Little Lakes Golf Club

Calling All Golfers!!!!! STILL SOME TEE TIMES LEFT!!!!! Come & join us here at Little Lakes Golf Club for the Clive Williams Memorial Better Ball pairs Open on the 3rd August, Clive was a well loved & respected former Club Captain & this is always a popular Open so tee times will fill quickly, so don’t delay, get yourself booked in today!!! Contact Andy Simmonds to book in, contact details & information is on the entry form attached, or just contact Andy on 07791613541 or [email protected]

Calling All Golfers!!!!! Come & join us here at Little Lakes Golf Club for the Clive Williams Memorial Better Ball pairs Open on the 3rd August, Clive was a well loved & respected former Club Captain & this is always a popular Open so tee times will fill quickly, so don’t delay, get yourself booked in today!!! Contact Andy Simmonds to book in, contact details & information is on the entry form attached, or just contact Andy on 07791613541 or [email protected]

Today the Men’s section contested the Hinley Cup, this was hotly contested with some good scores coming in, the eventual winner was ANDY Simmonds with a Gross 75, net 67, it’s been a long time for Andy, but the drought is eventually over👍👍🏌️‍♂️🏌️‍♂️🏆🏆. Congratulations to Andy on his win, pictured here receiving his Trophy from Club President John Bunce 👏👏👏

Come & join us for our Combination am am on Saturday 27th July, any combination of men & Women, spaces still available, the 2 lowest Handicaps plat BetterBall Medal & the 2 highest Handicaps play BetterBall Stableford, if you want to enter a team, please contact Jan Dean👍👍🏌️‍♂️🏌️‍♂️🏌️‍♀️🏌️‍♀️. Contact numbers & email address is on the form attached👍👍🏌️‍♀️🏌️‍♀️🏌️‍♂️🏌️‍♂️

Calling all Lady Golfers!! Come & Join us for the Ladies Better Ball Pairs Open on Tuesday 23rd July, Tee times still available🏌️‍♂️🏌️‍♂️🏌️‍♀️🏌️‍♀️⛳️⛳️. If you want to enter, contact Ros James, contact details on on the attached entry form

Busy weekend this week as it was Men’s & Ladies Club Championship weekend, the Men battled it out over 2 days to determine the winner & the Ladies was on Sunday, there was a range of Trophies to be won with best Gross for Club Champions & best Nett Trophies on both days and a best Nett Trophy over both Days for the Men’s Section, Congratulations to all the Winners, here’s how it all finished overall:-

Ladies Section

Club Champion 2024; Tanya Collins 👏👏🏆🏆

Best Nett Score 2024. Jude Sandell 👏👏🏆🏆

Men’s Section

Day 1 Best Nett Score & Jubilee Cup Winner. Kevin Phillips 👏👏🏆🏆

Day 2 Best Nett Score & Qualifiers Cup Winner. Craig Kimpton. 👏👏🏆🏆

Overall Best Nett Score & John Bunce Presidents Trophy. Kevin Phillips. 👏👏🏆🏆

Club Championship was contested on accumulative best gross score over the 2 days, at the end of play it was a 3 way tie between Dave Collins, Dean Wilkes & Andy Simmonds, so it was a sudden death play off!! With all the players following & supporting, All 3 parred the 1st hole & it continued down the 2nd hole, after a tense battle, Dave Collins emerged as the winner on the 2nd play off hole with a very inventive Greenside Bunker shot, Congratulations to Dave on his 4th consecutive win 👏👏👏🏆🏆🏆

Here are all the winners collecting their Trophies from Club Captain Garry Edwards, Ladies Captain Christine Yeomans & Club Presidents John Bunce, Thanks to all the members & Spectators that tagged along on the sudden death play off giving their appreciated support 👏👏👏

Today Members contested the Les Bird Trophy, finally all Trophy Competitions are now all caught up to date from the very wet start to the year, the eventual winner was Dave Collins beating Dean Wilkes on Count-back with an excellent 38 points, scoring an impressive 4 under gross on the back 9👏👏👏. Well done Dave, here’s Dave accepting his Trophy from Club Captain Garry Edwards

On Saturday 29th June the Members contested the LLGC Memorial Trophy, a Trophy we play in honour & memory of Members that have passed away. The Competition was hotly contested & the eventual winner on Countback on the last hole was Terry Soley on 40 points nicking it from Andy Simmonds also on 40 points, Well Done Terry👍👍🏌️‍♂️🏌️‍♂️👏👏🏆🏆 Also Dean Whatcott had a hole in one on the 17th hole, Congratulations Dean 👏👏👏.

