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Recent Events

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Forthcoming Events

The Committee is meeting on Tuesday, 9 March. In that meeting, we will consider the rescheduling of the Challis Tankard and the Grouse Foursomes, scheduled for the 21st March and 3rd April respectively. You will be informed of the outcome of those considerations.

The Easter Handicap Cup, scheduled for Bank Holiday Monday, the 5th of April, goes ahead as planned.

A number of competitions are now available to enter online. They include The Easter Handicap Cup. The Masters. The Royal Marsden Eclectic. The Buchan Cup. The Scratch Knock-out.

The Monthly Weekend Stablefords and Medals are also open for play after the 29th of March. Please enter these on the day via the PSI.

Team News

Questions posed about the viability of club matches in the short-term and of the programme/leagues in the longer term remain valid. We will continue to monitor the situation and amend the programme accordingly.

We have started engaging with the opposing clubs to gauge their thoughts. If in the short-term, club matches remain unplayable and any leagues impractical, we will look at the possibility of playing those matches scheduled later in the year on a more informal footing.

Other matters

The minutes of the AGM are available on the Members’ website.

The Captain’s Charity is now official. It is with pleasure that the Captain announces that Aspire is the charity of choice for 2021.

Aspire is a national charity that provides practical help to people who have been paralysed by Spinal Cord Injury. Their services include Aspire Housing, Independent Living, Welfare Benefits Advice, Housing Advice, Money Matters and Assistive Technology.

Aide Memoire

Handicap Review – A review will take place in the coming weeks. If you believe your handicap to be inaccurate following the launch of the World Handicapping System (WHS) and would like the review team to give your handicap special attention, please email the Handicap Secretary on cottesmoremenshandicaps@gmail.com.

2021 Diary / Fixture List – this is complete and an electronic version was made available via our Facebook page on the 18th of January. If you do not make use of Facebook and would like a copy sent to you directly, please let me know at cottesmore.captain@gmail.com.

Looking forward to seeing you all in late March / early April and as COVID restrictions allow.

In the meantime All, please stay safe.

Clive Parker
Cottesmore Golf Club - Men's Section - Captain 2021

Ladies news

On Monday the SCLGA held their delegates meeting via Zoom.

Myself, Penny & Ruth attended. The meeting was very well attended and representatives from the committee spoke about WHS, Safe golf accreditation, Junior golf, County Week at Worthing GC. from 21st-23rd June.

The England Golf Website was also mentioned and I would urge you to download the app and sign in with your CDH number. It will indicate your current handicap and your previous scores that have been used to achieve this.

County Cards are being mailed out and I will let you know when I have them. It was also announced that regrettably all Division matches are cancelled for this year. Some clubs have withdrawn and a number of clubs are unable to offer tee times during April when there will be pressure for tee times from their members.

For these reasons, the SCLGA deemed it unviable to continue with the competitions. A big disappointment for everyone. However, a new competition for the Divisions is being announced called the Trio Trophy and further details will follow.

Now that we know that golf will be resuming on March 29th, can I ask you to sign up for competitions online and forward your remittance to Linda Clinton, dropping her an email to let her know? I hope we will have lots of ladies joining in.

Our first competitions will be:

Easter Greensomes & Phoenix Fun Pairs - 1st and 3rd April.
Hooker Hart & Phoenix 3 clubs & putter - 15th April.
Spring Meeting - 22nd April.

I challenged myself to drink only water in February - it was the shortest month! Harder than I thought although I did have a choice of cold, hot or fizzy! The money that I saved on alcohol, G&T’s, tea and coffee have been donated to my charity.

https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/golfing-Gals-making-memories

On a happy note, Jean Thompson celebrated a special birthday this week and I sent her some flowers from all the Ladies. I also had a chat with her and she sends a big thank you.

Vets news

Competitions

At yesterday’s committee meeting, it was decided to keep most of the forthcoming Tuesday competition dates unchanged, reschedule trophy competitions postponed due to lockdown and cancel the first rounds of the Haig, Phoenix Lanka, P. Morley/H. Bacon and Phoenix Rogerson competitions. The other changes are shown below:

Tuesday, 30.03.2021 Haig Trophy (Stableford) Rd 2 (Q) and Phoenix Lanka Trophy (Stableford) Rd 2 (Q) [previously scheduled for 06.04.2021].

