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 CROOKHILL PARK SOUTH YORKSHIRE

Saturday 24th may 2008 and 12 members of the golfshake crew attended the first cup of the empress series the lucky winner was to be presented with a 22in resin golfer on a nice wooden base with the empress open emblum nicely present on the front.

the course was in quite good condition given a municipal run buy the local council, the members all gathered together in the club house, had there soup and sarnies tea and coffee, collected there little goodie bags and started making there way to the first tee and putting green.

on the first tee all member watching and mister hawkins hit a great drive straight down the middle just right of the large tree starting the day with a par well done!!!

where on the second and the wind is coming from various directions quite difficult dog leg to the right, lined trees all the way down push or pull and trouble was awaiting, comment of this is to be a tuff day.

nearest pin was won by ian banks  hole three a raised tee approx 150ish yards shooting on to an elevated green. his best shot of the day though had to be his chip in on the third for a net eagle from 60-70 yards out.

longest drive was won by malcolm fell not one of golfshake members with a drive over 250yards  

team event was won by team two on count back with a combined score of 31 equal with team one.

 main event  

winner ian banks

gross 76 net 71 scoring 35 points

2nd allan bostock   gross 82 net 74 points 32

3rd  daniel buckley  gross 90 net 77 points 29 team 2

4th  paul hindhurst  gross 94 net 83 points 25 team 2

5th  harry irving       gross 100 net 85 points 25 team 2

6th  malcolm fell      gross 97 net 82 points 24

7th  peter deeming   gross 97 net 83 points 24

8th  stephen felton   gross 105 net 83 points 24

9th  graham tweed    gross 100 net 84 points 24

10th tim stretton       gross 101 net 85 points 22

11th tim hawkins       gross 105 net 89 points 22

12th paul cook           gross 101 net 89 points 22

13th stephen ridge      gross 114 net 93 points 20

14th peter wilson         gross 109 net 91 points 20 team 2

hope fully every member had a wondeful day and congratulations going to

 ian banks the first empress open winner and hopefully he will be avalible to attend next year and defend is title

Cheers Paul, great day out.

Would just like to thank you for the flattering description of the first drive and very diplomatically omitted that the drive from the second tee went 10 yards left into the bushes.

thanks again paul great day hope to see every one next time

thanks danny

Cheers mate, particularly enjoyed the roast potatoes afterwards, never seen so many.

lucky for us they have put out of bounds all the way up the rightside of the fairway on the 18th today

mr hawkins

there where plenty of shots, to many to metion myself and you didnt play all that well

b ut thats just golf another day and completely different

Too true Paul, if we got them all perfect it would be boring wouldn't it!  Pretty impressive seeing Ian and Al going for the drives though.

May make an effort to get up to your neck of the woods more often if you're up for a game, only took 45 minutes to get home - and an hour up in the pre-bank holiday traffic.  Cracking little course and even the cider swilling locals kept quite when we teed off! 

any time tim when al has a game at rotherham need to attend this course (super) this was the course i original wanted

but crookhill good too, got some 241 vochers that can be use to  

I will try and arrange a game at Rotherham, how much notice do you need? I have a few meetings and games to play in Scotland, but will organise one before the end of july. Does anyone have a preference for a day? Weekends are busy, so a week day is better. As far as the course goes, i played 6 holes yesterday and the course is immaculate. Fast greens, nut not rock hard. You can hit a high shot in and the ball will stop within a foot, even the odd back spin.

Once again thanks for a grat day out Paul and look forward to seeing you on Monday.

Al

sound good al

week days are fine for me any can work round

mondays is when the guys i usaual play with have a game

sound good al

week days are fine for me any can work round

mondays is when the guys i usaual play with have a game