The PDCGS is a society of around 36 members promoting Christian fellowship through meeting to play golf and post golf socialising at a variety of courses in the Derbyshire / Nottinghamshire area - in and around the Peak District. Male and female members and guests are welcome.
Please see the Fixtures Page for details of the 2023 Summer and 2022/3 Winter series of outings.
Please contact Nick if you wish to participate in our 2023 competition.
The Peak District Christian Golf Society is loosely
based in the Peak District of Derbyshire, however, membership not
restricted to those living in the area and we have a good proportion
of our membership from mid-Nottinghamshire. Guests are also welcome
- come and join us.
E-mail general enquiries
to our Membership Secretary, Nick.
We welcome back Richard Moore-Coulson.
Our Captain from April 2022 is Graham Barnes and his chosen charity for 2023 is Nottingham University's Dementia Research Project. Download a leaflet about the project here.
Covid-19 played havoc with our Summer 2020 and Winter 2020/21 fixtures - with our managing only 3 outings in total - inbetween lockdowns - and being very restricted on the important social aspect of our Society Golf. 2021 was much kinder to us and we managed most of our normal Summer and Winter activities. 2022 was "back to normal".
The R&A and the USGA unveiled new Rules of Golf, implemented on 1 January 2019. Follow this link for more details. There are many significant changes, summarised here.
Links
GolfWe are associated also with this Christian Golfing Organisation
England Golf have worked closely with The USGA and The R&A to
help introduce the new single World Handicap System for the sport.
Together with golf’s handicapping authorities they developed a
universal system which applies all over the world.
You may also like to check out the R&A website for any details
around the WHS by using this link : https://www.randa.org/WorldHandicapSystem
The WHS system was introduced on 2nd November 2020
Our annual dinner was held at Shirland Golf Club on 20th October. An excellent evening with our guest speaker, Carol Dunphy from the Tiny Tim Trust (our Captain's Charity for 2022). Our Annual Dinner for 2023 will be at the same venue on Thursday 18th October.
It was with great sadness that we reported the death of our founder member, David in 2017.
Our Chairman has given us a few thoughts on "Shalom". He produced various "thoughts" throughout the 2011 season about the Christian message and in particular relating to the Gospel of St. John. You can read more on our "About" page.
2014 was the Society's 10th Anniversary and we arranged special events to celebrate. Our first was to have an overnight break, with golf, at the Abbey Hotel & Golf Club, Redditch on 11th/12th May. Results and Photos here. Another thoroughly enjoyable presentation dinner followed in Autumn when we had an excellent speaker in PGA Professional Pat Flynn, the pro at Studley Wood. He's a Christian ... read more at www.patflynngolftuition.com. Photo sequence from the 2014 evening speaker and presentations here .