Peter Howcroft Gary Williams Phil Gammond Neil Brindley Chairman, RGC Mercury Mercury Captain, RGC Vice Captain, RGC

Mercury Financial Management Ltd Sponsors of

ROMILEY GOLF CLUB AM-AM

ROMILEY GOLF CLUB

February, 2016

Newsletter

New Three Year Sponsorship for Romiley Golf Club AM-AM

The end of December brought to an end the four year period during which

Leama Specialist Cars Ltd has been the main sponsor of the AM-AM. Apart

from its valuable sponsorship each year, Leama also supplied countless bottles

of champagne for minor prizes as well as all the “goody bags” handed out to

every individual AM-AM, plus a healthy supply of score cards for all our Club

competitions.

From our standpoint Leama could not have been a more generous and helpful

sponsor. It has been a pleasure to work with them in producing what were very

successful AM-AM competitions for Romiley Golf Club. We would like to thank

them for their support. We wish them well for the future and hope to see them

back at the Club very soon.

I am sure you will all want to join me and the AM-AM committee in wishing

Gary well, not only in his year as Captain, but, over the next three years of

Mercury’s sponsorship and association with the AM-AM. The Club is

particularly pleased to be sponsored by a local business found right in the

centre of the village.

The AM-AM Committee and the Club are very much

looking forward to working with Gary, his business

partner, Phil Gammond, and their team at Mercury in

producing a fantastic day and a quality competition

which will be both successful and enjoyable for all

parties involved.

Mike Bury

22/02/2016.

We are delighted to announce that the

Club has now secured a new main AM-

AM sponsor for the next three years.

Mercury Financial Management Ltd

have been a Club main sponsor for

some time now through sponsorship of

the eighth tee in addition to entering

sponsored teams into the AM-AM each

year. Some members will recognise that

one of the directors of Mercury is Gary

Williams, our current gentlemen’s Vice

Captain.

Ladies’ Team, Thursday, 25th February, 2016

Anne Ludford Jill Woolstencroft Francine Walburn 39

Anne Harrison Edith Clarke Lesley Williams 36

Irene Barrow Sally Hebden Valerie Bonser 33

Ladies’ Winter Dinner, 28th January, 2016

The Texas Scramble competition in the morning was played in brilliant sunshine so the

ladies were happy. Four teams ended with 43 gross and even third place was a CPO,

both teams on 5.25. Beryl Reade, Diane Houghton and Sandra Hewitt just missed out.

The evening presentation carvery dinner

went down well, as did the speaker, Jane

Antrobus, a regular visitor to Romiley to

play in opens and invitations days (13 hcp),

but this time she was telling the ladies, very

briefly, the story of her rise from a checkout

girl at the Oldham Co-op to the first ever

female Detective Chief Superintendent.

Now retired, Jane has trained as a

celebrant, has been busy with TV interviews

and consultancy work, and is embarking on

a new acting career in a TV crime drama

production—playing a detective inspector.

A very close 2nd, Angela Slate, Barbara

Leith and Lynn Schofield, 6.16

Think how much they would have enjoyed

themselves if they hadn’t all missed that

putt! 3rd: Teresa Hogg, Lady Vice Captain

Irene Barrow and Audrey Jones with 5.25.

The winners:

Liz Wilde, Lesley Williams

and Elsie Heyward

with 6.25

Lady Captain and Jane Antrobus

16 Hole Russian Stableford Pairs, Saturday, 30th January, 2016

2nd: John Parke & Derek Worthington 71 3rd: Colin Granby & John Mawdsley 71

Vets’ 9 Hole Stableford, Friday, 5th February, 2016

1st Malcolm Booker 23 pts! 2nd Kevin Ogden 19 pts 3rd Ken Fendall 19 pts

Malcolm was sent for blood tests which all proved negative for performance

enhancing drugs but showed he might have contracted canine distemper. He sees

the vet soon.

