Senior Section - New Mills Golf Club

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 on Monday and Wednesday when we play a shortened course of 13 or 14 holes and Friday, when we start earlier at 8:30am and play a full 18 holes. 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 Medal 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 11 other clubs, several of which are played in the Manchester and District Seniors Golf League (click link ‘Seniors Matches’ below).

Level of ability isn’t important (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. Whatever your age or ability you’ll be made extremely welcome. For more information contact any of the people listed below or simply turn up and enjoy one of the roll ups.

We’re sure you will enjoy it.

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WHO DO I CONTACT?

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Seniors Contacts

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senior competitions

Seniors Matches

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Senior Players Match Results

SENIORS KNOCKOUT COMPETITIONS – UPDATED DRAW

Knockout Doubles Draw

Knockout Singles Draw

FOLLOW THE RESULTS OF SENIORS MATCHES

Full details of matches can be found on the link ‘Seniors Match Results’ above.

Congratulations to Arthur Oliver winner of the Marcliffe Cup

35 members of the Senior’s section took part in this morning’s Marcliffe Cup which was won by Arthur Oliver with 38 points in a card play off. 2nd place went to Peter Moseley with Bob Palmer coming third also with 38 points.

13 players achieved par or better (36+) showing just how close the competition was.

The Marcliffe is a popular and well supported event in the Senior’s calendar and is the brainchild of Cliff Ardern who each year provides many of the bottles of wine as prizes.

Receiving his prize from Cliff, Arthur admitted he was guilty of ‘drug taking’ having doubled his dose of painkillers prior to the event following his awful round the previous day!

Many thanks to everyone who took part and to Sam and Kallis for their help in helping to set up the course.

Additional prizes were awarded to the following:

Nearest pin on 4th: Rob Holden (lower handicap); Alan Woolley (higher handicap)

Nearest pin on 6th: Ian Harding (low handicap); (no prize presented for higher handicap player)

Nearest pin on 8th: Trev Jones (lower handicap); (no prize presented for higher Handicap)

Nearest pin on 16th: Graham Hadfield (lower handicap); Mike Bryant (higher handicap)

Nearest line on 9th: Trevor Oxley

Second shot nearest pin on 13th: John Tennant

Second shot nearest pin on 17th: Pete Moseley

The special trophy for a player getting their tee shot inside the circle around the hole on the 15th was once again not won by anyone so Graham Hadfield, who won the trophy last year, was invited to take the cup home for the current year!

Stan wins Vet’s Cup – Friday 26th July 2019

Congratulations to Stan Spencer winner of today’s Vet’s Cup with an impressive net 65. Second place with net 67 went to Mr. Captain helped no doubt by his very impressive birdie on stroke index 1! Third place went to Pat Walker also with 67 whilst 4 players came in with 69 Tom James, Bob Palmer, Paul Holt and Clive Garside.

The day was perfect with a slight breeze helping to lower the temperature a little whilst the green’s and fairways were once more in tip top condition.

Many thanks to everyone who took part. To view the full scorecard visit ‘How Did I do?’ in the members section

SENIORS QUADAM – MAY 2019

A wonderful day, blue sky all around, course in top class condition, and a bundle of high scores.

From the outset, scores of around level 5’s were predicted, and so it proved.

Once again we were happy to greet and welcome back such a lot of friends that regularly enter this competition. We thank them for their continued support, and hope that the course conditions and refreshments offered were well received.

Congratulations to Rick Boffey and his team winning with 90 points and a decisive back nine of an incredible 50 points (and at the cost of a voluntary handicap reduction too <well done Stan>); and to second place Simon Belt’s team, also on 90, underpinned by an amazing round by Bob Gaskill.

Third place had 89 points, and four teams each had scores of 87, 86, and 85 points – top class scoring.

Winners receiving gift vouchers were:-

FIRST – 90 pts : Vouchers for £80 R Boffey, D Cooper, S Spencer, P Holland

SECOND – 90 pts : Vouchers for £60 S Belt, M White, B Gaskhill, C Hall

THIRD – 89 pts : Vouchers £40 L Leverington, J Gillibanks, R Hallsworth, W Steele

Nearest the Pin receiving £20 gift vouchers :-

Mike Ashworth ( 6^th), K Rigby (8^th), L Walker (10^th), J Gillibanks (15^th), K Fieldsstead (16th)

Thanks to all those senior members carrying out the essential jobs of ball spotting, booking in, managing the car parking, and supporting the event in other ways; and to the ladies who supplied cakes and ran the half-way house; all of whom helped to make the day a great success,

Contributions at the half-way house made in excess of £70, which will be passed on to the ‘Music in Hospitals and Care Charity’.

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Annual Easter Egg Competition 15th April 2019

18 members of the Seniors section along with 18 members of the Ladies section took part in this morning’s Annual Easter Egg Competition. Played over 13 holes, as a fourball Stableford, with the best Ladies and best Gents scores to count on each hole, the winners, with an excellent score of 63 points, given the wild and windy conditions, were Mike Howard, Hugh Jones, Brenda Grimshaw and Alison Rudder.

Second place with 55 points were Bob Palmer, Jeff Stewart, Joyce Hadfield and Jackie Piper with 55 points who beat Tom James, Rod Taylor, Lady Captain and Angela Adamson on a card play off.

Thanks to everyone who took part and especially to Jean Taylor who once again organised the event which raised £56 for club funds.

The raffle for an Easter hamper, organised by Janet Bowers, raised a further £261.50.

