Spaces at Augusta of the North – Preston 12th June!

Maxitours at heavenly Helsby

The very peaceful, easy walking Helsby course is dotted with mature oak trees. The front nine was designed by five-time Open champion James Braid in 1936. The back nine opened in 1968. Both nines are now maturing superbly and Helsby’s reputation as a class golf venue is growing all the time. This is now a classic Cheshire course and all my players loved it out there.
The elevated lounge is also a great place to sit and hand scorecards out whilst also allowing me to watch a few of my players swings in my quieter moments.
Thanks to Kieran and his terrific team for looking after us so well today.

I had players from as far North as Preston and from as far South as Staffordshire playing.
Everyone of them was talking about last nights’ intense thunderstorm. Ian Snape was the only player who had no idea what I was talking about as he slept right through it.
One unnamed player said he was actually quite scared as the thunder crashed all around him in the middle of the night.
‘Did you cuddle up to your wife for reassurance?’ I asked.
‘It would take more than a thunderstorm for that to happen’ He replied with a straight face.

The hot weather got me talking about ice cream and Martin Williams told me he worked for a huge company that supplied ice cream all over the world. They manufactured all sorts of ice cream from really cheap supermarket stuff to high quality Hagen Das. He told me the heavier the ice cream the better it is. They even pump air into the cheap stuff to fill it out.
‘Go for the heavy stuff.’ Was his advice today. Fascinating.

It is great to see nice guy Graham Davenport back playing golf after his recent eye operation. He was hoping it would help his golf improve because he’s been using his bad eyesight as an excuse for many years. Unfortunately, his playing partners informed me that its not made a blind bit of difference.

In todays event ‘husband of the year ‘ Gary Kirkham’s team finished mid table with 76 points. He had to rush home after play to spend even more time with his wife.

It was close at the top of the leaderboard.
Eaton’s Jonty Little, John Jones, Bob Clark and Richard Hall had a solid 82 points to finish 4th
Tony O Gara were never going to win a card play off after they followed 48 points on the front nine with 35 on the tougher back nine to finish 3rd . The Wychwood team of Paul and Colin Price, Ian Snape and Dave Smalley also scored 83 with 37 on their back nine to take 2nd.

Winning with 84 points was Maxitours legend Colin Roberts, Austin Salmon, Steve Jones and Ian Mackenzie. They were yet another team to have a vastly superior front nine which was eight shots better than their back nine. They will be delighted to win with 84 points. Jones’ birdie on the tough 17th was crucial.

There was actually plenty of magic on the 17th hole. Tony Leigh holed his 9 iron for 4 points and John Colquitt holed his fairway wood for 5 points. Excellent.

Well played everyone. What a great day.

Tim

2’s £237.50 6 pro v1 7 taylor made TP5 14 Srixon AD333

Ian Snape x2! Jonny Reeves Paul Salt Philip Cort James Kirkwood Martin Williams Ian King Chris Davies
Nearest the Pin 11th Lee Tilley Dozen AD333
Nearest the pin 18th Ian King Dozen AD333

Tim Maxwell
Advanced PGA Professional
The Knutsford Golf Club
07810 887636

*Room for 2 teams at beautiful Helsby in the heart of Cheshire next Thursday.

Maxitours at gorgeous Hazel Grove

Hazel Grove was the latest fantastic venue on Maxitours summer schedule.

It was great to see everyone playing in tee shirts once again as the first signs of the inbound heatwave hit Stockport.
There were plenty of compliments throughout the day for the stunning golf course.

I love this club, the members are incredibly friendly, and they can’t do enough to help. The ladies section ensure that the Charity half way house is always open for us. I even get a piece of hand delivered cake from Mags at the end of the day. What a club. Thank you Hazel Grove.
Head pro Matt Davies is also brilliant and right at the top of his game.

We’ve all seen clips on youtube showing daft dogs with big sticks trying to get through small doorways. Colin Roberts took it to a new level when he walked off the 3rd green holding the flag and only realised he was holding it when it jammed as he was getting in his buggy thirty yards away.

