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Celia says “Sorry” but she can’t remember who she played from Ellesmere! She thinks it must be your good self. Celia’s about 5’ 1/2” ”high” and 100 lbs with all her waterproofs on! I’ve just gone past 80 and whilst I cant mention Celia’s age I can say that I was 25 when we married and she was...

Morning Louise, “our” Travellers keep stopping buy, keeps the bailiffs busy! Our “Directors” don’t like making commitment to spending the “necessary” to close the entrance down! Committed to keeping cost down for the “sake of the members”! Celia tells me she would rather play Ellesmere at...

Hi Slab - I introduced the topic, not because I was concerned about some level of negligence on behalf of Clubs, rather that it is my opinion that Golf Clubs may serve their Members better when they hold on to what, in my 70 year experience of memberships, seems to me, a better way to do things...

The simple answer is that a healthy golf club and indeed a healthy sport in general needs to have a structure that encourages participation at all levels of ability. If you remove any competitive sector you will weaken the whole! Are not at least some of the Counties actively encouraging the...

Sorry, you’ve lost me round about the 1st tee - are you saying that having an aspiration to improve at golf equates to an unacceptable level of “elitism”? GB

Thanks for your contribution Louise, enjoy the rest of the season at Ellesmere G.C. Maybe see you next season in the Bell Cup at Leyland!! Graham Blades

Louise, thanks for your response. The last comp I was referring to was the Lancashire County Ladies Scratch Shield at Stand GC. I’m not in any way having a go at Lancashire Ladies Golf who, to me, seem to work very hard at promoting women’s golf! Royal Birkdale won the Shield this year and...

I suspect players of my vintage would say pra rising and measuring yourself against better players used to suffice! I certainly got into single figures because I had the advantage of playing regularly with better golfers!

Golf / Scratch golf for the “lowest“ handicappers? Watching my wife playing throughout the Competition and then in the Finals Day, of Lancashire County Ladies Golf, Scratch Competition, this past year, it struck me that many of the Club’s competing, including my wife’s, did not have many...