Goring & Streatley Golf Club Blog
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 […]
Greenkeeping Report June
Welcome to the new greenkeeping blog at G&S Golf Club. This new blog will become a more informal way of sharing some information whilst trying to show what goes on behind the scenes of the greens department at Goring and Streatley Golf Club. I hope as the months pass you will enjoy it as well […]
Wildflowers
Wildflowers Bring Swathe Of Value-For-Money Colour To Berkshire Golf Course May 2018 As part of Course Manager Matt Aplin’s strategy to improve the ecological footprint of the Goring and Streatley Golf Club, the ‘amazingly colourful results’ of sowing Euroflor wildflowers from Rigby Taylor ‘attracted as many complimentary comments about the outstanding display of colour as […]