WELCOME TO THE SENIORS
The Seniors section is open to members aged 55 or over who enjoy playing friendly, yet competitive golf.
We play a ‘roll up’ every Monday, Wednesday and Friday throughout the year starting at 9:00am, We try to vary the format thus providing a bit of fun but still with a competitive edge! Whilst everyone wants to win, the real attraction is the camaraderie and friendly banter which we believe is a key feature and strength of our club.
In addition to the ‘roll ups’ a number of board competitions and Stableford handicap qualifying events are held throughout the season (click on the link ‘Seniors Competitions’ to find out more). We also play friendly home and away matches against 10 other clubs, several of which are played in the Manchester and District Seniors Golf League (click link ‘Seniors Matches’ below) of which we were champions in 2019.
Like all other clubs, we were badly affected by the Corona virus in 2020/1 experiencing extended periods of lockdown as well as other restrictions. However, we are now back to normal and playing all our fixtures and club competitions this year.
Whatever your age or ability you’ll be made extremely welcome. Our current handicaps range from single figures through to 36) and whilst most members are retired, our age range is from ‘youngsters’ in their fifties right up to ‘more senior gentlemen’ in their eighties.
For more information contact any of the committee (Senior Contacts) or simply turn up and enjoy one of the roll ups.
We’re sure you will enjoy it.
Keith Wright (Senior’s Chairman 2022/3)
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Manchester and District Golf Alliance Seniors Knock out
Hole in One for Ken!
Congratulations to octogenarian Ken Lee who achieved his second hole in one this morning on the par 3 fourth. His previous hole in one was also on the same hole in May 2017. Well done Ken!
Atrocious weather mars the start of the new golf season!
Today’s opening match of the 2022 season against Glossop, was badly affected by heavy rain, strong winds and poor visibility so much so that the four social games all terminated early on with each game being deemed ‘ honourable draws’!
In the league games three of the games agreed a result after a few holes depending on how the match lay whilst the final game continued to the bitter end!
Let’s hope that next week’s fixture against High Peak will enjoy better weather!
Congratulations to the hardy souls from both clubs!
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Fred wins the Derek Horsey 2022 in convincing style!
Congratulations to Fred Markham who won this year’s Derek Horsey Charity Competition with a nett 65 , three shots ahead of Tom James who was one of 5 players to record 68.
Taking advantage of his handicap, Fred played steadily and carefully around the course and was a worthy winner.
The first two players go on to represent the club in the knock out stage of the competition against other clubs in the Manchester and District league. Let’s hope that this year’s representatives go that little bit further than Peter Coull and John Tennant who reached the semi final last year.
A full list of scores can be found by going onto ‘How Did I do’
Many thanks to the 34 members who took part and enjoyed the very warm sunny morning which raised £170 for the charity.
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Senior’s AGM Friday 25th February 2022
Senior’s Chairman, Keith Wright, presented prizes to the winners of the various Senior’s competitions held in 2021, A full list of all the winners has been emailed to everyone plus there is a copy on the Senior’s board in the clubhouse. By scrolling further down this page you can see photos plus find out more about some of the competitions held throughout the year.
A special trophy is awarded annually by the Chairman to his ‘Player of the Year’. This year’s worthy winner was Mike Howard who not only featured several times in this year’s list of prize winners, including having the best aggregate score in the 5 stableford competitions, but who also won the prestigious Captain’s Day Trophy earlier in the year beating much younger opposition! Added to this, Mike puts in a lot of time and effort in other ways assisting the Green’s staff with mowing and other tasks around the course so Keith’s decision was a popular choice.
We were particularly pleased that Cliff Ardern could come along, thanks to son Nigel, to present his trophy, the Marcliffe Cup, to Chris Keene .
Also Alan Woolley, who having been unable to collect the Vet’s Cup at the club presentation evening earlier in the year, finally received his trophy!
2021 has been a good year for the Seniors. There were two excellent residential events organised by Clive to Portal and to Hill Valley by Rick Boffey.
We weren’t able to replicate our success in winning the league, as in 2019 (there was no competition in 2020 due to Covid), but we have had, in many ways, a very successful last two years. John Tennant and Peter Coull reached the semi finals of the Derek Horsey Competition, getting farther than any of our previous representatives. In addition we have attracted many new members to the Seniors.
In some ways it’s been a difficult two years . Having to book tee times via BRS has posed challenges, plus increased demand from others to play the course together with the introduction of WHS which has posed its own unique problems have all taken up time. Nevertheless, we have coped pretty well thanks to the efforts of the committee and in particular our two Chairmen, Keith, in 2021, and Jeff Stewart in 2020.
The following were appointed as members of the Senior’s committee for the coming year:
Chairman : Keith Wright
Vice Chair: Pat Walker
Secretary: Tom James
Treasurer: Clive Garside
Plus Neil Stafford who will take on the role of Vice Chair in 2023 and will also assist the committee this year.
