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FREE PLEASE TAKE ONE GOLFAllyourlatestgolf news from across theNorth West,NERSorth Midlands&North Wales www.golferslocal.co.uk FEBRUARY, 2013 Players LeePark Bronte Lythampro Historic defythe stalwartgets backsnew hasaRoyal appointment snow – hisreward– scheme – sendoff – inWirral – Page4 Page9 Page13 Page15 Page30 OLYMPIC GLORYFOR WREXHAM TEEN WREXHAM teenager ChloeWilliams BY PAUL CHAPPLE has wonone of the firstgolf Olympic WelshGirlschampionmakeshistoryinAustralian gold medals formorethan 100 years at Chloe,the daughter of Wrexham club the Australian Youth Olympics Festival proPaul, plays full-time as an amateur in Sydney. andhopes to turnprofessional in 2015. YouthOlympicsFestivalwithdoublemedalhaul The 17-year-old Welsh Girls cham- Sheadmitted that the whole Olympic ex- pionadded to the Team GB gold with perience,whichincluded flying Down an individual bronze medal in the 72- Under aweek beforethe event to accli- hole event. matizeand practice,has whet her appetite Her closinground of 68 was jointly forwhen golf makes its returntothe the best of the dayand it catapulted her Olympics in Rio in 2016 after last being wayupthe leaderboardinto the medal playedaspartofthe Games in 1904. positions after she hadopened with “After this experience Iwould do ab- rounds of 74, 69 and 75. solutelyanything to be partofTeam GB “I hadnoidea Iwas in contentionfor again. To be picked forRio would be a amedal,”admittedChloe.“Imanaged dream come true.” to birdie the final hole and as it turned Ben Waterhouse,the Golf Unionof out, that was absolutelycrucial. We Wales director of performance,added: knewthe team were in agood position, “This is agreat result forChloe againsT but Icouldn’t believe it when Irealised manyofthe world’stop amateur golfers, I’dwon an individual medal.” another significant step forwardinher The victoryhas cast the youngster progress at the ageof17.” into the media spotlight back in North Team GB won gold in the aggregate Wales, including an appearance of team event –finishing 12 shots clear Welsh TV late last month. shots of Australia, while NewZealand “Thereaction’s been amazing since I tookbronze.Team GB were captained by gotback,”she said. “Myfamilythrew a Wales’sTegwen Matthews,the victorious surprise party forme, whichwas great.” Curtis Cup captain. WIN TICKETS TO THE INAUGURAL ChloeWilliams back at MANCHESTER GOLF SHOW–SEE PAGE 6 Wrexham with hermedals last month. 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Retail Park TEL:01244 681605 Send your stories to: [email protected] 3 GolfersLocal February 2013 Local News GOLFERS WELCOME to our Februaryedition of GolfersLocal. SWITCH TO CACK-HANDED We’vehad great fun bringing yoU allthe latest golfing news from across the region over the last four years, as well as providing the perfect platform forour advertisers to gettheir mes- sageacross to our golfing readers each PAYS DIVIDENDS FORJOHN andevery month. Thereare lots of fabulous features BY GEOFF GARNETT planned forthe year but we would love to include your club’s news too. If youhaveastoryfor us, whether AREDDISH Vale member has defied deadlyserious or hilariously funny, as allthe golf coaching manualsbyreducing long as it is legal, decent, honest and his handicap to single figures despite interesting,we’ll do our best to use it. playing cack-handed. Former amateur footballer John Send it to us at: GolfersLocal,Cherry Schofield tookupgolf 10 years agowhen Bank Barn, DarkLane,Burton, Nr he finally hung up his boots following a Rossett, Wrexham LL12 0AE. Or e-mail: [email protected]. successful career with BurnageMetroFC in the highlycompetitiveLancashireand EDITORIAL: Paul Chapple: CheshireAFL. 01978 449917 or 07956 033265 His natural sporting talent saw him re- E-mail: [email protected] duce his handicap to 14 despite the right- hander using the unorthodoxgripofleft ADVERTISING: hand belowright forall shots with his Callour friendly sales team on: irons. He continued to use amoreortho- 01978 449917. doxgripwhen hitting his woods, but in E-mail: [email protected] 2011 he tookthe plungetoplay“the WEBSITE: wrongway round”for allshotsand re- www.golferslocal.co.uk markablyhis game has gonefrom strength to strength. PRINTERS: In 2011hewon the singles knockout Mortons of Horncastle Ltd, Media at the Cheshire-based club and also the Centre,Morton Way, Horncastle, fourballknockout with Mike Radcliffe. Reddish Vale’sJohnSchofield with his cack-handed approach to gripping the club. LincolnshireLN9 6JR. Inspired by his successes, he continued the good work in 2012 and retained the from BillGraty,Darren Hardy and Craig John said: “I really can’texplain why “I willcertainlybelooking to retain the Youcan nowfollowuson fourballtrophyaswellaspartnering Tony Hillwith six other players in hot pursuit the cack-handed grip worksfor me,but I trophies and addmoretomycollection twitter at Barnes to victory in the foursomes. But on 67. am very comfortable with it, despite the this year.” www.twitter.com/golferslocal the big result came in the ‘major’compe- This dropped John’s handicap to eight odd looks Isome- titionfor the coveted Norman Pike Tro- and moregood playinearly autumn saw times getfromour phy. In aterrific finish, John posted a him finish last seasonwith ahandicap of club professional An- superbcardof74-9=65 to win by ashot just six. drew Myers. Advertise your club’s details in our Club Directory on page 38 forless than £5 per edition! Call 01978 449917 before Friday 1st March to be included in next month’s edition GolfersLocal February 2013 4 Send your stories to: [email protected] Local News HARDYGOLFERS DEFY THE ELEMENTS AT ECCLESTON LAST month’s snowy conditions didn’t BY PAUL CHAPPLE was abrilliant atmosphereabout the stop the members of EcclestonParkGolf clubhouse as people shared their stories Club,inRainhill, from gettingthe golf to enable playtocommence. of good and badshots, birdies and lost clubs out and having some fun out on the Headprofessional, Bryan Joelson- balls. The staff should be given great course. Mulhallsaid: “Asaclub,wewanted to do credit fortheir hardwork. IknowIam Fiftygolfers tookpartinthe club’s first something fun forour members as many not the only onewho is alreadylooking ever snowgolf competition–whichsoon of them were becoming frustrated at not forwardtothe next one.” became affectionatelyknown as ‘The being able to play. It was afantastic team Although it was certainlymoreabout Snowpen’. effortfromthe team to put the event on, the taking partthan the winning,there Acourse made up of eight shortpar and it was great to see so manypeople en- was atie forfirst place.Lee Webber and three holes of 100 yards or less was de- joying themselvesout on the course.” MarkReynolds controlled their yellow vised, and temporarytees and greens were After taking part, Collette Kane,Ec- balls the best, both posting excellent cleared of the snowbythe greenkeepers clestonPark’sladycaptain, said: “There scores of 27. Playersinaction at Eccleston Park during the cold snaplast month. DIDSBURYMEMBERS BEATTHE BIG FREEZE WHILEother courses were frozen out greens staff and the recovery powers of Didsburyassistant proDaveMack- tribute to the work being put in. after abitter dose of winter weather last theSouth Manchester-basedcourse,15 innon said: “While the bulk of courses “Wehaveapolicyof‘the course month, golfers were stillable to enjoya holes were playable forrollupgolf and in the region were shut, our members closes itself ’but this was nevergoing game at Didsbury. the full18holes were open foraction