Tuesday, 06.04.2021 4 Clubs and a Putter (Stableford) and Phoenix 4 Clubs and a Putter (Stableford) [previously scheduled for 09.03.2021].

Tuesday, 27.04.2021 Foundation Trophy (Stableford) (Q) and Phoenix Foundation Trophy (Stableford) (Q) [previously scheduled for 23.03.2021].

As only two of the eight rounds of the George Higgins and Reg. Davey winter eclectics had been played, it was decided to cancel these competitions for 2020/21.

Additional information about the above and other matters will be contained in the Minutes of the meeting that Alex Henderson will shortly be circulating to you.

Inter-club Matches

Our Match Secretary, Paul Cox, has provided East Brighton and Banstead with a number of possible dates to play our AWAY matches against them that were scheduled for 11th and 15th March respectively. He is also waiting for confirmation from Singing Hills and Chipstead regarding their availability for the scheduled HOME matches on 7th April and 14th April respectively.

Currently, 26 members have expressed an interest in playing in our inter-club matches but, if you haven’t yet contacted me and wish to play, perhaps later in the season, just let me know.

CVGS in the News

Our Competitions Secretary, Paul Dixon, has volunteered to provide the West Sussex County Times with periodical reports of CVGS’ activities, so look out for these in forthcoming editions.

CVGS Seniors’ Open Tuesday, 6th July 2021

We’ve received over 20 entry forms from guest players already. Judging by the response experienced by other clubs e.g. Bognor Regis there appears to be a pent-up demand for opens this year.

As members, you can sign up for our Open on the Cottesmore website, in the same way as you did for Tuesday competitions last year. Please note that those of you who signed up before last weekend will have to do so again as an ‘issue’ occurred, which wiped out the list of member entrants for the Open.

Revision of the CVGS Constitution including financial authorities

Chairman Bill Chaffe is heading up a small group including Alex Henderson, David Abbott, Dave Owen and Ron Vance to review the above with the goal of completing this by the time we resume playing golf on 29th March. Sometimes I think Bill’s optimism knows no bounds.

Trophy Presentations

We are looking to hold a gathering in the Challis, probably towards the end of June, at which trophies and prizes can be given to the winners of the various CVGS competitions. When a date is confirmed I will let you know.

Some light relief, courtesy of Nigel Tomsett

THE TEN BEST CADDIE RESPONSES

Number 10

Golfer - I think I’m going to drown myself in the lake.

Caddie - Think you can keep your head down that long?

Number 9

Golfer - I’d move heaven and earth to break 100 on this course.

Caddie - Try heaven, you’ve already moved most of the earth.

Number 8

Golfer - Do you think my game is improving?

Caddie - Yes...you miss the ball much closer now.

Number 7

Golfer - Do you think I can get there with a 5 iron?

Caddie - Eventually.

Number 6

Golfer - You’ve got to be the worst caddie in the world.

Caddie - I don’t think so – that would be too much of a coincidence.

Number 5

Golfer - Please stop checking your watch – it distracts me

Caddie - It’s not a watch – it’s a compass.

Number 4

Golfer - How do you like my game?

Caddie - It’s very good – personally, I prefer golf.

Number 3

Golfer - Do you think it’s a sin to play on Sunday?

Caddie - The way you play, it’s a sin on any day.

Number 2

Golfer - This is the worst course I’ve ever played on.

Caddie - This isn’t the golf course. We left that an hour ago.

Number 1

Golfer - That can’t be my ball, it’s too old

Caddie - It’s been a long time since we teed off sir.

I hope you enjoy the rest of your week and look forward to becoming acquainted again with your clubs.

Erik

CVGS Captain 2021

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Video of the Week

Bryson DeChambeau is all about distance, especially off the tee. Yes, he's made huge changes to his physique to help him on his way, but without a driver that performs it's a waste of time. So, which driver does he use? Well, the Cobra Radspeed that is available through us!

We hope you enjoyed this week's newsletter. As always, if you have anything that you'd like to contribute please speak to one of the pro shop team. We'll see you at the club over the coming days.

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