This Sunday, 25 September we will be holding the Professional's FUN day. There will be lots of fun for our competitors, and will run with the format below:
What's on?
- Check in (In Pro-Shop) Collect your card/format sheet
- Chipping competition pre golf
- Play golf Nearest the pin 4th, 8th, 10th
- Beat the Pro! (£5-£50 voucher double up chance) 10th hole with Drinkies..
- Nearest the pin 12th Longest drive 17th (ladies and gents)
- Nearest the pin in 2 shots 18th
- Hand completed cards in to Pro shop
- Meal in clubhouse after you play
- Prize giving 10 mins after last game leaves golf course
Tournament Format
- 15 HOLE format - Holes 1-3 then 7-18
- Full handicap allowance
- Gents blue tees/Ladies red tees
- Yellow ball retains it's own net score - Full handicap on allocated stroke index (starts with low h'cap player moving to mid then higher ....)
- Yellow ball score can count as team ball
- Team score full handicap on allocated stroke index - ONE score to count per hole/ per team
- Teams of four players will have 3 shots added to score at end of play - clearly added to total
- Ladies only teams will receive 2 courtesy shots (taken off at end of play) clearly deducted from total.
- Mixed teams will also receive 1 courtesy shot (taken off at end of play) clearly deducted from total.
Head Greenkeepers Blog - Wednesday, 21 September
Welcome back to my Blog following my summer holiday. I returned to a very much autumnal feel with chillier mornings, old pine needles shedding and the birch leaves have started to wilt too.
Before I left we hosted the Bigga Scottish Championships with a capacity of 90 greenkeepers entering the flagship event of the season. It was a great opportunity for us to showcase our course and club and it was great to have so much complimentary feedback with regards to both.
Players from as far north as Tain GC competed and the winning score was an impressive level par 71 from Chris Prior form Bearsden GC.
With the midweek medals and ladies Monday competitions now finished for the season this gave us an opportunity to relieve the greens of any stress or tension by doing a pencil tine followed by a top dress the next day.
Careful planning and organisation assures as little disruption to play as possible and surfaces are back to normal in no time at all. We managed to get 17 of our 20 greens solid tined and rolled on Monday and the rest completed by 8am Tuesday morning, which then allowed all top dressing to be completed and brushed in by 10:30am Tuesday.
Autumn greens maintenance is our next focus, but not for another few weeks yet. Once we have a start date confirmed there will be a notice posted outlining our plans.
To help us decide what our maintenance will consist of, firstly we need to find out what our Organic matter percentage is.
A fortnight ago we took samples from our 3 data greens which were sent away to the lab for testing. These results will be with us next week when we have our autumn visit from the STRI in line with the objective testing programme.
We managed to apply the same quantity of sand during autumn maintenance in 2015 as previous years but with a different strategy as we felt 4 years of Graden work had been very effective. We are confident there's not been a substantial rise in OM % due to ongoing top dressing, and after the season starting off very wet it has evened itself out now with annual rainfall currently 594mm. More information will be available following next week's visit and results.
This week we will be commencing stage 1 of our rough management plan which will see us initially cut & collect our managed roughs around the course. Once this is complete stage 2 will then consist of tackling the deeper unmanaged roughs. When we cut & collect the clippings it is essentially removing the food source and encouraging a thinner, wispier sward to develop. This will be an ongoing plan, but already after doing some areas last winter we can already see an improvement. Also included within the rough management plan we will be strimming and collecting the long grass around our new bunkers on 1, 2 & 5 to refine the sward.
Weather outlook is looking a little unsettled and windy towards the weekend and into next week; however we will still hold onto some warm weather with temperatures reaching the high teens.
David Gray
Head Greenkeeper
Titleist 917 Driver and Fairway latest news
This amazing new product will officially launch for public sale on October ... However as mentioned last week we are one of a selected lucky few in Scotland who will have the demo product and fitting cart from around the 28th of September.
Book your fitting now by clicking here.
Club fitting is always FREE at Ladybank GC when you buy product. If you choose not to buy there is an admin fee of £25.
*A special note of congratulations to Jim Dryburgh and Grant Thompson who won the John Gray Greensomes for the third time.
Last Sunday saw the LCL team travel to Crail to play the remaining fixture of the year knowing a win would secure the trophy. A fantastic display saw the team record an excellent win by 5.5 to 2.5.
The match results were as follows:
- B Robertson & B McSkimming - lost 3&2
- C Mathie & B Turner - won 5&4
- F Johnstone & D Glass - halved match
- G Mathie & S Owen - won 5&4
- M Carruthers & S Anderson - lost 2&1
- G McDougall & R MacGregor - won 3&2
- G Dargie & D Payne - won 2&1
- W Smith & G Turzynski - won 2
A huge thanks to all that have participated throughout the year. The winning trophy will be presented at the Tri-Am on Saturday, 8 October, again Away at Crail. A team of 20 is required and there are a limited number of spaces available. If any member would like to play please contact the M&H team.
Stevie Hutcheon
M&H
Ladybank Ladies - Betty Collier Cup/RNLI
- L Murray (10) 77, E Hutcheon (7) 79
RNLI
- C Wilson(24) 77 bih, L Muray(10) - 77 bih, K Halliday(23) - 77
Ellis Rosebowl & Tankards - Saturday, 17 September
Rosebowl Winner - F Johnstone
Tankards
Cat 1 - G Wilson, Cat 2 - N Barlow, Cat 3 - J Hair, Cat 4 - H Stewart
Sweep
Cat 1 & 2
1st - CD Owen - 80 (12) - 68, 2nd - ST Hutcheon - 74 (6) 68, 3rd - D MacRitchie 77 (8) - 69
Cat 3 & 4
1st - J Hair - 83 (14) - 69, 2nd - JG Honeyman 83 (13) - 70, 3rd - FR Maxwell 89 (18) - 71
Seniors
Medal Final and Sweep (CSS 70)
SS Medal Trophy Winner - G Halliday, Runner Up - M Stone
Sweep - R Hogg (15) 67, H S Grant (18) 70, A L McColm (13) 71
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