Dear Maxitours players,

Here is Thursdays start sheet at Ringway.
As usual play is permitted from fairway using mats or balls can be moved and played from the first cut.
There are a few wet spots on the course but it is holding up well and the greens are excellent.

The short 8th hole is out of play due to path work.
Bacon barms and coffee will be available for just £5 but Ringway caterers are now cashless.
Thanks
Tim

Ringway Thursday 24th November

11am shotgun

1a Colin Roberts x4

1b Steve Aspinall x4

2a Mick Mahon x4

2b Gary Neiles x4

3 Dave Blood x4

4 Andy Taylor x4

5a Paul Wrigley tbc x4

5b Simon Ashton x4

6b Andy Dunster x4

7a Kev Hart x4

7b Simon Hemsley x4

9a Paul Salt x4

9b Dave Monk x4

10a Richard Blackwellx4

10b Lee Tilley x4

11 Roger Percival x4

12 Paul Brookshaw x4

12b

13 Sam Leach x4

14a Geoff Bickerton

14b Jim Clarke

15a Simon Poucher x4

15b Paul Higgs x4

16 Dave Goodwin x4

17a Martin Humphries x4

17b Neale Laurent x4

18a Jim Caldwell x4

Dear Maxitours players,

Mottram Hall is open but due to the forecast rain we have moved the event to Thursday 5th Jan!

YOUR ENTRY WILL BE AUTOMATICALLY TRANSFERRED TO THE NEW DATE

Golf Manager Malcolm has been great to deal with and if the weather improves Mottram Hall will do a special rate of £20 for anyone who wishes to play from 11am onwards.

Thanks for your understanding

Tim

Tomorrows event is currently still on. I am aware the forecast isn’t great and will check conditions in the morning.

My website will be updated at 8.45am

Lets hope the band of rain moves North as was forecast prior to today 🤞 Yours in golf
Tim

*Room at super Mottram Hall next Thursday*

Maxitours at Fabulous Fairhaven

Perfect links conditions greeted Maxitours players at Fairhaven today. A warm but testing sea breeze and a wonderfully presented golf course ensured a fantastic day was had by all.

The sun shone all afternoon apart from a refreshing twenty-minute shower as people were playing their closing holes late in the day.
The greens were magnificent. Fairhaven is now recognized as one of the finest Championship courses in the North of England and everyone agreed that it was well worth the journey up the M6 this morning.
The clubhouse has also been refurbished and the staff were all brilliant.

The clubhouse also has tremendous view over the course and a few members always spend the afternoon watching the golfers. I loved listening to the comments:
‘He’s got a funny swing.’
‘He’ll be lucky to find it in that bush.’
‘He must practice under a coffee table.’

Ian Appleton was a Maxitours regular but now lives in the Spanish sunshine. Whenever I see him he has a big smile on his face and tells me how good the weather is in Spain. Try and avoid him.
He comes back every Christmas as he claims to play the trombone to a very high standard and plays in orchestras at various festive shows throughout the North West. I’m not too sure. There was an advert for a local pantomime in Knutsford and the ugly sister definitely reminded me of someone.

You might have wall to wall sunshine but they don’t have traditional links courses like this in Spain Ian.

In today’s event scoring was excellent due to the forward tees, pure putting surfaces and lots of talented players.

Hazel Grove solicitor Simon Ashton, Adrian Waring, Dan Moss and Phil Raines took 3rd with 85 points.

Carden Park’s Paul Fell, retired head master Nigel Ashton, Colin Bryan and Mike Lowe took 2nd place after an excellent 87 points.

Winning today was Tony Jennison(3), Richard Blackwell(12), John Hilton(15) and Gary Smith(10). John Hilton has struggled with his game recently and his handicap is about the only thing keeping up with inflation but he was back to his best today. They scored an excellent 89 points after scoring heavily on the tricky par three holes. Well played chaps.

