Golfers, the single most important thing you can do in the winter to protect your course is to carry your clubs. Nice half set in a light weight bag will protect turf, spread the wear and make playing conditions better next spring.
#letscarry
Autumn/winter seasons here 🍂 🥶 That means……………..half set, playing by feel and pencil bag. Come on golfers…………..let’s do this and protect those golf courses over the off season 🙏
All change at The Addington. Collarless greens, new fairway lines, double fairways, restored lines off tees & into greens, woodland management and fairway irrigation being installed. Quiet 4 weeks for Ryan, Dan and the guys 👏👏👏
I know a lot of links courses are moving away from the revetted look to a more natural/original look, but on a sunny day the revett takes some beating 👌
This has been the toughest start to winter that I’ve known. Hammering down since the last week of sept. Well done to Greenkeepers who keep ploughing on no matter the conditions & well done to golf clubs for investing in drainage systems & cultural practices
#canstopnow
Great to see lots of golf club's up and down the land investing in their practice facilities over the last few years. Seeing lots of projects on social media and well done to clubs investing in this and not just their course. I used to chip to a hole in the ground on a fairway😳
Golfers, winter should be competitive but fun. Carrying a half set of clubs is fun and will reduce wear around the golf course. Please consider carrying for the winter. Your course will benefit next season for sure👌
Lots of teams have been doing spring renos over the last week, so that when the golfers do come back all the heavy work will be done. All weather dependent and many will ease off now with the wet weather coming 😭
Writing reports with winter in mind. Like previous years a personal plea to golfers across the land. Please carry your clubs during the winter months if you can. A half set in a lightweight bag will improve your shot making & benefit your course hugely during this period
Back to Trees😎 If golf courses can move their trees back from centre stage to back stage, turf health will improve dramatically and so too will the general health of trees and the way a golf course plays and feels 🤞
When it’s challenging to get ‘that spray’ out due to weather conditions, you cant beat getting a bottle made up to go out and spot spray for fusarium until you can get ‘that spray’ out
Listen to the government press briefings everyday. Really like listening to Professor Chris Whitty. Scientific, to the point and have a lot of faith in him as chief medical officer
My yearly campaign of ‘golfers carrying clubs’ in the winter months starts a month late this year due to
#lockdown2
😭 However, as many of you will be sorting out your clubs ready for winter golf think along the lines of: lightweight bag, half a set & playing with feel. 🏌️♂️
After sharing the USGA article on ‘collarless greens’ last week causing a bit of a debate, thought I’d do a quick video on how I see it working on UK style courses
Very worrying times at the moment but great to hear that golf courses are nice and busy and golf clubs are doing everything (bunker rakes in, cups upside down, etc) they can to reduce risk and keep golfers out there. Well done everyone 👍⛳️
It’s finally there
@EalingGolfClub
the culmination of the fairway drainage programme was completed yesterday after 7 (long) years! Staff past and present all played their part along with support of members and board plus
@turftonics
@shelton
👏 to all involved
Out this morning
@EalingGolfClub
watching the guys prep for the spring meeting. Greens and course is looking 👌 and if you wait until the end you will see how smooth these greens are 👀
Trees....Finishing a report for a parkland course and have quoted,"Golfers often tell me that a particular tree is ‘good’ or ‘bad’ for turf. I can tell you here and now that there are no good trees for turf. They are all bad but there are some that are more suitable than others."
Over the last few years collars, approaches&run offs have got tighter&tighter in cutting height.This is Harpenden Commons that now sit
@6mm
cut with an old 11 bladed greens mower.Brings variety back into the game with options to chip, chip/run or putt.Creates great definition too
Writing lots of reports at the moment on the agronomics for clubs. Already I’m saying that clubs have aerated as much as 3 to 4 times in 2021 and applied high quantities of sand. This is certainly a once in a lifetime situation for the majority of teams 👍
My search for the right person to come and join my consultancy business continues. Thought I’d do a little video explaining the credentials that I’m looking for 🏌️♂️
I’d like to thank the
@EalingGolfClub
members for taking a half set and carrying today.............actually they had no choice as we had a trolley ban!
The weather tried its best, but the Greenkeeping staff
@EalingGolfClub
(and helpers) responded in their usual fashion of effort, intensity and professionalism to produce fantastic surfaces last weekend for the English Club Championships 💥
#agronomy
#agronomylife
#golf
‘Out with the old, in with the new’
@FulwellGC
@ryan_bezzant
hitting all the ‘low spots’ water collection areas on greens. More need to do this for sure.
Lovely winter stroll
@FulwellGC
with
@ryan_bezzant
this morning. Bunkers blending in nicely now after the bunker project was completed a few years ago
@golfarchitects
Greens look great. I’d like to be putting on these today 🏌️♂️
Great day yesterday
@EalingProShop
captains drive in. These three were the
@Middlesex_Golf
legends that I looked up to in my younger days and great to enjoy a few 🍺 🍷 and stories with them. The bad head was worth it!
Into the new year and visited many courses this week. It was very pleasing to see many golfers carrying their bags to ease the pressure on turf.👏 I carry a pencil bag in the winter with half a set and really enjoy it. Always leave that 'chip out sideways' club in there though🤪
Fabulous opportunity to join The Addington as Course Manager. New irrigation system, practice facilities & huge (and I mean huge) woodland work this year, with course restoration projects following next year and beyond
@TheAddingtonGC
👌