Many of the players wanted to call

this format “Russian Roulette”

rather than just “Russian”. Both

players’ stableford scores on a hole

were multiplied to create the score

for the hole. They thought they

had blown it on the 16th and 17th

where they had just one point on

each hole. However, on the 7th

Phil had a 4 for 4 pts and Doug a 4

for 3 pts making 4 x 3 = 12 points.

1st: Doug Mills & Phil Hart, 75

Celebrating with soup

Ladies’ Mail On Sunday, Fairfield v. Romiley, Sunday, 7th February, 2016

Romiley was drawn in the Mail on Sunday to play away to Fairfield. The match

was arranged for Sunday, 7th February, 2016, but a few days earlier their match

organiser contacted me to inform me that she deemed their course unplayable

as there was no relief available from standing water on fairways or greens. She

repeated this again the day before the match.

She therefore agreed that if Romiley was open and available, we could play the

match at Romiley. This was then hurriedly arranged with a lot of help from

Peter Milnes and Mike Moore who ensured the course had no winter tees in

place on the day and only a minimum of temporary greens (8th, 10th, 11th &

14th). The Mail on Sunday rules allows up to 6 temporary greens and tees.

Unfortunately, the Fairfield team, after inspecting four holes of our course,

decided, two minutes before the first tee time, that it was unplayable. They

claimed that the temporary 10th was flooded and there was no option to take

relief anywhere. After a quick chat to Alex, he phoned Mike to discuss and,

although they disagreed with the complaints, it was agreed that the four

temporary greens could be removed and we could play the proper greens on

those holes. Alex kindly offered to go out onto the course and sort that out for

us.

Again, Fairfield were not satisfied with this and, after a quick discussion

between themselves, remained resolute in their decision to refuse to play the

match.

I spoke to the referee of the Mail on Sunday golf on Monday morning, who had

already had a call from the Fairfield organiser, and he judged in our favour by

awarding Romiley the win on a walkover.

Many thanks to Peter Milnes, Mike Moore and Alex

White.

Pauline Walker

Anne Ludford—special birthday

Anne may have celebrated her 80th birthday on 5th February but there’s no sign of her slowing

down. She still does what she’s always done and regularly plays golf, bridge and bowls, walks, swims

and looks after the garden. If anyone would like to be as fit and healthy as Anne at 80 then that’s

the recipe.

At school Anne was good with figures and wanted to be a comptometer operator (an old fashioned

calculator for the younger readers). She started in that role but soon progressed up the ladder and

ended her career as a site admin manager at Boddington’s and then Whitbread’s Brewery.

Anne has served on the committee as match and competition secretaries and always supports the

ladies’ events. She will be manning the cake stand at the coffee morning on 7th March, as usual, and

will be happy to receive your baked donations on the day.

Once Anne retired, in between caring for her three grandchildren, she practised her golf and

managed to reduce her handicap to 11 and qualify to play in the scratch matches and on the Bell

Cup Team, which fulfilled her long time ambition. She even played in the Bell Cup on crutches

whilst waiting for one of her two new hips, and won her match on the 15th.

In her 38 year golfing career Anne has had five holes in one and for the one on the 16th at Ashton

during an Open she was presented with a putter and the use of a top of the range Lexus for 4 days.

Anne’s name is on all the ladies’ Major boards, except for the Nellie Oldham. She’s also won the

ladies’ doubles knockout and the singles knockout several times, including in her first year of

membership. Her name is on the President’s Day board, three times, with three different partners.

Celebrations were fitted in around all the other activities and involved a trip to Bletchley Park and

Oxford for the weekend, a lunch at Cheshire Oaks with a “good” shopping day, and a family meal at

San Remo.

Happy Birthday, Anne, and good luck in this year’s Nellie. With your competitive instinct there’s

no reason why you shouldn’t have your name in gold on ALL the boards. What a claim to fame that

would be!