Roll Up! Roll Up! Roll Up! Still time to get a 4 Person Team into our Combination am-am on Saturday 6th July, Tee times still available, format is TEXAS AM-AM best 2 scores to count, Stableford Scoring, a great Team event, your team can consist of both Men & Women.

If you want to enter a team just contact our Club Secretary, Jan Dean on 07773972471 or [email protected] & get your team booked in, its Just £15 per player for visitors or £10 per player for Members, always Great Prizes as we always pay out a minimum of 80% of the Competition Income

Come along & Give it a Shot! You’ll love it, all you need is an affiliated Club Handicap Index to be eligible 🏌️‍♂️🏌️‍♂️⛳️⛳️🏌️‍♂️🏌️‍♂️🏌️‍♂️🏆🏆

Saturday 23rd June was the Men’s Fernihough Open where Golfers compete in an individual Strokeplay/Medal format for the converted Trophy that is named after the Club Founder Peter Fernihough. Both Members & Visitors battled it out on a glorious but humid day & the eventual overall Nett winner was Allan Williams with a nett 69, Congratulations Allan that’s 2 from 2 now, you’re on a bit of a roll👍👍🏌️‍♂️🏌️‍♂️🏌️‍♂️👏👏🏆🏆. Here’s the overall results for the day:-

1st Place Allan Williams. Nett 69
2nd Place. Ollie Green Nett 72(CB). Wharton Park
3rd Place. Wayne Thomas. Nett 72
4th Place. Steve Rowley. Nett 72

Best Gross. Dave Collins 77
Best front 9. Garry Edwards. Nett 34
Best back 9. Dave Bright. Nett 36

2’s Sweep

Jason Farmer. (Great Barr)
Wayne Akers. (Redditch Kingfisher)
Steve Rowley
Dave Collins

Congratulations to everyone that won something, thanks to everyone that came & played & generously entered the raffle raising £170 for the Captains Charity. Parkinson’s UK

Here’s Allan receiving the Trophy from Club Captain Garry Edwards 👏👏🏌️‍♂️🏌️‍♂️🏆🏆

Trophy Competitions are still coming thick & fast👍👍🏆🏆. On the 8th June members contested the Bob Laing Trophy, the winner was Dean Wilkes with a great performance scoring 36 points. Today, 15th June was the Atkinson Trophy, contested in very wet & difficult conditions during the 2 1/2 hours of a Summer shower (deluge!). The winner was Allan Williams with a very respectable nett 70, Well done to both Dean & Allan👏👏👏👏🏆🏆🏆🏆🏌️‍♂️🏌️‍♂️🏌️‍♂️. Both Dean & Allan are shown here receiving their Trophies from Club Captain Garry Edwards

Today was the Little Lakes Cup Trophy Competition, this was again closely contested with the top 7 players only separated by just 3 shots, the eventual winner was our Club Captain Garry Edwards, receiving his Trophy from Past Captain Andy Simmonds, Congratulations Garry 👏👏👏👏🏌️‍♀️🏌️‍♀️🏌️‍♀️🏌️‍♂️🏌️‍♂️🏆🏆🏆

Come & Join us for one of our Opens between June & August,!! All our Opens are competitively priced at no more than £15 per Person & there’s always great prizes on offer. Please see the attached flier for what’s on offer, if you want to enter. You can do so via “Golf Empire” or download the entry form from our website order “Visitor” tab then “Open Competitions” then Open form for the competition you want, then send it to the person nominated on the entry form, contact details are on the form, or you can contact the person on the attached flier, Ladies Opens contact Ros James, Mixed Opens contact Jan Dean & Men’s Opens contact Andy Simmonds.

