On Course Activities
To help the day flow there will be on course competitions and activities including
1st tee unlucky winners
Everyone hates the 1st tee. The usual scenario is that you’re dashing from the car park, you’ve not played for ages let alone warmed up, you’ve forgot your water bottle and everything is a rush. Hardly ideal preparation. Lack of preparation and pressure gets to you and your first shot hits the trees or finds the hazard. Worse still you duff it 10 yards and a huge divot goes further than the ball. This is what happens. What makes it worse is when people are watching who you don’t know and are clearly better than you.
We can’t make this any easier for you on the day but we can make it worse. Much worse…
This year Gorsey Golf will be holding a 1st tee unlucky winner. A draw will be made to select the 1st tee pairings for the afternoon event and the whole field will surround the tee box. Everyone will be watching. EVERYONE. If this isn’t enough to test your nerves, we will be announcing team and player names plus we are throwing standard and stuffy golf etiquette out of the window and will be actively encourage the cheering of practice swings, player and team name chanting and all the things you hear on the first tee at The Ryder Cup. ‘Get in the hole!’ ‘Mashed potato!’ Watch the video below for a insight into how the pro’s feel on the first tee….’
Tequila Hole.
‘The shot before The Shot’. This is on the 3rd hole which is a par three protected by huge bunkers. If your short, your in the sand. If you are long or left, your in the long stuff. If you are right, your in the trees. Its hit the green or don’t score. To help calm the nerves Gorsey Golf will be providing a Tequila and Sambuca bar on the tee box. All proceeds go towards our fund raising efforts. And you can buy as many shots as you wish….
Hold the 13th in 2
The 13th is stroke index 2, uphill and often into the wind. To make this green in 2 you have to take on the bunker in front of the fairway…and its harder than you think to clear it. If you go right, the slope kicks the ball into the rough. If you make the fairway, your 2nd shot is invariably a long iron or rescue club. If that’s not bad enough there is a bunker and rough to the right approach and hard rough to the left. If you get on in 2 here, you’ve done very well…then you have to stop the ball from running off on the 17th green
Smash King Challenge
This will take place on the 9th hole over a long stretch of water. Here, your natural instinct will be to lash at the ball to make sure you get over BUT this isn’t the answer to this tee shot. We will have a professional on this tee with Trackman coaching technology which calculates club head speed and ball speed. If you divide ball speed into club head speed then this gives you a number called the Smash Rate. The optimum number here is 1.5. The winner of this competition is the player with a Smash Rate of 1.5. If that doesn’t decide the Smash King Champion then the longest drive will.
If you are into the technical aspect of this, click on this link. If you’re not, then just smash it at and hope for the best! The winner will get a complimentary private lesson from our professional.
Nearest the Line
Golf isn’t all about smashing it as far as you can. The best golfers are accurate so, on the 18th there will be a line on the fairway which caterers for all distances. The winner is the person nearest the line.
Yellow Ball
Each pairing will be given a yellow ball for the afternoon matches. This is at no charge. This ball is used by each player alternatively until its either lost or returned to the organiser at the end of the event. A lost yellow ball costs the pairing £20 which goes to the PTA
Hole in One Prizes!
- TBC!!