Flowers presented to the birthday girl by Lady Captain

11th February, Stableford, best two scores to count

The winners: Audrey Jones, Pauline Walker and Alison Reed with 37 points

2nd: Sandra Hewitt, Irene Barrow and Teresa Hogg, 35 points

3rd: Edith Clarke, Lesley Williams and Val MacKinnon, 35 points

90th birthday for Olga Coverley

Life Member Olga Coverley became a nonagenarian on 7th February, though you

wouldn’t know it to see and speak to her!

Olga was born and raised in New Mills, Derbyshire, but it was whilst dancing in

the local Town Hall in the mid-40s that she met Alec, her future husband. They

married in 1948 and had one daughter, Lynne. Alec was appointed Managing

Director of Sonoco Board Mills, Romiley, hence the move to this area.

Subsequently a 43-year residence in leafy Marple ensued, although she retained

her Romiley Golf Club affiliation throughout! Recently Olga moved to live with

Lynne near Wilmslow. Sadly, Alec passed away in 1991.

The family now extends to two grandchildren and four great granddaughters, and

all the extended family joined her for a three day weekend event to celebrate her

prestigious birthday.

Olga eased up on golf and driving only three or four years ago. She still has the

car and she refuses to part with her golf clubs, just in case she has the opportunity

to play again!

Lots of ladies joined her for lunch to mark the occasion and Olga confessed that

she misses the camaraderie. “It was lovely to be back in the Club with all the

ladies,” said Olga.

Happy birthday, Olga, and please join us for lunch again soon.

A lovely spring bouquet for Olga, presented by Lady Captain

Men’s Romiley Foursomes, Saturday, 13th February, 2016

1st Roly Hewitt and Nick Madden 39 pts

2nd Simon Barker & Ken Fendall 39 pts 3rd Dave Loughman and Matt Reid 38 pts

When one looks back at the results you find that ALL 6 of these players have been in

the top three, or very close, on quite a few occasions. They all obviously love the

conditions.

Lottery, February, 2016

1st Philip Sproson 2nd Denis Garlick 3rd Peter Mount, MBE

Major Chamberlain

MAJOR JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN

Mr Major Joseph Chamberlain died peacefully in a nursing home in

Cirencester, Gloucestershire, on 27th January, and was cremated in

Cheltenham on 9th February, 2016. Major moved to Cirencester in 2013 to be

near his daughter, Barbara, who was at his bedside when he died at the age of

93.

On leaving school, aged 14, the “little lad with the long name” started work as

an office boy at Jones Sewing Machine Company. Apprenticed to the tool room,

he became a precision engineer before rising through the management ranks to

become Production Director in 1963. Business trips worldwide exposed him to

sunshine, good food and different cultures, all of which remained lifelong

interests. His sporting achievements paralleled his working life: table tennis,

football, cricket and golf filled his leisure time and the trophy shelves. When

Brother Industries took over Jones Sewing Machine Company in 1968, Major

and Allan Bird started Guide Bridge Engineering Company, forming a

successful business partnership and firm friendship.

Major was honoured to act as President of Denton Golf Club, where he was

ultimately a member for over 50 years. He explored new holes and friendships

at Romiley Golf Club after he and his wife Ruth moved to Charlesworth in

1988. He then played mid-week golf at Romiley GC and weekend golf at Denton

GC. He particularly enjoyed the “Wednesday Roll-up” and other mid-week

competitions.

Major and Ruth enjoyed

attending the various Romiley

Golf Club social functions, from

the New Year’s Eve Dances to the

Veterans’ Dinners.

After Ruth’s death in 2010,

Major managed nearly three

years of independence, thanks to

the support of his friends and the

c o m m u n i t i e s a r o u n d

Charlesworth, before moving to

Cirencester, where he continued

to enjoy sunshine, good food and

the company of kind people.

He was excellent company and is

sadly missed by all his friends.

Barbara Chamberlain and Jack

Edmondson, contributors. Major Chamberlain

Valentine’s Day at RGC 13th February, Saturday, 2016

Pictured above are two intimate tables for 14. The ambiance was one of old, old friends

meeting together to enjoy good food and good company. There was oral romance; they

just talked about it.

"Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There's too much fraternizing with the

enemy." - Henry Kissinger

Don't wait for the one you can live with, wait for the one you can't live without.'

Ros was wooed by a handsome young Dr., Who one day in his arms tightly Ir. ; But straightway he swore He would do so more and more, And it was obvious it pleased and greatly shr. *****

Miss Wagstaff has got a new sweet She tells me his first name is Pete; That he lives in a hall, And that late in the fall, To wild, woolly Hyde she’ll retreat.

The question Andrew popped on his knoi And the answer had filled him with gloi, For Alison so fair, With a sweet, modest air, Replied to him simply ....... "Oui."

**** Dr. = Doctor lr.= locked her shr. = shocked her

Stableford, best two scores and all on the par 5s, 18th February, 2016

1st: Sandra Hewitt, Teresa Hogg and Gill Walker, 45 points

2nd: Liz Wilde, Diane Houghton and Beryl Reade, 41 points

3rd. Edith Clarke, Lesley Williams and Francine Walburn, 41 points

Your editor has booked a series of lessons from Alex to avoid this experience!

Vets’ 9 hole Stableford, Friday, 19th February, 2016

1st Ian Bainbridge 19 pts 2nd Chas Bennett 19 pts 3rd Jeff Brown 19 pts.

Gentlemen’s Evening, Friday, 19th February, 2016

Almost seventy members and guests were treated to an evening to remember at

this year’s Gent’s Dinner. The food was excellent, the comedian amazing and on

top of all that there was an atmosphere of friendliness and goodwill. Everyone

who attended seemed intent on having a good time.

Once the cheese and biscuits and coffee had been served the Captain arose and

introduced Mr Austin Knight, our entertainment for the evening. He was

fantastic. Even when the microphone gave up the ghost he carried on as

though nothing had happened, telling joke after joke after joke. Very much

“old school” like the guys who appeared on “The Comedians” back in the

seventies, his jokes were un-PC, misogynistic and very, very funny. He had the

audience in the palm of his hand and even the youngsters behind the bar were

crying with laughter despite the fact that they didn’t have a clue what he was

on about most of the time!!

Mr John Glynn was so impressed that he wrote down many of these jokes and

took pleasure in telling them to my wife, Rachel on the way home!

Thank you to everyone involved in the preparation and execution of an

exceptional night.

Chris Broster, author

Austin Knight

Paul Lowis

17th October, 1937—3rd February, 2016

Paul photographed with THE Ryder Cup

Paul was a member of Romiley for over 40 years, a course for which he had

great respect. This was one of the factors which encouraged him to move to the

area. He did, however, find it very tough, arriving with a handicap of 4 and

leaving with one of 16(!).

A dentist by profession, Paul was a very accomplished sportsman playing at the

very highest level of English football, training with such legends as Stanley

Matthews and Duncan Edwards during the time while he was studying at

Manchester University. He was in the Blackpool squad and, although he didn't

manage to get into the first team at Blackpool, he later became a regular in the

Stockport County side.

He thoroughly enjoyed his time at Romiley and, although his sight let him down

towards the end of his time there, he made some wonderful friends, including

'The Wanderers' who he met up with on Wednesdays at the Club.

He is survived by his beloved wife Viv, a former Lady Captain herself, and his

loving sons Stephen, Matthew and Christopher. He was a wonderful man. He

was greatly loved will be deeply missed.

His loving family

4 man Team Event, Saturday, 20th February

Cold, wet and miserable with conditions deteriorating fast after midday

1st Simon Hebden Rick Evans Gary Evans Joe Smith 107

2nd Tony Fitzpatrick Les Moss Ian Kershaw MBE Gary Drabble 103

3rd Roly Hewitt Derek Young Vinnie Walker Mike Hanson 103

Norman Sykes

23rd May 1931—2nd January 2016

Norman was born in 1931 in Stalybridge and as a boy he enjoyed

playing football, swimming to lifesaving level and was an enthusiastic King’s

scout. He was called up for national service in REME and afterwards joined the

Territorial Army where he was commissioned and rose to the rank of Captain.

