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May 2013 / Issue 221
News in Brief
Barber cuts it at Surrey Downs
BROOM PRO CLEANS UP Barnham Broom PGA assistant professional Alex Beckett won the individual prize at the West Middlesex Golf Club pro-am with a round of one under par 68. He had five birdies, four of them on his last five holes, to beat Crue Elliott (Sandy Lodge), Neil Mitchell (Bury Golf Range) and Murray White (Penfold Park).
LINDFIELD TO HOST TIGER QUALIFIER The 2013 Tiger Cub Tour’s South East region qualifier is being held at Lindfield Golf Club, near Haywards Heath, on August 5-6. The nationwide-tour provides boys and girls under the age of 12 with the opportunity to compete in a series of 36-hole strokeplay opens, played over two days. The leading 36 players from the Order of Merit will be invited to compete in the Tiger Cub Tour National Final, which will be held at the Newark Golf Club in Notts during the Autumn half-term holiday.
Derek Warwick and Damon Hill were on the winning team
Hill takes the chequered flag at Woodcote driver’s golf day High profile names from the world of motorsport turned out for the Royal Automobile Club’s second annual Charity Golf Cup competition at Woodcote Park. Damon Hill, the former Formula 1 world champion, Derek Warwick, president of the British Racing Drivers’ Club, TV presenters Steve Rider and Tiff Needell, plus many drivers from the world of motor sport including David Brabham, Jackie Oliver, Duncan Tappy, Nicky Grist, Will Stevens and Jason Plato, all competed. For the second consecutive year, Warwick’s
BRDC President’s Team was triumphant, with Hill, former British Touring Car champion Jason Plato, and Formula Renault 3.5 champion Will Stevens completing Woodcote Park’s Old Course with a score of 92 points. Following three points behind was the Monaco Scramblers Team, with Steve Rider competing alongside Barrie Baxter, Giles Harper and Darren Wood. In third place, with 88 points, was the Salon Privé Team, with Andrew Bagley, James Crickmay, Tony Willis and Cliff Powell. Bagley made competition history with a hole-in-one, which was
celebrated in customary fashion with drinks for all the players in the evening. The Charity Cup’s guest of honour was John Surtees, who remains the only person to have won World Championships on both two and four wheels. Surtees delighted the teams by riding his 1960 MV Agusta up the captain’s drive at the Woodcote Park Estate, then returning down the drive in his immaculately-restored 1970 Surtees TS7 Formula 1 car. The day concluded with an auction to raise money for the chosen charities, the Henry Surtees Foundation and BEN.
Surrey Downs Golf Club has been fitted out with a welcomed its new head large hitting net and Golf teaching professional, Matt Swing Systems’ cSwing Barber, to the club last coaching software. The month to help promote its room also has an area of new range and academy artificial greens turf to memberships. enable putting lessons to Barder arrived just as the take place indoors, and the re-build of the new teaching club plans to invest in the room was completed, along Zenio putting system to with the greenkeeping help make best use of this sheds, following the fire area. that destroyed the facility in Club Director Peter 2011. He has come from Chelsfield Lakes, where he had been for nearly 14 years, and brings with him a wealth of coaching experience that he wants to build on in Matt Barber his new role. “The club has one of the best practice Townson is delighted with grounds around, with a big the appointment and grass tee for use throughout excited about the future the season”, commented prospects. “I believe that Barber. “It attracts a lot of we’ve found a professional local golfers, and has a who is a perfect fit for our growing membership from club and this facility. Matt whom I have had a warm has settled in very quickly. welcome. I’m really looking He is full of great ideas, and forward to the challenge is the ideal person to back ahead and excited at the up our new memberships, prospect of helping this club which are designed to get develop.” new golfers integrated into The new teaching room the club.”