Hope to see you soon at one, if not all of these Opens👍👍🏌️‍♂️🏌️‍♂️🏆🏆🍹🍹

Finally the Little Lakes Golfer Club Trophy Competition Calendar is on its way & the Competitions are coming thick & fast due to the delays caused by the impact of the awful weather over Winter & Spring, the latest 2 Competitions were the Mark Laing Trophy on the 19th May 2024; this was keenly contested & the eventual winner was “in form” Wayne Thomas, Congratulations Wayne!!🏆🏆. Wayne received his Trophy from Club Captain Garry Edwards, assisted by Wayne’s son Theo👍👍👏👏

Saturday 25th May 2024 was the Frank Holder Trophy, Members battled for the honour of winning & the eventual winner was Dean Whatcott, Congratulations Dean, also pictured receiving his Trophy from Club Captain Garry Edwards 👍👍👏👏👏🏆🏆🏆🏌️‍♂️🏌️‍♂️

Saturday 11th May saw the 1st of our Clubs Charity fund raising Opens, the Paul Collins Memorial Open where we raise much needed funds in Paul’s memory for the Midlands Air Ambulance Charity.

On behalf of the Club, Members & Paul’s Family we would like to thank the following people for making the fund raiser a success & raising around £3000(to be confirmed) Thanks to:-

Kevin & Ros James for all their hard work & organisation over the last couple of months & for making things happen
Dave Yeomans for doing the starting & setting out nearest pins etc
Stephen Rowley & his son Billy for running the putting Competition
Bev Tillman for helping with Team check in & sorting out the Raffle
Club Captain Garry Edwards for doing the Trophy & Prize Presentation, plus the Charity Auction
Steve Homer for his musical ensemble of tunes from the Golf Balcony
Kevin Phillips for checking & scrutinising scorecards & sorting results

In addition to this, without the support of these people & local businesses & Clubs we wouldn’t be able to raise the funds we do, so a huge thank you to the following for their generosity:-

All the Members who have donated Competition Prizes, Auction Prizes or Raffle Prizes, Garry Edwards for BMW Championship tickets, Dave Collins & Family for Golf Equipment Vouchers x 3, Andy Simmonds for 3 x Laser Rangefinders, Stu Lester for 4 Ball voucher for the Astbury, Wyre Forest for Go Ape Vouchers, Wildjack Gin for taster Vouchers just to mention a few, also thanks to Andy Morris for donating putting Competition Prizes & 2 generous cash donations from Wayne Thomas & Alastair McIntyre

We would also like to thank Members Martin Gotch for all his help in yet again sorting out the Tee Sponsor Signs at no cost, plus all the local businesses who sponsored a Tee sign that raised a massive £600, thanks to:-

Sharmic Engineering
J J Castings
Dave’s Paint Shop
Standard Motor Transport
High field Haulage
A J Metals
Auto Electric Diagnostics(Dean Whatcott)
Blink Print
The Courtyard
Ollie Green Carpenter
Nothing Bound Brewery
Adler & Alan x 2
Bewdley Garage
Cloudy2Clear Windows
Clive Davies Financial Services
Bewdley Blinds
Chris Maynard Driver Training
Stourport Sign Studio
McCain Foods x 2

A Huge thank you also go out to all the Golf Clubs & Professionals that donated 4 Ball vouchers or lesson vouchers for prizes or Auction, as follows:-

Ombersley GC, Wharton Park GC, Kidderminster GC, Halesowen GC, Hollywood GC, Ludlow GC, Kington GC, Burghill Valley GC, Cleobury GC, Great Barr GC, Sutton Coldfield GC, Martin Payne lesson voucher & Swing Room Voucher from Mark Sparrow Golf Pro Academy at Little Lakes. All these generous people made it possible to make sure every penny we raised goes to the Midland Air Ambulance Charity

Finally & probably most importantly a huge THANK YOU to YOU all the participants on the day who came & supported this event, that’s Members & Visitors of which most have supported this event from the Start( players from Droitwich GC, Redditch Kingfisher GC & Wharton Park GC)

Thanks to Little Lakes Golf Club for allowing the Members to run these Charity Opens which raise much needed funds for Charity, thanks to the Bar & Kitchen staff for keeping us fed & Watered, thanks to our President John Bunce for keeping everyone well hydrated out on the course & Thanks to our Greens Team for getting the Course into a playable Condition for the Open, not as pristine as they would of wanted it, but its been a constant battle against the weather over the last 6 months, but they are winning the battle.

