Even those who don't care much for golf couldn't escape the excitement of last months Ryder Cup at the Celtic Manor, and the team at Trefloyne were right in the middle of it. Gareth Knight, Course Manager, who was selected by Jim Mackensie to be part of 150 strong greenkeeping team. Although the rain kept him on his toes the highlight of the week came for Gareth when he was on the bunker crew for the Michelson/Hanson match on the final day, Gareth said "it was such an honor to be part of Jim's team, and to spend the last day in glorious sunshine walking alongside such great golfers was just fantastic".
Oliver Duckett, Head Professional, was invited by the PGA and Golf Development Wales to provide free lessons to visitors throughout the day. The PGA game improvement centre was based in the tented village, and housed 10 PGA Professionals each giving 18 lessons a day to all ages and abilities. The PGA and Golf Development Wales were overwhelmed with the response to the lessons and but the end of the week over 1000 people have gone throuhg the centre. "It was a fantastic opportunity got me as a professional, and to see so many people eager to learn golf or to improve their game was very encouraging" said Oliver. Due to his success and dedication Oliver has now been invitied to be at the Game Improvement Centre at The Open next year.
Tom and Sarah were also hard at work on the Golf Wales stand, ensuring 45,000 visitors a day came back to play their golf in Wales. It was a pleasure to work alongside the Visit Wales team and other partners including Celtic Manor Resort, The Vale, Golf North Wales and the Wales Golf Holiday Company. The stand looked spectacular showing visitors what Golf in wales is all about. One of the highlights of the weeekwas a visit for HRH Prince of Wales who was incredibly interested to learn all about golf in Wales. Ian Woosnam who is ambassador for golf in Wales, spent an hour with us on the Friday, he remembered playing against local Tenby legends Ian Duffy and Kim Beynon some years ago although it took some memory jogging from Kim!!!!
The first of the practice days also gave our Junior section tickets to go and watch thier golfing heroes up close. With both teams in such good spirits and getting ready to do battle all the juniors were very fortuate to get many autographs and to learn golf from the best.
Although the Ryder Cup has left wales (lets hope not for good), the entusiasm for golf felt throughout that very special week is still strong at Trefloyne and we will never forget being part of it
Tuesday, 19 October 2010
Thursday, 24 June 2010
Trefloyne & Pembrokeshire Fish Week 2010
Whilst golf and fishing don’t tend to go hand in hand Trefloyne is pleased to announce it will be taking part in Pembrokeshire Fish Week 2010 www.pembrokeshirefishweek.co.uk . Kicking it off will be head chef Pip cooking at Milford Docks alongside The Swan, Little Haven Head Chef Andrew Swales www.theswanlittlehaven.co.uk as well as other local top chefs giving their time to support celebrity chefs Matt Tebbutt http://www.thefoxhunter.com/ and Mitch Tonks http://www.mitchtonks.co.uk/ in the counties communal bbq, celebrating local landed fish and the best way to serve it up!!
As well as this Trefloynes Terrace fish week starts on Monday with a fresh fish BBQ, Thursday is a five course fish taster, celebrating the best fish Pembrokeshire has to offer and enjoying it without having to do the dishes after!!! Finally on Saturday 3rd July Trefloyne will host a Paella Evening, come and sample fantastic paella with a glass of wine and sit back and take in the view!!
For details and booking www.trefloyne.com or www.pembrokeshirefishweek.co.uk
As well as this Trefloynes Terrace fish week starts on Monday with a fresh fish BBQ, Thursday is a five course fish taster, celebrating the best fish Pembrokeshire has to offer and enjoying it without having to do the dishes after!!! Finally on Saturday 3rd July Trefloyne will host a Paella Evening, come and sample fantastic paella with a glass of wine and sit back and take in the view!!
For details and booking www.trefloyne.com or www.pembrokeshirefishweek.co.uk
Tuesday, 2 February 2010
The diversity of Trefloyne Golf Course
At the beginning of January I made a promise to myself that I would learn how to use the blog on Trefloyne.com! Well January has been and gone and still no blog so today is the day I learn to blog!
After the “big freeze” Trefloyne was slowly starting to come back together and resemble a golf course again, even the green keepers were surprised at getting the grass cut. That was of course until we woke on Saturday morning to what can only be described as a white out. Big fluffy snowflakes settling on a big white blanket, another day the course is closed because of the white stuff.
Time to get to tough and for yet another staff brain storming meeting, after several hours of cursing the snow we came up with a viable solution to our problem we could offer the snow covered golf course as a training ground for the Great British Olympic Cross Country Ski team just in time for the start of the winter Olympics in Canada (www.vancouver2010.com/olympic) this month. The club house into a ski lodge serving Vin Chaud and Fondue and Oliver our resident PGA Professional decided to have a change of career and train to be a ski service engineer and stock Salomon instead of Glenmuir. It’s a win win situation!!
Of course the reality is the snow never last long in Pembrokeshire so with a bit of positive thinking and probably lots of rain the snow will melt and the golf course will once again be ready for play this week.
Look forward to seeing you on the course soon
Sarah
After the “big freeze” Trefloyne was slowly starting to come back together and resemble a golf course again, even the green keepers were surprised at getting the grass cut. That was of course until we woke on Saturday morning to what can only be described as a white out. Big fluffy snowflakes settling on a big white blanket, another day the course is closed because of the white stuff.
Time to get to tough and for yet another staff brain storming meeting, after several hours of cursing the snow we came up with a viable solution to our problem we could offer the snow covered golf course as a training ground for the Great British Olympic Cross Country Ski team just in time for the start of the winter Olympics in Canada (www.vancouver2010.com/olympic) this month. The club house into a ski lodge serving Vin Chaud and Fondue and Oliver our resident PGA Professional decided to have a change of career and train to be a ski service engineer and stock Salomon instead of Glenmuir. It’s a win win situation!!
Of course the reality is the snow never last long in Pembrokeshire so with a bit of positive thinking and probably lots of rain the snow will melt and the golf course will once again be ready for play this week.
Look forward to seeing you on the course soon
Sarah
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