GCB - Golf Day 2016

Published on Mar 17, 2016

Interviews with Hamish Marshall, David Payne, Jack Taylor and Steve Silk plus footage from the 2016 Gloucestershire Cricket Board Golf Day at Cirencester Golf Club. Te event raised £3.5k for comunity cricket projects in the county.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ecZudyDZx8

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Recent reviews of the the golf club function room

Dear Chris

Just wanted to ask you to pass a big thank you to Richard and Steve and the support staff, for a really great event on Saturday. Everything was just perfect. The room was perfectly set up including cakes on the table, flowers, kids table and excellent buffet.  Richard looked after us marvelously and quickly offered a dish of French fries as our grand-daughter could not have the pasta salad due to allergy to eggs and mayonnaise. He even brought enough for all the kids who were very happy.

Anyway all to say that family and guests thought this was a great venue with excellent service.

So do please thank Richard and Steve for all their efforts.

We will certainly recommend you to friends and neighbours and hope to see you again soon.

Kind regards

Domi                           18-06-2016

Bee Orchid on Cirencester Golf Course

Fantastic Bee Orchid on the Course Meadow Area

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The meadow rough areas on the course are set aside with the aim to look after the naturally occurring wild Cotwold plants and flowers

Etymology[edit]

The name "Ophrys" derives from the Greek word ophrys, meaning "eyebrow", while the Latin specific epithet apifera means "bee-bearing" or "bee-bringing"^[1] and refers to the bee-shaped lip of the orchid.

Description[edit]

Ophrys apifera grows to a height of 15–50 centimetres (6–20 in). This hardy orchid develops small rosettes of leaves in autumn. They continue to grow slowly during winter. Basal leaves are ovate or oblong-lanceolate, upper leaves and bracts are ovate-lanceolate and sheathing. The plant blooms from mid-April to July producing a spike composed from one to twelve flowers. The flowers have large sepals, with a central green rib and their colour varies from white to pink, while petals are short, pubescent, yellow to greenish. The labellum is trilobed, with two pronounced humps on the hairy lateral lobes, the median lobe is hairy and similar to the abdomen of a bee. It is quite variable in the pattern of coloration, but usually brownish-red with yellow markings. The gynostegium is at right angles, with an elongated apex.

Color chemistry[edit]

Floral parts display the presence of quercetin and kaempferol glycosides, which are supposed to be acylated, as well as cinnamic acid derivatives. The pink outer tepals show the presence of anthocyanins.^[2][3]

Reproduction[edit]

Ophrys apifera is the only species of the genus Ophrys which preferentially practices self-pollination. The flowers are almost exclusively self-pollinating in the northern ranges of the plant's distribution, but pollination by the solitary bee Eucera occurs in the Mediterranean area. In this case the plant attracts these insects by producing a scent that mimics the scent of the female bee. In addition, the lip acts as a decoy as the male bee confuses it with a female. Pollen transfer occurs during the ensuing pseudocopulation.^[4]

The flowers emit allomones that attract the bee species Tetralonia cressa and Eucera pulveraceae. Eucera longicornis males have been observed attempting to copulate with the flowers.^[5] It is also believed that male bees would preferentially select orchids with the most bee-like lips and attempt to mate with them, transferring pollen in the process.^[6]

Distribution[edit]

Ophrys apifera is a widespread across central and southern Europe, as well as North Africa and the Middle East. Its range stretches from Portugal, Ireland and Denmark east toIran and the Caucasus. It is quite common in the Mediterranean region eastwards to the Black Sea,^[7] (Codes) ^[8] but is less common in its northern range being uncommon or local in Germany and Ireland.

In the UK, it has a distinct southeastern preference, being more common in England. Recently it has been found in the southwest of England in Butleigh near Glastonbury inSomerset; whereas it is only to be found in coastal regions of Wales as well as the Hodbarrow Nature Reserve in Millom, Cumbria,^[9] and some parts of Northern Ireland. It is relatively common in the northeast of England and in recent years large numbers have appeared in the grass verges surrounding the Metro Centre in Gateshead.^[10] In Scotland, it was thought to be extinct, but was rediscovered in Ayrshire in 2003. In some countries the plants have protected status. They are unusual in that in some years they appear in great numbers, then sometimes only reappear after an absence of many years.

Habitat[edit]

Ophrys apifera generally grows on semi-dry turf, in grassland, on limestone, calcareous dunes or in open areas in woodland. It prefers calcareous soils, in bright light or dim light.

Credit

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ophrys_apifera

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Lombard Trophy Regional Final 

James Harding cleaned up in the Lombard Trophy regional final at Little Aston Golf Club.

Harding teamed up with Cirencester Golf Club’s PGA Professional Ed Goodwin, left, to post a daunting 11-under-par round of 61 at the Birmingham venue to win by two shots.

The Gloucestershire duo will now take part in the £41,500 pro-am final at Pestana Golf Resort, Vila Sol, from September 22-23.

They admitted it was an almost perfect round as they rattled in seven birdies on the back nine and did not drop a shot all day.

“It was incredible,” admitted Harding, 26, who plays off a handicap of nine.

“It’s rare when everything falls into place like that, but it did here.

“When one of us was in trouble, the other got them out of it. It was a case of one player complementing the other well on the day.”

Goodwin admitted that he and Harding had a ‘getting to know you’ practice round at the weekend - and it paid off in style.

“My assistant at Cirencester gives James lessons so I knew who he was but I didn’t really know him in terms of having a game of golf with him,” said Goodwin.

“So we had a round last weekend just to make sure we could know each other better and get our message across on the day, and it worked.”

Harding only joined Cirencester last April when he moved to the area from Bristol.

“I’ve been playing golf since I was 12 even though I had a break when I went to university, but the biggest thing I’ve won up until now is a club championship,” he said.

“So going to Portugal for a PGA final is something else entirely.”

Goodwin has never qualified before and is relishing the prospect.

“I’ve never made it to the final or even come close. But I have played the Vila Sol course on holiday, certainly never in a tournament, so we’re both really looking forward to it,” he added.

“The round was perfect really, there were no long putts or anything like that. It was solid and stress-free.”