Year: 2017

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Green Now Open

The green is now open to members.
A social round robin is the first event for members commencing at 2.00pm on Sunday 2nd of April.
Mike Milne will be organising the event and your subs can be paid on the day.
Full Membership – £40.00
Social Membership – £20.00
Junior Membership – £17.50
The competitive season commences 3rd of April
The social Round Robins start on Tuesday the 4th of April
The Friday Round Robin starts on the 7th of April
We look forward to seeing all our old members and we welcome new members

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Thank You and March UpDate

Thank you to all those who turned out this Thursday morning to help tidy up the green.
Brian Mycock, Bill Bloor, Ray Sutton, John McCabe, John Rimmer, Jim Doherty, Martin Gilbert.
A special thanks to Roger van Beever, Wendy McGloughin, Lawrie Townson and Sue Davies who took on the challenge of the ivy on the club house and defeated it.
A special thank you to Peter and Lynne Smith. Peter for painting the club house and Lynne for cleaning the club house.
It was nice to see Jim Finnimore turn up and say hello to many of his friends.
Regards
George Hitchmough

NEWS UPDATE – MARCH 2017
GREEN OPENING
The Green will be open for members from Saturday 25th March.
APRIL ROUND ROBINS
The first Club event of the season will be a Round Robin on Sunday 2nd April, starting at 2.00pm. This will be followed by an Easter Round Robin on Saturday 15th April, also starting at 2.00pm.
SUBSCRIPTIONS
Members are reminded that subscriptions for 2017 are now due and have been set at the following rates :-
Full Membership – £40.00
Social Membership – £20.00
Junior Membership – £17.50
Full Membership applies to those members playing for one or more of the league teams and includes the payment of league fees and cost of fixture books/cards.
Social Membership is available to members who wish to play on a casual basis.
Early payment of subscriptions would be appreciated. Please forward to :-
Mike Milne, 20 Coudray Road, Southport PR9 9NL
DATES FOR YOUR DIARY
Sunday 30th April – Rose Bowl (Singles Handicap) 12.00 noon start.
Saturday 6th May – Friendly match v Liverpool Cricket Club – further details will be available in April.
Saturday 13th May – Spring Pairs (Doubles – pairings to be drawn) 12.00 noon start.

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February Update

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
Many thanks to all those who attended the Club’s AGM, held recently at the Churchtown Conservative Club. We are grateful to the Conservative Club for allowing us to use their excellent facilities.
At the meeting, the Chairman, Chris Harding, congratulated Ray Sutton on a very successful two year term as Club President. The newly elected President for the 2017 season is captain of the Harriers, John Stennett. We hope that John enjoys his time in this role.
SUBSCRIPTIONS
The Annual General Meeting set the following subscription rates for the 2017 season :-
Full Membership – £40.00
Social Membership – £20.00
Junior Membership – £17.50
Full Membership applies to those members playing for one or more of the league teams and includes the payment of league fees and cost of fixture books/cards.
Social Membership is available to members who wish to play on a casual basis.
Early payment of subscriptions would be appreciated. Please forward to :-
Mike Milne, 20 Coudray Road, Southport PR9 9NL
LEAGUE TEAMS
The Club is delighted to be able to enter two more teams into the local leagues for the 2017 season, taking our total number of teams to eleven These are a second team in the Burscough and Lathom Men’s Bowling League on a Friday evening and also a second team in the Southport and District Men’s Veterans’ League on a Monday afternoon. If anyone is interested in joining a team, they should contact the captain of the team they would like to play for or any officer of the Club. The details of our league teams along with the captains’ contact numbers are :-
LV LEAGUE
EAGLES (Premier) – Chris Harding 07761733024
FALCONS (1st) – Jeff Brown 01704 214104
HARRIERS (1st) – John Stennett 01704 231755 / George Hitchmough 07977500131
BURSCOUGH LEAGUE
OSPREYS (2nd) – Mark Rowlinson 07763176455
VULTURES (2nd) – Chris Harding 07761733024
AUGHTON LEAGUE
KESTRELS (1st) – Richard Rawcliffe 01704 809691
HAWKS (3rd) – George Hitchmough 07977500131
SOUTHPORT PARKS
KITES (1st) – Brian Mycock 07929827050
SOUTHPORT VETS
MERLINS (2nd) – George Hitchmough 07977500131
HOBBYS (3rd) – Roger Van Beever 01704 211978 / Jeff Brown 01704 214104
MAGHULL LEAGUE
MIXED (4th) – Sue Davies 07473767558
MIKE MILNE
Pre Season tidy up.
We will be looking for help to tidy up the green before the season starts. Garden Pruing, Weeding, Leaf collection and Removal.
Sometime early March. Please help if you can.

Regards
George Hitchmough
Secretary