Better weather I’m sure that you will agree, but the high winds certainly played havoc with the scores of club competitions. Wind has a devastating effect in that for a right handed player, wind from the left to the right of the golf course can be a nightmare in shot making terms. Most right hander’s have a propensity to move the ball from left to right in the air during flight. If this flight can be reproduced on a regular basis, and moves about the same distance off centre each time, then we refer to it as a “fade”. There is a fine margin of error between that stroke and a more powerful movement to the right, usually with the ball landing in the right hand rough, which on this occasion is referred to as a “slice”, caused by the club face contacting the ball when it is usually facing about one o’clock relative to a twelve a clock desired direction. And then there’s the descending angle of the swing…but that another long story.
Suffice to say, the faders and slicers had an interesting weekend as the winds persevered over the two days.
Wrexham entered the third week of the Sunday morning league and again suffered from the wind over this exposed links. Winners this week with 38 points were Ian Darlington and Mike Fellowes followed by Danny Moore and Paul Hogan on 37. This is the third week that Paul has featured in the first two places so he obviously finds the competition to his liking. Duncan Fellowes and Mike Darlington were in third place with 35 with Paul Roberts and Andre Jones fourth on 32. I’m sure that next week Paul will inform me of how many players participate in the event each week which has proved to be very popular in the past.
Wrexham ladies played a nine holes better ball off 7/8 of handicap allowance and witnessed a win for the partnership of Pauline Archer and Della Evans with 18 points resulting in a card scrutiny for the lead position from five cards with the same total there were twenty entries all told.