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Greetings from Sandy Smith
Ladybank Golf Club - PGA Golf Professional


Our Seniors and Guests outing to Forfar GC was a great success all round. The weather was perfect, the course excellent and the catering top notch. Thanks go to Stuart Wilson and his team at Forfar GC for looking after us so well.

As ever, we had a great turnout of 37 players including myself and Gregor. Thanks to you all for turning up, taking part and making this such a great day out. We are already looking forward to the Autumn outing. Prizes as follows:

Individual prizes - 1st Danny Cuthbert 38pts bih, 2nd Bill Murray 38pts, 3rd Brian Kay 37pts

Team winners - Bill Murray, Angus Wood, Bill Mathers and Frank Hill - 91pts

  

Club Gents Wednesday Sweeps continue to grow in numbers

Just a wee reminder to all members that we now run a counting Wednesday sweep every week during the playing season. Times are bookable online or via the Pro Shop.

Thursday, 7 May 

Know your Yardages - come warmed up - 15 min appointments available Free Of Charge

Thursday, 14th May

Get out of bunkers - GUARANTEED! 20 min appointments available 3pm-6.30pm £10

Sunday, 24 May

Our Pro Fun day on Sunday, 24 May is starting to fill up nicely now. Hopefully there are still some of you deciding on your team of three or four players?? At only £15 to enter per team, this event is hopefully becoming one of the must-play events in the club calendar! Please come out and make it a day to remember in 2015.

Make sure you book in the pro shop.

An evening with John Mather Golf Psychologist - 11 June

11 Jun 2015 - Golfing Psycology Evening With John Mathers HPC Registered Golf Psychologist at Stirling University. As an elite amateur golfer himself he may provide some help in unlocking your golfing potential? 7pm - 8.30pm. £12 per ticket Tickets available to buy in the Pro Shop - limited to 50 people

As little prelude to our Golf Psychology evening taking place on the 18th June at 7pm, I wanted to highlight an area of importance in this field as I see it.

The Practice vs Play mind sets!

Many people don't differentiate between how they operate mentally on the course with what they do when they practice. This I believe is one of the biggest areas holding people's performance levels back. I strongly believe that you must operate in practice in a left side of the brain mode I.e being analytical, thinking about what you are physically doing and making repetitions of the same movement again and again to in grain a new technique or skill.

However the opposite is true when you operate in a playing golf mode on the course. It then becomes key to switch the side of the brain you utilise and operate in a right side of the brain mode. I.e not thinking about what your body is doing, not thinking technically about body movement. Once you get on the golf course you have to hope that any practised skill is becoming in grained/learned. This obviously takes time and is the main reason people jump around looking for quick fixes or band aids as many like to call them.

Many simply don't understand the time factor required to efficiently learn a new skill to its conclusion. Ie once you can do it without thinking about it. I strongly suggest when you play golf that you play with the right side brain and go out there visualising what you hope the ball is going to do rather than what you are going to do over a shot.

I can guarantee more success if you operate like this in the future with any golfing time you may have. The greatest golfer of them all, Jack Nicklaus, once said "my most powerful tool was my ability to use visualisation on the course." Powerful stuff indeed from a great.

Picture Competition

This week we continue with our Picture Competition, where you take pictures of our beautiful course, and the chosen winner who has taken the best one will be given a prize on the Pro Fun Day - Sunday, 24 May.

This week we have images from David Gray, a couple from Roy Wicks and one from Brian Bunch.

Make sure you take a snap whenever you get the chance and send it in to us! It may well win you a prize!

email sandy.smith@foremostgolf.com your best examples! 

  

  

In the last week we have seen all 4 seasons with beautiful sunshine and highs of 20c, to harsh frosty mornings with lows of -3c even some snow... the joys of a Scottish spring!

We have seen some signs of growth in the past week, greens sward is establishing very well and the uneven growth patterns typical of this time of year seem to be leveling out.

We can also now see some leaf on our silver birch trees.

Last week saw us complete our important spring aeration program where we verti-drained selected areas on greens to a depth of 7" to relieve deep compaction. This was followed by a solid tine to a depth of 3" to relieve any surface tension. These operations are vital in air and moisture management to encourage water movement throughout the profile and essentially achieve a firm dry surface.

  

Following our aeration we then applied another light top dressing to greens which has quickly disappeared into the canopy. Our top dressing program is essential in achieving a consistent putting green, not only does it help produce a truer surface, but it also increases canopy temperature which aids recovery.

The weather outlook for the next week is remaining unsettled with some sunshine, quite breezy with isolated showers and varied temperatures.

This season we resume our very popular 'trade in' your old lead acid battery for a New Lithium Battery offer with the lite power lithium and Motocaddy Lithium batteries effectively being reduced to £174.99 from £199.99.

This is a great time to go light and go Lithium.

With the added benefit of a five year warranty we highly recommend these batteries for any make and model of trolley.

 

 
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New GolfBuddy WT5 watch 

A GPS device might be just what you need to help you go after those pins and shoot lower scores. Slimmer and lighter than its predecessor, the WT5 is a sports tech watch that provides yardages to the front, middle and back of the green. Among the many super features there’s a pedometer and scoring function. This watch is just one of the brand’s distance measuring devices in an extensive line-up, and you can check out the full range in our shop.

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Srixon balls

What ball will suit me? 

Last week we reminded you how important it is to play with the right ball because we all have different swing speeds. On top of this our own budgets vary and it can be difficult to know if you’re getting the best out of your ball. Ask us about Srixon’s range which covers golfers of all abilities and watch this video to find out more.

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