We look forward to a good 2022 and hope as many players as possible will take part, not only in club competitions and roll ups, but also in the matches, both league and friendlies, throughout the year.
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Fred wins the Derek Horsey 2022 in convincing style!
Congratulations to Fred Markham who won this year’s Derek Horsey Charity Competition with a nett 65 , three shots ahead of Tom James who was one of 5 players to record 68.
Taking advantage of his handicap, Fred played steadily and carefully around the course and was a worthy winner.
The first two players go on to represent the club in the knock out stage of the competition against other clubs in the Manchester and District league. Let’s hope that this year’s representatives go that little bit further than Peter Coull and John Tennant who reached the semi final last year.
A full list of scores can be found by going onto ‘How Did I do’
Many thanks to the 34 members who took part and enjoyed the very warm sunny morning which raised £170 for the charity.
Hole in One for Chairman Keith!
Congratulations to senior’s Chairman Keith Wright playing in Saturday’s competition, for his hole in one on the par 3 fourth!
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Turkey Trot 2021
Forty eight Seniors took part in this morning’s annual Turkey Trot. Played as a pairs betterball Stableford over 13 holes, the winners were Phil Holland and Andy Chadwick with an excellent 36 points two ahead of John Tennant and Bernard Pickering with a very good 34 points.
The other prize winners who all scored 32 points were:
3rd Rod Taylor and Alan Woolley; 4th Bob Palmer and Ken Lee and 5th Phil Pearson and Gary Yates.
Many thanks to all those who took part in a very enjoyable morning’s golf followed by some delicious festive turkey rolls and pea and ham soup served by Kirsty and her team. A full list of all the scores can be found on the senior’s notice board
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Seniors Trip to Hill Valley 29th September – 1st October
Sixteen members of the New Mills Golf Club Seniors Section enjoyed their annual trip at the Hill Valley Hotel and Golf resort near Whitchurch, set in the heart of the rolling Shropshire countryside.
Whilst the weather forecast looked terrible, except for the first few holes of the first round, everyone came off the course reasonably dry.
On Wednesday they played in pairs on the par 66 Sapphire Course, the shorter course at Hill Valley, with tricky, tight greens and awkward approach shots making pin point shot accuracy a must.
Congratulations to the winning pair, Stan Spencer and Chris Hall.
Thursday was the first day on the much longer 6714 yards par 73 Emerald Course, the flagship course at Hill Valley Golf Club. The course sweeps around beautiful, undulating fairways through natural water hazards and strategically placed bunkers, presenting a real golfing challenge suiting the big hitters.
Winning by only one point congratulations go to Rod Taylor, John Tennant, Phil Pearson and Alex Holland.
Friday was the day for a Texas Scramble and again the Emerald Course proved a real test of good driving, approach shots and stamina.
The winning team of Rod Taylor, Chris Hall, Mr Captain and Rick Boffey staggered home
after three days of great golf.
The hotel, food and staff were absolutely fabulous and everyone really enjoyed the golf and just as importantly, the pleasure of spending time with great friends.
Many thanks to Rick for organising a very enjoyable event.
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Senior’s Knock out Final
Congratulations to Peter Coull who won this year’s singles knock out beating Steve Parr in a very closely fought final 1 up. Commiserations to Steve who was runner up in the doubles with Peter Griffiths again losing by the same close margin!
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Senior’s Stableford Best Aggregate Scores
We have now completed the 5 qualifying Senior Stableford competitions for the 2021 season, and based on the results of these I can reveal the winner of the best aggregate score (this being the combined score from each competitors best 3 results)
The winner with a combined total of 119 (43+37+39) points is Mike Howard
Runner up with the same total of 119 (40+41+38) points is Phil Holland
Third place goes to Pat Walker with 118 (40+37+41) points
The full results are available on HowdidIdo with the breakdown each individuals’ totals. Mike and Phil had the same total points however after discussions with Sam and reference to England Golf the differentiator was deemed to be who had the best individual competition score, which was Mike with 43 points in Stableford No.3.
Many congratulations to Mike on his continued run of success and commiserations to Phil for a terrific effort.
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George Scott Trophy 2021
Many congratulations to Garry Fletcher winner of today’s George Scott Trophy with an impressive 42 points. Garry didn’t have a great first nine with just 15 points but excelled on the back nine with an excellent 27 points which secured victory over Trev Jones with 40 points. Rod Taylor was third with 39 with Rob Holden fourth on 38
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Pat and Brian win the Seniors Doubles 2021
Congratulations to Pat Walker and Brian Southworth winners of this year’s Doubles competition after a hard fought final in which they finished 1 up against Steve Parr and Peter Griffiths.
