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Andrew Wallace BSc is a graduate of Sports Psychology at Stirling University and now specialises in teaching golf psychology to students from all over the country helping them improve their game simply through the power of the mind.
Wallace a keen and highly competent golfer himself begins by providing an in depth Q&A interview where amongst many other things he explains the importance of using mental techniques in everybody's game and provides some helpful tips along the way.
Drew will kindly be providing a series of tips and columns on various different aspects of the game of golf over the coming months so be sure to keep checking back regularly for ways to improve your game.
Read the Drew Wallace Interview and also his first monthly tip about Focus and Concentration.
The competition (2.00pm Tee Off) is a 4 man team am-am pressurised Stableford off scratch, 2 men to score on the first 6 holes, 3 men to score on the next 6 holes, and all to score on the last 6 holes, there is a mixture of experience and youth with the teams being as matched as possible.
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Take a look at the photograph below. Do you recognise the golf course? Well it is a course within the Huddersfield and Halifax area!
If you think you know which golf course is pictured below email us at info@huddersfieldgolf.co.uk and you could win a prize!.
EuroPro Tour player John Cheetham has joined the Huddersfield Golf website team by agreeing to write a monthly column for this website. Cheetham is a rising star on the EuroPro Tour circuit and has realistic aspirations of making it on the European Tour within the next few years.
John kicks off by providing in an in-depth Q&A Interview about life on tour, the equipment in his bag, time spent in America plus his goals for this coming season.
Read the John Cheetham Interview.
It is a great pre-season boost for the talented youngster who has impressed the County selctors with impressive performances throughout the last couple of seasons. Thompson will travel down to Chevin Golf Club on the 3rd of April for a practise round in anticipation of facing Derbyshire Boys the following day. He will stay overnight in a hotel with the rest of the team.
Read the James Thompson Interview.
Several reports were given during the evening proceedings. Philip Pitchforth, Competition Secretary, informed those present that with the help of clubs all events ran smoothly during 2006. The team Captain, Chris Mear of Meltham Golf Club, explained that many of the 2006 scratch team matches were close run affairs and thanked all executive members for their support and looked forward to the 2007 season. Frank Greaves, the Junior Team Secretary and member at West End Golf Club, reported that 2006 had been a difficult year but the Junior Team was in the process of being rebuilt as a result of some going out of the junior age band. He expected results to be much better in 2008 and beyond. Frank also informed the meeting that coaching was now in place for about 100 juniors and that more intensive coaching is arranged for the HHDU Juniors elite squad.
A statement of the accounts was also made by Robert Uttley now in his 27th year in office.
The out going President Fred Ibberson (Bradley Hall Golf Club) thanked executives and all member clubs for the help and co-operation during his year in office. He also thanked the HHDU sponsors, without whose help the coaching of players could not be sustained at present levels. He also thanked PrimeTime Recruitment and Stromberg for the supply of golfing clothing which ensured that both Junior and Scratch teams were always well turned out. He also made a special thank you to the HHDU Hon Secretary John Lawrence (Marsden Golf Club). Alan Woodhead (Outlane Golf Club) was elected President of the Union for 2007 with President Elect for 2008 being Steven Wild (Halifax Golf Club). Philip Pitchforth had come to the end of his term with the Executive and would not stand for re-election, David Clegg, Vice President has emigrated to Australia. Standing for re-election were Albert Guest (Woodsome Hall Golf Club), Roger Cliffe (Dewsbury District Golf Club) and David Perrin (Meltham Golf Club). All were successfully re-elected.
New members to the Executive were Paul Hardcastle (Castlefields Golf Club) and Tony Bower (Outlane Golf Club).
Pictured below from the left are Mr Steven Wild (President Elect), Mr Alan Woodhead (President 2007) and Mr Fred Ibberson (Immediate Past President).
The Individual Strokeplay Championship for The PS Cockroft Trophy will be held at Bradley Hall Golf Club this year with an entry fee of £17 and a handicap limit of 10, unless the entries exceed the maximum of 81 in which case higher handicaps will be balloted out.
The Seniors Championship, to be held at Woodsome Hall in June is open to golfers aged 55 and over whilst the Junior Championship for the Lightcliffe Tankard will be played at Longley Park and is open to under 18's and will cost £7 to enter.
Entry forms are available on our website by visiting the below links:
Individual Championship - The PS Cockroft Trophy.
Thompson from Meltham Golf Club has joined fellow local golfers Toby Garrett and Chris Hanson by providing an exclusive interview for Huddersfield Golf.
Thompson will play #1 for the HHDUGC Junior team this season and is also expected to play a major role for the Senior team. He is a member of the Yorkshire Elite Boys squad and is aiming to take up a scholarship to the USA after finishing his studies at Greenhead College in Huddersfield.
In this interview Thompson lets us know about his goals for the coming season, which includes winning his club junior knockout for a record fourth year running, what is in his bag and life on the amateur circuit.
Read the James Thompson Interview.
Golf clubs all over the region who have elected to have their events listed are delighted as they have noticed a marked increase in the number of entrants, despite it still being a few weeks away from the start of the golf season proper. The fact that, unlike other open competition websites, it is totally free to have their events listed has also proved to be a big hit.
