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Festival of Golf Week

West Cornwall Golf Club held its annual Festival of Golf last week and saw over 750 players taking to the course over the week.

Monday was a 3 person team event with the best two scores counting, sponsored by Antony Richards Property Sevices. In good conditions the scoring was very good with the winners, John Mallett, Gary Wal and Tom Maddern managing to amass 88 points. In second place, Viv Rowe, Yolanda Drinkwater and Mike Masters scored 85 points, the same score as Tom Ruhrmund, James Franklin & Dan Bagshaw. Just 1 point further back were Mark Hughes, Kevin Nankervis and Ian Hodge beating Peter Verran, Reggie Kemp and Tim Rowat on countback.

Tuesday was a mixed greensomes sponsored by Philps Pasties. The scoring was good again with husband and wife pairing, Phil & Debbie Sedgeman taking victory on 45 points. In second place, a point back were Gill Prodger and Peter Verran with John & Yolanda Drinkwater taking third spot with 42. 3 pairs then all had 41 points, being Mandy & Keith Dennison, Mark Hutchings & Carolyn Amy-Brooks and Marje Parnell & Frank Curnow.

Wednesday was a better ball sponsored by The Watermill. This was a very tight affair apart from the runaway winners, Ollie Naylor and Andy Postans who scored a superb 47 points. There were then 5 pairs on 44 points and a further 3 pairs on 43 points to complete the prize placings. Second place went to Jon Mallett & Gary Wal, third were Steve Jones and Simon Sharp, fourth Marje Parnell and Debbie Sedgeman with Kevin Nankervis and Steve Murphy coming fifth.

Thursday was the seniors event and this was an individual stableford. John Weaver won with 41 points on countback from Robin Smith. In third place was Richard Johnson from Carlyon Bay on 38 points with Keith Dennison fourth on 37. Mike Knowles picked up fifth spot with 36 points.

Friday was a 4-person team event sponsored by Citrus Print Solutions. The format saw one score counting on the first 6 holes, 2 scores on the second 6 holes, 3 scores on the next 5 holes and all 4 scores on the last hole. A huge score of 90 points, effectively 16 under, won the day for Dean Tulley, Gary Wal, Tom Maddern and Phil Moyle. Second place went to Paul Jackson, Lewis Jackson, Jim Oliver & Dave Tregidgo from Porthpean Golf Club on 88 points, whilst Howard Smith, Tom Haley, Shaun Parnell & Davey Tilley from Bowood Park scored 87. Ross Hutchings, Tom Newman, Jordan Musitano & David Hanley scored 86 for 4th place and Perran Griffin, Gary Wignall, Rod Handyside & Lee Bushby scored 85 for 5th place by virtue of their back 9 score.

The final day, Saturday was the ever popular Texas Scramble sponsored by County Confectionery with over 200 players taking to the course. The scoring proved to be ridiculously low with 5th place taken with a score of 49.7 (19.3 under!) from Matt Richards, Ben Easterling, Perran Griffin and Alan Hampshire. 4th and 3rd both scored 49.3 but it was the team of Mark Hughes, Nick Hatton, Ian Hodge and Dave Phillips who took the honours from Alex Glasson, Joel Cameron, Matt Dove and Club Captain Richard Glasson. Second place went to Rob Broadbridge, Giles Piper, Ian Pleasants and Mark Hutchings with 49.2 but it was the team from Bowood Park of Howard Smith, Tom Haley, Richard Putt & Cameron Putt who took the spoils with an unbelievable 48 (21 under).

Click here to view a full list of results.


The Scott-Brown Trophy

Click here to view a full list of the results from Sunday, 9 July.

From the Trackman data we can see that although Harry's average Club speed only increased by 0.8 mph his average carry increased by 10.9 yards and his average total distance by 4.4 yards. This is even more astonishing as his average smash factor on these longer drives wasn't as good as with his old shoes suggesting that he actually didn't strike them as well, but his increased traction with the ground gained him that extra distance. His shot dispersion was also much tighter with the correct shoes.

After hitting balls in the correctly sized shoes and going back to his old shoes Harry said that he felt his feet were not stable enough and they didn't feel good. To quote Harry:

"I feel such an idiot, I spend my life working on trying to improve my game and I had neglected the importance of correctly sized shoes"

Harry's is now wearing my old shoes, which were his size (10.5 and medium width) as I'm now wearing a full size smaller (9.5 with Medium width).

FootJoy do 4 width fittings (Narrow, Medium, Wide, Extra Wide) as most golfers tend to buy bigger sizes to accommodate the width of their foot not realising that wider shoes are available.

Simply click here and book yourself in to our event to get fitted for the correct size.