Winners Pat and Brian
The 4 finalists
Many thanks to everyone who took part and helped to make it a great knock out event once again
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Marcliffe Cup 2021
Congratulations to Chris Keene winner of today’s Marcliffe Cup with a score of 41 points. Runner up was Pat Walker with 40 points with Keith Wright in 3rd place with 39. Graham Hadfield (39) and Ken Lee (38) completed the prize winners.
Bottles of wine were awarded to nearest the pin:
4th: Phil Smallman
6th: Graham Hadfield
8th: Tom James
16th: Jeff Stewart
Other prize winners were:
Bill Sutton – nearest the line on the 9th
2nd shot nearest the pin on the 13th: Chris Keene
Sadly, no one managed to get into the circle around the pin on the 15th, so Graham Hadfield, who last achieved this in 2018, will again retain the cup until next year!
Many thanks to all 42 players who took part. It was lovely to see Cliff at both the start and end of the competition once again.
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Manchester and District Seniors Golf League
Sadly we were unable to repeat our performance of 2019 and in fact were bottom of our zone! Winners of this year’s final were Whitefield GC with Avro second and our zone winners, Marple third.
Pete and JT lose in the semi final of this year’s Derek Horsey Charity Competition
Unfortunately Peter Coull and John Tennant’s run in the Derek Horsey Charity Competition knock out came to an end this morning (10th September) when they lost their semi final match against Disley going 2 down.
Reaching the semi final stage of the competition is a fantastic achievement and on the day they were unfortunately giving away too many shots to the two guys from Disley.
Well done to both players for getting so far
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Alan Woolley wins Vet’s Cup 2021
Many congratulations to Alan Woolley on winning the 2021 Vets Cup. Alan won by 3 shots with an excellent medal score of 65. In second place was Phil Holland with 68, third place was Don Cooper also with 68 and fourth place goes to Jeff Stewart with 70.
The Vets Cup will be presented to Alan at the main Gents presentation evening later in the year, and the cash prizes will be presented to the top 4 places at the Seniors AGM.
The full results are available on HowdidIdo.
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Mike continues his success with a hole in one!
Congratulations to Mike Howard who followed up his success on Captain’s Day less than 2 weeks ago with a hole in one on the par three 10th today. It seems there is no stopping him at present!!
Captain’s Day July 10th 2021 won by Mike Howard!
Mike has been a member since 1972, before many of those playing today were even born! He was Club President in 1995 and this is his first major victory in over 50 years. Those of us who play regularly with Mike in the senior’s section know what a steady, reliable player he is. He wouldn’t have won any prizes today for the longest drive but he would certainly have been up there alongside the best at finding the middle of the fairway. Well done Mike. Your win today will encourage many of the Senior’s section to continue to get out of bed early in the morning on Monday, Wednesday and Friday and give everyone real hope that nothing is impossible!
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Seniors trip to Portal June 2021
Hole in One for Lester
Congratulations to Lester Cooper for his hole in one on the 4th this morning in his Seniors knock out doubles match. This is Lester’s second hole in one. The previous one being in a medal on the 8th. Sadly, Lester and his partner Dave Holt lost the match to brother Don and his partner Paul McCracken. However, his name does now enter the Senior’s Roll of Honour which can be viewed by clicking on the link above.
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Derek Horsey Charity Competition 12th April 2021
Many congratulations to Rod Taylor, winner of today’s Derek Horsey Charity Competition, with an excellent net 65. Three players came in with 68 – John Tennant, Peter Coull and Keith Wright. Traditionally, the two players with the best scores go on to represent the club in the knock out stages of the event against clubs from Derbyshire, Cheshire and Greater Manchester. Rod has indicated he doesn’t want to do this due to other commitments and so the two people with the next best scores JT and Peter will be our representatives in the knock out stages. Sadly this year’s Chairman, Keith, missed out on a card play off!
Many thanks to everyone who played this morning, on what turned out to be a very pleasant spring day. The event raised £165 for the charity which was set up in memory of Derek who was a key member of Reddish Vale Golf Club and one of the founders of the Manchester and District Seniors League.
To view the full score sheet visit ‘How Did I do’ under the Members section of the website.
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Seniors Stablefords 2021
Congratulations to Garry Fletcher winner of the first of the Senior’s Stablefords with 41 points . Originally scheduled for May 21st, the competition had to be put back until today, June 4th, because of atrocious weather. Today’s conditions were perfect : very warm, clear blue skies and no wind!
2nd place went to Pat Walker with 40 points whilst several people came in with 39. However, Keith Wright was credited with 3rd place and Alan Goodall 4th after a card play off.
June 18th: Well done to Phil Holland winner of today’s Stableford 2 competition with 40 points. Bob Palmer came second with 38 one ahead of Mike Howard who edged out Graham Hadfield after a card play off. A total of 28 Seniors took part this morning. Well done to everyone who played.
