The Golf Team

Hello Golfers,

Welcome to another edition of our newsletter. This week we look ahead to the finale of the European Tour, cast our eye over the best wedge for distance control, and also introduce you to our new winter campaign.

Enjoy the read.

Club news

Winter open

The Dunston Hall Winter Open will be taking place on Friday 9th November 2018
£50 members Team - £80 Visitors Team (Teams of 4)

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New system

To celebrate the launch of our new driving range system, we’re offering 20% extra credit on card top ups (purchases over £10). The new machine now accepts contactless cards and regular debit/credit cards however you can still top up your card credit.

Variety Sixes

We will be hosting a Variety Sixes competition on Sunday 25th November! The first tee time will be 9am and it will cost £15 per pair, this includes food.

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Matchplay Campaign

From the 1st of November, we will be launching a campaign called ‘MATCH PLAY’. Simply put, every member can bring a new member to the club to play until the end of March for FREE.

Bring your own playing partner at your club this winter - QHotels is match-funding its golf members throughout the winter to ensure nobody ever has to play alone!

As an additional membership benefit, the MATCH PLAY scheme allows every golf member to nominate a second non-member to receive exactly the same golf playing rights… on a complimentary basis! For example, a seven-day member gets to gift a seven-day membership; a junior member, may award another junior membership.

• The innovative MATCH PLAY concept is a further initiative from QHotels & Double Tree by Hilton Westerwood to encourage more people to play golf.

• MATCH PLAY launches on November 1 and runs until March 31, 2019.

• The MATCH PLAY nominee must not have been a golf member of a QHotels property since April 1, 2017.
• MATCH PLAY nominee must not have been a member since 1st April 2017

• A member can only nominate one person to be their Match Play member, for the term of the scheme.

• Junior membership category, unless a Parent or Guardian were to sign them into the scheme and then get full understanding of the supervision obligations.

Tour news

Moliwood go to battle for top spot...

The European Tour will be hoping to match the excitement of the PGA Tour’s finale, with the Race to Dubai close to reaching its season-ending climax. Fresh from their exploits in the Ryder Cup, the ‘Moliwood’ pairing of Francesco Molinari and Tommy Fleetwood are busy occupying the top two spots, with Molinari holding a 1.4 million point lead over Fleetwood, who triumphed in the Race to Dubai last year.

Also in contention are Patrick Reed and Rory McIlroy, with the former looking to prove that his Ryder Cup display is well and truly forgotten. Reed will be more at home in the arid conditions than he was at Le Golf National, so he could be one to keep an eye on. It should be a great ending to what has been a memorable season.

Rules update

A bone of contention for golfers...

Double hitting is a bone of contention for golfers, as it can be difficult to tell when a playing partner has hit the ball twice. The current rule for double hitting (14-4) states that if a player strikes the ball more than once during a stroke, the player must count the stroke and add a penalty stroke for two strokes altogether.

However, with the new rules of golf coming into play on 1st January 2019, Rule 10.1a will state that if the player’s club accidentally hits the ball more than once during a single stroke, there will be no penalty. This is down to the fact that as the double hit was not the intention of the player, it was deemed unfair for the player to be penalised.

Totally bunkers!

The proposed changes to the Rules of Golf are less than three months away so we thought we'd look at one introduction which will put your mind at ease when you find yourself in a tricky situation within a bunker...

You may not be aware but under the current ruling, you cannot take relief outside the bunker once you've already made an attempt to play the ball from inside. However, under the proposed changes (19.3b), and for two penalty strokes, you will have the additional option of taking relief outside the bunker by dropping a ball back on the line from the hole through where your ball was at rest in the bunker. Phew.

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Go the distance

We've all been there - around 75 yards out and faced with a tricky little pitch shot towards a tight pin; danger over the back and a tier just before the flag that will take anything short down to the front edge.

The first stage in overcoming potential card wreckers like this is knowing how far you hit a full shot with each of your wedges. The second is having three different distances that you can comfortably hit with each, adding to your options when faced with this scenario.

Cleveland CBX

One wedge which will offer you the versatility required for absolute precision in distance control is Cleveland’s CBX. The cavity back design gives you the forgiveness you need when faced with a difficult pitch shot, as well as short game versatility. The centre of gravity is positioned behind the face, which aids the feel and also gives you supreme distance control, meaning you’ll be confident of avoiding danger both in front and behind the green.

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Video of the Week

The new TS drivers from Titleist have been causing quite a stir around the club since their launch last month, and it's easy to see why when you watch this video review.

We hope you enjoyed the newsletter and have a good golfing weekend. Tom

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