Folks, The weather this week has been both good and bad – good as in nice and dry allowing us to get lots done but so cold in the mornings, we’ve been unable to get cutting and rolling the greens as much as we planned. Mind you the slow greens did not stop Jack Mac […]

Folks, It’s the hope that kills you – just ask any Gers fan. Hope – the ancient Greeks thought it was a self-deception best left in Pandora’s box. Past-Captain (I’m sure he was somewhere) Albert Camus agreed but felt that human life was impossible without it and St Augustine brought it into a holy trinity […]

Folks, “When proud-pied April, dressed in all his trim, Hath put a spirit of youth in everything…….” This Shakespearean sonnet should infuse us all with a renewed desire to stride the Links but for some, ie us, there’s nothing spring like as we drag old and weary limbs out of bed at 05:30am (more like […]

Folks Lots going on at the moment. Markers moved, ball washers out and filled with Fairy Liquid , benches out for weary legs, bunkers filled and ready for play, walkways cored, worst of the walks returfed, bunkers shaved,  fairways brought into play, greens hand cut, semi rough brushed, distance markers lifted and cleaned, divots picked […]

Folks, Our “little birds” (GOT ref there) tell us the AGM went well – most notably the members authorising the already reached 500 members that puts the club in a strong position to continue to invest in the course – out at the sheds we say “Aye tae that”. Challenges abound even in our local […]

Hi Folks  The blogs back thu’, rested and revitalised by spending the last few months in the Turks and Caicos Islands or maybe it was Tarbolton and Cumnock Districts, sometimes it’s hard to tell. Tuesday saw the hand cut machines back in action after an incredibly brief winter break of a whole six weeks, just enough […]

Folks, This week’s been about playing catch up with all the work done by the digger, but the good news is we’ve had a perfect week’s weather and got a lot done. The new tee at the first looks particularly good I hope you all agree and we are hopeful it will give us some […]

Folks,   “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of […]

Folks Ah the old days when skelfs were all you had to worry about, football was played on grass, winter golf was a pencil bag, half set of sticks cos the thin wheel trolleys were banned for the period, yer sisters tights on under yer trousers (old habits die hard and Morton Knight hadn’t changed […]

“Possibilism in cultural geography is the theory that the environment sets certain constraints or limitations, but culture is otherwise determined by social conditions.”   Now your once again no doubt thinking “he’s off on one again” or more likely “they must have legalised dope” but let’s be honest if you’re reading this at all you’ve nothing better to […]