Newsletter 25

Kettering Golf Club



NEWSLETTER


ISSUE #25














Winter Texas Scrambles Airshots Society


The third of our winter texas scrambles takes
place on 15th January at 12.00 noon.
Cold and frosty conditions
The scrambles are open to all junior members proved to be no problem for
with or without a handicap. Gracie Murray who scored 34
points to take 3rd place and
Each team will be made up of mixed ages and ladies longest drive on the Air
abilities & will play 9 holes. Ambulance Charity Day or-
ganised by club assistant pro
The winter scrambles have been popular over the Ryan Tarrant.
last few years and are a perfect way to start out Teams made up from four dif-
for juniors with little or no experience of on course ferent clubs inc Kettering,
play or competition, please come along and join in Greetham Valley and Staple-
with the fun. ford Park.
Nice work Gracie. Gracie Murray
A short prizegiving will take place once all players
have returned to the clubhouse. (Please find
dates and times on page 3)
Junior Captain 2016
Jordan Darnell




Ladies and Juniors after a great day of Texas Scramble
Ladies and Juniors Texas Scramble Day




































KGC Juniors


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Issue 20 Jan 2016

Our Professionals
Kevin Theobald, James Waycot & Ryan Tarrant


Contact details


Kevin Theobald James Waycot Ryan Tarrant


Phone: 07909 320808 Phone: 07860 129118 Phone: 07929 763716
Shop: 01536 511104 Shop: 01536 511104
Email: [email protected]
Web: www.jwgolfservices.com


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Junior Section Representatives

Darrin Keech

07983 540495
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Many thanks to Steve Jackson (The Sports
Journalist) for the use of all BJGT photographs.

Please visit Steves website thesportsjournal-
ist.com to download photographs on a donation
basis. Nick Keech

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2016 a Great Year for our Juniors New Handicaps



Congratulations
to Sonny Len-
non and Lewis
The 125th Anniversary of the club has been a fantastic year of golfing achievements for our Juniors,
2017 looks set to be another season of improvement and handicap reductions for our tal- Critchley who
ented kids. were awarded
2016 started with Gracie Murray and Ashleigh Critchley sharing the Winter League Priz- their their first
es, Chelsey Sharp gained her official handicap and promptly went out to shoot a net 62 official handi-
(beating Sam Underwood also 62 on countback!!) in the junior medal, we had several caps during the
club medal winners throughout the year, Ashleigh Critchley won the ladies club champi- month of
onship (gross & net) as well as retaining the Anderson trophy, Jordan Darnell and Theo December.
Brown finished top ten in the club championships. Jordan retained his junior club champi-
onship title with Ed Keech taking the net prize, Ashleigh added to her seasons haul by
winning the 125 competition, the singles knockout Taylor Trophy, the Seddon Trophy,
Jeffcoat Trophy, Medal Final and was part of the Critchley family team who won on Char-
ley Hull Day, Ed Keech ‘won’ the Phil Underwood Trophy on Presidents Day, Luca Brown NGL Boys Singles
and Spencer Hughes were part of the winning team on the Ladies/Juniors Scramble.
The Keech Cup was retained by the adults on a day of truly shocking weather, Presenta- Matchplay Finals Day
tion Evening saw many of our juniors presented with their trophies with Chelsey Sharp 28th October 2016
and James Attwood receiving Rookies of the Year, Theo Brown and Ashleigh Critchley re-
ceiving Most Improved juniors following huge handicap cuts with Theo also winning the
coveted Players Player award.
We now have Ruby Smith, Chelsey Sharp, Gracie Murray and Ashleigh Critchley playing Jordan Darnell progressed
for the County Girls teams at various levels and Theo Brown, Joseph Hyde and Ed Keech through to the semi-finals of the
doing likewise for the boys. Boys County Singles were he
There were many winners on the Shires Tour, with Ashleigh topping the Silver Div Order came up against a player in form
of Merit, James Attwood and Lewis Critchley finishing 1st & 2nd in the Diamond Div Order Charlie Salter (Northants County),
of Merit and to top it all off Luca Brown was part of the winning team in the Shires Tour Jordan, unfortunately could find
Gasking Trophy. his best form during the morning
match and duly went down 5&4.

