Test the Skills of the TrackMan Golf System

Can just 20 minutes with Abbey Hotel PGA Professional Rob Davies using TRACKMAN gain you 10 + extra yards? 

Rob Davies is very confident he can do this for most people so he's decided to put on 2 days where you can book a 20 minute Trackman session for just £20.00…. and if you don’t gain at least 10 extra yards within your time - you get the session for FREE!

Who is this for? Suitable regular golfers of all standards, ideally looking at people who want some extra distance with their DRIVER where Rob will examine some of the following Trackman ‘numbers.’

• Club Head Speed – The speed your club is travelling at impact.
• Smash Factor – How you convert club head speed to ball speed.
• Launch Angle – The initial degree of launch at impact.
• Swing Path – The angle the club head is travelling in relation to the target at impact.
• Dynamic Loft – The loft of the club face at impact.
• Angle of Attack – The angle at which your club travels down or up to the ball.
• Spin RPM – The rate at which your ball spins backwards (there’s no such thing as ‘top spin’ in golf by the way)
• Spin Axis – the degree at which your ball axis is tilted when struck (there’s no such thing as side spin in golf either!)  

Don’t worry if this all sounds very technical and complicated, Rob won’t need to tell you everything that is happening!!

Using an optimizer chart and demonstration Rob can show you the potential distance available to you at your current club head speed by helping you achieve the correct or better combination of just some of the above impact data. 

Within the 20 minutes you will have a better understanding of exactly what is happening during impact and have 1 or 2 simple set-up/swing thoughts to help you achieve EXTRA DISTANCE!.....Hopefully its at least 10 yards otherwise Rob will not get paid!

So when is this happening…..

SATURDAY 28^th SEPTEMBER FROM 12.00pm

&

WEDNESDAY 2^nd OCTOBER FROM 5.00pm

There are 20 spaces available in total and bookings are now available by calling the golf shop on 01527 406500 – SO DON’T MISS OUT BOOK NOW!….What have you got to lose!

You can also make a booking request via email golf.shop@theabbeyhotel.co.uk

After the two events Rob will report back on the out come of these sessions via the Abbey Hotel Golf Shop Facebook page.

The Abbey Hotel Midland PGA Pro-Am Sponsored by Carlsberg

Last Thursday 12^th September the 4 star Abbey Hotel, Golf & Spa in Redditch once again hosted a very successful Midland PGA Pro-AM sponsored by Carlsberg UK.

The Abbey course was immaculately presented for this prestigious event on the Midland PGA calendar and once again attracted a high quality field of Professionals from across the region - including Paul Broadhurst - a former Ryder Cup player and multiple winner on the European Tour. The event was a shot-gun start format of 18 teams consisting of 3 amateurs and a Professional with magnificent team prizes and a £2100 prize fund for the professionals. Although played from the back tees measuring a very challenging 6700 yards the weather was perfect for some good golf.

Favourite for the event had to be Lincoln’s Paul Streeter, already with 12 wins under his belt this season and an impressive 35 under par tally for his last 10 events. Last year’s winner Broadhurst was also strongly fancied to take the honors again as he has rarely been outside the top 5 in most Midland PGA tournaments this year.

Some difficult pin positions were set and so even in perfect conditions only 2 players managed to break par. With 5 birdies and 3 bogies, Nottingham based Andrew Willey a former European Challenge Tour player scored 70 to finish 2^nd. Broadhurst didn’t manage to retain his title but still finished 3^rd with level par 72. Streeter started his round on the 18^th and with just 7 holes left to play he was ‘only’ level par but with a birdie at the par 5 11^th, an eagle at the par 5 13^th followed by another birdie on the 14^th and 3 pars to finish, his 4 under par (68) course record equaling score was good enough to take the title. The excellent winning team score of 135 (-9) was from the Cocks Lloyd team consisting of Peter Aldridge, Paul Sidwell & Chris Lee with Professional Joe Smoothy (Robert Rock Golf Academy).

Winning pro Streeter said I’ve been coming here for 4 years now and the course keeps getting better, it’s been a pleasure and a nice change to play on such receptive greens and see the ball spinning back so much’ As well as thanking the main sponsors Carlsberg who provided free on course hospitality all day he also mentioned how good the 3 course dinner was and looked forward to coming back next year.

Co-ordinator of the event - The Abbey’s Head Professional Rob Davies was also delighted with the day “It’s great to hear so many of my fellow professional’s enjoyed the course, our brilliant facilities and first class hospitality have impressed everyone who played today. We are really are very proud of what we have to offer here and I look forward to organising next year’s Pro-Am”.

3rd place Professional – Former Ryder Cup player Paul Broadhurst (Left) With Carlsberg’s Paul Deakin

Winning Professional – Paul Streeter(Left) - With Carlsberg’s Paul Deakin

Winning Team Cocks  Lloyd – From Left Stuart Fowler (PGA official), Chris Lee, Peter Aldridge, Joe Smoothy (professional), Paul Sidwell, Paul Deakin (Carslberg)