Goring & Streatley Golf Club Blog
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 […]
Greenkeeping Report July-August 2018
The past 2 months have seen us enjoy an incredible spell of warm weather. The new irrigation system helped to ensure first class playing surfaces with presentation of the course remaining at a high standard throughout. As soon as we received some rain we returned to a lovely uniform green colour. It will be a […]
Course News – August 2018
Many thanks to everyone for your patience whilst we carried out greens maintenance works last Monday and the subsequent recovery period. I am very pleased with recovery and as of tommorow morning we will be back down to our optimum summer cutting height of 3mm. We have very healthy and disease free greens which is […]
Course News 2nd August 2018
Greens maintenance will be taking place Sunday 6th August in the evening and all day on Monday 7th August. The chipping green and 3a will be tined Friday afternoon in order to ensure we are fully operational to commence on Sunday evening. The greens will have a micro hollow core removed and a 12mm deep […]