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Ringway times + New Shotsaver OOM + Friday-cancelled due to snow!

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Dear Maxitours competitor,
Unfortunately due to the large covering of snow and ice on the Vale Royal Course and cold overnight forecasts Fridays event is cancelled. The temperatures are set to rise at the weekend so I am very optimistic that the Ringway event shall take place in the heat on Thursday next week.
Yours in Golf,
Tim

Ringway Team of 4 Start sheet
Thursday 31st January 11am shotgun
£20 per player

Starting Tee
1a Geoff Haynes x4
1b Gary Garner x4
2a Neville Dennis x4
2b Colin Roberts x4
3 George Maxwell x4
4a Mick Mahon x4
4b Lewis Marland x4
5
6 Ian Perkins x4
7a Eddy Sterling x4
7b Moby Rawthore x4
8 John Hilton x4
9 Ian King x4
9b Mark Wheeler x4
10a Charles Herbert x4
10b John Bent x4
11Carl Kennedy x2 Gary Davies x2
12 Gerry John x4
13a John Grint x4
14a John Grint x4
14b Malc Wells x4
15 Paul Crisp x4
15b Dave Sarsfield x4
16 Ian Bartholomew x2 Paul Taylor x2
17a Bob Sutton x4
17 Alan Pengelly x2
18 Dave Blood x4
18b Pete Holmes x4

The latest Shotsaver Order of Merit
Top 10 players qualify for the famous Knutsford shootout!

1 Gary Garner 59
1 Mark Green 59
3 Malcolm Wells 55
4 Adam Hart 46
5 Moby Rawthore 45
6 Bob Vicars 43
7 Martin Firth 40
8 Andy Stubbens 38
9 Barney Ross 33
10 Phil Sharp 30
11 Andy Hamnett 29
11 Dave Marchant 29
11 Dave Murphy 29
11 John Reilly 29
11 Bob Sinclair 29
16 John Bent 27
16 Alan Pengally 27
18 Andy Bethell 26
18 Charles Herbert 26
18 Carl Kennedy 26
21 Peter Moores 25
22 Neville Dennis 24
23 Cath Rawthore 23
24 Richard Blackwell 22
25 Iain Bartholomew 21
26 Jim Caldwell 20
26 Laurie Cole 20
28 Terry Davison 19
28 John Hilditch 19
28 Arthur Jowell 19
31 Steve Rhodes 18
32 John Hilton 17
32 Brian Hopkins 17
32 Mick Mahan 17
32 Jimmy O’Reilly 17
32 Tony Wilson 17
37 Dave Blood 16
37 Peter Coughlin 16
37 Gary Conroy 16
37 Darren Whittaker 16
37 Mike Wilson 16
42 Gary Sinclair 15
43 Paul Dalby 14
43 Gavin Dixon 14
43 Peter O’Neill 14
43 Dave Rhodes 14
43 Mark Richardson 14
48 Bob Aston 13
48 Pete Mellor 13
48 Paul Sherlock 13
48 Phil Vokes 13
52 Graham Aspinall 12
52 Peter Atherton 12
52 Kevin Beattie 12
52 Josh Brand 12
52 Rob Caruana 12
52 Jim Cox 12
52 Paul Crisp 12
52 Ben Davies 12
52 Barry Gibney 12
52 Trevor Golds 12
52 Tony Jennison 12
52 John Kelsall 12
52 Ian King 12
52 Joel King 12
52 John Leighton 12
52 Mike Lynch 12
52 Neil McKinlay 12
52 Henry Narroway 12
52 Gary Nixon 12
52 Blake Norton 12
52 Kristian Oakes 12
52 Stuart Pearson 12
52 Dave W Ryder 12
52 Frank Stapleton 12
52 Eddy Stirling 12
52 Bob Sutton 12
52 Andy Taylor 12
52 Hugh Thomas 12
52 Charlie Williams 12
81 Mark Brierley 11
81 Steve Goodier 11
81 Pete Holmes 11
81 Tony Ramatowski 11
81 Ella Rawthore 11
86 John Aikenhead 10
86 Dave Almond-Smith 10
86 Tony Ball 10
86 Steve Ballard 10
90 Mike Brown 10
86 Colin Byrne 10
86 Jack Coleman 10
86 George Drakonakis 10
86 Ian Gauden 10
86 Mike Gauden 10
86 Bill Gillings 10
86 Paul Hodgson 10
86 Barry Horrox 10
86 Tim Johnson 10
86 Andy Sandham 10
86 Rob Sinclair 10
86 Lee Tilley 10
86 Lee Turner 10
86 Ray Ward 10
86 Dave Wheeler 10
86 Sam Wilson 10
86 Joe York 10
108 Andrew Bannister 9
108 Jason Ballard 9
108 Derek Fulluck 9
108 Brian Mottram 9
108 Sean Murphy 9
108 Richard Preston 9
114 Pete Bedford 8
114 John Brazier 8
114 John Browning 8
114 Bill Coleman 8
114 Stewart Davies 8
114 Barry Eddlestone 8
114 Eddie Ellis 8
114 Bobby Emmett 8
114 Stuart Hall 8
114 Dave Jagger 8
114 Gerry John 8
114 Ray Jones 8
114 Frank Massey 8
114 Nick Pedley 8
114 Steve Rourke 8
114 Ben Shaw 8
114 Garry Smith 8
114 Mike Smith 8
114 Ian Taylor 8
114 Steve Tyrell 8
114 Andrew Walsh 8
114 Mark Walsh 8
114 Paul Woodcock 8
137 Bob Kwan 7
137 Andy Westwood 7
139 Mike Barron 6
139 John Broadhurst 6
139 Malcolm Brownhill 6
139 Graham Brownhill 6
139 Andy Burns 6
139 Roger Carter 6
139 Garry Davies 6
139 Keith Fitzhenry 6
139 Ian Gibson 6
139 John Gregory 6
139 Neil Higgins 6
139 Roy Kirk 6
139 Chris Murphy 6
139 Phil Murphy 6
139 Richard Palmer 6
139 Kit Parkington 6
139 Phil Smeathers 6
139 Ruel Spence 6
139 Ray Standring 6
139 Ian Waddington 6
159 Pete Birtwistle 5
159 Keith Coxon 5
159 Guy Hall 5
159 Dick Perry 5
159 John Ratledge 5
159 John Walton 5
159 Peter Whitehurst 5
166 John Anderton 4
166 Jeff Andrews 4
166 Paul Baxter 4
166 Ken Burt 4
166 Scott Cairns 4
166 Alan Collins 4
166 Ryan Foley 4
166 Mark Foley 4
166 Mickey Gray 4
166 Mike Keyworth 4
166 Julie Matthews 4
166 Eric McNicol 4
166 Jimmy Murphy 4
166 Warren Newton 4
166 Alan Noden 4
166 Ken Ogden 4
166 Dave Sarsfield 4
166 Mike Spencer 4
166 Ian Waller 4
166 Gary Whittaker 4
166 David Winstanley 4
187 Graham Eadie 3
187 Eric Neild 3
187 Alex Pritchard 3
190 Andy Collins 2
190 Max Henderson 2
190 Tim Johnson 2
190 Paul Kennedy 2
190 Dave Stanhope 2
190 John Swindells 2
190 Phil Thomas 2
197 Ian Ainsworth 1
197 Paul Allen 1
197 Paul Cooper 1
197 David Gavin 1
197 Simon Helmsley 1
197 Joe Kirwan 1
197 Paul Wilde 1

