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Maxitours at Vale Royal

Vale Royal was once again presented in tremendous condition for today’s Maxitours event. The BBC were wrong yet again with their negative forecasting and the weather was ideal for a fantastic day on the links. Many thanks indeed to Ian Embury and his excellent hard working team at this stunning venue.

Jimmy O’Reilly, Pete O’Neill and Frank Massey have all played the memorable Vale Royal course many times. Today Irishman Jimmy was deep in conversation as he happily whizzed past the golf club exit and drove his team to all the way to Portal. As they started to unload their clubs quick thinking Frank looked around and asked ‘what the hell are we doing here?’

James Emmett brought his strange talking team over from ‘Alifacks in Yarkshurrrrr’ . They went home empty handed after teeing off in completely the wrong direction on the 5th hole. How they won the War of the Roses we’ll never know.

Alan Pengelly, Paul Bishop, Richard Blackwell and Andy Hamlett played together for the first time today and they were very happy with 85 points and 4th place. Phil Sharp(18), Malc Wells(4), Adam Hart(8) and Bob Vickers(7) love the four man team events and they finished in third with 86 points.

A team of four very posh scousers finished in second place. Peter Kenny(13), Martyn Edmunds(14), Mick King(18) and Andy Morgan(6) are wealthy land buyers and surveyors for Belway homes and others, today they built up an excellent score as the Wallasey team scored 86 points with an excellent back nine.

Pleasington’s Stuart Coupe(11) John Hughes(9) Mark Robinson(10) and Martin Jump(17) took first prize with a terrific 90 point haul. They knew it was going to be their day when Mark and John both chipped in for birdies to collect 4 points each on the tricky 13th hole. Modest Hughes commented ‘If I say so myself I was absolutely bloody terrific today’ Great golf chaps, well played.

This evening Vale Royal was hosting an upmarket function for an expensive local private school. A few glamorous ‘yummy mummys’ passed through the clubhouse bar. An wise old member of the tour who had been very closely monitoring the situation downed the remnants of his fourth pint and declared ‘I’m off home to see the wife- remember beauty is only a light switch away’.

Nearest the Pin 10th Ray Ward Dozen AD333s
Nearest the Pin 16th Andy Morgan Dozen AD333s

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Maxitours at Delamere Forest .

Glorious Delamere Forest was bathed in sunshine as the full field of players teed off in todays Maxitours event. Everyone enjoyed the dry fast running fairways and excellent Delamere greens. The brisk Easterly wind prevented anyone from overheating in the intense sun!

It was good to see Barry Horrox squeeze into the Clubhouse today after a recent golfing trip to America. When asked if the golf trip was successful he replied:
‘I enjoyed the deep fried cheesecake best’

Neil Todd knows how to boost his partner’s confidence before play. ‘There’s absolutely no point in you entering the ball sweep, you’ve got no chance of making a two’ he advised his 23 handicap partner Alistair Culpin at registration.

It was great to see what high quality clientele Maxitours events have started to attract. Today two retired, respected and wealthy Cheshire doctors actually played in the same fourball. Dr Dave Arthur claims to be the cleverer of the two but Dr Martin Beresford doesn’t care because he has a lower handicap.

Before todays event John Hilditch(14) from Portal was pining for regular partner Ian Bartholomew who had a knee operation last week. ‘Is this new chap R. Humphries you’ve put me with any good?’ he quizzed before play.
The two hit it off beautifully to record 44 points and take 5th place. ‘Thanks for introducing me to tall dark Russell(18) I really like him. Whats his phone number?’ he whispered as he handed in his card.

Ian Gauden(17) and Bill Gillings(13), two lovely seniors from Davyhulme, teed off on the tenth and had the best nine holes of their long golfing lives as they went out in 26 points. The tougher front nine saw them back to playing their usual rubbish, but they just managed to hang on and scrape 44 points and were delighted to take 3rd spot.

John Bent(3) and Ian Self(4) from Didsbury played some really stunning golf today. Benty was solid on the front nine picking up a couple of birdies but Ian played the back nine in four under par gross! He birdied the last three holes to finish in some style.

Taking todays honours were Maxitour regulars Wilmslows Alex Jerman(6) and Richard Blackwell(14). It is well known to Maxitours players that the main reason chunky Jerman loves Delamere is the huge sausage rolls sold behind the bar. Very likeable Jerman teamed up with even more likeable wine merchant Richard Blackwell and they both recorded their first ever win with 46 points. Fearing another public humiliation in the post match report hungry Jerman celebrated his win with a small bowl of soup.

Many thanks to all who played today.
Yours in golf,
Tim.

**This year my lovely home club Knutsford will be hosting four open competitions, we would like to extend a warm invitation to you to come and play our picturesque parkland course**
Entry for these events is ONLY via post. Entry forms on the website:

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Maxitours at superb Sandiway

Sandiway Golf Club Manager Yvonne Bould and her excellent team made us feel very welcome today. Thank you also to the Head Greenkeeper who was up bright and early rolling the greens before play and he presented his course in immaculate condition for so early in the season.

