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Garden Golf

With the sunshine making an untimely appearence lots of people are taking to their gardens to get some golf practice.

We have seen some great set-ups and we would love to see yours too, so please feel free to show us!

You can see Glen working on his garden swing on his Instagram. Glen has a nice net, some blue sky, a door mat and most importantly... socks and flip flops!

Click here to watch Glen in the garden.

Garden Golf

Shop news

Shop Account TOP-UP Bonus Scheme

Please keep an eye out for our shop account top up scheme. We are offering members an extra 10% when they top up their shop accounts. For example, if you top up your account with £100, you will receive £110 on your account. If you are interested in taking advantage of this scheme, please contact us professional@oldfoldmanor.co.uk.

More information will be released shortly. First come first served.

Golf Essentials

We are pleased to announce that we are now able to offer members an opportunity to still purchase golf equipment and accessories. If anyone needs a new glove or some fresh balls for the garden, or maybe even a new pair of adidas or FootJoy shoes, please get in touch. These items can be safely dropped off or even reserved for when you return to the club. Here are some ideas;

New Titleist SM8 Vokey Wedge - perfect for chipping in the garden
Golf Shoes - good idea to break the shoes in before playing on the course
Srixon, Titleist and Mizuno Balls
Golf Gloves
Tees
Golf Socks
New Golf Shirt for the sunshine
Golf Re-grips (via club builder Carl Parker)
Golf Equipment MOT (via club builder Carl Parker)

If anyone is interested let us know if we can help in any way.

Adidas Shoes

Vokey Wedges

Weekly quiz

Masters edition

As we promised in last week's newsletter, our Quiz of the Week is here.

It's meant to be a bit of fun and a chance for you to see how good your golfing knowledge is - although, we all know how competitive we can be!

So, as it was supposed to be Masters week, we're kicking things off with a very special Masters edition.

Good luck and make sure you come back to test yourself again next week.

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Weekly challenge

We have a great game for you to try at home this week and, if you can succeed, it’ll really help to improve your touch and feel around the green. We've highlighted a couple of different ways that you can give it a go in the image below, and it can easily be made indoor-friendly too!

The idea

So, when chipping, a big part of the process is understanding where you need to land the ball on the green in order for it to finish close the hole, and this week’s challenge mirrors this by getting you to land the ball in different zones of a ladder.

The set-up

Lay a ladder on the ground in front of your hitting zone with a final target at the end. No ladder? Use your clubs to create one. Want to give it a try indoors? Get creative by using masking tape or anything that’ll end up looking like a ladder – and send us a photo!

How to play

The challenge is to chip a ball into each zone, starting with the closest and working your way towards the final target.

If you want to make it harder, move the ladder further away, try to hit each zone consecutively without missing or make each zone smaller.

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Golf at home

Hopefully, you enjoyed last week’s clock drill to try at home – if you didn’t see it, visit our website and you’ll find it under the 'Articles' tab. Carrying on with the putting theme, this week’s drill has been designed to improve the consistency of your stroke.

What you'll need

All you'll need to give this drill a go is your putter (no surprise there!), a golf ball, some tees and a mug.

Start off by finding a straight putt somewhere in your house. Place the mug down at one end with the open top facing towards where you’re going to be putting from. This is your make-shift hole.

The set-up

Then, take a few paces away from the hole and put your ball down. Grab your putter and address the ball as if you were about to hit a putt. Whilst your putter is down, place a tee upside down on the floor either side of the head (green tees in image). This is your gate. The idea is to make your stroke without hitting either of the tees.

Make it harder

If you find this easy then great, it means that you’re returning the putter to the middle of the ball.

To make things harder, give yourself a longer putt, reduce the distance between the two tees surrounding the putter or add some more tees at a ball's width halfway down the putt.

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Video of the Week

We stumbled across the video on The Masters' YouTube channel a few months back and, whilst this year's tournament has been postponed, we thought it was too good not to share with you! So, sit back and enjoy as Tiger Woods shares his insight on how to play Amen Corner at Augusta National.

Thanks for reading, we hope you have a great week.

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