Welcome to the South Wales Golfer.
July has come around and we are really into the summer now here at South Wales Golfer.
The Celtic Manor Wales Open in Newport has come and gone, and in keeping with some of the recent wins on the Euro Tour a complete outsider, in the shape of Denmark’s Jeppe Huldahl, has lifted the trophy and picked up a nice cheque for £300,000.
Mike Pearlman gives us his overview of the Wales Open and also an interview with the owner of the Celtic Manor resort, Sir Terry Matthews.
Good news on the South Wales golfing front is that Alice Springs GC, at Kemeys Commander, near Usk, has been saved, with the Gwent family who built it twenty years ago coming in at the eleventh hour and buying it back. The future for the 400 members who play there and fifteen jobs looks a great deal rosier now.
This month we journey to Swansea for our golf course review, with Morriston GC being our port of call. There are some really smart holes on the course and one, a par three, that would be in many golfers top ten, just for the look of it alone. Morriston pro, Mark Govier, puts our editor through his paces, trying to cure a duck hook, which is the result of a back injury. Mark shows him how to cure this.
Ian Church of igolf.cc, takes us through a typical scenario for the would-be golfer who doesn’t want to tie himself down to a membership of a golf club. Over three issues Ian has been telling us that igolf.cc want to cater for golfers who might be thinking of taking a break from the game, for one reason or another, and just play when it suits them.
Mike Davies, the pro at Glyn Abbey GC, is in the Teetime hotseat, and tells us of his career so far, and his first hole in one in the far off land of the US of A.
Finally, Stan Humphreys is getting nearer to his final round of golf in his epic Penny Challenge, which has seen him play on every golf course in the Principality for charity.