Here are a couple of Photos from the day, one of which is the Winning team on the Day of Garry Edwards(Club Captain), Wayne Thomas & James Turner receiving the Trophy from Kevin James with a 12 under par total 👍🏆🏌️‍♂️.

Just in case we’ve forgotten anyone? Thanks to anyone else who helped or supported this event in making it a success & Hopefully see you all again next May when we go again👍👍🏌️‍♂️🏌️‍♂️

LLGC Committees

The course may be wet at the moment, but that hasn’t stopped our Greens Team from getting jobs done.
They have been busy this last week replacing the hole signs with brand new ones, and I’m sure you’ll agree the new ones look great so far! A few finishing touches needed, but a massive improvement already on our old signs. 👍
Well done Team, job well done! 👏

Come and join us this year for one of our Open Competitions here at Little Lakes Golf Club.
There are 11 Opens to choose from depending on what category suits you best.

Entry forms, with further information for each Open, will soon be available to download from our website under the Visitors tab, as well as through Golf Empire.

We look forward to welcoming both new faces and old for another great year of golf! ⛳️🏌️‍♀️🏌️‍♂️

Come and join us this year for one of our Open Competitions here at Little Lakes Golf Club.
There are 11 Opens to choose from depending on what category suits you best.

Entry forms, with further information for each Open are available to download from our website under the Visitors tab, then Open Competitions as well as through Golf Empire.

We look forward to welcoming both new faces and old for another great year of golf! ⛳️🏌️‍♀️🏌️‍♂️

The team has been braving the cold this week to get some areas cut and tidied up. Looking great so far lads! 👍

Full time green keeper position.

We are looking for a full time greenkeeper to help on the course doing a variety of tasks.
The position will have on the job training so no experience required
Driving licence required
Minimum wage
PPE provided
Weekend work based on a rota system.
40 hours contract
Free golf
If interested email your cv to [email protected]

Another Fantastic Evening on Saturday 18th November for the Men’s & Ladies Presentation Evening, it was great to see members coming together to celebrate the success of all our winners in the 2022/23 season Congratulations to each & everyone of the winners🎉🎉🏆🏆🍾🍾🍺🍺🏌️‍♂️🏌️‍♂️🏌️‍♀️🏌️‍♀️. Here’s a few photos of the winners collecting their trophies from the Club Captain Alastair McIntyre, Lady Captain Ros James & Club President John Bunce 👏👏👏👏. Big Thank you to one of our members, Keith Bradley, for stepping in to collect trophies on behalf of those winners that couldn’t make the evening, also huge thanks to DJ Cliffy for Spinning some tunes afterwards to help members celebrate in style

On this Remembrance Sunday, let us remember all those brave men & women who sacrificed their lives for this country.
Lest We Forget. ❤️🖤❤️

Dear Members,

The Little Lakes Golf Club Low Handicap League Team played the League Final on Saturday 14th October at Ludlow Golf Club against Gaudet Luce GC & Little Lakes Triumphed! On a sudden death play off on the 1st hole, so we are 2023 CHAMPIONS!!!!🏆🏆🏆🏌️‍♂️🏌️‍♂️🍾🍾🎉🎉👏👏👏👏. This is a huge achievement for our small but mighty Club, a win like this in a final is massive for our Club & members & everything they deserve.

Along our Journey to success we have beaten some clubs who have a proven track record of success in these leagues, but as a team we have dug in & ground out some fantastic results at home & away. I would like to personally like to thank each & every player who has played their part in every match, you all have been fantastic & I am so pleased for each & everyone of you

THANK YOU!

