Welcome to Formby & Freshfield Golf Society

This is the first iteration of our new website. Over the coming weeks, various new features and updates will appear.

This website was created so that all the current members and guests of the Formby & Freshfield Golf Society (FFGS) can easily access information relating to the society from a central location.
It is also a method by which members and guests can keep in touch with each other and see what is planned for the future. We currently have 27 members but have a limit of 32, so there are still places up for grabs. If any members have friends who are interested in joining, then please get in touch.

I hope you find the website interesting and informative and prompts all you members to help with providing regular content.

Latest Competition - Bromborough Golf Club

20 players arrived to chips and sandwiches and a glorious day for golf. The course took no prisoners as a lot of low scores showed. Future Captain and course member, Glen Randles, won the day with an amazing 39 points and “it should have been more” as he profusely pointed out!  Well, here’s to a massive handicap cut and your last win for a while!

17 points, on count back, took the wooden spoon.

Also, a big welcome to two new members - Phil Woods ( coming back into the fold ) and Ian Hitchmough.

Next Competition

Our next outing is at New North Manchester Golf Club on Sunday, August 8th.

Tee time is 10.30 am but get there for bacon butties at 09.30 am. There is a 2 course meal afterwards.

Directions

From the M62 Junction 18

Join the M60 southbound at junction 18 and stay on the inside lane. This will filter off at junction 19. Take the first exit following signs for Middleton. Move into the right hand lane to go through the lights and follow Manchester Old Road for 1 mile. When the road bends to the right in an ‘S’ with a fishing lake on the right hand side, the entrance to the Club is on the left opposite the lay-by.

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Famous Golf Sayings

I'll always remember the day I broke ninety. I had a few beers in the clubhouse and was so excited I forgot to play the back nine - Bruce Lansky

They say golf is like life, but don't believe them. It's more complicated than that - Gardner Dickinson

I'm hitting the woods just great, but I'm having a terrible time getting out of them - Harry Tofcano

Golf! You hit down to make the ball go up. You swing left and the ball goes right. The lowest score wins. And on top of that, the winner buys the drinks - Anon

I play in the low 80s. If it's any hotter than that, I won't play - Anon

Putts get real difficult the day they hand out the money - Lee Trevino

The best wood in most amateurs' bags is the pencil - Unknown

 I'd like to see the fairways more narrow. Then everybody would have to play from the rough, not just me - Seve Ballesteros

If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball - Jack Lemmon

Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into a even smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose - Winston Churchill

Golf is like chasing a quinine pill around a cow pasture: Winston Churchill

It took me seventeen years to get 3,000 hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course: Babe Ruth

Columbus went around the world in 1492. That isn't a lot of strokes when you consider the course: Lee Trevino

If you're caught on a golf course during a storm and are afraid of lightning, hold up a 1-iron. Not even God can hit a 1-iron: Lee Trevino

The people who gave us golf and called it a game are the same people who gave us bag pipes and called it music: Anon

I would like to deny all allegations by Bob Hope that during my last game of golf, I hit an eagle, a birdie, an elk and a moose: Gerald Ford

After all these years, it's still embarrassing for me to play on the American golf tour. Like the time I asked my caddie for a sand wedge and he came back ten minutes later with a ham on rye: Chi Chi Rodriguez