Lovely Knutsford results and Fridays Vale Royal start times

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Maxitours at the lovely Knutsford Golf Club

The frost and ice did not prevent Maxitours competitors from enjoying themselves on the lovely Knutsford golf course today. With snow forecast tomorrow many husbands were keen to enjoy their last day of freedom before being ‘stranded at home with the wife’. One Maxitour competitor (who shall remain nameless) today referred fondly to his wife as ‘The FPO’ (Fun Prevention Officer).

Big Geoff Cogswell looks like he has enjoyed plenty of Tesco burgers. Stallion Geoff was in the clubhouse ‘Chomping at the bit’ to get on the golf course. On the first hole he had a big ‘horse shoe’ and by the end of his round his team requested ‘don’t Saddle us with him next week’.

As players enter the Knutsford lounge there is a low ceiling and tricky step to negotiate. It is always quite amusing to watch the clumsier members of the tour stumble into the Clubhouse. Today Keith Coxon took the honours with his triple salchow. Charles Herbert(6ft 10’) still holds top marks from last year when he managed to trip over the step and hit his head at the same time.

John Royle today celebrated his 70th birthday. He decided to wear his best pink golf shirt and a lovely pink, white and black diamond sweater to mark the occasion. A large brown sauce stain from his pre round bacon sandwich finished off the outfit nicely.

Old Jack Coleman(13) is a successful accountant from Mere. He is good company and has plenty of one-liners. I’ve no idea what it means but today’s gem was: ‘In the land of the blind, the one eyed man is king’. As a respected chartered accountant you would expect him to be blessed with a well disciplined, technically correct, efficient swing. Nothing could be further from the truth. Today he played great golf however and an excellent birdie on the 9th hole helped his team including the talented Gauden brothers and Bill Gillings(13) to a career best 2nd place finish.

Taking todays honours with 81 points was the team of Malcolm Wells(2), Adam Hart(7), Bob Vickers(7) and Phil Sharp(17). Their score of 81 points included four chip-ins! Bob Vickers was their star player hitting his well controlled gentle fade which was incredibly checking up close to the flag on the frozen greens.

Thanks to everyone for playing today, apologies to those I could not fit in. Thanks also to Secretary Stuart Blake and top Greenkeeper Mark Dingle for all their help to allow the event to go ahead. Lets hope we miss the snow tomorrow! Tim.

Results.
Nearest pin on 5th Bob Vickers Dozen AD333s
Nearest the pin in 2 on 9th Dave Murphy Dozen AD333s
£82.50 9 pro vs or 18 srixon AD333s each
2’s sweep Ian Gauden Dave Murphy Bob Vickers

Knutsford start sheet

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Due to the closure of Caldy here is the reduced field for the event at Knutsford on Thursday.