Attractive Janet Heywood and Jacqui Lee were left to play with John Nuttall and Pete Fotheringham whilst their husbands Steve and Chris were both away enjoying expensive golf trips.
After a drink in the Clubhouse there was talk of them both going out tonight. They will be passing Bredbury Hall nightclub on the way home. I don’t want to spoil your golf Steve and Chris but Thursday always used to be ‘grab a granny’ night when I went there in the early ninety’s. Just saying….

The scoring was tough as the famous Hazel Grove greens got the better of a few teams.
Nathan Mills team hit the ball well but also struggled on the greens. Team mate John Barnes walked past my registration desk and tripped up on the carpet spilling his beer.
‘I even misread the floor’ He laughed ‘I thought it was uphill.’

Third place went to Gary Neiles, John McGee, James Connor and John Colquitt with just 79 points.
The Yorkshire quartet of Rob Platt Darren Wilson, Tim Barstow and Tom Broadhead took Second place with 80 points.

Winning were the Ashton on Makerfield team of retired serviceman and all round nice guy Jimmy McEwan, Mark Holland, and father and son Tony and Ben Hope. It is quite confusing as Ben looks older than his Dad but the duo both picked up 3 points on the tough closing hole to seal the victory in style.

Well played chaps.
See you next week. Bring your suncream.
Tim
Nearest the pin 11th Darren Wilson Dozen AD333
Nearest the pin 13th Glen Marshall Dozen AD333

2’s £210 5 pro v1 6 tp5 or 12 srixon AD333 per two
Tony Hope Andy Parrington James Keelan Rob Veitch Chris Brierley Glen Marshall Richard Parlmer Kev Sharratt Janet Heywood Gary Myerscough Dan Moss

Helsby Golf Club Thursday 28th May
9.24 Jon Hudson x4
9.33 Colin Roberts x4
9.42 Andy Taylor x4
9.51 Dave Cooper x4
10.00 Jim Clarke x4
10.09 Ian King x4
10.18 Mick Mahon x4
10.27 Chris Adams x4
10.36 Steve Aspinall x4
10.45 Sam Leach x4
10.54 Nigel Ashton x4
11.03 Lewis Marland x4
11.12 Paul Woods x4
11.21 Paul Price x4
11.30 Martin Williams x4
11.39 Tony O’Gara x4
11.48 Dave More O Farrell x4
11.57 Paul Salt x4
11.02 Paul Salt2 x4
12.06 Jimmy McEwan x4
12.15 Gary Neiles x4
12.24 Neil Davies x4
12.33 Neil Davies x4
12.42 Andie Frazer x4
12.51 Geoff Bickerton x4
1.00 Lee Tilley x4
1.09 Richard Blackwell x4
1.18 Simon Raine x4
1.27 Gary Leek x4
1.36 John Webb x4
1.45 Peter Maher x4
1.54 Chris Ravenscroft x4
2.03 Peter Walters x4
2.12
2.21 Jack Coleman x4
2.30 Jon Roland x4
2.39 Charles McKinnon x4
2.48 Steve Heywood x4
2.57

Tim Maxwell
Advanced PGA Professional
The Knutsford Golf Club
07810 887636

*TEAM NEEDED TO PLAY WITH ME IN THE EATON CHARITY PRO AM 4TH JUNE- MESSAGE ME IF YOU ARE KEEN! – 2 players required or a team of 3 to join me

*Room for teams at Hazel Grove next Thursday

The Clarion Wealth Management Winter Order of Merit

Congratulations to Prestbury’s two handicapper Mark Richardson on winning the Clarion Wealth Management Winter Order of Merit
Ever-present and incredibly likeable Mark just pipped talented team mate Steve Booth by six points.
Tytheringtons Paul Calnan takes third spot as all three players make their first appearance in the end of season top ten rankings.

Well played everyone!
Thanks for your support.

