In the news today . . .

Latest junior results from the Ashburnham Golf Club in Pembrey featured in the South Wales Evening Post sports pages tonight.
Smashing story in the Western Mail today about the Ashburnham Golf Club featuring in the latest Top 10 in National Club Golfer magazine.

St David's Day theme to dining evening

There will be a St David's Day theme to a special dining evening at The Ashburnham Golf Club in Pembrey on Friday, March 2.
Ashburnham chef Martin Bartley has conjured up a varied menu.
For starters, there's a choice between pan fried cockles with Welsh smoked bacon on fried bread and leek and potato soup with a crusty roll and butter.
Main course choices are - braised lamb shank on mustard mash; chicken breast stuffed with per glas wrapped in Welsh smoked bacon; baked salmon poached in leek and white wine sauce; vegetarian quiche. Side dishes are - cauliflower and broccoli, carrots and peas, baby roast potatoes.
Desserts - Merlin's magical trio of chocolate; baked Penderyn whisky and white chocolate tart with Hefyn Mel. You can reserve a table by booking and paying at the clubhouse bar. Cost: £12 per person.

'Top 10' British ranking for 'The Ash'

The Ashburnham Championship Links golf course in Pembrey has just been given a Top 10 ranking in a new guide to Britain’s best value courses.
National Club Golfer published its guide to the 100 most affordable courses in Britain.
And The Ashburnham was one of the highest ranked courses in Wales, finishing in sixth position.
“We’ve always known that ‘The Ash’ is great value for money and this guide just reinforces that fact,” said Ashburnham club manager Huw Morgan.
The guide focuses on the Top 100 courses with a green fee under £50.
Mr Morgan said: “The Ashburnham is already universally recognised as an excellent course, playable all the year around.
“But it is also great to get the recognition for being able to deliver value-for-money for golfers.”
Last year, The Ash was featured in the National Club Golfer guide to Britain’s best courses under £80.
“We were ranked No32 in that guide,” said Mr Morgan.
The guide described The Ashburnham as follows –
‘This is a links where the start and end do little justice to what lies between. Ashburnham is consistently excellent from the 3rd to the 15th inclusive . . . the 15th is a brilliant brute at 464 yards.’
Dan Murphy, editor of National Club Golfer, said he wanted the magazine to put together guides which realistically reflected the fact that many golfers played to a budget.
Mr Murphy said the guides were an appraisal of the best Britain has to offer.
He added: “In a bid to capture the spirit of this enterprise, the deliberately intangible criterion was as follows: If you were in charge of taking a group of like-minded golfers away on a trip, are you confident that they would have a memorable day for all the right reasons here?”
The Ashburnham Golf Club will host a number of top events over the coming years –
2012 Welsh Ladies’ Open Stroke Play Championships
2013 Men’s Welsh Amateur Championships
2014 Ladies’ British Open Amateur Stroke Play Championships
2015 Men’s Welsh Stroke Play Championships
Club manager Mr Morgan added: “That’s quite a portfolio of events for us at The Ashburnham and we are delighted to be staging them. We can promise a true championship test for each event and the warmest of Welsh welcomes.”
The Ashburnham is the course where the great Welshman and winning Ryder Cup Captain Dai Rees won the PGA title in 1959. It has long been regarded as one of the best links courses in Britain.
The Ashburnham takes its name from the 5th Earl of Ashburnham, who once owned the land and became the club’s inaugural President in 1894.
Two other Ryder Cup Captains have been successful in their playing careers at The Ashburnham in the shape of Bernard Gallacher, who won the Schweppes PGA Championship in 1969, and Sam Torrance, who won the Martini Tournament in 1976.
The Ashburnham has a proud history of hosting many of the major amateur tournaments, having first held a Welsh Amateur Championship in 1904.
Last year, The Ashburnham was the venue for the Men’s Home Internationals.

Pictures above: The front cover of National Club Golfer and the certificate rating The Ashburnham No6 in Britain’s best 100 courses under £50.

For further information about The Ashburnham Golf Club, contact -
The Clubhouse, Cliffe Terrace, Burry Port, Carmarthenshire, SA16 0HN
Tel:01554 832269
Fax:01554 836974
Email:admin@ashgolf.co.uk
Website - http://www.ashburnhamgolfclub.co.uk
Weblink:
http://www.nationalclubgolfer.com/courses/articles/course-news/top-100-under-80-no-4031.html

Quiz night at 'The Ash'

A quiz night is being held at The Ashburnham Golf Club on Friday, March 9. Teams of four. Tickets £6.50 per person to include ham and chips. Food served at 7pm, quiz to follow. Prize for winning team. Proceeds to the Ashburnham Centenary Fund.

An evening with Maureen Madill

An evening with Maureen Madill, the BBC golf commentator, is being planned at the Ashburnham Golf Club in Pembrey later this year.
The event will form part of the Ladies Centenary Dinner at 'The Ash' on Friday, October 12 (7 for 7.30pm).
There will be canapes on arrival, following by a four course dinner, coffee and mints.
Tickets are available from -
Olwen Davies (Lady President) - email, olwenglocaled@btinternet.com
Iris Jacobs (Lady Captain) 01554 834475
Helen Davies 07974 690602
Wyn Parsons 01554 770090
Cath Jones 07968 692248
Dress code: Black Tie
Tickets, £35.
In addition to be a broadcaster, Maureen Madill, 54, is a professional golfer coach and broadcaster.
Madill was born in Coleraine, Northern Ireland. She won the British Ladies Amateur Golf Championship in 1979 and the British Ladies Amateur Stroke Play Championship in 1980. She represented Great Britain and Ireland in the Curtis Cup in 1980 and coached the team between 1998 and 2004.
Madill turned professional in 1986 and played on the Ladies European Tour until 1996 where she had limited success, recording two runner-up finishes – the 1989 Woolmark Matchplay Championship and the 1990 Haninge Open.

Junior golfers on form at 'The Ash'

More than 30 young golfers took part in a half-term junior competition at Ashburnham Golf Club in Pembrey.
There were a number of excellent individual performances, including a stunning stableford score of 57 points from young Kynan Jones, who made his debut off the yellow tees.
Kynan is also a striker for Burry Port Under-12s football team.​
Shona Nelson won the equivalent girls' category.
Kynan and Shona are pictured above.
Results -
Black tee, girls: 1st Shona Nelson (40 shots); 2nd Becca Morgan/Aimee Owen (46); 3rd Layla Francis (47); 4th Katie Birt (48).
Black tee, boys: 1st Morgan Davies (29 shots); 2nd Elliot Brice (32); 3rd Ethan Birt (37).
Red tees: 1st Owain Williams 47pts; 2nd Ryan Owens 46pts; 3rd Griff Sayer 34pts; 4th Ellis Thomas 32pts.
Yellow tees (non-Congu): 1st Kynan Jones 57pts; 2nd Kris Jones 44pts; 3rd James Forey 43pts; 4th Morgan Hand 37pts; 5th Rhydian Bowen 32pts; 6th Kayne Protheroe 30pts; 7th Joe Francis 29pts.
Yellow tees (Congu): 1st Rhys Morgan 42pts; 2nd Aled Greville 39pts; 3rd Osian Bowen 38pts; 4th Ben Thomas 35pts; 5th Tomos Davies 34pts; 6th Edward Spencer 33pts.

Magazine gives Ashburnham a Top 10 ranking

National Club Golfer magazine has given The Ashburnham a Top 10 ranking in a new guide to Britain's best 100 courses. More news on this to follow soon.