Knutsford AM AM Confirmed start sheet for Thursday 17th January.

9.42am Neville Dennis x4
9.51am Gary Garner x4
10.00am Neil Higgins x4
10.09am John Bent x4
10.17am Malc Wells x4
10.25am Graham Mitton x4
10.34am Dick Perry x4
10.43am Mick Mahon x4
10.52am Dave Blood x4
11.01am John Stubbs x4
11.09am Paul Taylor x4
11.18am Mike Gauden x4
11.27am Mark Wheeler x4
11.39am Moby Rawthore x4
res
Ian Perkins x4
John Hignett x4
Bob Sutton x4
John Moore x4

**Important venue change for Thursday + next FRIDAY at Vale Royal times**

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Dear Maxitours players,

players due to the inclement weather conditions the Caldy golf course has been closed all week, there is a thick layer of ice covering fairways and greens and unfortunately this is set to remain until the weekend.

The event has therefore been transferred to Knutsford Golf Club, I have been assured full greens will be in play. The cost will remain at £20.

I currently have 100 players for Caldy and I can only accommodate 60 at Knutsford so it will be on a first email to confirm/ first served basis. So please let me know if you wish to play ASAP.

I will email the revised start sheet this evening (start times between 10am-12pm)

Sorry for any inconvenience,

Yours in golf,

Tim.

Start sheet for FRIDAY 25th January at Vale Royal.
11am shotgun start £25 inc bacon bap and coffee.

1a Moby Rawthore x4
1b Mick Mahon x4
2a Lewis Marland x4
2b John Stubbs x4
3 Dave Blood x4
4 Gail Heggarty x4
4b
5a A Pengelly x2
5b Mark Wheeler x4
6 N Higgins x4
7a Rueben Fielding x4
8a Pete Holmes x4
8b John Bent x4
9a Neville Dennis x4
9b Colin Roberts x4
10 Ian King x4
11John Hilton x2 Gary Davies x2
11 Charles Herbert x4
12 John Grint x4
12b John Grint x4
13Jim Caldwell x2 Carl Kennedy x2
14 Malc Wells x4
15 Geoff Haynes x4
15 Gary Garner x4
16
17 Dave Sarsfield x4
18b Ian Bartholomew x2 Nigel Oakes x2
18a Martin Firth x4

Stunning Sandiway and Caldy 11am shotgun (spaces now available)

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***Please note next Thursday at Caldy -course excellent but possibility of a trolley ban***

The Shotsaver Masters at Stunning Sandiway

Sandiway was once again in outstanding condition for todays Shotsaver Masters event. The course was dry and firm and the greens were tremendous considering it is early January.

There was plenty of rain during the course of the day and the scorecards were returned in a variety of states of repair. Immaculately dressed and well organised businessman Paul Dalby managed to return a dry well written card. Landscape gardener Dennis Bamfords card looked like it had been dragged through a hedge backwards and pet shop owner Roy Hargreaves card looked like it had been chewed on by one of his puppies.

Steve Rhodes and Carl Kennedy are two top players who always feature in the prizes. Today they struggled and looked slightly tense for some reason. They were paired for the first time alongside serious crime squad officers Gerry John and John Brazier.

Sir Alex Ferguson is currently attempting to sign Frank Lampard and this shows the importance he places on experience. Someone not lacking in this department is Neville Dennis(15) and Frank Massey(11) and these ageing golfers picked up 1st place in the over 60’s event with 39 points.

Iain Bartholomew(3) and John Hilditch(14) saw their beautiful relationship strengthen further as they scored an excellent 40 points in the damp conditions to take 4th place.
Gary Garner(7) and Mark Green(12) finished in 3rd place to move them to the top of the Order of Merit, also scoring 40 points.

Sale Golf Clubs Moby Rawthore(3) has struggled in recent months however he was back to his battling best as he teamed up with Hopwood member Tony Ramatowski(22) as they also scored 40 points for a second place finish.

It was slightly disappointing that there were no real 3rd round shocks in the FA Cup this year however todays event saw golfing ‘minnows’ Neil McKinlay(11) and Bob Sutton(19) incredibly take first place. Earlier this year in three consecutive events Bob Sutton finished last, 2nd to last and then last again. If he had been a racehorse somebody would have shot him by now. Today he was inspired and teaming up alongside Neil McKinlay their 40 point haul was good enough to take the honours. Well played chaps.

Many thanks to the Ballard brothers from Shotsaver for their kind and continued sponsorship of Maxitours events.

*Dave Ryder lost his 52 wedge please contact me if you found it!

2s 117.5 John Russell x2 Mike Lynch Lee Tilley Dave Rhodes Dick Perry John Grint x2 Paul Dalby John Bent Andy Bethel Martin Firth Neil Mckinlay Barney Ross Guy Hall Mick Mahon Dave Henshall Al Noden x2 John Hilditch x2 Steve Tyrell
2 pro vs or 4 srixons

Nearest the pin 6th Dave Henshall Dozen AD333s
Nearest the pin 18th John Hilditch Dozen AD333s