I'd like to share with you something I've noticed this season whilst fitting the Titleist irons and especially the AP1 iron. 

I was fitting this week with an 18 handicap member of the club who hits his own seven iron around 140 yards. After establishing the correct length, lie grip type & size and loft of the AP1 we then went onto shaft selection. The most we could get out of any of our selection of regular steel shafts was around a 5 yard distance gain in the light True Temper XP90 shafts. 

With one last chance to impress I went for the ever reliable Kurokage graphite regular. Well you can see the results below. An incredible increase of around 15 yards on his own clubs and a gain of 10 yards on the best steel shaft I could find for him.  

 

It really is well worth getting fitted, we can improve both discrepancy in ball direction and distance. For any help or fitting advice please ask in the Pro Shop.

To book a fitting, click here.


 

Head Greenkeepers Blog

We have had some beautiful mornings of late with some glorious sunshine eventually burning off the early morning mist. Its not ideal having such damp conditions for mowing, but with a 6am start to prepare the course for the day ahead sometimes we just have to bite the bullet. 

Most of the golfers won't see a lot of our maintenance practices unless you play first thing, but there's lot of planning has to go into it for as little disruption as possible. 

Perfect example is when we are spraying greens, we require the green to be mown, rolled and hole change before we can start this. Then if the product we are spraying requires washing into the profile we need to irrigate behind. To complete all of these tasks it takes 4 people on average between 4 & 5 hours, but careful planning assures very little interference to play.

This week we host the BIGGA Scottish Championships with 90 Greenkeepers from all over Scotland in attendance. This year is the first time the event has been fully subscribed….. so no pressure on us then!!! 

David Gray 
Head Greenkeeper  


 

For our Ladies we have the bi annual away day on Wednesday, 28 September at Duddingston Golf Club. The tee is booked from 12.30pm - 1.30pm with a cost of £36 per player, including bacon roll and coffee, golf and meal afterwards. The Squirrel trophy will get polished up and will be up for grabs on the day. We hope you can join us? Sign up in the Pro Shop.


Our Professional FUN day is now open for bookings on Sunday, 25 September. Please pay entry fee in the Pro Shop to book your time. Teams of three or four as previous years. Entry fees are £15 for teams of three or £20 teams of four. Times available from 8am - 1.30pm. 


Seniors outing to Aucterarder on Friday, 14 October, cost is £30 for bacon rolls, coffee, golf and food after. Booking is now available in the pro shop.

If you are interested to get involved with any of these events, then please contact us here in the pro shop, or click here.


 

Don't forget our Callaway fitting day on Thursday, 1st September. This is between 2pm and 6 pm.

You can book your FREE 30 minute session with the Callaway Fittting Team by phoning us here at the pro shop on 01337 830725. 

This is a great opportunity to have a FREE fit, right on your doorstep.

Click here to book. 


We have another fitting day in September for you all!

On Wednesday, 14 September from 10am - 2pm FootJoy will be here at Ladybank Golf Club for a shoe fitting day!

Amazingly 70% of golfers are wearing the wrong size shoe!

Are you one of them?

This is an excellent opportunity for our members to be professionally fitted for their shoes by FootJoy's national shoe fitting expert. It's well worth remembering that the average distance walked by our members around Ladybank GC is 5.9 miles. Your feet really are very important so help us to help you to look after them. 

Click here to book your fitting appointment that takes around ten minutes. 


   

Last Sunday saw the annual match against Balbirnie to play for the Sonny Maloco trophy. After a very close match Ladybank won by 4.5 to 3.5 to claim the trophy which is only the fifth time since it began in 1995. 

Match results: 

S Hutcheon & S Barbour - lost 2&1, C Mathie & C Bennett - won 7&5 
F Johnstone & b- lost 3&2, G Wilson (2) & J Anderson - won 5&4 
S Findlay & N Wilson - lost 2&1, S Owen & M Stone - won 2 up 
M Hay & T Black - all square, A Joyce & B Hogg - won 1 up 

A huge thanks to the 16 players who volunteered their services. There are still a few spaces available for the Montrose match at home on 11th September. Anyone interested please add your name to the sheet on the noticeboard. 

Stevie Hutcheon

Haig Bogey - Saturday, 20 August 

Cat 1 & 2 
1st - J Henderson - 2 up, 2nd - G Allan - 2 up, 3rd - B McSkimming - 2 up 

Cat 3 & 4 
1st - RC Brickley - 5 up, 2nd - G Dargie - 2 up, 3rd - C MacKintosh - 2 up 

Match & Handicap


Ladies Autumn Medal - CSS 78,78 (Sat ,Mon) 

J Connally (23) 75, D Watson (4) 77, M Robertson (18) 78 

Nine Hole 

E Steel (20) 14 points, E Stone (19) 13 points, M Drummond (15) 13 points 


Seniors

- SS Stableford 5 (CSS 37pts) 

A H Wood (14) 41pts BIH, P Anderson (24) 41, D Patrick (12) 38.