Folks, Busy week with all sorts going on. Not least the arrival of over 90 rolls at 10m x 3m size from Rugby Park – massive thanks to Hamilton Tarmac for getting it down here and offloaded and to Captain Sam and the redoubtable Big Jim Clark for sealing the deal. So 3000m2 of pitch […]

Folks,  You will have been very aware of the areas of our fantastic course left damaged by those pesky rabbits. Let me just say that Sammy The Rabbit Man is working his socks off trying to reduce the varmint population, but it’s not easy given how ‘energetic’ rabbits can be. All we can say is […]

Folks, Apologies, like retaliation are best got in early, so sorry to anyone caught by the sprinklers these last few nights. As we alluded to last week, the auld system has been called into action without even a preseason friendly, so we still have a few “stiff legs” “wayward passes” and “missed tackles” that need […]

Folks, Things that makes us Greenies wish we had taken that job cutting grass at Rugby Park – Degenerate Smokers stubbing out fags on the lids of the new bins, use your shoe or tongue or better still yer eyeball please. One handed bunker raking. Please lay your club down and rake with both hands […]

Now folks let’s kick off with a ‘elf’n’saftee (copyright © imatwatrichardlittlejohn) pronouncement (are there any other type). Space on the practice ground is tight to hooked drives off the first and off the 18th so we have, after extensive research come up with a three step “programme” to ensure the continued health of our practitioners […]

Folks, Can we start off with an apology (of sorts) – in our build up to the Spring Meeting it was only on the Monday that it fully dawned on us just what having the clash of the Easter hols meant – i.e. only having  4 Greenies available for the Friday and Saturday and 3 […]

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 […]