The management committee have approved a set of rules to be followed when practicing on the course. You can access these by clicking here The rules may also be accessed under the “Club Documents” section in the members area of the website.
Adopt a Hole Program – Be proud – Play your part Can we encourage all members and visitors to participate in this program to ensure good conditions on our teeing areas, fairways, and greens. Duties include repairing “ball marks” on the greens, raking bunkers, filling divot holes in the fairways and collect and properly dispose of twigs & rubbish. The…
Volunteers A big THANK YOU to all volunteers this week. Too many to thank individually, but we had over 30 people helping Monday and Thursday. There were representatives from Ladies, Gents and Juniors. The group sanded 7 fairways, all tee boxes, strimmed around avenue trees, and cleared spinney. Many hands make light work, we will organise another day in August.…
Weather Weather is not on our side however we hope to move to 18 holes as soon as the 16th/17th/18th get a good few drying Days. Target to go 18 Holes is 19th April. Thanks to everyone for your patience and understanding and a big thanks to our hard-working Course Team to present the course recently considering the awful weather…
Greens Our greens are cut Twice a week and to a height of 4mm. The holes are clipped daily and are changed on average two to three times a week depending on wear and tear. Aeration of the greens using a 10mm pencil tine relieving compaction and improving surface performance and the plan is to sand greens every couple of…
We are delighted to announce that Steven McDonald is to take on the position of Head Greenkeeper and as he takes up his new role, we will be strengthening his team, both on and off the course. To that end, an important development is a decision to engage a new course agronomist, Trevor Norris. Trevor was a Senior Agronomist with…
Sadly, the constant storms have taken their toll on our Delgany trees: A mature Scotch Pine on the right-hand side of the 13th approximately 80 feet high has fallen due to the wind and continual wet weather. As can be seen from the photo the tree was uprooted rather than broken. Other major boughs from trees on the drive and…
The ground of the chipping practice area at the 1st tee box is exceptionally soft following the extensive rain we have experienced since July. To avoid damage we are in the process of installing 4 mats to enable us to keep this area open during the coming months. We will be fixing them in the ground as soon as the…
Update on Work (12th November) We started this project , on Monday 16th October, by removing the concrete plinth and then removed all the top layer of the grass and sand. We cleared out the surrounding shrubbery around the trees off the tarmac path which really opened up the space. This all took a few days and then the weather…
The continued wet weather, caused by 3.5 months of exceptional rain, which was a full 55% above the long-term average for the same period, has caused the course to be unusually wet and where the 'going' is soft to heavy in too many places. Delgany has experienced 136mm (or over 5 inches) of extra rain during this period and there…
