WITH the start of Spring, our Greens Staff have performed a full renovation to our Greens – it is necessary to apply soil amendments at the start of the growing season to ensure a healthy plant for the coming twelve months.

As in previous years, we expect the greens to be back in top condition within a few weeks.

The Course was closed from Monday until Thursday, to enable the renovations to be completed.

Thank you to our group of Volunteers who assisted our staff on Monday.

Our first day back on Thursday to try out the renovated greens was for a Medley 4BBB Stableford- surprisingly, the ‘light’ coating of sand did not make for the expected slow greens, and caught a few of us unawares as we gave our puts that little extra.

A good field of 88 players and some great scores achieved.

Geoff Goesch (23) and Peter Shepherd (23) combined very well to win the day with 49 points, closely followed by Heather Gray (29) and Jan Harris (29) with 48 points.

Other good scores from Ken Marriott and Paddy Byrne and Paul McElhinney and Paul Dyer with 47 points.

The Ball Rundown went to 45 points on countback.

NTP’s went to Andrew Mackinnon for the Longest put on 2, Geoff McCann on 5 with 147cms, Peter Moxon on 7, Richard Spark with a great shot to 8 to 95cms, Graham Weary got the Pizza voucher on 13, Robert Coneybeare got Stu’s ball on 15, and Edward Beaton with 127cms on 18.

Unfortunately, our weekend golf program comprising the Men’s Monthly Medal on Saturday, and our ‘Island Sunday’ Mixed 4BBB both had to be cancelled, as Mother Nature once again delighted the course with 150mms of the wet stuff over the weekend.

I know that our Greenkeeper Greg was looking for a wee bit of rain to assist the Greens recovery, but enough is enough.

Hopefully, the course will dry out again quickly.

Hope to see you on the Island soon.

By Geoffrey MCCANN