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I use Deezer to stream and for this year my top 6 streamed are: 1. Depeche Mode 2. Genesis 3. Pet Shop Boys 4. The Stranglers 5. Status Quo 6. The Warning

In our Sunday morning roll up I have played a couple of times with a lad who plays off +4. He was part of of the team that made our club England Golf champion club of 2023 and this year he was part of the Leicestershire team that won the England Golf county championship for the first time...

Start 18.0 End 22.5 High 23.0 (hit the hard cap - would have been over 25!!) Low 18.0 Best 20.5 Worst 40.4 (there's also a 40.3 and a 40.2). Scoring only 11 pts in a stableford at Sutton Coldfiled was the worst result, although there were a number not much better. 32 rounds on the handicap...

A number of the tees are moved forward for November to mid-March so the course is not currently rated in that period each year. We are hoping to have the winter course rated during 2026 so cards can be put in during the winter in future years.

Played there a couple of months ago and enjoyed the course after getting soaked for the first four holes. It was an open and included was a roast beef dinner and lemon tart so they looked after us well. Well worth a visit.

Played a few opens this year: Oakmere Park Kings Norton Sutton Coldfield Bloxwich Shirley Burnham & Berrow Robin Hood Birstall Edgbaston Chesterfield Thorpe Wood Collingtree Park Brocton Hall Silloth on Solway Ferndown Olton Blankney (only time in the prizes, betterball 2nd place) Kenilworth...

Agreed re Sandwell. The recent one that sticks in my mind is Silloth-on-Solway which I played a month ago. The course itself is great, but it feels like you are driving into an industrial area.

At Sandwell Park it was organised by Golf Pairs, so not the responsibility of the club. At Kenilworth I went back to the clubhouse to ask if the other pair had signed in, but with a shotgun start there simply wasn't time for them to do anything. If the pair that didn't turn up had called the...

A few weeks ago I played in a Golf Pairs competition at Sandwell Park where the pair we were playing alongside walked up to us after finishing the 12th hole and advised that they had had enough and were just going to go for a drink. Put us down for six blobs for the remianing holes they said...

Past three days played three courses up in the Wirral. Caldy, Heswall and Wallasey. Rain and wind on day one, just stong wind on the last two. The first two were nice courses, both with some parkland style holes and some more exposed by the Dee Estury. Wallasey was another level though, pure...

You never know how you are going to get on. Played in a betterball with my usual PP less than two weeks ago at Olton and we finished last with 31 pts. Our next open competition was today at Blankney. 43 pts and second place!

I pay for the same reason

Played Silloth for the first time yesterday in their Senior's Open. What a beautiful course and well worth making an effort to go and play their if you have not been before. The less said about my golf the better.

Open today at Thorpe Wood, Peterborough. For the first 8 holes continued with my recent abysmal form. It was a medal, but to that point would have scored just 5pts in a stableford. Something then flipped and I started striking the ball really well and the confidence came back. For the next 9...

Well played Phil. Sadly I am going in the opposite direction. 14 months ago my HI was at a low of 16.1. It is today 20.2 and by Sunday it could be close to 22.0 as my good scores are now dropping off.