Latest news; on and off the course
February 2011
First team win of the Season
"Team Wychwood" started the team season with a bang, beating Trentham Golf Club 4-1 in the first round of the Daily Mail classic. This is a singles team competition and the team of Paul Siviter, Nick Bridgewood, Gary Pickford, Nick Lea and Bob Aston produced a good home win in very trying conditions. The team are looking forward to the next round and hope for a home draw.
January 2011
Winter League Round 5
After a number of weeks without Golf due to the Weather, Round 5 of the Winter League took place, in very wet and windy conditions. With 20 pairs braving the elements (only 18 pairs completing 18 holes Mr Captain!!!) Another fine performance from Nick Bridgwood and Craig Collins with 40 points, with Messrs Hall and Brooks 1 point further back and Roberts and Narraway with 38 beating the current league leaders Pickford and Aspinall on Countback for 3rd Place. With only 1 round to complete, the league table is led by Pickford and Aspinall on 158 points with Collins and Broster in second and Siviter and Pughe in 3rd. With the Top 16 to qualify for the knockout stages there are still places to fight for. Full table available in Competitions Section
Captains Drive In!
A number of hardy members joined the Captain in the tradtional Drive In Competition followed in by his formal Drivng in Ceremony. Despite his tale of a 300 yard drive up the 18th, having reverted to driving in down the 1st he managed a respectable Drive of 207 yards, A video of the momentous occasion will be posted soon
Happy New Year
Happy New Year to all members of Wychwood Park Golf club. Let's look forward to a great golfing year under the stewardship of this years Captain Martin Wainman, He is looking to organise a number of additional events this year, especially a special golfing trip to Portugal. Watch this space for further news!
December 2010
New Captain
On Saturday, 4th December, the Captaincy was handed over to Martin Wainman, who has big plans for 2011 (speech will be published), he also announced that Paul Stubbs will be his Vice Captain. Will Clayton stepped down as Honorary Secretary, a role he has filled expertly for the past 4 years. He will be replaced by Paul Siviter, who moves from Competitions.
John Aspinall will take over as Competitions Secretary, with Mark Hallam taking over the Handicap Secretary position.
There are two additional positions that Martin wishes to fill. A Greens Secretary, to work closley with the Green Keeping staff and Devere and a Social Secretary to help organise some of the events that Martin wants to see take place next year.
If anyone is interested, please make yourself know via the Members Forum, or by seeking out a committee member.
November 2010
Winter League Tables
The Winter League tables are now posted on the website under the competitions section. After 3 rounds, messrs Aspinall and Pickford still lead with ascore of 41 to add the their 40 and 39, but there is a long way to go. The latest round was won by Nick Bridgford and Craig Collins with a great score of 46 points!!! (Mr Stubbs......take a look at the Handicaps!!!!
Presidents Day
Over 80 members and guests enjoyed the dry wintery conditions in this year's Presidents day. Some fine scores were returned, but the winners turned out to be Neil Cox and his guest, Ex Wychood Park Captain, Mr Laurie Cole. The Shotgun start worked really well and with everyone finishing at roughly the same time, the atmosphere in the clubhouse was buzzing.
To cap the day off, we also congratulated Norman Sleeth on his "hole in one" on the 2nd hole and as is traditional, Norman bought everyone a drink. Good job you're insured norman!!! Unfortunatley for Norman, he lost the ball on the next hole!!!
February 2011
First team win of the Season
"Team Wychwood" started the team season with a bang, beating Trentham Golf Club 4-1 in the first round of the Daily Mail classic. This is a singles team competition and the team of Paul Siviter, Nick Bridgewood, Gary Pickford, Nick Lea and Bob Aston produced a good home win in very trying conditions. The team are looking forward to the next round and hope for a home draw.
First team win of the Season
"Team Wychwood" started the team season with a bang, beating Trentham Golf Club 4-1 in the first round of the Daily Mail classic. This is a singles team competition and the team of Paul Siviter, Nick Bridgewood, Gary Pickford, Nick Lea and Bob Aston produced a good home win in very trying conditions. The team are looking forward to the next round and hope for a home draw.
January 2011
Winter League Round 5
After a number of weeks without Golf due to the Weather, Round 5 of the Winter League took place, in very wet and windy conditions. With 20 pairs braving the elements (only 18 pairs completing 18 holes Mr Captain!!!) Another fine performance from Nick Bridgwood and Craig Collins with 40 points, with Messrs Hall and Brooks 1 point further back and Roberts and Narraway with 38 beating the current league leaders Pickford and Aspinall on Countback for 3rd Place. With only 1 round to complete, the league table is led by Pickford and Aspinall on 158 points with Collins and Broster in second and Siviter and Pughe in 3rd. With the Top 16 to qualify for the knockout stages there are still places to fight for. Full table available in Competitions Section
Captains Drive In!
