Neilds
Assistant Pro
There is a long thread on here about courses being closed throughout the winter and I was wondering what your clubs are doing to try and prevent this in the future.
We are investing in more drainage, getting a professional company in to advise and also starting a program to clear and widen the existing ditches to try and help. We are also starting a 3 year project to put a path around all the holes to allow buggies and trollies to be used at all times and we are getting proper winter tees with astroturf in front of all the par 3s.. The plan is to (hopefully) make the course playable 365 days a year for everyone. They are also looking at improving the general look of the course with flower beds, better signage, clock, improved halfway hut, etc
We have also just refurbished the clubhouse, half the bunkers have been upgraded with the rest following and the range has been extended and Top Tracer added so things are really looking up. A lot of this is funded by the money we got from selling some land to a developer for a retirement village and the members have realised that we can spend this instead of saving for a rainy day (pun intended ) but if we can survive a lockdown without going bust, then we should be able to spend a bit of the investment.
We are investing in more drainage, getting a professional company in to advise and also starting a program to clear and widen the existing ditches to try and help. We are also starting a 3 year project to put a path around all the holes to allow buggies and trollies to be used at all times and we are getting proper winter tees with astroturf in front of all the par 3s.. The plan is to (hopefully) make the course playable 365 days a year for everyone. They are also looking at improving the general look of the course with flower beds, better signage, clock, improved halfway hut, etc
We have also just refurbished the clubhouse, half the bunkers have been upgraded with the rest following and the range has been extended and Top Tracer added so things are really looking up. A lot of this is funded by the money we got from selling some land to a developer for a retirement village and the members have realised that we can spend this instead of saving for a rainy day (pun intended ) but if we can survive a lockdown without going bust, then we should be able to spend a bit of the investment.