Charlie went on to lose by one
hole in the final to Liam McNeela
Junior Captain 2017 from Collingtree.

Congratulations and good luck goes to Jordan dusted himself down, and
Theo Brown, KGC Juniors Captain for played some cracking golf in the
2017. afternoon 3rd-4th place play off,
Theo is 14 years old, goes to Bishop defeating Fergus Robinson
Stopford School, has represented Club (Northants County) .
and County sides and currently plays
off of a handicap of 6. Third place was a great result for
Jordan and capped off a fine last
season as a junior.










Kettering Golf Winter Texas Scramble Dates





15th January
29th January
19th February
05th March




The tee has been reserved 12.00 - 1.00pm for each of these
dates.

Our junior team shirts are sponsored in 2016 by local
company - Own Land Homes, the specialists in manu-
facturing mobile homes, granny annexes and garden Kettering GC Junior Squad 2016

residential pods, stationed on your very own piece of
land, including residential gardens. Left to Right:

Our junior team are sporting the OLH logo on their Gracie Murray, Ashleigh Critchley, Theo Brown, Jordan Darnell,
shirts for the season, more details and team photos will Jonathan Dunn (sponsor), Spencer Hughes, Luca Brown, Ed
be appearing in our newsletter throughout the season. Keech, Joseph Hyde, Jake Sheridan. (Sam Underwood not in
photo).
www.ownlandhomes.com







Presidents Day-Phil Underwood Trophy

11th September 16’



With many of our juniors at other events on the day, it was left to Spencer Hughes & Ed Keech to fight it out for the Trophy. Spencer went
out early in the morning and shot 34pts and then had to disqualify himself for playing from the wrong tees, this left Ed with the task of just
getting round to win almost by default!! A round of 36pts did the trick despite his playing partner suggesting that he should have been dis-
James Attwood
qualified for wearing the wrong colour clothing, visiting the toilet, looking at him in a funny way etc.:)






Keech Cup

6th November 16’


The Keech Cup was resurrected this year having not being played for since 20??, the trophy was originally a match between the committee
and the juniors for bragging rights only, this time around we managed to drag many of the parents (some kicking & screaming!!) to help
contest the trophy.

The format was fourball betterball, with all wedges banned!! This was a ruling that originally only applied to the juniors but the adults took
it easy on the juniors this time by playing to the same rules.
On a wet, windy and generally sub zero day only four of the original six fourballs actually finished the full 18 with the adults running out
very close winners and ‘still’ holders of the trophy :)







NGL Junior League Team/s 2017


In previous years Kettering GC have entered only one team into the Northants Junior League, teams are made up of only four players

meaning some very talented juniors miss out on representing the club.
We are proposing entering two teams A & B, players can represent only one of these teams in the same season.
To enable us to run two teams we will need parents willing to help/run one of the teams, if you are interested in providing help please let
Darrin know, thank you.

Our Sponsors


The junior section would like to thank many people/companies for their generous donations and help during the last three sea-
sons. We could not do what we are doing without this continued support, many thanks go to the following people for their 2016
donations.

If you would like to help/donate please let Nick or Darrin know, it would be very much appreciated.










Nigel Hanger Malcolm Brown
Own Land Homes Jamie Taylor

Jack Murray Maryann Deeney
Ray Hurren Stuart Andrews

Eddie Lynch Lyndsey Smith
Al Moreland Lisa Lennon

Barry Essig Shannon Taylor
Nigel Armstrong Stuart Hyde
Kirsty Critchley Alan Moreland

Joe McQuade Baboo & Sunni Patel

Jim Lilly Nick Keech
Angus Ferris Chris Brigstock
Norman Davis Daz Keech

Asif Manji Charley Hull
Dave Hodson Steve Drage

Nick Murray John Bishop
Michael Shakeshaft Kirk Pawlikowski

Malcolm Brown Pete Evans
Sean Suddards James Waycot

Mel Chambers Howard Jones
Kev Theobald Bill Hancock
The Penguins Society Terry Haines

Iian Auld Steve Maxwell



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County Girls v Bedfordshire
@ The Bedford GC

9th October 16’

The Northamptonshire Girls team played a friendly match at The Bedford GC, Kettering girls Gracie Murray and Chelsey Sharp used their well
tested understanding of each others game to win their match comfortably 4&3.
The third Kettering youngster Ruby Smith partnered up with Rushdens Hannah Talbot, the new pairing proving successful running out 2&1
victors.
The Northamptonshire girls completed a 3-1 victory over their hosts.









