With the golf course, pro shop and clubhouse shut, for the time being, I’ve tried to get a little creative with the weekly email. Hopefully, this will provide you with a bit of light-hearted fun during a difficult time for us all. The lockdown c
 
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Hello Golfers,

With the golf course, pro shop and clubhouse shut, for the time being, I’ve tried to get a little creative with the weekly email.

Hopefully, this will provide you with a bit of light-hearted fun during a difficult time for us all.

The lockdown calendar

We came across a lockdown calendar last week and it revealed some highly amusing answers for the team, so we wanted to get you involved too!

All you need to do is match your birth date and your birth month with the answers given and you’ll create a brilliant lockdown scenario, like these:

Baking with Rory McIlroy
Cleaning your car with Fred Couples
Taking your bins out with Tiger Woods

It’s a little bit of fun whilst the majority of us find ourselves at home, so click the link below to take part. Don’t forget to email us your scenarios at the end!

View lockdown calendar here.

Golf Drills For The Garden

Since the start of the lockdown, I have been adding one drill a day to YouTube for you to participate with. It would be great for you to participate with some of these as they will help you keep you active and to keep your golfing muscles strong. This will really help when we are able to return to the course.

Please feel free to email me with any questions that these may provoke or to send me requests for any specific area of the game you would like to talk about.

Enjoy!

Today's Golf Drill for the Garden is No 7 Part 2  - How to stop slicing your driver.

Yesterday in Part 1 I discussed how a common mistake in the set up causes the swing path to start the ball left of the target and gave you some key fundamentals to help your swing path to be more down the target line.

Today in Part 2 I discuss the engine to the golf swing - the hands and how they can help you to square the clubface through the impact area to stop that dreaded slice spin.

Click here to watch the video.

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How to Stop Slicing Your Driver

Instead of our Members On Tour section, it would be great if you could send me photos of how you are all improvising in your back gardens in order to do some golf. There will be a sleeve of 3 of the new TaylorMade pix balls waiting in the shop on our return for my favourite one each week so start sending!

Emoji Quiz

Darren Noel has designed a fun quiz for you all to have a go at. See if you can work out the 20 members names from these emojis. I will publish the answers on Saturday for you.

Emojio Quiz
West Hill Members Emoji Quiz Part 1
Emojio Quiz
West Hill Members Emoji Quiz Part 2

Course News

Ben and his team have been working flat out for the last two weeks and have just finished verti-draining and hollow coring the greens and approaches and have filled the holes with over 160 tonnes of sand.

Completing this work which was originally scheduled for August means that the course will have recovered and be in fantastic shape by the time we are able to return to it. This will also help our greens to be even firmer and better draining in the wetter winters helping the course to play even better all year round.

I’m sure you will join me in thanking Ben and his team for all their fantastic efforts at this difficult time.

 
 
Weekly quiz

Something new for our readers

Us golfers are competitive at heart, so we thought we'd try to harness some of that spirit by introducing a new feature to our weekly emails.

We're going to kick things off next week with our very own Masters Quiz - it was supposed to be Masters week after all - so be sure to do some research before then!

For now, we have put up a short poll on our website that we'd love you to answer by clicking the button below. We'll let you know the results next week.

Quiz of the Week
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Weekly challenge

It’s times like these when thinking outside the box can result in all sorts of fun. So, we’ve rummaged through the garden shed and come up with a little game for you to try at home! If you don’t have any buckets or pots to hand, try creating different sized rings using string, tape or even ties – this would make it indoor friendly too.

Weekly challenge - Chipping Snooker

The set-up

Mark out your hitting zone like we’ve done using a mat in the image above. Then, from smallest to largest, lay your targets out so they get progressively bigger as they get further from the hitting zone. You then need to decide how many points each target is worth, with more points awarded to the smaller targets.

How to play

The great thing about this game is that you can play it by yourself or with the rest of the family. If you’re giving the challenge a go alone, you have five balls to get the highest score possible. You can play the same way with others or you can set an overall target score (e.g. 50 points) and the first person to reach that score wins!

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Golf at home

This part of our newsletter is all about trying to keep your golf game ticking over whilst we’re being told to stay indoors. With putting being such a vital part of lowering scores out on the course (and the easiest to practice at home), we’re going to kick things off with a simple putting drill for you to try.

Golf at home - Putting drill

The set-up

Grab your putter, six golf balls and a tee peg. Place the tee upside on the ground – this will be your target. From here, measure out a putter’s length from the tee and place a ball down. Repeat this five times at equal distances apart so that you have a circle of golf balls surrounding the tee peg – just like in the image above.

Too easy? Make it harder

Your goal is to go around the circle and hit the tee peg with each putt. However, if you miss, you’ll need to go back and start again – a nice way to mimic some pressure from the golf course. If you complete the circle, keep going until you miss to set yourself a target to beat next time or try increasing the distance of each putt from the tee.

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Video of the Week

What's Padraig Harrington laughing at here? Well, if you ever needed reassuring that even the world's best golfers are human, give this video a watch! Enjoy.

European Tour | Worst Shots (14 Club Challenge)
 
 
I hope you have a great week. If you need any help of advice, please visit the golf shop and we will be delighted to help. Guy and the golf team.
 
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