Our Q&A Night with Martin Dempster, The Scotsman newspaper golf correspondent will go ahead on Friday, 26th February. We have reached our goal of tickets to be sold, which covers the cost of the evening, but don't worry, there are still tickets available!
Tickets cost £15 and include a buffet supper. (Buffet supper will commence at 7pm with the evening's Q&A starting around 7.30 / 7.45pm) Book your spot today in the pro shop on payment.
Any money raised over and above the price of our speaker and the food costs will be given to Cancer Research. We hope you all come along and support this evening as it should be very interesting listening to Martin's tales as a golf/sports correspondent with the Scotsman newspaper. Questions for the evening can be submitted prior to the night. Please click here to submit your questions.
Some more fun for you this week. We've all had those rounds before where we lament our luck on the course with every possible bounce going the wrong way and putts hitting the edge of the hole, but when do we remember the good times?! Have a look at the top 10 luckiest shots from the European Tour in the video here.
The handicap winter league team played their final league match of the season. The result was a 3.5 to .5 win for Ladybank scores were as follows:
Game 1 - Gordon Wilson and Scott Owen finished all square
Game 2 - Duncan Glass and Brian McSkimming won 4 & 3
Game 3 - Keith McKenzie and Jim Pringles won 2up
Game 4 - Dugald MacGregor and Gordon Mathie won 1 up
The team have a knockout cup semi final on 20th March hopefully progressing to the final which is hosted by Leven Thistle
Ladybank Ladies Greensomes
CB Mathers & JM McHugh 70.2(21.8)
J Connally & JR Prentice 70.4 (22.6)
S Johnston & N Gray 71.8 (19.2)
You can also keep up to date via social media.
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Head Greenkeepers Blog - 16/02/16
Welcome back to the blog after a short break, where the weather had an impact on productivity out on the golf course.
The last few months have been very poor with us seeing 515mm rainfall between Nov - Jan. To put this into perspective we received 507mm in the first 10 months of 2015, so we exceeded that in these last 3 months alone.
This halted any progress we had made with bunker construction and also any other winter projects we had planned. The last thing we want is to cause more damage by us running diggers, tractors and trailers over the course in these conditions, as all it will do is give us more work to correct in the spring.
Thankfully in last few weeks the weather has given us a bit of a break and we have been glad to get back to bunker construction and made some very good progress. Next up to disrupt is was a storm which hit us pretty hard and left us with a full fortnight of clearing up fallen trees and debris. We got off fairly lightly with us only losing a couple of trees and multiple large limbs.
The one obvious casualty is the large Beech tree (fagus sylvatica) on the driveway which we now know was suffering from Giant polypore (Meripilus giganteus) which is of particular concern because it can cause extensive internal damage before there is any external evidence of its presence. We have taken professional advice and aware of any symptoms to look out for on our other trees.
As previously mentioned this winter programme consisted mainly of bunker reconstruction and ongoing improvements. The reason behind this redesign of the bunkers was based on feedback from industry specialists and the views of myself and Colin. It is regularly noted that we are too perfect and not rustic enough which we have identified ourselves in the past.
Also if we want to continue to retain and further enhance our unique heathland characteristics then we feel this is an ideal area to work on. The renovation program on fairway bunkers will be over 3 years where we aim to naturalise and create more scalloped, inconsistent shapes and with the clever use of desirable grasses these will become more natural.
We know this may not seem the case initially but give it time and our long wispy fescue will come up on these moundings, we will transplant some heather onto them and they will look the way a heathland bunker should.
This also eliminates the risk of contamination from exposed revetted faces which we have identified as a problem along with the increasing cost and unsustainable nature of revetting bunkers. Currently we have completed 1st, 2nd and the 5th is well underway.
Click here to find out about the latest junior news.
Our new stock should start to arrive next week with the FJ shoe range along with FJ clothing coming to our store. We have already had a small delivery of some ladies Glenmuir and there will also be UnderArmour clothing arriving any day soon.
Keep an eye out for our Ladies coffee morning with Glenmuir - more details to follow.
We hope you enjoy our new stock when it arrives and as always any feedback is appreciated.
