Winter/course improvement program
Since the country locked down and all golf courses in England was ordered to close again!, the interim golf council along with myself, the business manager and the professional staff wanted to make the most of the time to undertake a few course improvements. These are a few projects undertaken this side of Christmas with more projects to come in the new year (weather permitting) A very difficult time for the ground staff to start with due to leaves still needing clearing on a near daily basis, grass still growing due to temperatures reaching highs of 18 degrees in November and rain events making all of those tasks almost impossible without making tyre marks and spreading mud from worm casts!. The course being closed to all apart from walkers getting their daily exercise (I know silly!) has enabled us to get a couple of jobs done and a major one started, this wouldn’t have been able to in the same time frame. Firstly we had the artisan scheme extended to make use of some extra hands to