Tim

1 Mark Richardson 66 Taylor made Spider putter
2 Steve Booth 60 Cleveland Wedge
3 Paul Calnan 58 FJ Quilted top
4 Steve Austin 50 Dozen Srixon Z Star
4 Jim Caldwell 50 Dozen Srixon Z Star
4 Andy Hamlett 50 Dozen Srixon Z Star
7 Phil Dickens 46 Doz AD333
8 Geoff Bickerton 44 Doz AD333
8 Malcolm Kendrick 44 Doz AD333
8 John Roome 44 Doz Ad333
11 Richard Blackwell 42
11 Chris Jackson 42
13 Steve Best 38
13 Paul Robinson 38
15 Chris Adams 36
15 James Connor 36
15 Gary Neiles 36
15 Moby Rawthore 36
19 John Cross 34
19 Howard Kelly 34
19 Pete Norbury 34
19 Martin Prescott 34
19 Dave Rhodes 34
24 Gary Smith 32
25 Paul Woods 30
26 Neil Evans 28
26 Tony Hope 28
26 Tim Redditt 28
26 Andy Taylor 28
30 Ted Lacey 26
30 John Lee 26
32 Jag Bhakar 24
32 John Colquitt 24
32 Gavin Connor 24
32 Mark Hallam 24
32 Colin Roberts 24
32 Lee Tilley 24
38 Andie Frazer 23
39 Archie Higgins 22
39 John Hilton 22
39 Ian Hogg 22
39 Mick Jones 22
39 Dave More O’Farrell 22
39 Phil Robinson 22
39 Danny Swarsbrick 22
39 Steve Williams 22
47 Dave Blood 20
47 Jim Clarke 20
47 Jimmy Cox 20
47 Norrie Erwin 20
47 Graham Jackson 20
47 Liam Pilkington 20
47 Steve Proffitt 20
54 Andrew Aherne 18
54 Dave Conville 18
54 John Croxford 18
54 Dave Griffiths 18
54 Paul McCallum 18
59 Gareth Bradley 17
60 Andy Bradshaw 16
60 Julian Brindley 16
60 Matt Ford 16
60 Nick Lea 16
60 Paul Price 16
65 Simon Ashton 14
65 Nick Coleman 14
65 Peter Fildes 14
65 Steve Jenkinson 14
65 Nigel Jenkins 14
65 Tony O’Gara 14
71 Don Bailey 12
71 Janette Bickerton 12
71 Jacqui Bickerton 12
71 Steve Bracken 12
71 Martin Bray 12
71 Barry Caldwell 12
71 Lee Charnley 12
71 Pascual Dejuan 12
71 John Dempsey 12
71 Pete Dobson 12
71 Nigel Edwards 12
71 Paul Fairhurst 12
71 Dave Goodwin 12
71 Ben Hardman 12
71 Andrew Jennings 12
71 Greg Magenheimer 12
71 Steve Marshall 12
71 Nigel Milroy 12
71 Pete Moores 12
71 Gill Morris 12
71 Peter Moss 12
71 Gary Myrescough 12
71 Warren Newton 12
71 Roger Percival 12
71 Steve Perrett 12
71 Andy Russell 12
71 Dave Sarsfield 12
71 Oliver Scopes 12
71 Dave Shuttleworth 12
71 John Simpson 12
71 Michael Slater 12
71 Ian Snape 12
71 Andy Stickley 12
71 Gary Titchen 12
71 Richard Williamson 12
106 Chris Michelson 11
106 Paul Yearsley 11
108 Tony Baldwin 10
108 Alan Baxter 10
108 Sam Beverley 10
108 Richard Booth 6
108 Chris Bracchi 10
108 Andrew Coleman 10
108 Gary Corbett 10
108 Andrew Deme (Dean) 10
108 Munro Donald 10
108 Neil Evans 10
108 Andy Faulkner 10
108 Lee Fellows 10
108 Alan Gale 10
108 Nick Gamble 10
108 Rhoddri Giggs 10
108 Dave Greenwood 10
108 Brian Greenbank 10
108 Gary Hankinson 10
108 Alistair Holloway 10
108 Ben Hope 10
108 Paul Kelly 10
108 Gary Leek 10
108 Guy Levers 10
108 Mick Mahon 10
108 Dave Marchant 10