He worked for the same company all his working life, Calico Printers Association,

and retired as the Group’s Chief Engineer. With takeovers and mergers the

company changed names several times so he retired from Coats Vyella after 46

years.

He married Brenda in 1958 and they moved to Romiley where their two

daughters were born. He was proud to see Helen and Cathy enjoy the university

education he didn’t have, and dearly loved his three grandchildren when they

came along.

Norman joined RGC in 1969 after playing at Werneth for a couple of years. At

that time Romiley had a long waiting list. He won the Rhodesian Trophy in 1994

and playing mixed golf won President’s day with Brenda Bennison in 2003.

On retirement he joined the Vets and was able to spend more time on the golf

course. He was a member of the “Poachers” and enjoyed golfing holidays and

days out with the boys without winning “the pouch” too often.

Ill health prevented much golf in the last four years, for both Norman and

Brenda, but they still enjoyed visits to the Golf Club.

He was a rock to the family and will be missed.

Saturday, 6th February, 2016

The relentless rain meant that no one played in

the competition.

The first two groups went off the first tee and

gave up after nine holes. The rest were sensible!

So to cheer everyone up here is a most apposite

cartoon, an original from the late Ken Clapp.

Romiley v. Mellor, Sunday 7th February, 2016

Firstly, I would like to thank the players on the day for turning up on a cold,

rainy winter’s day. I'm delighted we were able to get a convincing 4-1 win away

at Mellor in this first round match of the Mail On Sunday Competition. No one

lost as we had 3 wins plus two halves. It was great to be able to field such a

young team. I am confident this team will bring success to Romiley Golf Club

in the future so, hopefully, we can start that now. Special thanks to Rick Evans

( spotter) for turning up and providing a set of eyes for his brother, Gary. I'm

sure that helped Gary to his excellent half. The team consisted of myself, Nick

Madden, Mark Smith, Paul Mellor, Joe Smith and Gary Evans and Gary

Williams as non-playing captain. So, well done, lads. Let's continue with this

form.

Nick Madden

Nick Madden Gary Williams Mark Smith Joe Smith

Paul Mellor Gary Evans Rick Evans

Rick wasn’t quite

sure what the dress

code was for a

“spotter.”

Pennywort

Floating Pennywort

On the morning of Thursday, 25th February, 2016, your editor, Roly Hewitt

and Charles Hamilton (ex Chairman of Cheshire Conservation Trust) gathered

at the ponds at the 14th to examine the pennywort stifling the back pond and

starting to infiltrate the front pond. Was it Marsh Pennywort (very good) or

Floating Pennywort (very bad.) Unfortunately, it is the latter. It will need to

come out. It confirmed the news that Peter Milnes (Greens Director) and Mike

Moore (Head Greenkeeper) were expecting. It was your editor who was

insisting that it was Marsh Pennywort. Some you win......

Whilst there the weather

improved dramatically and

the pond was bathed in

sunlight. Even more exciting

was that the koi carp was

tempted to rise to the

surface.

Selby’s Quiz, Friday, 26th February, 2016

Oh Heck!

Optimists

Ad Lib

Torquemada

Selby

And his lovely wife,

Sue

Winners

Second

Keith is one of your editor’s

closest friends and I can assure

you that the amount of time he

spent to try to make the quiz

interesting and fun was

enormous. Sue always acts as

final arbiter of taste and

acceptability.

They succeeded.

This is a second win for this

team called “Oh Heck,” and

well earned as the questions

tested everyone’s memory to

the full. There were a lot of

questions about “DEATH!”

and Oh Heck obviously made a

killing with their deadly

answers.

The Optimists missed

out by just 2 points but

they, too, have been

doing very well in this

season’s quizzes. Your

editor believes that

Rick Parke, John’s

son, is their secret

weapon.

Judi and Geoff Dixon are fairly

new members of the Club and

they have thrown themselves

whole heartedly into both their

golf and the social side. With

them are Steve and Lindsay

Kershaw, son-in-law and

daughter.