County Girls v Ladies Past Captains

@ Rushden GC

11th September 16’
County Ladies Past Captains held their annual match verses the County girls squad at Rushden this year, the Kettering pair; Ruby Smith and
Chelsey Sharp took part gaining invaluable experience in the process.

Shires Tour @ Mkt. Harborough GC - 25th September 16’




A blustery and at times wet day greeted the Shires tour at another new golf course for the tour in Market Harborough.
The event was the last qualifier for the order of merit prior to the Grand Final at The Leicestershire and it proved to be quite a contest.
With Theo Brown unable to attend the event it was left to Jordan Darnell to represent the club in Gold division, putting woes contributing to
a round of 32pts for our junior captain.

Silver division is probably the most keenly contested division with several of our juniors battling it out on the day, Ashleigh Critchley was
leading the OOM going into the round and managed to hold off her main competitors with a very good 37pts to claim the top spot in the
Order of Merit.
Josep Hyde overcame a poor mid section to his round finishing with 35pts and the nearest the pin prize, Ed Keech didn’t find the greens to
his liking and despite putting together a good score on the front 9 slipped away on the back 9 to post a disappointing score however he did
claim the 'Longball' prize by some margin.
Sam Underwood led the way for the Kettering juniors in Bronze division scoring a very good 36 points, whilst Gracie Murray didn't find her
top game on this occasion mustering 28 points.

Six of our juniors represented the club in Copper division, solid scores for James Attwood, Ben Atherton, Finn Smith, Chelsey Sharp, William
Wilkins and Ruby Smith were the order of the day on this occasion.
Lewis Critchley played really well at times scoring 31 points and finishing just outside the top three.












Shires @ Woburn Sands & Aspley Guise - 11th September 16’






Our juniors had a relatively quiet day at Woburn Sands & Aspley Guise GC, but some good performances garnered a few top positions.
Jordan Darnell scored 33 points in Gold division, Ashleigh Critchley finished 2nd on 39pts, Joe Hyde was 4th on 36pts & Jake Sheridan won
nearest the pin, all in Silver division.
In Bronze Division we had Sam Underwood finishing 2nd on 37pts and Gracie Murray 5th on 34pts.
William Wilkins 22 pts, Ben Atherton 19 pts and James Attwood 16 pts all had decent rounds in Copper division.
Last, but not least, Lewis Critchley shot a brilliant 47pts over 9 holes in Diamond Division to take 2nd spot just one point behind the winner,

Sonny Lennon also had a great round, shooting 36 points.







Shires Grand Final @ The Leicestershire - 23rd October 16’






Showers greeted the players on Grand Final Day played on a course in fantastic condition, The Leicestershire is an unusual
course in the fact that there are no par fives, a fact that obviously suited 2017 junior captain Theo Brown. Theo put togeth-

er an excellent round of golf scoring 37 pts to win Gold division, Jordan Darnell played fairly well but couldn't find a putt in
scoring 32 pts.
Theo Brown
Our silver division representatives all had day to forget on the course with our Bronze division player
fairing only slightly better with Gracie Murray 33 pts and Sam Underwood 32 pts breaking the 30 points barrier.

Ben Atherton, James Attwood and William Wilkins all had good rounds in Copper division but didn't quite make it into
the top positions.


Lewis Critchley It was left upto Lewis Critchley to round off a mixed day with a top performance in Diamond division amassing 44 pts
to take third spot, Sonny Lennon finished in the top 10 with a creditable 28 pts.

Shires Tour Order of Merit


Congratulations to Ashleigh Critchley and James Attwood who played a con-
sistantly high level of golf throughout the Shires season with win their re-

spective Divisional Order of Merits.
Ashleigh younger brother Lewis finished second in his division just behind
James.




