Greetham Valley Hotel, Golf and Conference Centre has a job vacancy for a Temporary Housekeeper to work within the busy Housekeeping Department. Hours will be flexible as required to meet the needs of the business. Weekend work may be required.
You will support the Head Housekeeper in ensuring the finest attention to detail in relation to the high daily cleanliness standards of the 35 bedrooms at Greetham Valley, as well as the Rutland Lodges, holiday cottage, Lounge Bar, conference and function rooms and all public areas.
Applications in writing please to Sharon Walpole by 30 September 2012.
Greetham Valley, Wood Lane, Greetham, Oakham, Rutland LE15 7SN
Greetham Valley’s gentlemen members with a handicap between 19 and 28 were eligible to play for the Rabbits Trophy at the weekend. The competition was played on the Lakes course in warm conditions with the odd sprinkling of rain. James Ablett, who won the 19 to 28 Club Championship in May, shot another fine round to post a score of 75 to win the trophy and a brilliant double. He said that he was delighted with the win and was pleased that all of the practice that he has been doing recently seems to be paying off.
The Valley course was the venue for the Seniors’ Stableford qualifier this week; warm sunshine with a slight breeze blessed Rutland and came as a pleasant surprise to players who have got used to the wet and windy conditions that seem to have been the norm this year. In division one, Peter Giblett, who has had an excellent five or six weeks in seniors’ competitions, took full advantage of the balmy weather to win both division one and the overall competition. After parring the first, Peter dropped a shot on the second hole but got it straight back when he birdied the third; this was followed by a par on the next and a good round seemed to be in prospect when a couple of silly mistakes caused him to blob the fifth. After a little regroup, Peter went on to drop only one more shot in the next nine holes which included two more birdies. The weather turned very muggy as the breeze disappeared, tiredness led to a drop in concentration and three bogies followed one after the other. Peter managed to birdie the par three eighteenth to give himself a chance with forty points. As it turned out, the birdie on the last was to be very important, as another player also came in with forty points; however, Peter took the win on count back. 
The South Lincolnshire Junior League finals took place at Boston Golf Club this week. Greetham Valley has beaten all of their local rivals to make it to the final along with Spalding, Tydd St Giles and Belton Woods. This is the culmination of League matches held throughout the South Lincolnshire area over the past four months.
Members from twenty four different golf clubs were represented in the annual Greetham Valley Seniors’ Open. Played on the Valley course off white tees, the course was set up for a tough test of the competitors’ golfing skills. The weather had changed from the 33 degree heat experienced by all of Rutland over the weekend, overcast, very muggy conditions, with several bouts of very welcome drizzle for the early starters, however, after the first three hours it soon turned into yet another hot sultry sunny day. 
Neil Harris won the Seniors’ August Medal competition and the lowest gross with a splendid one over gross 73, net 67. Neil, playing off six was just one over after nine with three bogies and two birdies; he went on to shoot a level par back nine to win division one and was cut to 5. Derek Coombes was second with a net 67. Third place was settled on count back, Brian Rippin took it with a net 68 from Robert Birch and Robert Gray.
Greetham Valley’s Jordan Burdall has won the Rutland Junior Open for the third time in a row with a brilliant gross 71. This Daily Telegraph qualifier competition was Jordan’s toughest win: he broke the shaft on his driver after hole 2 and had to rely upon his 3-wood for the rest of the competition. Jordan didn’t get off to the best of starts with a double bogie on the 1st; he dropped a further two shots when he bogied the 8th and 9th but they were his only bad holes. He had five birdies and ten pars to take the win and see his handicap cut to point five. Junior Captain Ryan Tarrant was second with a gross 78, pushing James Rowe down to third place on count back. 