108 Lewis Marland 10
108 Carl Marginson 10
108 Jimmy McEwan 10
108 Martyn Molyneaux 10
108 Dan Moss 10
108 Dave Mulligan 10
108 Gary Owen 10
108 Richard Palmer 10
108 Rob Price 10
108 Dave Rodwell 10
108 Andy Sandham 10
108 Alan Scott 10
108 Peter Sparkes 10
108 Mal Thompson 10
108 Lyndon Witter 10
148 Alan Vaughan 9
149 Paul Barton 8
149 Ray Cornwall 8
149 Kevin Donnelly 8
149 Steve Ellis 8
149 Graham Foster 8
149 Vernon Hayes 8
149 Phil Hilton 8
149 Dave Hurst 8
149 Steve Jones 8
149 Ian King 8
149 Dom McGrath 8
149 Dan McIntyre 8
149 Andy Myers 8
149 Kevin Norton 8
149 Andy Parrington 8
149 Mark Pretty 8
149 Paul Ralph 8
149 Mike Roberts 8
149 Austin Salmon 8
149 Ian Sampson 8
149 John Selby 8
149 Neil Shawcross 8
149 Wayne Shillito 8
149 John Stanworth 8
149 Mark Tighe 8
149 Mike Twiley 8
149 Rob Veitch 8
149 Martin Wainman 8
149 Keith White 8
149 Simon Wilkinson 8
149 Garry Winterburn 8
149 Frankie Wood 8
149 Mike Wood 8
182 Dave Mason 7
183 Andy Adshead 6
183 Nigel Ashton 6
183 Pete Atherton (Prestbury) 6
183 Alaine Britton 6
183 Dave Britton 6
183 Colin Bryan 6
183 James Cash 6
183 Lee Compton 6
183 Pete Drinkwater 6
183 Paul Fell 6
183 Brian Fisher 6
183 Paul Foster 6
183 Mike Harrop 6
183 Steve Heywood 6
183 Janet Heywood 6
183 Joe Kirwan 6
183 Tom Kirton 6
183 Neale Laurent 6
183 Mark Lane 6
183 Jonty Little 6
183 Mike Lowe 6
183 Austin McBride 6
183 Steve Mooney 6
183 John Owen 6
183 David Parry 6
183 Mark Stevens 6
183 Dawn Stevens 6
183 Janet Wakefield 6
183 Richard Wakefield 6
212 Rob Cressey 5
212 Mike Hill 5
214 Sean Askham 4
214 Jason Atherton 4
214 John Atkin 4
214 Lee Bailey 4
214 Duncan Bagshaw 4
214 Stuart Blakeway 4
214 Andy Buckley 4
214 Mark Buckley 4
214 Phil Chadwick 4
214 Pete Clark 4
214 Iain Cole 4
214 Trish Cross 4
214 Steve Dow 4
214 Pete Fotheringham 4
214 David Griffin 4
214 John Jones 4
214 Arron Jones 4
214 David Kelly 4
214 John Simons 4
214 Alan Stewart 4
214 Josh Street 4
214 Joanne Taylor 4
214 Ray Tennant 4
214 Charlie Watts 4
214 David Wilkinson 4
214 Nathan Woodbine 4
214 Ste Woods 4
244 Rob Blain 3
244 Andy Corner 3
246 Steve Ashworth 2
246 Matt Barrett 2
246 Simon Bolam 2
246 Paul Brooks 2
246 John Boswell 2
246 Dave Cooper 2
246 Neil Davies 2
246 Tom Faulkner 2
246 Ian Fensom 2
246 Dylan Firth 2
246 Martin Firth 2
246 Jon Gallagher 2
246 Mickey Gray 2
246 Kev Hart 2
246 Dave Haycock 2
246 Martin Keates 2
246 Paul Manning 2
246 Andy Oakes 2
246 Neil Pemberton 2
246 Mike Proctor 2
246 Jerry Salmon 2
246 Kev Sharratt 2
246 Steve Swash 2
246 Harvey Taylor 2
246 Dave Thomas 2
246 Paul Unwin 2
246 Kevin Warburton 2
246 Richard White 2
246 Mike White 2
246 Stuart Wilson 2
246 Paul Woodbine 2
246 John Woosey 2
278 Neil Griffiths 1
278 Cath Rawthore 1