Andy Simmonds

Sunday 8th October was the Men’s “Perkins Pot” which is the Better Ball pairs Trophy, this one is always hotly contested & the results this year were pretty commendable indeed:-

In 3rd place with a nett 65. Clint Webbe & Mick Bryan
In 2nd place with a nett 64. Kieth Bradley & Kevin James

And the Winners with a magnificent Nett 61 were Mark Stokes & Craig Ratcliffe, Congratulations gents on a superb performance 👏👏👏🏆🏆🏆

Mark & Craig are pictured receiving their Trophy from Vice Captain Garry Edwards

A fantastic weekend of Golf for Little Lakes Golf Club this weekend, we had 2 Teams Competing in the Worcestershire County Golf R&A Salver Winter knockout, Kieth Bradley & Andy Morris won their match against Branford 6&5, Dave Cox & Andy West won their match against Redditch 2 up, Congratulations lads👏👏👏🏆🏆🏆. In addition to this, our Worcestershire Low Handicap League Team played their Semi-Final against Droitwich Golf Club, 2 matches at home & 2 matches away, the team won 4-0!! Our Home games were:-
Clint Webbe & Terry Soley won 3&2. Andy Simmonds & Garry Guest won 4&2, our Teams away results were:- Clive Davies & Kevin Phillips won 5&4, Dave Collins & Dean Wilkes won 1 up, what a fantastic result Well Done team👏👏👏👏🏆🏆. The Low Handicap League Team now face Gaudet Luce in the Final at Ludlow Golf Club on Saturday 14th October 10:00am 1st Tee, I’m pretty sure the whole Club will be behind our team & they will be victorious & bring the Trophy Home🏆🏆.

Huge congratulations to our Club Professional, Mark Sparrow for winning the PGA order of merit event at Trentham with a solid 2 under Par round, 38 points, well done Mark, great result, onwards & upwards m8; also good to see former Club Professional Matt McGuire shoot a great level par round & 36 points, well done Matt👍👍🏆🏆

Saturday 23rd September was one of Best & most popular Open competitions of the year, Our Captains Charity Texas am am Open, 20 teams took part & every team is Guaranteed to win a prize worth at least £100 in the form of a 4 Ball voucher from a selection of Clubs in the Midlands, thanks to all those Clubs. We managed to raise on the day approximately £1500 for our Captains Charities thanks to the generosity of all those that came & took part, Thanks to yo all 👏👏👏👏

A few thank you to add:- Thanks to Jan Dean for organising & booking in the teams & checking scorecards, to Dave Yeomans for doing the starting on the 1st tee, Thanks to Ros James for organising the Raffle & all the prizes, Thanks to Garry Edwards for stepping in for the Club Captain in his absence & a huge thank you to all of you that donated a raffle prize & turned up to support this great annual event👏👏👏🏆🏆👍👍🏌️‍♂️🏌️‍♂️

Here’s a few photos of the presentation on the day

Today was the Mens Len Vaughan Singles Matchplay knockout between Kevin Phillips & John Morley, it was a hard fought battle & the Victor was John, here’s John receiving his Trophy from the Runner up & Competition Secretary Kevin Phillips 🏆🏆

The battle for the Gary Barth Trophy took place today for all our 18+ Handicap index Golfers, the victor with a fantastic nett 66 was Craig Ratcliffe, Well done Craig 👏👏👏👏🏆🏆🏆 Craig is pictured below collecting his Trophy from Club President John Bunce

Saturday 2nd and Sunday 3rd September was the weekend for the Annual Bewdley Cup, this year hosted by Little Lakes, and what a fantastic weekend it was for everyone involved.
Little Lakes came out as the winners against Bewdley Pines over the 2 days, winning by a record 193 points difference!
But the real winner is the friendship between the 2 clubs that come together annually in a golf match, but have forged a long-standing friendship & comradery.
Hopefully next year we can convince Wharton Park to come back into the Bewdley Cup.
Big thanks to all the staff and volunteers from the various committees that make these weekends such a success.