Hello golfers,

Welcome to the latest edition of our weekly newsletter. In this week's email, we explore how often you hit the fairway compared to tour pros, we review all the latest news from the club, and we also have a video from a European Tour favourite. Enjoy the read.

Think what you could achieve...

Setting goals is a great way to measure your success throughout the season. No matter what level of golfer you are, you should be setting yourself targets. These should be a mixture of more easily achievable goals along with some far-reaching ones.

Man of the moment, Justin Thomas is a goal setter. This came to light in the interview following his success of winning the FedEx Cup and a tasty wee $10,000,000 cheque. Justin showed the world press his mobile phone screen where he had typed up his goals back in February.

Now Justin had set himself some lofty goals for the 2017 season, but what a season it has been.

As the 2017 season draws to an end, this is the best time to start thinking about your 2018 goals.

What would you like to achieve?

Start jotting down some goals, these could include handicap targets, competition wins, Club Championship targets as examples.

Let’s plan to make 2018 your best season ever. Remember the old adage ‘failing to plan, is planning to fail’

Junior golf assessment day

Our Junior Golf Academy lead coach Kevin McNiven is holding an Assessment day on the Saturday, 7 October for all the children currently attending our weekly coaching sessions and for any other youngsters looking to either start playing or improve their game.

To enlist on this day, simply give us a call on 01738 440678 or email info@noahsarkgolf.com

We plan to have online booking for this event, which should be up and running in the next day or two.

You can book in multiple children and it is completely FREE, so bring all their friends the more the merrier!!

Assessments will last 15 minutes for each young golfer and time slots will be reserved accordingly, with times available between 2pm and 4pm.

Whilst the child is being assessed we will ask the parent/ guardian to fill out a questionnaire also asking what day and time will be best for them for the classes to be on.

Play Better Golf – with Niall McGill

How wide should I stand?

The width you stand with your feet is such an important part of your set up, but is something that is often over looked.

For most players, when playing a mid-iron your feet should be shoulders width apart. This will help give you balance throughout your swing, but will also allow you to create a good body turn and generate your maximum power.

If your stance gets too wide, then you will find it very difficult to rotate your shoulders as your hips will be overly restricted. This will tend to cause your left arm to collapse on your backswing and result in a huge loss in power.

If your stance gets too narrow, your balance will be poor and this leads to a much more hands and arms led swing. Handsy swings tend to spray the ball about the golf course and make it hard to keep the ball on the short grass.

By way of practice and to check how wide your stance really is, simply stand in front of a full-length mirror and make your address position. You may be surprised with what you see!

If you are interested in taking some coaching to help improve your game, then don’t hesitate, give us a call today on 01738 440678 or email info@noahsarkgolf.com or book online www.noahsarkgolf.com/book-online

New member offer!

Our amazing ‘New Member’ 18 months for 12 Season Ticket promotion kicks off this Sunday, 1 October. You can join North Inch Golf Course NOW and play unlimited golf all the way through until 31st March 2019.

For more information, click here.