Welcome to this week's newsletter bringing you all the latest news, including our guys putting up a good fight in the Crosby Beacon at West Lancs, a look at an innovatice approach to tackling slow play on the European Tour and of course all the latest competition winners from the week.

Enjoy the read.

Could this be the future?

There was a referee with each and every group on the European Tour last week for the Shot Clock masters at Diamond GC in Vienna. Players were allowed 40 seconds to play each shot, and if they were any longer they were penalised one shot each time. It was a good event and play was certainly quicker. Registering his maiden victory on tour was Finland’s Mikko Korhonen with a 16 under par total.

On the PGA Tour it was the St.Jude classic from Memphis; a warm up event before Shinnecock Hills this week. There were some big names in the field, none more so than Dustin Johnson who won at a canter this week finishing in style with a hole out 9 iron for an eagle 2 on the 72nd hole.

He has to fancy his chances come Sunday!

All the latest winners from the week!

There were once again almost 100 in the Trotter last week. Although this is still a competition, the introduction of Stableford vs Medal should speed things up. Pace of play was still slow at the end of the day, so please bear this in mind and try and keep the game moving in future events.To the scoring and, with a superb score of 43 points, the winner was Dave Stonley, but he needed a back 9 countback to beat Mike Thomas who also had 43, third with 42 was Leo Baldwin.

The gents were playing for the Gayton Estates Trophy on Saturday with glorious conditions all day long greeting the players.

The winner came from division two in the form of Mike Green who scored a superb net 67 off the white tees. Runner up to Mike in his division was Mark Fitzpatrick with 68, third was Russ Smith.In division one Josh Parry beat Adam Moore on countback with 70, Adam had the best Gross of the day with that 70, third with another 70 was Steve Skupski. The junior prize went to Lewis Body with 72.

The Seniors Open was a huge success once again on Monday. Congratulations to Steve Shepherd and his team of seniors, and ladies for making it all go so smoothly.

On Tuesday the ladies were out in force for the Stableford competition with the course was in glorious condition making scoring good.

Sarah Spencer topped division one with 37 points, runner up was Christina Hornsby with 36 and third with 35 was Trudi Harris. Helen Billington was the winner of division two with 34, second was Wendy Smith beating Tamara Allen on countback after they both had 33.

Deborah Mintowt made some recent early morning practice pay on her way to 37 and the division 3 win, three back in second was Thea Cornford and on the same score in third was Sandra Cohen. 37 was a popular winning score and it was Gill Syvret’s turn to score it in division four to win by 7! Pauline Norcott was second with 30 and third with the same score was Mary Holgate.

Well done also to Sara Spencer for recording the only ‘2’ of the day, coming at the 4th.

In the 9 hole event Rose Dhenin carded a 2 under par 20 points to beat Judith Whiteley by 2, in third with 17 was Beryl Chase.

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Your final chance...

There are still names left in both of our US Open draws. There will be separate prizes for both qualifiers and amateurs as these make up half of the field so don’t panic if you’ve not heard of the player you draw. The likes of Rory Mcilroy, Matsuyama & Justin Thomas are still to be drawn. The draw will continue through until the event finishes if all the names haven’t gone.

They put up a good fight!

Heswall once again entered a team into last week’s Crosby Beacon at West Lancs. This is a best 3 from 4 gross medal scores to count competition and, although we didn’t ‘bring home the beacon’, the team put up a good fight with scores of: Jason Dransfield 76, Jon Little 75, Dan Ince 78 and Carl Adams 79.