Northants County Order of Merit




Ed Keech and Ashleigh Critchley had a good year playing in many junior
opens, Ed finishing 3rd gross and 5th nett in the county Boys Order of Merit
with Ashleigh also taking 3rd spot gross and 4th nett in the Girls Order of
Merit.






Ladies / Juniors Texas Scramble






Be


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Lewis Critchley Ruby Smith KGC Juniors
County Girls Pairs Final
@ Wellingborough GC

12th October 16’

Gracie Murray and Chelsey Sharp battled their way
Eagle time!!
throughout the season to the final of the Girls County
Pairs competition. In an extremely tight match, giving
away a large amount of shots to their opponents they
eventually succumbed on the 18th.


So

The Shires Junior Golf Tour Diary 2017



16th April Stowe School (9 holes)
30th April Brampton Heath (9 holes)
14th May Northants County (9 & 18)
28th May The Bedford (9 & 18)
4th June Priors Hall (9 & 18)
18th June The Bedfordshire (9 & 18)
25th June Kibworth (9 & 18)

9th July Beds & County (9 & 18)
6th Aug Rushden (9 hole Texas Scramble)
26th Aug Kingsthorpe (Pro-Am)
TBC ?? Beedles Lake (9 & 18)
24th Sep Mkt. Harborough (9 & 18)
22nd Oct Northampton (9 & 18) Grand Final









British Junior Golf Tour Diary 2017


26th Feb The Bedford
17th Mar Cambridge Meridian
26th Mar Park Hill Ben Atherton
10th Apr Wellingborough
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23rd Apr Bourn Ruby Smith KGC Juniors
Lewis Critchley
30th Apr Tadmarton Heath
14th May Magnolia Park (Grand Final)






Eagle time!!
KGC - Junior Medal Final

15th October 2016


The junior medal final final was a keenly contested event this year with five players teeing it off on the day.
Sonny Lennon
Chelsey Sharp, Ashleigh Critchley, Ed Keech and the Brown brothers Luca & Theo, all believed they had a
chance of winning following good years of golfing progress.


The medal eventually found its way into the hands of Ashleigh Critchley who shot a fantastic nett 66, just pip-
ping Ed Keech with a respectable 69 and Theo Brown on a close 70.











NGL Girls Generation Cup

16th October 2016



The NGL Girls Generation Cup is an annual competition were the girls play nine holes at
Kingsthorpe with a family member. This year Kettering had all four of our girl county play-

ers involved. Ruby Smith and grandad Tony Melton were unlucky to finish 13th, Chelsey
Sharp and grandad Richard managed top 10 in 9th place, Gracie Murray and dad Nick a
very good 6th and Ashleigh Critchley with dad Jon finished second on countback.

Photographs courtesy of Neil White. Presentation Evening Award Ceremony

Joseph Hyde re-

ceiving his TGB
Apologies to the juniors
not featured on this Trophy and
page. I will hopefully
be able to include the County Champi-
missing photos from the onships Boys
evening in the next
newsletter. U14 Trophy.










Ed Keech receiv-
ing his Club
Theo Brown receiving the Players Championship

Player of the Year Davis Trophy.
Nett Trophy and
Phil Underwood
Trophy.









James Attwood
Ben Atherton
receiving the

Search Boys Rookie of
Lewis Critchley Ruby Smith KGC Juniors the Year Trophy.



Ben Atherton receiving the Joe
Godwin Blue Tee Trophy.



Eagle time!!



Ashleigh Critch-
ley with club cap-
tain Nigel Hanger
Sonny Lennon
showing just a
few of the many
trophies she has
won this year.



Chelsey Sharp receiving the Girls
Rookie of the Year Trophy.




Texas Scramble

29th December 16’

We had a fantastic turn out for our second winter
scramble with 15 juniors taking part.
A frosty course was no problem for the winning team
‘The Savages’ Joseph Hyde, Finn Smith and Ben

Atherton, who despite being a threeball shot a one
under gross 34 for the front nine, impressive!!
Team ‘LongballShortball’ Ed Keech, Eva Johnson, Leo
Dunham and James Attwood finished second with a
3 over 38, ‘Team Tigers’ Gracie Murray, Sonny Len-
non, Lewis Critchley and Sam underwood were a
close third on 39 with the ‘Mature Cheddar Cheeses’
Chelsey Sharp, Ruby Smith, Liam Johnstone and Rio

Mullett in fourth with 45.

