Goring & Streatley Golf Club Blog

Greenkeeping Report July 2019

The start of July was extremely busy for us with captains day followed by the club championship the next week. We’ve had a few extra jobs to do this month, we’ve started to clean up the trees again by removing all the low limbs. This is an important job as it , helps us with […]

Greenkeeping Report June 2019

June has been another busy month for us green staff. At the start of the month we focused on getting all the fairways divoted again. Getting this done was great as we got loads of recovery thanks to all the rain we had. In June we had 78mm of rain, this has meant that the […]

Best Pie Award

IT’S A HAT TRICK!!Our Head Chef and his team have done it again for the 3rd year running. They have been awarded the Best Pie award by the The Hogs Golf Society. “Martin Hucklesby GM said this is a great achievement and shows the consistency of the food produced by our catering team to win […]

Greenkeeping Report May 2019

This month we have been busy keeping on top of the grass. We have been down in numbers recently but you would not have noticed it in the condition of the course, all staff have given extra hours to make sure this was the case. We welcomed our new member of staff Dominic right at […]

Greenkeeping Report April 2019

April started with the captains drive in. It was our target for getting all the winter jobs done. All the paths were edged and topped up with path dressing, all the pop ups on the course were edged, all bunkers were edged/ strimmed, and 3a was completed. You will of noticed that our summer markers […]

Greenkeeping Report March 2019

March has seen us complete our biggest job for the winter, the clearance of the front edge of the 18th woods. We have planted some wild flowers on the edge of the woods ( these were donated by our member Fred Humphrey)and have also seeded the area with fescue grass seed. We are hoping that […]

Course Manager, Matt Aplin Wins!!!

Congratulations to Matt Aplin our Course Manager who has been awarded The Greenkeeper of The Year Award by The 59 Club in their annual Excellence Awards at St Andrews last week. Matt and his team were up against some stiff competition from courses such as the PGA National course at The Belfry and Ladybank in […]

Greenkeeping Report November-December 2018

November and December has been busy months for us green staff. They have seen the start of our winter projects. November saw us aerate the greens. We hired in a air2g2 and used it on all the greens followed by a solid tine spike. We also used the air2g2 on compacted walk areas. The main […]

Lee and Savage retain club champion title at Goring

FORMER Olympic ski-jumper Eddie “The Eagle” Edwards was the special guest at the Goring and Streatley Golf Club annual presentation evening. Edwards handed out the trophies to each of the prize winners as well as giving a talk on his life and career to the sell-out audience of more than 100 people. The junior section, […]

Greenkeeping Report September-October 2018

After the hottest summer on record it was very satisfying to come through it and move into autumn with high levels of grass cover across the golf course. The new irrigation system certainly enabled us to consistanly deliver first class surfaces and feedback from many players has been very good. The greens have been regularly […]