Thanks to everyone for your support, superb.
Nearest the pin 2nd Pete Gold Dozen AD333
Nearest the pin 10th Steve Adams Dozen AD333

2’s sweep £125 3 pro v1s or 7 srixon AD333

Mike Hill Paul Fell Colin Bryan Martin Bray John Tomlinson Pete Atherton Phil Gow Martin Humphries Steve Bradbury Tom Roe John Hunt James Shipstone

Mottram Hall Thursday 19th November
11am shotgun start
1a Mick Mahon x4
1b Paul Fell x4
2a John Atkin x4
2b Kev Hart x4
3 Roger Percival x4
4a Gary Neiles x4
4b Neale Laurent x4
5a Paul Salt x4
6 Geoff Bickerton x4
7 Peter McElkerney x4
8a Simon Hemsley x4
8b Dave Sully x4
9a Dave Blood x4
9bJim Clarke x4
10a Dave Goodwin x4
10b Colin Roberts x4
11 Ed Pysden x4
12a Steve Aspinall x4
12b Andy Taylor x4
13b Nathan Mills x4
14
15a Sam Leach x4
15b Paul Wrigley x4
16
17a John Hilditch x4
17b
18a Lee Tilley x4
18b Richard Blackwell x4

Maxitours at fabulous Formby Hall

The Winter/Spring tour enjoyed wonderful golfing weather at Formby Hall today. Superb greens, gentle sea breeze, an incredibly dry course and clear blue skies were the reward for players who travelled to Merseyside.

The course was terrific and really well drained considering the amount of rain we have had in recent weeks.

Its always interesting to come to the Formby Hall hotel and spa venue near Liverpool. I sit in the main corridor and watch a few residents walking past. There are lots of pumped-up lips and false tans knocking about throughout the day. And that was only Ian Kings team.

Jim Caldwell and Bob Eastwoods team both scored 85 points. Bobs team was on fire with a wonderful 47 points on the front nine, their slow finish saw Jim’s team winning the card play-off.

Ex Copper Neale Laurent, Martyn Schofield, Jack Schofield and John Harrop took 4th with 86 points. Another retired copper on a huge pension took 3rd place. Dave Blood from Romiley and his good pals Jimmy Cox, Ian Smith and Mike Grainger had a terrific back nine picking up 8 points on the long 14th to take 2nd on 87 points

Sandiways Gary Neiles and his team of Russell Sollitt, John Longworth and Alan Giles scored 88 points. They picked up seven points on the lovely 17th hole to elevate themselves into 2nd.

Winning today was the softly spoken Davyhulme team of Kev Hart(11), Paul Yearsley(9), Sam Garnett(1) and Alan Vaughan(9). Sam is a class player and has found some good form recently. He shot six under to help his Maxitours ever present team to a first win for nearly a year. Well played chaps. Great golf.

Thanks to everyone for your support. Tim

Nearest the pin 13th Sam Garnett Dozen AD333

Nearest the pin 16th Steve Blakeway Dozen AD333

2’s sweep £120 4 pro V1s or 10 srixon AD333

Steve Heywood Sam Garnett John Harrop Martin Schofield Steve Blakeway x2 Ian Pickles

Fairhaven start sheet Tuesday 8th November

1a John Hunt x4

1b Mick Mahon x4

2 Dave Sully x4

3a Dave Blood x4

3b Richard Blackwell x4

7a John Hilditch x4

7b Simon Poucher x4

8a Martin Humphries x4

8b Kev Hart x4

9a Steve Aspinall x4

9b Paul Fell x4

10 Neale Laurent x4

11a Colin Roberts x4

11b Paul Salt x4

12 Dave Monk x4

12b Phil Gow x4

13 David Hughes x4

14 Martin Williams x4

15 Steve Hall x4

16 Jon Hudson x4

17 Simon Ashton x4

18b Roger Percival x4

Res

Paul Gilbert x4 in

Andy Buckley x4 in