The new dual carriageway to the Industrial Estate in Wrexham is coming along at an excellent rate, due largely to the relatively dry weather which allows very heavy earth moving equipment to make progress without getting bogged down in mud and soft ground.
The reason that I open with these remarks this week because the Wrexham golf club is having its normal entrance totally obliterated by a change in levels of the road which runs literally feet away from the golf course so the diggers and lorries are now actually working on our main drive and building a new curved road on the front of the eleventh tee which, when tarmaced over with bitumen, will lead directly out of our new entrance and straight on to the new roundabout. It means a new gate a little wider than the old one, but weaving the car through barriers and datum posts, especially in the dark, poses problems all of their own.
The par three course of our neighbours at Clays has virtually been obliterated as a cut swathe from the
Holt Road through to
Bryn Estyn Lane is now ready for top surfacing as soon as the second, lower roundabout has been built just below the Gredington Arms pub.
Part of the contract entered into with the Wrexham County Borough Council in conjunction with Birse Civils, the main contractors, was the provision of a new ninth tee as the new road comes within a clubs length of the old medal tee. This has been accomplished in fine style and was turfed last week and, from the road, presents an excellent example of tee construction. The eighth hole has temporarily been removed from play but we have utilized the par three hole on the practice ground in its place.
I must add that this entire disturbance has had a minimal effect on the running of the golf club which remains open to visitors and members alike, so our thanks are to the contractors for their sympathetic approach to the job.
Our club played their midweek Stableford for December on the 30th November which was the nearest Wednesday to the beginning of the month.
Winner was Roberts Butcher with 43 points for a stand alone victory from three cards reading 42 points, each being ranked on back nine holes and in the names of Arwel Morris, Chris Church and Malcolm Fennah. Mark Holdcroft was in fifth place with the better of three 41 point cards with John Lloyd and Steve Mackenzie owning sixth and seventh place.
The December medal was just that, a medal event which was won by Andrew Hunt with 79 – 15 – 64 from second placed Alan Harris on 79 – 10 – 69 and then Richard Williams who scored 87 – 18 – 69. The leading three were followed by Gary Murt, net 69; Cliff Jones, 70; Stephen Wright,70; Ian Bennett Jones,70; Alan Evans,70; Steve Mackenzie,70; and Steve Lloyd, also with a net 70.
The ladies played the front nine holes in a competition that comprised teams of three with two scores to count. Winners were Jane Mullett-Prandle, Mary Bainbridge and Freda Darlington with 41 points followed by second placed Wendy Roberts, Angela Penn and Janet Brand with 34. All in all, nine teams took part in the event.