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A very warm welcome to the following new members who have joined since my last update:

As I am sure you are all aware Emily Glover will be leaving us in early March when she starts her maternity leave.  I am very pleased to announce that Leigh Booth will be joining the club on the 6th February 2012, to cover Emily's position:  Leigh was previously employed at Adams Park in a similar role for a number of years and is looking forward to working with us to continue to develop the commercial side of our business.  Adams Park is much stronger on conferencing than we are so this will be an area that Leigh will focus on and develop for us.

 

I am also pleased to announce that James Malliff will be joining the club as Assistant General Manager on the 8th February, 2012.  As I am sure many of you are aware James is a very enthusiastic playing member of the club and will bring with him numerous ideas on how we can continue to improve the service we provide our members and visitors.  James will be working with us for approximately 6 months and during this time will focus on developing the golf side of the business and also helping me on new member development.  James will also manage and develop our Pro Shop.

 

Both Leigh and James are looking forward to working with us and I am very confident that they will both make a significant contribution to the on-going development of Hazlemere Golf Club.

 

Geoff Blofield & John Goulding were the first pair to challenge the Captain, Garry Hartley, and Gavin Cousins to a match on Thursday the 19th January.  It was a was a very tight game in really nice conditions and they were lucky with the weather as it brightened up when they reached the 1st green.  The donation to the Captain's charities - The Bunker Fund and Stroke Awareness - was much appreciated.  Garry and Gavin look forward to the next challenge!

 

Hazlemere has joined the SmartGolfer Network which currently has 24 clubs with reciprocal benefits for their members.  Hazlemere members can ring the Pro Shop of any of the network clubs, up to 5 days in advance, to get a tee time free of charge if one is available.  To get the full details of how the scheme works click here to download or view the SmartGolfer Reciprocal Rules.  To see the list of clubs currently participating click this link: http://www.smartgolfer.co.uk/hazlemere.php

 

Over the last 12 months we have experienced significant increases in food prices, but as a club we have absorbed these increases and maintained our selling prices.  Unfortunately we cannot continue to do this so we will be introducing a new menu on Tuesday 7th February and this will have the new selling prices.  We are expanding the menu introducing a number of new items such as an increased selection of Wraps, Club sandwiches, Panini and Pizza Baguettes as well as American Breakfast Pancakes.  In arriving at the new selling prices we have looked at ingredient costs and the prices charged for similar items elsewhere, this has resulted in a relatively low increase on some items but higher increases on others.

 

What a great turnout! - nearly 100 members turned up to play on a dry, frosty but sunny day and although temporary greens were in play this did not bother the players particularly when such awesome scores were returned.  A big thank you to all the members who played and raised £315 for the Bunker Fund.  The winners were:

 

Bunker Fund Mixed Alliance - Sunday 15th January, 2012
1st	Christine Spencer ~ Chris Spencer ~ Roger Withers ~ Chris Power	148 points
2nd	Kay Martin ~ Chris Martin ~ Carol Power ~ Howard Tucker	144 points
3rd	Valerie King ~ Adrian Back ~ Shaun Holmes ~ Adam Batty	141 points

 

The next mixed competition is on the Sunday the 11th March, a mixed Texas Scramble, again in aid of the Bunker Fund so put your name down on the Tee Sheet in the Players' Corridor.

 

Congratulations to all the members who have won competitions over the last few weeks:

 

Ladies' Blind Holes 4th, 7th & 8th January			Ladies' Only the NOSE 11th & 4th January			Ladies' January Winter Stableford 18th & 21st January
1st	Andrea Hunt		1st	Karen Scott		Div 1	Jane Doyle
2nd	Heather Nickson		2nd	Alwen Mann		Div 2	Toni Bourne
3rd	Brenda Wells		3rd	Gilly Stimpson		Div 3	Gill Shephard

 

Men's January Winter Stableford 7th & 8th January			Men Veterans' Texas Scramble 9th January
1st	Simon Bennett		1st	John Greatwood ~ Tony Nickson ~ Geoff Beal
2nd	Clive Barnes		2nd	Gordon Hickmott ~ Peter Jackson ~ Terry Bravington
3rd	Ged Eccles		3rd	Richard Ashton ~ Roy Mobbs ~ Alan Wells

 

Men Veterans' Stableford 16th January			Men Veterans' Stableford 23rd January			Men Veterans' Stableford 30th January
Div 1	1st ~ Ron Shayler 2nd ~ Gordon Hickmott 3rd ~ Jim Morrison		Div 1	1st ~ Jim Morrison 2nd ~ Peter Lock 3rd ~ Richard Ashton		Div 1	1st ~ Roy Mobbs 2nd ~ Gordon Hickmott 3rd ~ Ron Shayler
Div 2	1st ~ Peter Jackson 2nd ~ Tony Nickson 3rd ~ Peter Stapleton		Div 2	1st ~ Tony Nickson 2nd ~ Godfrey Horridge 3rd ~ Ken Dorling		Div 2	1st ~ Derek Berry 2nd ~ Steve Cox 3rd ~ Peter Jackson

 

 

The Pro Shop Draw was done at the Bunker Fund Mixed Alliance on the 15th January and the winners are shown below.  For those of you who haven't collected your prize yet please call into the Pro Shop to collect it.

 

Pro Shop Christmas Draw Winners
1st	Neil Peacock	Footjoy Shoes
2nd	Shaun Holmes	Under Armour Shirt
3rd	Maurice Ahern	Func Factory Shirt
4th	Garry Hartley	Logo Shoe Bag
5th	Maria Power	Doz Srixon Balls
6th	Toni Bourne	Under Armour Baseball Cap
7th	John Fletcher	Logo Towel
8th	Paul Wright	Footjoy Glove
9th	Tom Bearing	Sleeve of Srixon Balls
10th	Richard Fieldhouse	Sleeve of Pinnacle Balls

 

Chris Mahoney

 

 

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