Former weatherman Ron Lobeck has spoken of his link to Chestfield Golf Club and Abe Mitchell – the man represented on top of the Ryder Cup. Lobeck, now 88, was given Mitchell’s clubs when he first got involved in the sport while in the navy in the 1960s. Having moved to Canterbury’s Tyler Hill to start working as a weatherman for Television South (TVS) he joined Chestfield, based in Whitstable, in the 1980s. Now having started to use more modern clubs, Lobeck realised while at Chestfield one day that the clubs he had been handed were those Mitchell had used when he officially opened the same C…
