniors and Gents sections of our Club. It usually lasts for just over an hour.

Even if you have not won anything please come along and support all this year’s winners. It would be great to see the clubhouse full.

Ladies Christmas Competition

On Tuesday the Hornsea ladies held a Christmas competition between them. It was great to see so many Christmas sweaters, lights on hats and other Christmas themed clothing.

Quiet week

It has been a quiet week with no competitions being played due to the course been closed.

Bunker Works

The very wet and then snowy conditions as the main work was completed on the bunker work has meant that some areas around the 2nd are a bit of a mess where the dumper was traveling back and forth. Please note if you do hit your ball into any of these areas, we do have a local rule to cover it. Once things dry out more turf will be put down to finish these areas.

Click here to see the local rule.

Talking of the bunker works that have now been ongoing for a number of years. The only holes left to do to complete the Swan Report are the 6th, 10th, 11th and 14th. I did find it amusing last week when a member said to me that there was no way he would be able to reach the green from the fairway bunker on the 15th. With this in mind I thought you would all like to read a quick comment from a very talented golfer from years gone by.

As Old Tom Morris used to say; “bunkers are not a place of pleasure, they’re for punishment and repentance.”

Upcoming Competitions 

Saturday 9th December – Pro’s Stableford
Sunday 10th December – Individual Stableford including Mark Hurn Qualifier
Thursday 14th December – Mid Week Stableford

Christmas And New Year’s Eve Am Ams

Can I thank those that have filled in the time sheets with the names of who are playing. There are still quite a few that have not done so though.

Can you please do this next time you are at the club or ring us so we can add the names.

Paul Gibson Blog

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