Ihope you've all had a great week on and off the golfcourse and welcome to another edition of the KGCWeekly Newsletter bringing you up to date with all thelatest news from the club.

SteveHirons at the Open

Just when he thought theweek can’t get any better - Steve had a picture takenwith Rory McIlroy.

Duringthe championship Steve was raking for playersincluding Matt Kuchar & Erik Van Rooyen.

KGCOpen Series 4

This weekend it is thereturn of our Summer Open Series Round 4. This is overalternate days on Saturday 28th & Sunday 29thJuly. This is an Individual Stableford CompetitionOpen to Men, Ladies & Juniors and is a HandicapQualifier

Book Your Own Tee Times (Payon the Day) Adult Members £5;Junior Members £3(Adult Visitors £30;Junior Visitors £15)

With Pro Shop Voucher prizeswill be up for grabs for the TOP FIVE scores over theweekend!

Click here to view remainingsummer series fixtures.

The Order of Merit isbeginning to get interesting with Paul Knight leadingthe way from Derek Thomas & Jimmy Summers. Orderof Merit 1st Prize this year will be up to £125in Pro Shop Vouchers with prizes for the top 5 places.

Forcurrent standings please clickhere.

On Saturdaythe Green Team were away to Silverstone. Final scorewas Silverstone victory 4 ½ - 2 ½.

The winning players forKirtlington were Paul Slade & Richard Carr withDoug Haynes gaining a Half Point.

Fullresults here

The previous week the GreenTeam progressed to the Semi Finals of the Knockoutbeating Witney Lakes 2 ½ - 1 1/2. Greens will now playCherwell Edge in the Semi Final.

Fullresults here

Ladies News

Ladies CompetitionRound-Up

Ladies Weekend MedalSaturday 21st July; 9 Players in the field; CSS 75,top 3 were:

1stCelia Harker Nett 74, 2nd Sarah Fisher Nett 75, 3rdChris Clarke Nett 77 (CB).

LadiesMidweek Medal

Ladies Midweek Medal Tuesday24th July; 11 Players in the field; CSS 71, top 3were:

1st RitaMurray Nett 69 2nd Sharon Brown Nett 73 (CB) 3rdSandra Chamberlain Nett 73 (CB)

Ifhandicaps of a pair are equal then this will be halfthe combined handicap. Handicap allowance is thenrounded.

TeeTimes from 11:00am

Entrancefee:

Visitors£60per pair

Members£40per pair

Visitorsand members prizes 1st 2nd 3rd

Men’s& Ladies Nearest pin prizes

Coffeeand bacon roll on arrival, a rolling buffet after golffollowed by the prize giving.

Formore details and Entry Sheet please clickhere

RDACharity Golf Day

Clickhere for full details of the event.

Seniors JulyRoll-Up

On Thursday 19th July atotal of 27 seniors played in the month roll-up. Inexcellent playing conditions a number of good scoreswere posted with nearly half the field playing to orbetter than their handicap. The scores were dominatedby new member David McCullough whose 48 points won by7 from Geordie Mawson. Full Results were: -

1st David McCullough 48 pts2nd Geordie Mawson 41 pts 3rdLes Holmes 39pts (cb)

Senior Club Matches 

In the matchagainst Carswell Kirtlington continued theirimpressive home form gaining a 4 – 2 victory. StuartWeston and Peter French won the captains match 4 and3 whilst other winners were Jim Pete Milton/GrahamFullagar 3 and 2, Chris Mackenzie/Gerry Shaw 3 and 2and David Musson/Mike Boniface 5 and 4. OtherKirtlington pairs were Jim Lodge/Graham 1 down andGeoff Smailes/Tony Bastable, lost 2 and 1.

Withjust over half of the season matches completedKirtlington Seniors record reads, played 13, won 8,drawn 1 and lost 4. The team remains unbeaten at homewinning 6 out of 7 matches so far and 1 draw.

JuniorNews – Summer Holidays Are Here!

Thesummer holidays are under way and a great opportunityto get the kids active this summer on the golf courseplus we have the US Kids Golf Fun Day coming up againlater in the holidays.

UsefulLinks

Kirtlington Golf ClubWebsite http://kirtlingtongolfclub.com/

Shop website: http://www.kirtlingtongolfshop.co.uk/default.aspx

SeniorsWebsite: http://kgcseniors.btck.co.uk/SeniorsNews