Small gallery of Swashies at the Turkey Trot courtesy of Phil
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Archives for November 2018
A Soggy 2018 Turkey Trot
After a damp start, Saturday's round of the Ryder Cup matches turned out to be a mild Autumn day and the better of the weekend. Sunday's Turkey Trot was meant to be cloudy but remain dry. Some chance! Persistent rain throughout the day! Hopes were sadly high that the rain would disappear as we left the warm clubhouse and ...
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Northern Petal takes Mid November Stableford
Weather last weekend was great for mid November, bright breezy and cool although very soft underfoot... and unbeknownst to us the greens had been tined during the week. So greens the were slow together with the morning dew and very bobbly given the tining. From the footprints around the green, I assume that being so soft meant they ...
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Surrey National wins at Swinley in the Chamber of Commerce
After the mess of rain and howling wind on Wednesday, Thursday turned out to be a fantastic Autumn day at the extremely nice Swinley Golf Club near Ascot. Usual SN faces were out for the Surrey Chamber of Commerce's November fixture - Backdoor was out suffering with his dodgy back, but myself, Mr Adams, Yeti, Phil, Jim and Sid Bailey all up ...
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Look after your course
We were right behind a (slow) society on Sunday - really sad to see pitchmarks and massive, untended divots on several fairways.
Hardly rocket science, but winter conditions = soft course. Duh.
Sadly its it's not just play n' players who treat the course badly - hope everyone can take more care looking after the course to help out the greenkeepers ...
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