To start with this week, it has been great hearing feedback from all of our members about our new website and newsletter that we launched around a month ago. We hope you find it useful!

If you haven't checked out our new website, please click here or visit www.bleadonhillproshop.co.uk. 

If there is any feature or news you would like to see in the newsletter each week, please come and have a chat with us in the pro shop, or click here to get in touch to let us know your thoughts.

In our first few mails we ran our brand, price, fit survey where we asked you what aspect you thought was the most important when it came to buying new clubs. Many thanks to all who entered, and it was great to see that the overwhelming majority of our golfers felt that being correctly fitted was the most important. 

As a small incentive for completing this we offered a dozen Callaway Warbird balls to one of the entrants, so congratulations to Caroline Phillips who was picked out of the hat as our lucky winner.


 

Just a quick note that our last 2 mid-week 9 hole stablefords of the year will be taking place on the 7th and 13th of October.

If you are interested, click here to get in touch or call in to the pro shop to find out more.

We look forward to seeing you.


 

Golf, perhaps more so than any other sport, has a variety of unwritten rules that can be difficult to interpret and enforce. A failure to adhere to this esoteric code can leave you in a situation where your playing partners or competitors are accusing you of poor sportsmanship. 

During the Solheim Cup on Sunday the European's found themselves in such a situation. After America's Alison Lee picked up a putt she believed to have been conceded, things turned a little ugly when Europe were awarded the hole. Who was right and who was wrong? 

It's such a difficult call to make and one I'm sure none of us would have felt comfortable making under such intense pressure. Do you go by the letter of the law or the more arbitrary standards of sportsmanship and fair play? There can be numerous instances of such a situation during every round you play and knowing what's the right or wrong thing to do can be tough, especially if you're playing with an inexperienced golfer. 

What do you think? Perhaps we should do away with gimmes full stop? Click here to let me know your thoughts.