Captain’s Blog
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Ladies Section – Coffee Morning – Tuesday 14 Feb 2012
Ladies’ Section Coffee Morning This was held on Tuesday 14th February 2012. Members, friends and visitors from other local clubs gathered for coffee and cake and raised funds in aid of the Captains’ Charity "the Multiple Sclerosis Society." Stalls selling cakes and produce, books, DVD’s, and jigsaws, and a Raffle all helped to swell the profits. An extremely interesting and entertaining talk entitled “Rescuing a Walled Kitchen Garden” given by Mrs Karen Jacques of Sugnall Hall, ...
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Mail On Sunday Team Classic – Gents
The gents team have been drawn away to play Telford GC in the mail on sunday team classic on Saturday 3rd March 2012. Good luck to Andy Morgan (team captain), Nigel Saville, Jason Pethard, Mark Homer and Darren Pountney.
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Mail on Sunday Team Classic – Ladies
A team of 5 ladies travelled to South Staffs on Sunday 29th January to represent the Club in this competition. Unfortunately the course was all on temporary greens so they were unable to play the match and rescheduled for Friday 3rd February. Once again, the ladies travelled to South Staffs with a slightly different team due to work commitments but there was still 18 temporary greens in operation. The match had to be ...
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Burns Night 2012
Saturday 28 January 2012 What a fantastic night was had last night - great fun and great company. Many thanks for John and the social committee for making this event so successful. We started off the evening with Hugh Cooper and Alan Semple addressing the haggis, Mark Williams with his careful handling ensured the haggis was delivered in a timely manner. After a wonderful meal from Mischa ...
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President’s Plate Quarter Final 2nd Leg
The Hargrove B team travelled to Oswestry on Sunday in an attempt to defend the 2-1 advantage from the 1st leg. The team was at full strength boasting 3 players off 5 and 3 players off 6 so things looked good. The 1st pairing of Richy Craggs and Howard Wright just fell short in their match, closely followed by Phil Harris and Nick Jones narrowly missing out, and final pairing of Lee Buttery and Darren Pountney ...
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President’s Plate Quarter Final 1st Leg
What a fantastic result for the Hargrove B team today, fielding what was arguably a weakened squad through injuries and absence - missing the presence of team captain, Lee Buttery, Paul Coats through injury and Phil Harris through injury. Lilleshall Hall B 2 Oswestry B 1 and Oswestry are 1 hole up. We need to go to Oswestry on the 22nd January 2012 and get 1 1/2 ...
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Ken Smith Trophy – Friday, 6th January 2012
Ken Smith Trophy - Friday 06 January 2012 The team travelled away to Oswestry in what was to be a tough test for us as Oswestry boast lots of ex-county players in their line up. Our team went down 3-0 on the day but I believe that 2 of the matches were extremely close going to the last hole and gives us ...
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The Drive-In: Sunday 11th December 2011
Started off with an oyster stout to calm the nerves at 10.15am as the banter was going around the club very quickly. Would I block it, top it (Mr Vice Captain's thoughts !!) hook it, who knows. Luckily for me, straight down the middle like a bullet to comments from the hargrove team captain, where's that drive been all year !! Closely followed by Gill ...