James Salt

Greetings golfers,

Welcome to another exciting edition to Ringway GC weekly newsletter. We hope that you're having a good week on and off the golf course. Enjoy the read.

Pro's news

New shoe wall!

A quiet week in the shop and coaching, but it’s a good chance for me to have a change around in the shop and create a new shoe wall design that I think looks great! Showing some of the great new lines in both men’s and ladies from FootJoy.

National Championships

On Sunday I went with Isabelle, my dad and sister to the Manchester Velodrome to watch the last day of the National Championships and what a great day we had. The speed they ride at and how close they are is unbelievable. Not to mention how steep the bends are in real life it was well worth taking a trip to watch the best in the UK battle it out.

What made the day even more special for Isabelle was getting the autograph from her new heroin Katie Archibald who has won Olympic medals, broken world records and won several national championships. Not that you would think any of that as she strolled out with her bike and stopped for a picture!

She is that strong I don’t think I could get the bike started in the gear she rides in, to put it in golfing terms it would be like asking a junior to use an extra stiff driver shaft with 7 degrees of loft and get the ball to go in the air!

Club news

Drive-in

The New Captain’s and President have all driven in and what great shots each of them hit, duly applauded by everyone watching. The AGM went well with a new council and Jim Crew has been voted in as Chairman.

The pro shop team wishes all Captain’s, President and committee all the best in their time in office and we are here to help make this club the best it can be for all members.

Competition news

Captain's Charity & Ogden Singles

Division one
First place - Neil Morton (10).
Second place - Ian Magenis (12).
Third place - Stephen Lavers (7).

Division Two
First place - Matthew Southworth (21).
Second place - Colin Offland (20).
Third place - James Lovett (21).

Shop news

Ready to try...

The TaylorMade M3 and M4 range is now in and ready to try and to be fitted. We also have a ladies range with two shafts to two types of x-stiff shafts.

I had a quick go yesterday and I was really impressed especially we the off centre hits, I think you could see a big difference in not just the good ones but more importantly on how good your bad one is!

Click here to request a fitting.

Coaching news

Have you booked?

Coaching and fitting diary is starting to fill up over the next few weeks which is good and they will get to see the new graphics on TrackMan which looks great.

Hopefully we can get your drives flying as straight as this one.

Click here to book your lesson.

Fitting news

The importance of being fitted...

With all the new iron heads that have arrived from TaylorMade and Callaway they are adjustable for the lie angle and this is an important part of fitting for your accuracy on good shots. The reason being a square club face and path to the target with the wrong lie angle might result in missing the green as illustrated below. The more loft on the face the more this comes into play as well and the reason is ‘face plane tilt’ for those that would like to read up on it.

That’s why it’s important to be fitted for your clubs and not just on distance or static measurements through the internet. If you are a slicer on the ball, by having a club a little more upright will actually help counteract the side spin to curve it away, leading to straighter shots.

To let everyone know as well this year, there will be a fitting charge of £30, but when we find the right product to improve your game we will take £20 off your bill.

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Other news

Sam's corner

As we mentioned last week Sam has been in Florida for wedding planning and to see the latest and greatest at the trade show, here is a link to his vlog to see what he got up to.

Click here to watch Sam's video.