Vincent Regis
ESTEC Teams Day 22/6/2022- the EGC Golf Clinic
The Director of ESTEC instituted ‘Teams Day’ on Wednesday 22 June in response to the debilitating effect of the restrictions imposed to combat Covid-19 over the last two years and to get some ‘team-spirit’ back into ESTEC. In response to the SSCC’s call for clubs ‘to do something’ in support, the Golf Club suggested a Golf Clinic (though where that name came from I’ve no idea). Anyway, we thought we could put to good use the practice putting area, the
chipping area, the nets and hole 1 and Clare, Joe, Filippo, Ignacio and myself ‘volunteered’ to run the show on the day. Helma had painted some targets on the putting green and Anna had flyers and posters printed. I was in contact with the GolfCentrum Noordwijk for it to give support in the shape of the golf-pro Michael John de Boor. He brought along three bags of clubs, (mid-irons, sand wedges and putters) to more than supplement our own ‘spare’ clubs and balls.
The Clinic was to start at 10:00 and by 10:05 we were in danger of being overrun by
the numbers wanting to give golf a go. Through some sort of divine intervention the cavalry
arrived in the shape of David, Erik and Paul and later Dominico and Stephen. We survived
but we had to expand the real-estate by doing the chipping up onto the ninth green as
Michael John needed the practice chipping area for his basic introduction i.e. holding the
club, the stance etc. etc.
We asked our visitors to sign-in and by 12:00, the closing time of the Clinic, we had
collected about a 100 names. Just from observation, many of our visitors looked potential
golfers and we hope they will join the EGC. We of course impressed on them the value for
money of the membership fee, the almost unrestricted access to the course and our
closeness to the GolfCentrum Noordwijk with its driving range and Toptracer installation!
Altogether a fun day and an experience our volunteers didn’t expect.
Brian Taylor.
Chair, EGC
Summer Seasonal 2022 at De Haenen – Results and Report
The Summer seasonal has been played at De Haenen golf course near Breda. The weather was nice, sunny and little windy. The course was beautiful with undulated contours, and many statues and artwork displayed around the course.
Unfortunately, what could have a perfect setup was a little spoiled as some extensive aeration had been performed on the all the greens, making them really difficult. For this reason the event was declared non qualifying.
A dinner took place at the club house after the round.
The winner with 31 points is Jan van Haarlem. 2nd with 30 points and a better back 9, is Stephen Durrant. 3rd with 30 points is Alex Jeanes. Elly Davis won the longest drive and Allan Thirkettle the neary.
Congratualtions to Jan!
Full results can be seen in Proware:
https://estec.prowaregolf.nl/match/results/id/897
Bedrijf League 2022
Dear club members,
The Bedrijf League is back. All the usual teams have signed up: the Misfits (ex Shell), BP, PIT and EPO.
The Bedrijf League is a business evening league played with the aforementioned businesses/organisations golf clubs. Each game is played between 2 teams of 6 players, in individual matchplay with full hcp compensation. We play during the week with the first tee around 17:30. Each team plays every other team twice, once at home and once away.
BP is hosting in Kleiburg, The Misfits in Bentwoud, PIT in Leeuwenbergh, and EPO in the Rijswijkse. And with the last ESTEC site entry restrictions lifted, the EGC can receive on the ESTEC golf course again.
Players must be 36 hcp minimum to participate. There is no special priority, so we will do our best to ensure that everyone that wants to play gets to play.
For each round we will need 6 players plus one standby that will keep his evening free in case one of the players that was selected can’t make it at the last minute.
To sign up you just need to indicate your availability for each date in the Datumprikker at the link below:
https://datumprikker.nl/p7xr6uq99xuiu86n
Here is a summary of the dates:
- Mon 09/05/2022: Bentwoud, starting 17:20 at vs. Misfits (formerly Shell)
- Thu 19/05/2022: ESTEC GC, Starting 17:30 vs. EPO
- Mon 23/05/2022: Rijswijkse, Starting 17:30 vs. EPO
- Tue 31/05/2022: ESTEC GC, Starting 17:30 vs. PIT
- Thu 09/06/2022: Leeuwenbergh, Starting 17:20 vs. PIT
- Wed 29/06/2022: Kleiburg, starting 17:25 vs. BP
- Tue 12/07/2022: ESTEC GC, Starting17:30 vs. Misfits
- Tue 26/07/2022: ESTEC GC, Starting 17:30 vs. BP
Any questions? Want more detail? Please contact Vincent (vincent.regis@gmail.com)
