The best traditional Gaelic band in the area meant there was a great Craic to the St Patrick’s Day festivities at St Thomas’s Golf Club.
Award winning Cannock-based band Clanna Gael made sure there was a true Irish atmosphere to the St Patrick’s Day meal in the Parkland Suite.
More than 100 members and guests came along to the dinner with the band, from Cardinal Griffin School, providing a real Irish feel to evening, a head of their appearance the following day in Birmingham’s St Patrick’s Day parade .
The Irish celebrations marked the curtain raiser for the start of the new golf season at the club, with more than 100 players taking part in the first official tournament of the year - the Phoenix Open.
The following day the weekend’s entertainment was completed with a highly competitive game of footie pitting a captain’s select XI against a vice-captain’s select XI on Rugeley power station’s pitch. Captain Jim Burn’s team were convincing 6-2 winners over vice-captain Mick Lydell’s squad, with frontman Colin Noble showing he’s not just handy with the golf clubs as he netted four goals.
