Hello and welcome to this week's edition,

This week the marathon begins, santa hats and Ben ‘Champ’ Powell.

A word from the pro…

Black Friday has been and gone BUT that doesn’t mean all of our great deals have gone with it. We still have great offers running in the shop waiting to get caught.

Christmas is only 25 days away so there is no better time to pop in and get great gifts for your loved ones.

SkyCaddie watches to help them stay out of the rough, new shoes to give them extra grip in the wet conditions, a golf bag to replace the tatty looking thing they currently carry around or even golf lesson vouchers to keep them on the straight and narrow. Whatever you are looking for this Christmas, Cottesmore have you covered.

He's back!

This week sees the return of (in my opinion) the greatest golfer of all time. Yes, he is only playing in The Hero world Challenge which is hosted by himself and features only 18 players, but I still get excited at the thought of seeing Tiger woods strutting his stuff on the fairways.

Over the last few years his decline has been significant and very well publicized but I would rather remember him as the player that dominated the game with such an aura.

Here is a few stats that is quite ridiculous in today’s modern game…

• Tiger spent an astonishing 683 weeks at world number one.
• He made an incredible 142 consecutive cuts between 1998-2005
• From 2002-05, Woods had 1,540 putts from 3 feet and in on the PGA Tour. He only missed three of them.
• Tiger is the only player since World War II to win a PGA Tour event four straight years. He did it two different times.
• Tiger has won five straight PGA Tour starts three different times. Over the last 60 years, he is the only player to do it once.

He will never do anything like the above again but here’s hoping he shows glimpses of his past this week.

P.S. My tip for the week is Patrick Reed.

Ladies update

The Winter Aggregate competition got underway this week with Linda Atkins carding the best score of 21 points and Jenny Dixon close behind with 19. However, as playing days for this competition go through to March, this is a marathon not a sprint and Margaret Brice has begun well with a steady and consistent 15 and 18 points over two starts.

As promised last week, I am delighted to announce the total amount raised by the three Charity Quizzes, held in aid of Canine Partners, this year - a fantastic £1037! Many thanks to all of you from across the club who came to these fun evenings and bought lots of raffle tickets. Thanks to Christine Knight who put in so much thought to the evenings and to Nick and Hazel for helping with the scoring. Thanks also to the club and restaurant staff for their support in running these evenings.

Next Week

Next Tuesday is Round 4 of the winter eclectics, on the Griffin the George Higgins 18 hole and Rogerson 9 hole and on the Phoenix the Reg Davey trophy

Golf Academy update

Congratulations to Ben Powell who finished on top in the Junior Academy Autumn Championship last Sunday. Ben has been spending most of his sporting activities on the football field these days but he got back to playing quality golf on Sunday, to win his first trophy in 2 years.

Full results:

• Junior Academy Autumn Championship - Ben Powell
• Under 15s – Ben Powell
• Under 13s – Will Pirie
• Under 11s – Elliot Fillion
• Under 9s – Leo Cahi
• Under 7s – Kade Fullarton