2016 2016 Roll of Honour - County Events


Jordan Darnell - 3rd in County Boys Scratch Knockout @
Wellingborough GC.
Ruby Smith - Has represented Northants Girls in several
events throughout the year.

Chelsey Sharp - Runner Up in County Girls Pairs Knockout
& played in a number of events throughout the year.
Joe Hyde - Playing member of County U14’s winning team
2016 Roll of Honour - Club Events in Keith Tripp Trophy @ LIngdale.
Gracie Murray - Runner Up in County Girls Pairs Knockout
March Medal & played in a number of events throughout the year.
Ed Keech Ed Keech - Playing member of County U14’s winning team
April Medal - Jeffcoat Trophy2 in Keith Tripp Trophy @ LIngdale.
Ashleigh Critchley Member of Northants U14’s winning side in 10 x team Mid-
April Sunday (Club Medal) land Boys County Championship at Broughton Heath, Der-
Ladies Winner - Gracie Murray byshire.
Jordan Darnell - Div 1 Winner Theo Brown - Member of Northants winning side in 10 x
Joseph Hyde - Div 3 Winner team Midland Boys County Championship at Broughton
Winter League 15’/16’ Heath, Derbyshire.
Gross - Ashleigh Critchley County U16 Triangular event at Blakeney, Lincs, & U18s.-
Nett - Ashleigh Critchley Ashleigh Critchley - Member of winning team in County
Stableford - Gracie Murray Scratch South Regional Championships, Runner Up Gross
Eclectic - Ashleigh Critchley U15’s South Midlands Championship, winning team mem-
May Medal ber of $ Counties team Champion Trophy, County Girls Or-
Luca Brown der of Merit Winner Gross.
June Medal
Chelsey Sharp 2016 Shires Tour Roll of Honour
June Thursday (Club Medal)
Theo Brown - Div 1 Winner Silver Div Order of Merit Winner- Ashleigh Critchley
Luca Brown Div 3 Winner Diamond Div Order of Merit Winner - James Attwood
125th Anniversary Junior Stableford Diamond Div Order of Merit Runner Up - Lewis Critchley
1st Ashleigh Critchley 42pts First Positions in Shires Events -
2nd Ed Keech 40pts Jordan Darnell - Northampton
3rd Theo Brown 39pts James Attwood - Glen Gorse, Oundle, Kirby Muxloe
July Medal Ben Atherton - Oundle
Theo Brown Gracie Murray - The Bedfordshire
Club Championshipship (Juniors) Theo Brown - The Leicestershire
Gross - Jordan Darnell (2nd in Mens section) Second Position in Shires Events -
Nett - Ed Keech Sam Underwood - x1
Ladies Club Championship Lewis Critchley - x2
Gross & Nett - Ashleigh Critchley Ashleigh Critchley - x1
Ladies Anderson Cup Third position in Shires Events -
1st – Ashleigh Critchley Lewis Critchley - x2
August Medal - Seddon Trophty James Attwood - x2
Ashleigh Critchley Ben Atherton - x1
Phil Underwood Trophy Ruby Smith - x1
Ed Keech Joseph Hyde - x1
Taylor Trophy Gracie Murray - x1
Winner - Ashleigh Critchley Theo Brown - x1
Runner Up - Theo Brown Shires Tour Gasking Trophy Team Event
Medal Final Winning Team Member - Luca Brown
1st Ashleigh Critchley - nett 66
2nd Ed Keech - nett 69
3rd Theo Brown - nett 70
Keech Cup
The Adults
Ladies/Juniors Scramble The Professionals
Luca Brown, Spencer Hughes, James Waycot (left), Kevin Theobald (middle, with former students Char-
ley Hull & Simon Lilly)
Most Improved (Girls) - Ashleigh Critchley and Ryan Tarrant (right)
Most |Improved (Boys) - Theo Brown
Rookie of the Year (Girls) - Chelsey Sharp
Rookie of the Year (Boys) - James Attwood
Players Player of the Year - Theo Brown