Goring & Streatley Golf Club Blog

The time has finally come to open up the golf course, and I for one am delighted about that. Lets all hope this is the last lockdown that golf has to endure. The golf course has had an incredible amount of maintenance carried out, and we will be in as good a position as we […]

Hopefully we are another week nearer to the golf course re opening for you all to once more enjoy! The course has had another very busy week of activity, in fact we have been absolutely “flat out” with many tasks around the course being covered. The past week has seen another 10 tonnes of sand […]

Well its sadly nearly a week since we were forced to close the doors to the golf course once again, as we entered a 2nd national lockdown.  It was a situation that we had no control over, however what we as greenkeepers do have control over, is the maintenance of the golf course.   With the full backing […]

We had the Club champs this month, this was a lot later in the year than what we are used to. We had a few different things that we had to contend with just due to the time of year. First of all was the amount of daylight hours during the day, this caused a […]

As you may have all noticed this months project has been the clearance of the space between the 8th tee, 10th green and 11th rough. We have managed to get all the small and dead trees down, this work was made a lot easier with the use of a chipper that we hired in for […]

With golfers returning at the start of last month we faced a few new challenges as we weren’t sure completely how it was going to be in terms of business. The first few days were interesting, but very manageable for our greenkeeping team.  This May we have been focusing on just the maintenance on the […]

Last week should have been the captains drive ins with the course being finely tuned ahead of the coming season in what is the club’s 125th year, it’s a surreal feeling at the moment.  Obviously the golf course pales into total insignificance compared to the global pandemic we are all facing on a daily basis, […]