The stunning course was built by ICI in the 1920’s as a facility for its Cheshire employees and the wealthy Northwich middle classes. The Clubhouse was built in such a way that it could be turned into two semi-detatched houses if the Golf Club wasn’t successful! The Sandiway course has since matured into a classic and is now recognised as perhaps the best in Cheshire ?

John Royle was debating whether or not to tackle a Sandiway scone in the clubhouse after play, ‘he played like a pudding so he may as well have one’ muttered his long suffering partner John Stubbs.

Nigel Eckersley(13) this week retires after a very successful year as Knutsford GC Captain. With the pressure lifted he is already back to playing his best golf and despite being paired with Bob Sutton(18) he still managed to finish in a very commendable 6th place.

Seventy-seven year old Manchester golfing legend Neville Dennis(15) won on the horses at Cheltenham last week after he backed a couple of outsiders. Today he once again beat the odds and scored 43 points playing alongside carthorse Frank Massey(11) to finish in 5th place after a card play off.

There is a famous golfing phrase: ‘If you can’t play golf, get a good partner’. Wise John Hughes(9) played alongside Mark Ashworth(+2). They scored an excellent 43 points to finish in 4th position. John was delighted to get on the card three times.

Badly dressed Paul Dalby(4) and Phil Vokes(4) continued their recent good form as the two talented Didsbury men finished in third place with 43 points. Tytheringtons Andy Taylor(12)and Martin Firth(3) took second place. Firth made terrific birdies on the tough 14th and 17th holes to clinch the card play off.

Taking top spot was the unlikely sounding combination of ‘Tinkler and Hackett’.
Pete Tinkler(15) birdied the par three 6th and 11th holes however it was Steve Hackett(13) who was the main points scorer. The likeable Macclesfield GC steward celebrated his win in typical golf club steward fashion as he enjoyed tasting the wide variety of beers on offer in the Sandiway Clubhouse.

Highly respected Sandiway Club professional Bill Laird retires in a couple of weeks and I would like to take this opportunity to wish him a happy and healthy retirement.

Thanks for your support today,
Yours in golf,
Tim

Nearest the Pin 11th Bob Sutton- unbelievable but true
Nearest the Pin 18th Joe Kirwan

£132.50 2 pro v1s each or 4 srixon soft feel
Mick Mahon Paul Dalby Nigel Eckersley Malc Wells x2 John Bent Chris Cyprus Barney Ross Pau Griffiths x3!! Dave Wheeler x2 Mo Rawthore Simon Hartland Cath Rawthore John Hughes Pete Tinkler x2 Patrick Booth Blake Norton x2 Eddy Sterling x2 Steve Forde.

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Maxitours at wonderful Wilmslow

Wilmslow Golf Club was presented in tremendous condition for todays Maxitours event. Many thanks to Club Manager Keith Melia who runs a very tight ship. We were all made to feel extremely welcome today, the food, hospitality and golf course were all absolutely first class.

The well placed bunkers and hard to read Wilmslow greens got the better of Steve Rimmers team of nice guys from Didsbury Golf Club. They finished in last place with a paltry 69 points. Despite his poor showing Tony Fox was still in a positive frame of mind ‘I had a great day today apart from the golf’ he remarked.

Despite rarely hitting a green, optimistic Brett Sutcliffe always enjoys the challenge of the ‘nearest the pin’ competition. He really fancied his chances today on the easy, short, downhill, par 3 ninth hole. Unfortunately Bretts shanked tee shot missed the ninth green by some margin but he wondererd if he could still claim a prize as his ball scuttled next to the pin on the adjoining 18th green.

Well spoken Chris Brown(6) and John Webb(8) from leafy Hale were desperate for a game today so I teamed then up with Burnleys John Hilton(10) and Ron Jolley(16). Despite not understanding what the hell each other was talking about they overcame the language barrier and the two pairs combined tremendously to take second place with an excellent 87 points.

Paul Baxter (10) has played in many Maxitours events alongside Paul Taylor(13) and John Wraeg(8) with very little success. Today he brought along a talented golfer with a great swing, Nick Baxter (3) who he claims was his son. Nick who has the look of a Bolton Milkman made five excellent birdies as the team scored a terrific 87 points to finish third.

Talking of milkmen, retired Pete ‘milky’ Lloyd (14) has delivered plenty of pints to celebrities and bored housewives in Prestbury over the years. Today the cream rose to the surface as Lloyd kindly delivered his team two excellent birdies to help them ‘float’ away with first prize. Bill Ross (16) Mark Brierley (9) and my ex PE teacher Pete Holmes(13) made up the rest of the victorious Macclesfield team. Very well played chaps.

Many thanks to everyone for playing, I hope you had a great day, Tim.

Nearest the Pin 9th Bob Vickers Dozen AD333s
Nearest the Pin 17th Jimmy O’Reilly Dozen AD333s
2’s sweep £117.50
6 pro v1s or 12 srixon AD333s each
2’s Chris Brown Bob Vickers Martin Firth Steve Rhodes Matt Smart John Bent Roger Newall