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Course News May & June 2020
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 […]
Course Gallery During Covid-19 Lock Down.
Matt Aplin our Course Manager has been taking photos of the course during the lock down period and ensuring that essential maintenance continues at Goring and Streatley Golf Club. This work will enable the course to be in excellent condition when we return for play. Click the image above for the gallery.
Course News April 2020
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, […]
Captains Drive in 2020
As is tradition at many golf clubs up and down the country, April is a time for a changing of the guard. To say thank you to the exiting Captain’s for all their hard work and to welcome the new Captain’s, who ceremonially strike a tee shot off the first tee hopefully sailing down the […]
Course Manager, Matt Aplin & Mark Clibbon F&B Manager Win!!
Congratulations to Matt Aplin our Course Manager who has been awarded The Greenkeeper of The Year Award for the 2nd time in a row and Mark Clibbon our F&B Manager who was awarded a My59 Club Service Excellence Award by The 59 Club in their annual Excellence Awards at Forest of Arden last week. This […]
Greenkeeping Blog February 2020
At the end of January we started on our biggest clearance area for this winter, The right of the 4th tee. This was completed fully in 3 weeks, it will help to increase air flow and sunlight to the medal tee which will greatly help the turf quality on the tee. We also managed to […]
Greenkeeping Blog January 2020
This month we have been doing many small jobs, with our main focus being aeration. We have solid tined the tees and surrounds and hollow tined the greens. We decided to go early with the hollowing tining of the greens as the weather this January has been so mild and now we seem to experience […]
Greenkeeping Report December 2019
To read the full article, please click on the title above. Clearing leaves and getting the course cut has been the aim for December. We have all been out collecting pockets of leaves so that they don’t pile up in areas. It’s been a big task but we have finally managed to remove most of […]
Greenkeeping Report November 2019
To read the full article, please click on the title above. November for us has been another busy and successful month. We have carried out a lot of green keeping jobs to help improve our surfaces. We started by finishing off the top dressing of the tees and surrounds. Our big aim is to improve the […]
Greenkeeping Report September and October 2019
To read the full article, please click on the title above. This month we have been working on finishing off a few jobs. We have finished cutting down all the low limbs on all the trees on the course. This really helps us with cutting the long rough and helps makes the areas around trees […]