Excellent start to the new season

The 4 seniors pairings made the perfect start to the new season by winning all 4 matches against Glossop today thereby securing the maximum 8 points.

Well done to Pat Walker and Ian Harding; Trev Jones and Ian Bowers both winning comfortably 5 &4. Also to John Tennant and Mr. Captain who won 3 & 2 and Bob Palmer and Dave Good 1up.

Derek Horsey Charity Competition 5th April 2019

A blustery, strong wind made playing conditions very difficult this morning for the 32 Seniors who took part in this year’s Derek Horsey Charity Competition.

Played over 18 holes, off yellow tees (some of which were pretty far back!) and as a medal it proved quite a daunting challenge for many of us.

The winner was Chris Hall, who also won this competition in 2018. Chris came in with a superb net 67 with Bob Palmer runner up with a very good net 71.

Chris and Bob will now go on to represent us against other clubs, some of which we already play during the season but also including others from Greater Manchester and Cheshire who are not part of our normal fixture list.

We wish them every success in the first round and look forward to watching them, hopefully, progress through the competition.

A big thank you to everyone who played this morning and helped us raise £165 for the charity. Well done!

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Seniors Raise over £100 for Comic Relief

Well done and many thanks to everyone who took part or donated to this morning’s effort which raised £106 for Comic Relief.
Playing a Texas Scramble, two teams were inseparable and achieved an ‘honourable draw’ with a score of 43.3 namely Pete Griffiths, Pat Walker and Ian Harding in one team and Graham Elliott, Rod Taylor and Mike Howard in the other. A bottle of wine was presented to an unexpected guest from north of the border who is also pictured with two of his buddies !

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Seniors AGM 1st March 2019

At the start of the season the course was not in the best of condition following an extremely wet winter. However, the extensive drainage work carried out by Nigel, Mike, Ian Bowers and other volunteers soon paid dividends and the long hot summer meant the course dried out and conditions were perfect for some very enjoyable golf.

Of the 22 matches we played throughout the season we won 9 lost 12 and halved 1.

In the league, we topped our group winning 6 of our 8 games and therefore qualified for the final, along with 5 other clubs, at Shrigley Hall. Although we didn’t win we didn’t come last either!

Out going Chairman Phil Smallman thanked everyone who acted as organisers for matches and who organised the Senior’s internal competitions.

Winners of the various competitions were presented with their prizes and a full list of all of these can be seen by clicking on ‘Competitions’.

Three Seniors achieved ‘holes in one’ during 2018 namely Chris Hall, Mike Howard and Ian Harding. Well done to all three!

Two very successful trips were organised, one to Hawkestone Park, organised by Tony Jones ,and the other to Heron’s Reach organised by Alan Blakeman.

Both the Senior’s Open, organised by Phil, and the Quad Am organised by Clive Garside were very successful and once again the organisers were well supported by members.

This year’s ‘Player of the Year’ Trophy was presented, at the Senior’s Dinner, to Alan Blakeman for all his hard work and effort over the past twelve months. The photos below shows Alan receiving his trophy from Phil.

Bob Palmer was appointed as Chair for 2019 with Pat Walker as Vice Chair. Tom James was reappointed as Secretary as was Clive Garside as Treasurer.

Bob thanked Phil on behalf of everyone for all the hard work he had put in to running the senior’s section over the last two years which provided a fitting end to a very successful season.

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Seniors Annual Dinner 5th March 2019

Over 50 people (Seniors and their spouses/partners) enjoyed a great evening on Tuesday. Everyone enjoyed the excellent meal whilst the quiz, put together by Phil and Zena, proved ‘taxing’ especially for one table!

Alan Blakeman, who wasn’t able to attend the Seniors’ AGM, received his trophy from Phil Smallman as ‘Player of the Year’ for 2018. Well done Alan!

Many thanks from all the Seniors to outgoing Chairman, Phil, for organising such a fabulous evening.

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Second Hole in One in One Week at Seniors Roll Up

Well done to Ian Harding who became the second member of the Seniors to get a hole in one this week! Playing off the red tees, Ian achieved his hole in one like Mike on the 4th.

Unlike his only other hole in one, which was a decade ago, this time Ian had the pleasure of actually seeing the ball go in the hole!

Congratulations Ian.

If this keeps on happening I guess we’re going to have a lot of inebriated golfers wending their way home!

Yet Another Hole in One for Mike !

Congratulations to Mike Howard who achieved another hole in one this time on the short par 3 fourth. Well done Mike!

Hole in One for Chris

An excellent 7 iron into the sunshine on the 8th resulted in another hole in one for Chris Hall.

However, it was yet another occasion where Chris never saw his ball go into the hole! In fact, his two playing partners spent ages trying to locate his ball. In the bunkers, behind the green even in the rough on either side of the green. Having finally given up any hope of finding the lost ball, one of his partners went to remove the flag before putting so revealing the mysterious Callaway itself which had decided to hide in the hole!

We done Chris a superb ‘5 point hole’

SENIORS HOLE-IN-ONE ROLL OF HONOUR

DATE	ACHIEVED BY	HOLE
2019 – March 1	Ian Harding	4
2019 – February 27	Mike Howard	4
2018 – Dec 14	Chris Hall	8
2017 – May 27	Chris Hall	16
2017 – May 3	Ken Lee	4
2017 – Feb 6	Ged Armitt	4
2016 – Nov 28	Bernard Pickering	8
2016 – Oct 31	Phil Smallman	4
2016 – Oct 17	Phil Smallman	6
2016 – Oct 17	Alan Blakeman	6