They were the winners of a

separate “Discussion Round”. JJudi and Geoff Steve and Lindsay

Dixon Kershaw

Captains’ Corner

With only a few weeks left to go of my year as Captain I am saddened to be writing

my penultimate entry for the Newsletter. ( Sniff, sniff.)

I would like to start this month by making an apology for an error within the

Finance Director’s report that was recently distributed. In it I thanked Duncan

Challen and Steve Hogg for their organisation of the D&C Matches. I meant to

thank Duncan and Dave Blood. Sincere apologies, Dave, and thank you (along with

all the other team organisers referenced in the report) for supporting our Club.

The biggest highlight of the month is in no doubt, and my thanks go to all the

gentlemen who attended the recent fabulous Gent’s Dinner event. With fantastic

food, brilliant company, an hilarious after dinner speaker and wine and port for all,

it certainly was a memorable evening.

My sincere thanks go to Neil McRoberts, Dave Skillington and John Harrison for

their winning bids in the mini Charity Auction. The evening was not about going

round with a collection bucket as all of the members have already been extremely

kind in their donations throughout the year! However, after our Lady Captain

donated a signed Wembley painting (won on the evening courtesy of an

outstandingly generous bid by Neil McRoberts), I wrote to both Manchester City

and Manchester United to ask for some signed memorabilia though only one was

considerate enough to reply and even kinder to provide a signed shirt. If you know

Skilly, you will know which team that was! (For those who don’t! it was City)

You will have by now probably noticed the newly erected sign en route to the first

tee and I am delighted that our Vice Captain’s company, Mercury Financial

Management Ltd (Partner Practice of St. James’s Place Wealth Management), has

picked up the baton in terms of the sponsorship of our annual AM-AM event.

Thanks also to Peter and Judith

Howcroft for the painting of

Romiley Golf Club (by none

other than our very own John

Glynn’s brother) that they

rescued from the St Ann’s

Hospice and thank you to John

Harrison for winning this auction

and then donating the picture to

the Club which is currently on

display in the back bar area. All

in all the mini auction raised a

staggering £710 and my gratitude

cannot be justified by words! RGC by Don Glynn

I am looking forward to this event later. I have no doubt it will be another truly

great occasion and would encourage others to take in what is one of the most

prestigious events in our area.

My congratulations go to both the Ladies’ and the Men’s team who took part in

their recent Mail on Sunday Golf Club Classic matches. We know that the Ladies

had an interesting situation which had to be resolved by the appropriate

Tournament Officials and they are scheduled to play their second match against

Denton at home on Sunday, 13th March.

The Gent’s team headed over to Mellor & Townscliffe for its first round match and

Mr Vice certainly put together a great squad for this match, victorious on the day.

The great news for the second round is that Romiley has received a bye which

already put this year’s team far ahead of last year’s team which was knocked out

out in the first round!

Also taking place on 13th March (aside from the Ladies’ Mail on Sunday match, the

Top Dog Finals and an afternoon lunch event provided by our caterers) is the first

round of the Men’s Daily Mail Foursomes competition against Dukinfield Golf

Club. I see that our Vice has followed last year’s approach of rewarding our own

Foursomes Knockout winners with the chance to represent our Club in this

competition and I wish Derek Worthington and John Parke the very best of luck.

The next big Romiley-only golfing event sees the elite winter golfers competing in

the Top Dog Finals. Unfortunately for Alex and yours truly, we will not be eligible to

win the big prize after being unceremoniously dumped out of the competition by

two past Captains, Steve Hogg and Duncan Challen. We all arrived for the match

knowing that defeat for either of us meant not qualifying for the finals and maybe I

should have offered a financial incentive when I suggested a half for the match

whilst walking down the 1st fairway, which would have seen us both go through.

Unlike our Pro’s weekly email, I will not mention about my failure to get past the

Ladies’ tee on the 8th (oh wait – I just did!!)