A number of hardy members joined the Captain in the tradtional Drive In Competition followed in by his formal Drivng in Ceremony. Despite his tale of a 300 yard drive up the 18th, having reverted to driving in down the 1st he managed a respectable Drive of 207 yards, A video of the momentous occasion will be posted soon
Winter League Round 5
After a number of weeks without Golf due to the Weather, Round 5 of the Winter League took place, in very wet and windy conditions. With 20 pairs braving the elements (only 18 pairs completing 18 holes Mr Captain!!!) Another fine performance from Nick Bridgwood and Craig Collins with 40 points, with Messrs Hall and Brooks 1 point further back and Roberts and Narraway with 38 beating the current league leaders Pickford and Aspinall on Countback for 3rd Place. With only 1 round to complete, the league table is led by Pickford and Aspinall on 158 points with Collins and Broster in second and Siviter and Pughe in 3rd. With the Top 16 to qualify for the knockout stages there are still places to fight for. Full table available in Competitions Section
Happy New Year
Happy New Year to all members of Wychwood Park Golf club. Let's look forward to a great golfing year under the stewardship of this years Captain Martin Wainman, He is looking to organise a number of additional events this year, especially a special golfing trip to Portugal. Watch this space for further news!
December 2010
New Captain
On Saturday, 4th December, the Captaincy was handed over to Martin Wainman, who has big plans for 2011 (speech will be published), he also announced that Paul Stubbs will be his Vice Captain. Will Clayton stepped down as Honorary Secretary, a role he has filled expertly for the past 4 years. He will be replaced by Paul Siviter, who moves from Competitions.
John Aspinall will take over as Competitions Secretary, with Mark Hallam taking over the Handicap Secretary position.
There are two additional positions that Martin wishes to fill. A Greens Secretary, to work closley with the Green Keeping staff and Devere and a Social Secretary to help organise some of the events that Martin wants to see take place next year.
If anyone is interested, please make yourself know via the Members Forum, or by seeking out a committee member.
October 2010
Winter League Tables
The Winter League tables are now posted on the website under the competitions section. After 2 rounds, messrs Aspinall and Pickford lead with scored of 40 and 39, but there is a long way to go.
Weston Challenge Victory!
The Weston Challenge was contested on the 17th October with teams made up of the Committees and Team Members of both Wychwood Park and Gorsty Hill contesting for the Weston Challenge Trophy! Gorsty won the trophy for the first time last year and the Wychwood team were keen to get it back!
The match was contested over the front nine of Wychwood and then the Front nine of Gorsty Hill
This year included two additional pairings of Ladies.
The final result was a 6-2 victory for Wychwood Park
The results were:
Paul Siviter & John Charlton won 7&6, Paul Price & Bob Aston won 3&2, Chris Pughe & Steve Cooke won 3&2, Nigel Edwards & Ben Hallam lost 3&2, Keith Tipping and Jeff Dean lost 3&2 and Martin Wainman and Paul Stubbs won 3&2,
Elaine Stubbs and Michelle Smith won 8&6 and Steph Ewards & Emma Szymura won 7&6.
Pressure now on for Martin Wainman to retain the trophy!!!
JULY 2010
Club Championship
This years Club Championship saw two days of punishment for most members who entered, playing off the Blue tees was difficult to say the least, but some good performances were in evidence with Jason Timis leading at the halfway stage with a 74. The cut was made at 90 and the top 32 went out in reverse order with Jason repeating his first round 74 for a 148 total. Mike Harrington who had a fine 70 to go with his first round 80 was second.
The Handicap Cup was won by Tony Welburn with Kristian Clowes in runner up spot.
Congratulations to everyone who took part and managed to complete the 36 holes intact!!!
JUNE 2010
Joint Captains Day Winners
A fantastic day was enjoyed by over 100 Gents and Lady members on Saturday 5th June with the first group setting out at 7:30am and the last finishing at 7:30pm. The weather was perfect, course was in as best condition as possible and the course was, for once, possible beaten. Nearly 40 of the gents scored 36 points or more with the winning core of 42 points from Ian Ellis. Gary Leese was 2nd with 41 points on count back from Geoff Marchant.
The Ladies event was won by Emma Szymura with a Ladies Course record of 76.
Paul and Elaine would like to thank everyone who supported the day and the "Hope for Heroes" Charity.
Off to Pastures New!
Our Handicap Secretary, Wes Jones is moving out of the area and will be leaving the club in the next week or so.
I would like to thank Wes for his hard work since taking on the role of handicap secretary and helping with this website and for providing many moments of entertainment on and off the golf course.
Best of luck for the future and don't forget to get back for the opens and invitations!
We have managed to secure the services of Paul Stubbs to take over from Wes, so he will hopefully take great pleasure in helping you to manage your handicaps!!!
At last.......a Vice Captain
After an exhaustive search and tough selection process, I am happy to announce that we have appointed a Vice Captain for 2010 and obviously the captain Elect for 2011.
Martin Wainman has agreed to step forward for the role and I am already looking forward to working with him for the remainder of my tenure as Captain and to support him through to the commencement of his year!
For those of you who don't currently know Martin....................you will soon!!!