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Hello Golfers,

We hope our weekly emails are providing you with a little bit of normality in these difficult times.

We’re well into spring now and it’s been great watching the flowers bloom whilst being in lockdown, partly thanks to the beautiful weather we’ve enjoyed over the past few weeks. Golf courses across the country will certainly be taking full advantage after a tough and wet few months prior. I would personally once again thank our hard working green staff for everything they are doing.

Stay safe and enjoy the read.

Did you know?

Fact of the week

According to the Guinness World Records, the longest hole in the world is the 7th hole at Satsuki GC in Japan. It measures a meagre 964 yards and is a par-7!!

Rumour has it that there’s also a hole measuring over 1,000 yards in South Korea, but that hasn’t made it into the records – yet.

Q&A with Matt Wallace

Thank you for everyone who sent in a question for me to ask Matt Wallace. Matt sent me the replies earlier this week and I'm happy to now share them with you.

Cheers Matt, everyone at Old Fold Manor hopes you have a great season once it all resumes.

Members who got their questions answered;

Paul Clements 

Mike Ready

Andy Bardsely

Phil Kitchen

Manoj Shah

To watch the video in full you will need to join the Facebook page. Click here to go and join the Old Fold Manor Golf Club - Members Only group and then you can see the video.  

Matt Wallace Q&A

Cheers Matt, everyone at Old Fold Manor hopes you have a great season once it all resumes.

MW
European Tour Winner Matt Wallace
Pro's news
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Professionals Website

If you are like us, you have already watched loads of TV and searched the internet far and wide to entertain ourselves! If you have run out of what to browse then feel free to visit the Professionals website.

The website is constantly being updated with news, quizzes and golf polls.

There is a great rule quiz on the front page now, it actually caught us out on a few questions!

 
 
 
It's quiz time

Something a little different for you this week. The European Tour's social media team put this silhouette challenge up a while ago so we thought we'd share it with you too.

Each of the eight golfers below has won on the European Tour in the past four years; all you need to do is guess who each of them is by the outline of their swing. Easy, right? Send us your answers below (no cheating!).

*Answers can be found here.

Guess the silhoutte - part 1
Guess the silhoutte - part 2
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Weekly challenge

What do you have left in your food cupboard? Baked beans? Tins of soup? Peaches? Whatever it is, grab six tins (or more if you’re feeling adventurous) and have a go at this week’s golfing challenge. We guarantee you some fun!

Weekly Challenge - Tin Pyramid

The set-up

Put the golf balls away and use a tennis ball or stress ball for this one – you do want to eat the food after all. Create a pyramid shape using the tins as in the photo above; we’ve balanced them on a garden trug so they’re almost at eye-level.

The challenge

Just like when you’re at a fair, knock down all the tins in three shots and you win a prize - well, maybe not in this case! If you want to play with the family, let them have a go chipping or they can always throw the tennis balls if you’re super confident!

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Golf at home

This week’s drill is all about improving your strike when putting. With such a small stroke – in comparison to a full swing – it’s easy to think that you can’t go wrong when putting. Well, give this drill a try and see how you get on.

Blu-Tack putting

What to do

Measure a ball’s width on the centre of your putter face and place a piece of blu-tack either side, as depicted in the image above. Set up a 10-foot putt in your home or garden and hit a few putts – if your strike is off-centre you’ll certainly feel and see a difference!

Blu-Tack putting

Striking the Blu-Tack?

If your ball hardly moves or you barely feel yourself striking the ball at impact, chances are you’ve hit a piece of blu-tack rather than the centre of the putter face. Give this a few tries – as well as from different distances – and see if you can spot a pattern. Let us know how you get on.

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Video of the Week

Some of you may have seen this European Tour impressions video before but it's one of our favourites and is perfect for a little bit of light-heart entertainment! Enjoy.

European Tour: Best impressions
 
 
Thanks for reading, we hope you have a great week.
 
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