July 18th: Following on from his great victory on Captain’s Day, Mike Howard won today’s Stableford with a very impressive 43 points. Phil Holland continued his fine form by finishing second having won the last Seniors stableford event. 3rd place went to Clive Garside with 40 points who beat Rick Boffey on a card play off.
August 20th: Congratulations to Pat Walker winner of today’s Senior’s Stableford with 41 points. 2nd place went to Peter Griffiths with 39 with Alec Holland third on 38. Mike Howard was 4th with 37. Pat’s excellent round included 10 pars and two birdies
September 1st: The final seniors Stableford of the season was won in convincing style by Don Cooper with a very impressive 43 points two ahead of Stan Spencer with Mike Howard and Arthur Oliver both scoring 39.
SENIORS STABLEFORD BEST AGGREGATE SCORE 2021
We have now completed the 5 qualifying Senior Stableford competitions for the 2021 season, and based on the results of these I can reveal the winner of the best aggregate score (this being the combined score from each competitors best 3 results)
The winner with a combined total of 119 (43+37+39) points is Mike Howard
Runner up with the same total of 119 (40+41+38) points is Phil Holland
Third place goes to Pat Walker with 118 (40+37+41) points
The full results are available on HowdidIdo with the breakdown each individuals’ totals. Mike and Phil had the same total points however after discussions with Sam and reference to England Golf the differentiator was deemed to be who had the best individual competition score, which was Mike with 43 points in Stableford No.3.
Many congratulations to Mike on his continued run of success and commiserations to Phil for a terrific effort.
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Ladies and Seniors Annual Stableford 21st September 2020
A beautiful sunny morning made this year’s Ladies/Senior’s Betterball Stableford extremely enjoyable. With the best score from the Ladies and the best score for the Gents to count on each of the 13 holes, the winners, by a considerable margin with 65 points were Jean Taylor. Celia James, Alan Woolley and Don Cooper. (Unfortunately Alan wasn’t available whilst this was taken!!!)
Runners up with 62 points were Lady Captain, Joyce Hadfield, Bob Palmer and Alan Morton. 3rd, with 60 points, were Alison Rudder, Pam Boffey, Dave Good and Paul Lewis whilst 4th with 59 points were Jo Coull, Jane Gee, Tom James and Graham Hadfield.
Once again many thanks to Jean and Jeff for organising this popular fun event.
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Heron’s Reach September 2020
A small party of Seniors made the annual trip to Heron’s Reach. Three days of wonderful weather went some way to making up for the reduced numbers brought about by Co vid -19. If only the quality of the golf had matched the weather!
Dave Swindells emerged as the trip’s overall winner whilst Trevor Oxley was awarded the infamous golf statue!
A big thank you to Alan Blakeman for, once again, organising this year’s trip.
Congratulations to the winners of the Manchester and District Seniors League 2019!
Huge congratulations to our team led by Bob Palmer who won the 2019 league Trophy at Brookdale Golf Club for only the second time since the league was founded in 2002.
Playing conditions were ‘challenging’ as overnight, the remnants of Hurricane Humberto had dumped even more rain on an already saturated North West. Despite this, all 4 pairings played tremendously well with Bob Palmer and Graham Hadfield scoring an impressive 40 points which was matched by Ian Harding and John Tennant. These two pairs were backed up impressively by the other two pairs who both scored 35 namely Keith Wright and Trevor Jones and Peter Coull and Simon Belt. With the aggregate total of the best 3 pairs to count the result was:
1st New Mills 115 points
2nd Shrigley Hall 110
3rd Macclesfield 110
4th Dukinfield 108
5th Houldsworth 107
6th Marple 97
The winning team with Paul Deighton President of Brookdale GC
The last time we won this trophy was way back in 2005. Five members of that team are still active members of the current seniors -Mike Howard. Mike Richardson, Ged Armitt, Dave Good (not in the picture) and Tony Jones as is the Senior’s Chairman at the time Fred Markham and the Club Captain in 2005, Arthur Oliver.
We shouldn’t overlook the contributions made by everyone else who played in the league team in 2019 which enabled us to reach the final, namely: Phil Holland, Ian Bowers, Clive Garside, Dave Good, Pat Walker, Phil Smallman, Paul Holt, Dave Swindells, David Bray and Arthur Oliver. Well done to everyone who played their part in helping us achieve this trophy!
We’re very fortunate to have such a strong senior’s section at the club which is characterised by the camaraderie, friendship and competitiveness which exists in our roll ups every Monday, Wednesday and Friday and in our various competitions throughout the year. It’s not just the players who represented the league team who should share in this success, but all the others who played for the club throughout the season in the friendly fixtures against other clubs and everyone who turns up at the roll ups.
Well done to everybody!
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