Goring & Streatley Golf Club Blog
Course News Lockdown Weeks 3/4 November 2020
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 […]
Course News Lockdown Week 2 November 2020
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 […]
Course News Lockdown No2 Week 1 November 2020
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 […]

Course News August 2020
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 […]

Course News July 2020
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 […]

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 […]