Local golfers are equally as happy because they now have a great resource for finding golf events in the county and can easily search for their chosen events by category eg: Mixed, Senior, Ladies, Scratch, Junior, Pairs and Team events. They no longer have to contact clubs on an individual basis or trawl through the traditional competitions folder in the clubhouse, as entry forms are available online and just a click away.
The most popular feature is where golfers can submit their email address to be notified when any new events from their chosen category are added to the website.
Click HERE to go straight to our Open Golf Competition section or alternatively sign-up to our Open Competition Updates and be notified when new events are added..
Pictured below from the left are Captain of Outlane Golf Club Raymond Peel, Elaine Peel, Marie Ibberson and Fred Ibberson, President of the Halifax Huddersfield and District Union of Golf Clubs.
The toast master for the evening was John Daniel from Outland Golf Club.
The two local golfers, who have both recently conducted exclusive interviews for this website and will be writing monthly columns, totaled 43 points to snatch victory by a single point from three other teams.
Hanson was in superb form with 5 birdies and plenty of other missed opportunities. Garrett commented, "Chris played superb and despite a couple of putts he could have shot 9 under himself." He added, "It feels good to have finally won an alliance, we have tried our hardest in all the Alliance's but have never come out on top, so hopefully we can build on this win and go on and win again when we play together at Outlane."
The Am-Am section was much closer where Elland pair Martin Greenwood and Steve King took the honours virtue of a better back-six card countback after sharing a total of 47 points with two other pairings.
You can read both the Chris Hanson and Toby Garrett Q&A Interview on our website.
Toby is a member of Meltham Golf Club playing off a handicap of two and is the reigning HHDUGC Junior Matchplay Champion and a former Scottish Under 16 Boys International.
Garrett kicks off with an in-depth Questions and Answers Interview where he lets us know about his goals for the year, a glimpse of what is in his bag and the importance he puts on different parts of his game and practice regime.
Garrett joins friend and practice partner Chris Hanson, who joined our team earlier this month, and is the second of a number of other players who will be regularly contributing to our website, details of which will be announced over the coming weeks.
The team of Andrew and Liz Denbigh-White (husband and wife), Matthew Russell and Ed Pearson beat Skipton Golf Club in a closely fought fifth round of the R and A quiz to grab the title again.
The achievement is even more incredible since new conditions of entry meant that the Heath had to introduce two new players into their team this year.
The Heath now go forwards to take part in the Regional Finals in March. If they are successful against three other northern county champions they will win a trip to St. Andrews for the second year running to take part in the National Finals.
In this in-depth interview Hanson tells us about his high and low moments from last season, which included winning in his maiden year as a Professional. He also explains how his game has improved since leaving the amateur ranks and his goals for the coming year and beyond.
Hanson also talks about life on tour, the importance he places on the mental side of the game as well as his hobbies away from golf.
Chris is the first of a number of people within the local golf industry who will be joining Huddersfield Golf as regular contributors, so watch this space!
Read the full Chris Hanson Interview.
Defending Scratch champions Lightcliffe kick off their defence of the title, won at Dewsbury District last September, with a tie against Castlefields #2 at Hebden Bridge. Whilst last years Handicap victors, Bradley Park, take on Longley Park at Halifax West End GC.
The first round takes place at numerous courses within the region on the 21st May with the 36-hole final due to be played at Willow Valley on 23rd September. Each club within the HHDUGC has one team entered whilst those teams ranked highest in the final league standings from last year have two teams to make the number of entrants for each event 32.
Click to view either the Scratch or Handicap draw in full.
Want to know which are the best and hardest holes in the area? If so check out the list we have compiled of what we think they are. We also tell you why we think each hole is either very good or very difficult .... and in some cases both! You can see our opinions here.
You can also tell us what you think. Did we get it right or do you think some holes should be ranked higher or lower? Let us know by emailing us at info@huddersfieldgolf.co.uk.
The "Golf Factor" will be taking place at the Lightcliffe Golf Club where under 16 year olds get the opportunity to compete for prizes with a place on the Lightcliffe Junior Golf Camp held later in the month (20th - 23rd) also up for grabs to the top three finishers. The entry fee for the G-Factor tournament is just £5 and the club are expecting huge demand for the off-season event.
Lightcliffe Golf Club, who are in the process of developing a great junior team, with the aim to be Yorkshire's No.1 by 2008/2009 are incredibly junior friendly, realising that today's juniors are the adult members of tomorrow. The Lightcliffe Captain, Mr David Harrison, will be on hand to present the winning players their prize.
The tournament involves fitness, driving range (technique) and playing, the winners will achieve the best score and etiquette as ruled on by Lightcliffe Professional Ron Tickle and reigning PS Cockroft Champion Frazer Schoelfield.
It will be a great experience for all involved with Mums and Dads, Brothers and Sisters all welcome to spectate.
The event will start at 9am with a maximum of 40 juniors to start per hour, with start times of 9am, 11am and 1pm. To reserve your time contact Ron Tickle on 01422 204081 or email ron.tickle@btconnect.com, only players that reserve will be allowed to start.
The Junior Camp is open to all juniors and costs £28 for a week. For more information about either the Golf Camp or "G-Factor" contact Ron Tickle.
