It's been a while

Well, it's been a few weeks since I last posted. The various committees are interesting, and they all take on their own particular character. Greens committee tends to be very formal compared to the others, we have the report of the head greenkeeper and that's part of his job so I guess you would hope that he would take it seriously! The quality of the course is also the heart of the club, obviously, so he fields a lot of questions about everything from the trees and what species we should be planting through to the speed of the greens (currently a bit slow but the grass is growing too fast!). Something that keeps coming up is the quality of the bunkers. This is an issue in every club, apparently, and all club greenkeepers visit each other all the time to compare notes. Our issue is slope and drainage, apparently. There's a new idea that puts a porous concrete profile into a bunker that we might try out, but it's expensive.

The other committees are a bit more lighthearted, though the full General Committee is a jacket and tie job and is run as though we were a PLC.

As far as the golf has gone this season, I think I've discovered what I have been doing wrong, he said with the possibly misplaced optimism of thousands of golfers who have gone before. Swinging too steep, I think. I managed to play to handicap or thereabouts last week and that's the first time for a while. It's another medal on Saturday so we'll see...


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