Tim Maxwell
Advanced PGA Professional
The Knutsford Golf Club
07810 887636

Tim Maxwell
Advanced PGA Professional
The Knutsford Golf Club
07810 887636

Room for 1 team at Bramall Park next week.
Maxitours at brilliant Bolton Old Links

Bolton Old Links Golf course just gets better and better.

New bunkers have been skilfully added, green surfaces are the best in Lancashire and the tees are immaculate. This place is class.
Everyone enjoyed playing this lovely Mackenzie Classic as the Bolton Chairman Steve Bryan and Pro Sean Owen continue to ensure that Bolton Old Links is the best inland course in Lancashire.

Liz the catering manager is also class. She can’t do enough and wouldn’t charge me for my refreshments today. Incredible hospitality. Thank you.

The excellent greens got the better of lots of teams – I don’t think I’ve ever had so many teams who found putting surfaces so tough to read.
‘They were superb but we just couldn’t read them. They are so tricky’ Reported single figure Russ Sollitt.

The Multi millionaire old Saddleworth team play the young Saddleworth lads team for a fiver each week at Maxitours events. Nathan Mills is a great young lad and works his socks off in all weathers on his market stall. He hands his hard-earned money over to the fat cats in the pub after play each week. Today the teams were tied and Nathan nearly broke down with relief when he realised he had won the card play off.
‘I can feed my wife tonight’ He admitted.

Nigel Ashton told me that the first time he played here was in a pairs event in 2018. He was drawn with Alex Fitzpatrick and his Dad.
‘Ive got happy memories of that day. He was a really lovely young lad. It’s been great watching his career take-off.‘
Unfortunately Nigels golf career is crash landing as his team finished in the lower quartile again this week.

Another team who struggled was John Cottons four ball.
‘All of us had three bad playing partners’ He informed me after they recorded just 71 points.

Bromboroughs Ray Tennant, Paul Woods, Paul Barton and Kev Sharratt took 4th place with a solid 85 points.
Mick Mahon, Richard Palmer fresh from helping 400 sheep give birth, Munro Donald and Andy Faulkner all played great to take 3rd place with 86 points.

At the top of the leaderboard were two local low handicap teams who mastered the hard to read Bolton greens and made the most of the reachable par five holes.

Gary(6) and his son Jensen Myerscough(11), Ollie Hallows(3) and Luca Denton (3) were 2nd with 88 points.

They were pipped by good friends Dave ‘I’ve made 5 birdies’ Griffin(5), Steve Booth(7), John Dempsey (0)and Geoff Bickerton(4). Eighty nine points was an excellent score on a tough course. Well played chaps.

Thanks for your 100% attendance everyone.
Yours in golf,

Tim

Nearest the pin 4th Colin Bryan Dozen AD333
Nearest the pin 11th Andy Faulkner Dozen AD333

2’s £310
6 pro v1s 8 tp5 or 12 srixon ad333
Dave McGuiness Paul Woods Mark Richardson Steve Fellowes Tom Williams Lee Charnley Pete Norbury Neil Evans Howard Booth Colin Bryan David Fussellx2 Steve Booth John Dempsey

Bramall Park start sheet
Tuesday 12th May
10.00 David Wilkinson x4
10.09 Jim Caldwell x4
10.18 Colin Roberts x4
10.25 Dave More O Farell 2×4 tbc
10.34 Keith Thompson x4
10.43 Dave Goodwin x4
10.51 Andy Taylor x4
11.00 Chris Adams x4
11.08 Rob Platt x4
11.17 Jim Clarke x4
11.26 Mick Mahon x4
11.34 Nigel Ashton x4
11.43 Lewis Marland x4
11.52 Ian King x4
12.00 Paul Price x4
12.09 Paul Woods x4
12.17 Kev Hart x4
12.25 Steve Aspinall x4
12.33 Dave More O Farrell x4
12.42 Bill Dixon x4
12.51 Sam Leach x4
1.00 Paul Evansx 4
1.09 Paul Salt x4
1.17 Neil Davies x4
1.26 Neil Davies x4
1.35 Neil Davies x4
1.44
1.52 John Webb x4
2.00 Chris Ravenscroft x4
2.09 Richard Blackwell x4
2.18 Paul Salt2 x4
2.27 Jon Roland x4
2.36 Steve Heywood x4
2.44 Graham Pike x4
2.53 Gordon Spruce x4
3.01 David Smith x4
3.10 Charles McInnon x4
3.19 Dave Hughes x4
3.27 Dave Stewardson x4
3.36 Andrew Hill x4

Tim Maxwell
Advanced PGA Professional
The Knutsford Golf Club
07810 887636