James Cunliffe

Clothing and sundries

Fancy a new golf top or some new club crested goods? Look no further.

Japanese forged wedges

Japanese forged tech wedges. £249 now £139. Bargain, for a forged wedge made by swordmaker forgers in Japan.

Stroke lab Putters and Pure practice equipment

Need the chipping net to practice in the garden or a new putter to use on the hall carpet. Special Strokelab putter with 30% OFF

We have some exciting products arriving ready for our return in February. We have the all new Titleist TSi woods arriving (very exciting) the all new Callaway woods which I am not allowed to talk about (very excited about these, I tried one, very clever indeed) and the all new PING G425 which again are very exciting. All hardware manufacturers have steepd up there games this year for sure. I will be parting with a few pennies for sure in 2021.

Clothing lines will be KJUS, Under Armour, Oscar Jacobson and a new addition of Peter Millar adding to the members only collections we now have established at the club. I can't wait to welcome you back to the shop and show you what we have instore for 2021.

The quiz is back, this time with prizes

First quiz, Friday, 15th January 2021, 7:00pm.

With lockdown, the Littlestone Quiz is back. Only this time its slightly different, there are prizes available. There will be an entry fee of £5 per team and the winners take the pot which will be posted as special gifts the days after the quiz. Prizes are unique and not necessarily golf related, so please join me and take part in this lockdown institution. The first quiz will take place on Friday, 15th January at 7:00pm. Please find the Zoom invite below.

James Cunliffe is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Topic: Littlestone Links - Lockdown Quiz.
Time: Jan 15, 2021 7:00 PM London

Join Zoom Meeting
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Meeting ID: 843 9068 5128
Passcode: 567050

Looking forward to flumoxing you with some tricky questions.

Coaches Forum

Monday, 18th January - 3:00pm

During the lockdown period we are looking at ways to keep the membership (and our golfing friends far and wide) involved in what we are doing as a club. One of these events is our Coaches Forum. In this, online event, we will be talking all things golf, how we coach, what we look for in the process, the coaching process itself and methods of play. Myself and the PGA coaches here at the club are looking forward to welcoming you to the event.

So, what do we need from you? This is a totally FREE event and we will be talking about full swing in particular Driving with tour swings analysis using the Trackman swing library. In the next few days what I would like from you, is questions about golf and what you would like us to talk about.

All questions are welcome and we will do our best to answer them, it's all set to be a great afternoon of Q&A and our all new coaching concept for you, our friends and members.

James Cunliffe is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Topic: The Coaches Forum 2021
Time: Jan 18, 2021 02:00 PM London

Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81586782238?pwd=UGJzM1BsenhzK3BCeFliRVN3alFyQT09

Meeting ID: 815 8678 2238
Passcode: 364535

I look forward to taking your questions and it is all set to be a great reguar weekly event during lockdown.

Tee booking confusion

The rolling 7 day booking system

I just wanted to help a few of the members understand the booking system we have at the golf club and the restrictions we had to put in place.

Before lockdown we had to put in place restrictions on the amount of times members could play. We, of course, didn't want to do that but were forced into it by the shear volume of people wanting to play and the limited light during the winter.

We will look at the booking system over the next few weeks and as soon as we know when we can come back, we will look into what restrictions we will put in place and for what categories of membership.

IG booking restrictions are limited in their functionality. If we set the restrictions to 2 rounds it restricts all rounds on both courses. The system also only works on a rolling 7 day period. The seven days roll as the picture above suggests.

If you were to play on Wednesday 6th you wouldn't be able to book Monday 11th, marked 3, until the Wednesday 6th at 7:00am. This is because there is a round booked on Saturday 9th.

At 7:00am on Saturday, 9th you would be able to book another round, say Wednesday 13th.

What begins to happen, is the teesheets fill over time, rather than at 7:00am every morning. This will still of course happen if everyone chooses to play on a Tuesday in two balls, which incidentally is the clubs most popular day alongside Saturday.

Just wanted to make you aware with this text and diagram of how it works. Hopefully when we finally get back to the club in February, we will have approximately 16 additional teetimes each day to accomodate an additional 32 golfers per day. This should alleviate some of the issues we have been having with the popularity of the teesheets each day and we will look at increasing your ablilty to play.

Can I take this opportunity to thankyou all for your understanding during these difficult times at the club. We haven't done any of what we had to do in 2020 before and we have certainly been learning as we go along.

And, finally

Well, that's just about it for this week. Hopefully I will have a few photographs for you to have a look at from our courses next week and I can't wait to welcome you to all of our scheduled events. Remember to take a look at the Foremost online store and I will have a few exciting announcements next week to wet your appetites for when we re-open.

Anyway, stay safe my links friends, the lockdown will be over before you know it and we will be waiting to welcome you back very soon indeed. All the best wishes, James.

Something to work towards

Come rain or shine, golfers never need an excuse to dust off the cobwebs and get onto the course. So, with lots of golf to (hopefully) look forward to in 2021, there's no better time to conjure up some golf-based resolutions for the year ahead.

Making resolutions

You may have decided you’d like to reduce the number of three-putts you have each round (don't we all!) or to get less frustrated when you hit a bad shot. Whatever your resolutions are, we're here to help in any way possible.

How we can help

I think we can all agree that golf is much more fun when you’re playing well. So, reply to this email with your number one resolution for the year ahead and let's see if we can make it happen together!

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Walking in a winter wonderland

Long walks are as much a part of the festive season as eating too much turkey and dozing on the sofa afterwards. Greg Norman once said ‘Happiness is a long walk with a putter’. Now, it would be a little odd to take your putter on a festive walk, but one thing you'll definitely need is a good jacket!

Galvin Green waterproofs - available through us

Well, we will all be trying to get out of the house for some good walks over the next few weeks, but they're a lot less enjoyable if you’re caught out in the rain. That’s why it is so important to have a waterproof jacket that really gets the job done.

Galvin Green’s Apollo Gore-Tex jacket does exactly that, and with a flourish; giving you complete waterproof protection, a stylish look and freedom of movement in your swing. Now that’s happiness, Mr Norman.

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Video of the Week

Every good round of golf requires a bit of luck, be it a favourable bounce around the greens or a preferable lie off the fairway. Sometimes it is far more extreme, as this highlight reel from the European Tour showcases. Enjoy.

We hope you enjoyed this newsletter. If you need any help with your game please contact us in the proshop and we'll be delighted to help. James and the golf team.

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