New Course Record

Congratulations to Craig Wilson who broke the course record on Sunday, with a magnificent 68. This is a great achievement for Craig, a home grown Parklands player, who is now playing off a handicap of 4. His achievement came in the Mattinson Trophy competition ..... and you know you are playing well when you get a 2 at the 10th .... yes the 10th, it doesn't come much better than that. Craig was pipped at the post with Ben Goldie, a junior member, shooting 74-11=63. Well done Ben .... we're expecting great things.

Davison Cup Match - Men's Team

Report from the Men's Captain, Brian King ..... Parklands men's team run of good results continued on Saturday with a home win against Alnwick in the Davison Cup.The match was a close contest played in cold windy conditions. The first win was by courtesy of Ricky Jamieson who took a lead early in the match which he gradually built upon winning 5 and 4 and during the match played what could be the shot of the season. On the sixth a wild tee shot assisted by the strong northerly wind ended to the right of the 15th green, Ricky proceeded to play a shot over the trees onto the sixth green to approx 8 feet from the pin. Ronnie Dixon was going along steadily to lead 2 up after seven only to see the match back to level. He persevered however, winning the match 3 and 2. Gavin Jobe playing his first team match after rejoining Parklands went two down early in the game , he battled to back to square the match on the 12th only to see his opponent sink a long put on the 13th to go one up. Both players missed the green on the fourteenth Gavin leaving himself very little landing area between the bunker and the pin in attempting a delicate pitch. He saw his ball fall short of the green into the bunker and go back to 2 down eventually loosing the match 2 and 1. Karl Mossom played Dan Swordy both players having similar handicaps and the match was all square until the 14th where Karl put his ball in the pond to go one down. However, he fought back winning the final three holes to finish 2 up. Graeme Hewitt had a very difficult match against an accomplished opponent going two down before fighting back and squaring the match on the eighteenth. The final result was 31/2 - 11/2 in Parklands favour, an excellent team result.

Well Done Sam Malone

Congratulations to Sam Malone for her super perfomance on Thursday, 6th May when she played at the Crompton and Royton Golf Club in Lancashire which was the regional final (North) for the EWGA (English Women's Golf Association) Medal Finals. Sam qualified for this event being one of the 100 players returning the lowest nett four aggregate scores over the Ladies Medal comps in 2009 within the Northern Region. On the day, Sam shot a 95 - 23 = 72 for a net par to finish 3rd overall. Her reward is a place in the National Grand Final to be played at the Worcestershire Golf Club on Saturday, 26th June. Good luck Sam and well played.

Men's Team Win against Tyneside

From the Captain, Brian King .....The men's team had another good result in the first Hadrian League match of the season, at home to Tyneside. After nine holes Parklands were in front in 4 matches with one all square, but on the back nine things changed with Daniel Trotter 2 up after nine then level through 17 before going on to win on the eighteenth. Ronnie Dixon had a close match, and was all square at the 17th tee, Ronnie won the 17th to go 1up but then put his tee shot into the woods on 18 and the match finished all square. Daren Rushtom also arrived at the 17th tee all square after being up for most of the match he lost on 17 but a good win on 18 resulted in the match finishing all square.Craig Wilson had a tough first league game against 15 year old Sam Robinson who played some excellent golf on the front nine to turn 2 up a lead he held to the finish winning 2-1 despite a battling performance from Craig. Karl Mossom played steady golf he took an early lead winning his match 3-2, Karl was unhappy with his long game, but his ability around the greens was enough to give him his win. Graham Hewitt started his match with a very uncharacteristic drive, but he soon put this behind him (not literally) and finished the match winning 4-2. The overall result was Parklands 8 Tyneside 4. Well done guys ... a winning start.
The next team match is at Parklands on Saturday when the team play Alnwick G. C. in the first round of the Davison Cup, the first tee 11:00 a.m. This is followed by an away match at Stocksfield on Tuesday.