Our previous match against Mark Jones

and his son, Alex, also resulted in defeat

but what a great game it was (finishing

on the last) and what an awesome

prospect. Alex was just 12 years old; was

not fazed in the slightest by playing

against the Pro; and possesses a lovely

swing – definitely one to watch in the

future!

Like all of our matches throughout the winter, it was a really competitive (yet

friendly) match and I thought my chip in on the 14th was going to take us back

to all square, only for Duncan to putt out from the fringe of the green to match

my 3 nett 2, only then to go and do the same again on the 15th for a win before

Steve sealed the match on the 16th green.

Neil Brindley, Captain

Men’s Stableford, Saturday, 27th February, 2016

1st Simon Tipping 35 2nd Paul Mellor 35 3rd Matthew Murray 35

My thanks go to all of the guys who provided Alex and myself with such fun

winter matches, and good luck to everyone who is taking part on the Finals

Day.

Thank you for your continued support and I will try not to get too emotional

when compiling my end of year contribution next month!

President's Ponderings

Food! Glorious Food! And what a great month at Romiley Golf Club. Not cold

jelly and custard but a foodie's delight in the month of February.

Our new stewards, Pam and Ken, have certainly done us proud and I have

savoured their fayre during this period on three different and varied occasions.

First up was the Sunday Lunch Carvery with an excellent choice of starters,

main courses and sweets and, personally, the roast beef was a pleasure to

behold and taste with a succulent rare finish and all the right juices.

Next came the Valentine's Dinner with the room superbly and appropriately

decorated to create the right level of ambiance, complemented again by a fine

choice of courses, and it was great to see such strong support for the event,

which was our caterer's, and not a Golf Club function. The fine dining certainly

created the essence of a romantic evening.

Finally, the third event, the Gentleman's Dinner, organised by the Social

Committee, was well attended. It was a great pleasure to see the excellent 4

course dinner with wine, port and coffee being devoured by 64 appreciative

gentleman attired in DJs before we enjoyed the humour of the comedian,

Austin Knight.

With a curry night for the Captains' and President's "End of Season Bash" on

the 12th March (get your tickets early) and another Carvery and Fish Night

from Ken and Pam already planned, it just leaves me to say, "MORE!"

Bon appétit.

Peter Wagstaff

President

What’s on at Romiley Golf Club

Monday, 7th March, 2016, Coffee Morning Tea or coffee and biscuits, or sample some home baking from

the cake stall. Then browse the books, cards, plants and

other goodies on offer. From 10 am, £2 entry (includes biscuits).

Saturday, 12th March, 2016, Captains’ & President’s End of Season Bash Mixed platter starter followed by curry and rice,

Then live band “Best Kept Secret”. Dress: Casual. 7.30. £15

Sunday, 13th March, 2016

Golf: Top Dog Finals 8 am

Men’s Daily Mail Foursomes, 10.20 am

Ladies Mail on Sunday 2nd round 11 am

Sunday,13th March, 2016, Carvery Lunch Book early to avoid disappointment

Tuesday, 15th March, 2016, Ladies’ AGM The present Lady Captain, Janet, will say her farewell to the Ladies, the new Lady Captain, Irene,

will deliver her first speech and the Ladies’ Committee will be elected.

Friday 18th March, 2016, AGM A good turnout would be appreciated. Prompt 7.30 start. Support your Club.

Saturday, 19th March, 2016, 4 pm, Lottery Draw

Sunday, 20th March, 2016, Captains’ Drive-In Fun on the tee at 10 am and a shotgun start at 10.30, 4BBB,

then in for Yorkshire pud, mash, sausage and gravy.

Come early to place your bets on the total combined length of the drives.

Tuesday, 22nd March, 2016, Ladies v Vets The annual, hotly contested, 14 hole competitions tees off from 10.30 am.

Start sheets will be on the respective notice boards from 1st March.

Competition followed by afternoon tea and prize presentation.

Friday, 1st April , 2016, Quiz Night Last quiz of the season with quizmaster Chris Broster

Prompt start at 7.30. Food available at half time.

Editors

Audrey Jones and John Glynn