After 20 years of grass cutting and the past 13 with us, our trusty old John Deere 1145 grass mower finally gave up the ghost a couple of weeks ago. What does that mean? Yep, time to go search for a new mower and I've found a great machine, that's already proving it's worth by the quality of cut and easy at which it's cutting the range. 

  

Our new mower is a John Deere 1565, the biggest and most powerful of the front deck range. With only 1300 hours on the clock, we should hopefully get a lot of years out of this one.

Winter Coaching Packages

Thanks to all of you that have booked up for our Winter Coaching Packages during the past week. 

Due to demand, Niall is now fully booked, but we still have places with Andrew and Jonny. 

The package on offer will run from 1st November through till 31st March. The package will offer 5x 1 hour lessons (1 per month from November to March) and will be at a greatly reduced rate over our standard prices.

Andrew and Jonny will be available 5 days per week.

Andrew McHardy - £125 
Jonny Belford - £100 

A great day of junior lessons at North Inch

I've just completed a great day of junior coaching at North Inch Golf Course and it was fantastic to see over 20 kids turn out on the day. We started the day with a 1 hour session with the 5-8yrs group, where we did some pitching, working on controlling how far our ball flew, followed by some mid iron play. We then moved over to the putting green, where the kids loved the putting challenges that I set up. 

Our next group was the 9-12 yrs, where we spent 2 hours working on their games. Again we started with some pitching work, then moved on to chipping at the green, followed by some putting work. We then moved to the golf course, where we played a 2 team Texas Scramble. 

The first hole ended in a half after team 2 missed their chance of winning form 10ft. The second hole was also very close and it ended in a flip situation where team 1 just missed out on the win. In the end a halved match was a pretty fair result and a great day was had by all.

  

The final session on the day was our 13-17 yr old group, where we had just a single player sign up. This player however was Logan Skelton, who's a regular at both North Inch and Noah's Ark. For this session, I decided to dust down my own clubs and Logan and I headed out for 10 holes on the North Inch Course. Logan played some great shots and following a rusty start by myself, I actually played reasonably well. 

So all in all it was great day and something that I'm planning on doing much more of through 2015.



Winter Season Membership at North Inch 

If you're looking to play some great value golf over the winter, then there's a great value winter season membership available at North Inch Golf Course. This membership will run from 1st October through until 31st March 2015. Prices are as follows

Adult - £97 Senior - £58 Concession - £58 Junior - £20  

If you're interested in joining then you can either pop into the starters box at the golf course or call them on 01738 636481.

If you just fancy playing some golf, then North Inch offers the best value golf in Perthshire. Green fee's are as follows:

Adult midweek Rd - £14  
Adult weekend Rd - £20  
Senior midweek Rd - £10  
Senior weekend Rd - £14

Junior Rd - £5 
2 Adults & 2 Juniors (any day after 2pm) - £20  
Twilight Round (after 5pm) - £10  
Members guest - £10

To book a tee time, just call the team at the starters box on 01738 636481.  

 

Playing a ball from below your feet

This week we are going to look at playing the ball when it lies below your feet. This shot is more difficult than when the ball is above your feet as your set up has to change considerably.

At address you must tilt further over from your waist than normal and bend more in your knees to help you get down to the ball. This "crouched" address position will cause your backswing to be shortened as you'll not manage to make a full turn. You'll need to aim a little left of target, as this lie will make your ball curve from left to right in the air, due to something called 'face plane tilt'.

It is essential that you stay down through impact and try to follow through, even though your swing will be restricted. The natural tendency is to stand up out of this crouched position on the follow through, but you must not as this will lead to the ball being topped. This is one of the hardest shots to play in golf so whenever you get a chance drop a couple of balls and give it a go.

Click here if you would like to book a lesson in with me.