Sports in Axminster

Despite the awful weather last week, Axe Cliff Golf Club were able to hold a fun-friendly game with the ladies. It proved to be a popular format, being a team of three of two men and a woman.

It was played as a stableford with the two best scores on each hole to count but the

By Dave Bruce

Axe Cliff Ladies have been busy over the past two weeks enduring a mixture of weather as well.

By Dave Bruce

The Covid Cup competition at Axe Cliff Golf Club was the brainchild of last year's Lady Captain, Barbara Cummings. She found an old silver trophy and decided it should be played for in a mixed pairs competition to commemorate the dreadful virus which has affected us all in so many ways.

Report by Dave Bruce

On Wednesday of last week Axe Cliff Ladies enjoyed their first Medal Round in a long while and even started with the first round of he putting competition for the Freddie Newberry Cup.

By Kyle Phillpots

Sports stories do not always translate well into films. The main problem seems to be finding actors who have the prowess to play an elite sports performer and it is even more difficult to find sports stars who can act. It seems particularly difficult in team action sequences and even with footballing greats such as Pele, Bobby Moore and Ossie Ardiles featuring in Escape to Victory, their movements still looked stilted and for me the rugby scenes in Invictus, just didn't work.

Axe Cliff Golf Club by Dave Bruce

Of course, in Lockdown, most of us are just waiting for Boris to fire the "Shotgun" and let us get back on our beautiful Course again.

By Dave Bruce

With just a few playing days left for this most difficult of years for Barbara Cummings and partner Rob Grove, they can look back on their time with pride and tremendous gratitude from the Ladies' and Seniors' sections of Axe Cliff Golf Club.

By Dave Bruce

As I have said before we have a lot of interesting characters at Axe Cliff Golf Club and I would like to introduce to you a relatively new member, Kyle Phillpots, who joined us in 2018.

By Dave Bruce

Great news - we have all booked in for our first competition at Axe Cliff Golf Club since second lockdown for Friday, December 4. Please Boris, let it happen and I'll vote for you again, or babysit, or clean your car - whatever it takes!

By Dave Bruce

AT Axe Cliff Golf Club we are suffering from NGB (No Golf Blues) as many thousands are all over our beautiful country and no vaccine as yet.  We are all hoping and praying that good sense will prevail at end of this latest Lockdown. Certainly our captain Rob Grove does as he has already sent us a revised fixture list for December including matches against the ladies.