Hello and welcome to the last newsletter of 2016. 

I hope you have all enjoyed reading what we have been up to this year and of course enjoyed your games of golf here at the club. 

We still have plenty to report this week so sit back, relax and we will see you for a round between Christmas and New Year. Golf and breakfast still just £25pp. 

The image to the right was taken on Sunday with the course looking fantastic for the time of year. 

As always it would not be Christmas without the annual CMGC Christmas video. It's all for a bit of fun and contains a lot of laughs from the team and it may help you with any last minute present ideas.

Click here or on the images below to view it. 

   

 

We Need Your Help! 

Our friends at the fantastic Midlands Golfer Magazine have there annual club and course rankings approaching. Would it be possible for you all to add Cleobury to the questions…. it would be great to start the year as number one in some categories. It all closes at 5pm this Friday!

Click the link here. 

7 categories are.. 

Best course in The Midlands, Favourite Midlands golf hole, Best course under £30 GF, Most picturesque course, Best society venue, Favourite 19th hole location, Most delicious bacon roll.

Give your home club a boost and also get in the prize draw to win places at our 2017 playing events which includes the 1st round of our MG/Marriott Golf Society League at Forest of Arden.

 

Emily Price in England's Leading Junior Girl Golfer 

Emily Price is England Golf's top junior golfer of 2016, having won the girls' Order of Merit. 

Emily is a member of Cleobury Mortimer. She won the English women's stroke play among other titles. . 

"Winning the order of merit does mean a great deal to me," said Price, 17. "It's great to know that all my hard work throughout the season has paid off. It shows me just how well I performed throughout the whole year, which is a real confidence boost and also motivation to do it again next year." 

Her year got off to a fast start when she had three wins in two weeks, including the Scottish U18 championship. GCSE exams then took priority but she returned in the summer to win the women's stroke play and to represent England in the European and World Girls' Team Championships. 

"Playing with other girls at such high levels is really motivational and helped me to understand what I need to do to become better," she said. "Overall this season has been brilliant and I have really enjoyed it with playing in events, travelling to different countries and playing with Team England." 

Next year, Price wants "to improve on everything I have done this year. So, I would like to win more of the bigger events and improve my average score per round as I would also like to reduce my handicap to plus-4 by the end of the season." She added: "Every year I want to become a better golfer."

 

Last Minute Ideas

If you're like me you might need some last minute Christmas Present Ideas! 

Well once again we have you covered here at CMGC. 

With Christmas less than 2 weeks away it may not be panic stations just yet but here are a couple of quick fixes. 

- Under Armour Golf Specific Baselayer £39.99 and we will give you a free Under Armour Towel Worth £12. 
- One Hour Golf Lesson with Amy Millward or 45 Minute Lesson with Dave Pain. - £20 

- Buy a Stuburt Hat and get a Logo Leather Score Card Holder for just £1. 

Pop into CMGC any time between 8am and 5pm and we will look after you.


   

 

Year In Review 

Well what a year 2016 has turned out to be, it started off wet and miserable but has turned into one of the vintage years. £1000's of pounds have been raised at various charities events throughout the year with over £30k raised from the Adam Millichip Foundation, Teenage Cancer Trust and Rainbow Cancer Care days alone. 

Rest assured we are all working harder than ever behind the scenes with new and exciting plans to continue taking the club forward in 2017. This past week we have had visits from our various brand reps showcasing next years product. The first thing they say is how its been a tough year. Whereas with us its just not the case…. CMGC is flying and together lets keep that going.

Happy Christmas one and all. 

Highlights include: 

- CMGC now home to the Teenage Cancer Trust Charity Golf Day 
- Indoor Golf Swing Studio now open 
- Comparing the course to what is was like in 1993 to what it is now 
- Fantastic membership enjoying the Ryder Cup competition 
- The Rainbow Caner Care Foundation Golf Day continuing to grow 
- Emily Price - An Unbelievable Year



   

   

Christmas Open 2016 

Last Friday saw the CMGC Christmas Open take place with 28 teams of four playing. 

Thank you to everyone who played on a day when the weather was, for once, very kind to us. 

The atmosphere was great throughout the day with everyone in good spirit especially after the half way stop for mince pies and mulled wine. The course was in great condition for December which was reflected in the scoring. 

Also a big thank you to Stuburt for their support with this years prizes.

Our 2017 opens are already filling up, if you would like to enter any the entry forms can be found here.

1st Place 
Rich Davies, Paul Langford, Andy Williams and Allan Williams - 90 points on countback.

2nd Place 
The Staff Team- Roger Turley, Steven Turley, Mike Evans and Alan Pasonage - 90 points.

3rd Place 
The Shropshire 4- Steve Bent, Ted Johnson, Lee Steadman and David Hughes - 87 on countback.

4th Place 
The Ombersley Boys- Glen Durant, Andy Parkes, Mark Atkins and Mike Witten - 87. 

Mixed Team 1st Place -Heather & Ian Pringle, Gary & Sian Hawes - 80 

Nearest the Pin 6th Badgers Sett - Bob Mountford

Nearest the Pin 8th Foxes Run - Pam Burton 

See you all for the Easter Open on Thursday 6th April 2017! 

Pictured are the winning team of Rich Davies, Paul Langford, Andy Williams and Allan Williams.

December Stableford 

Despite some heavy rain over night Cleobury Mortimer Golf Club was once again in fantastic condition for some winter golf. Some great scores were once again recorded and as always here at Cleobury it was a different face in the winners circle. 

2016 doubles knock out winner Bryan Colley showed he can do it on his own with two birdies on the last two holes to shoot 37 points and finish third. Andy Thomas fresh in his new pair of Footjoy golf boots cruised to 39 points to take second place. Last week playing partner Roger Evans won in his Footjoy boots so they must be the lucky shoes at the moment! 

The day however belonged to the first player out. Ian Juckes shot a very impressive 40 points, even with a blip on his 15th hole. This was Ian's first winter win of the season and fully deserved. 

Ian had the Lucky 7 package with myself, (Dave) over the season and hits it great, we worked on finding consistency, solid alignment, swing plane and course management. It is brilliant to see him getting scores like this, he is certainly one to watch going into 2017.

1st - Ian Juckes - 40 points 
2nd - Andy Thomas - 39 points 
3rd - Bryan Colley - 37 points

Ladies Results 

The Cleobury Mortimer Ladies November Stableford Winter order of merit winner was Julie Currie who got off to a great start in what was some tricky frozen conditions, runner up was Lady Captain Heather Pringle. 

The Ladies had a great turn out for the annual Turkey Trot with everyone in their best Christmas jumpers. Some great golf was played and this year was won by the Lady Captains team which was: Heather Pringle ,Gloria Bullock and Anita Tangye.