Weekend Results - Lady Captains Cup & the U14 Martin Moran Shield

Congratulations to our Lady Captain Jean Clarke, not the done thing winning your own competition you know Jean (this is not a precedent I wanted set this year Jean). A good turnout for the ladies (must be something about the Sunshine and warmth) and all thoroughly enjoyed the day. Jean is pictured here receiving the Lady Captains Cup from Lady Vice Captain Guilia Lawless.


The other competition over the weekend was the U14 Martin Moran Shield, unfortunately not such a good turnout. But again in beautiful sunshine and guided along by the newly elected Junior Organiser Paul Jarvis, his son Maxwell won the day. Congratulations to Maxwell, pictured here with Junior Captain Lloyd Purnell.

Latest Poll Result

So its just me that has issues with the 13th then! So the vote is done and rightly so, the 7th has been voted the hardest Par 3 on the Course.

Poll Result: Is the rough too punishing at the MOG?

Thanks to all those who took part in our latest Poll. We seem to have a split vote this time around with the overall outcome being as followed:

36% voted NO the rough is not too punishing
27% voted FAIR is well off line
27% voted NOT FAIR if only just offline
10% voted YES the rough is too punishing

Response to Comments posted in the Green Keeper Book

MEMORANDUM

DATE: 1 May, 2008

TO: All Members

FROM: Mark Wells / Damien Bowe – ISS Waterers Landscapes


Golf Course Update


We are very pleased to see that the new Green Keepers Comments and Message book is being used to full effect. Please continue to give us your constructive feedback on the general condition of the course and also any constructive ideas to improve the course that you may have.

In response to recent comments placed in the message book on W/E of 26th 27th April we have the following update.

Comment 26/04/08
Rough is too long, Fairways have been made too small, Greens are uneven and slow.

Reply 28/04/08
Rough has been left to grow in on several holes for the following reasons.

Hole 2 Area to right of second fairway rough has grown up on mound to create definition between fairways this rough will be kept to within mounds and semi rough kept to a height of 50mm.

Hole 3 Area to left of fairway, rough has been grown in to stop ride on mowers being damaged by hedgerow. It has however been noted that the rough may have crept to far into play we will therefore be cutting the rough back to within 2m of hedgerow to increase play width.

Hole 4 Area to right of fairway has been left to grow rough to prevent long hitters gaining an advantage when cutting corner. However the rough in this area will be kept to within the tree lines and will not increase inwards. We will also be making the fairway wider on the corner by 15m.

Hole 5 Area between the trees to right of the fairway has been left to grow as rough and will be kept within tree line. The landing area on the fairway at the 100 marker will be made wider to allow for better approaches to be played into the green.

Hole 6 Area to left of fairway was allowed to grow to create definition between holes. However it has come to our attention the good drives could reach the longer rough, we have therefore cut back the longer rough and now the area will be cut as semi rough at a height of 50mm.

Hole 15 We have noted that the approach to this green is currently cut to far to the left thus any shots that are short and right of pin are finding the longer rough. We are therefore making the approach wider and bringing it to a more central position.

Hole 18 The area to the back of the 18th green has been allowed to grown in by 2m this will be kept as rough with the slopes as semi rough.

Greens
As you may all be aware we have undertaken a vast amount of work to the greens over the last few weeks with hollow coring, topdressing and fertilising. This is much needed to give us stronger root growth which intern will bring us much better greens. We will continue to aerate the greens over the coming months and I will communicate this via the notice board. We will be cutting the greens more frequently over the coming months as the warmer weather increases growth. The greens will become faster over the coming weeks as our cutting regimes increase.

I would like to thank you all for your constructive comments and also your understanding while we make changes to improve the golf course.

Please feel free to talk with me on my weekly visit to the Manor of Groves should you have any further queries.

Regards

Mark Wells
Area Manager
ISS Waterers Landscapes

2nd Hole voted most difficult by members

Many thanks to those members who participated in this weeks poll. For those that voted the membership is split, but the hardest hole of the 4 in contention is the Par 4 2nd.

1st Par 4 2nd - 38%
2nd Par 4 8th - 30%
3rd Par 4 12th - 25%
4th Par 4 15th - 7%

This weeks poll asks the question - is the rough at the MOG too punishing?

Mens Spring Cup - Ladies Spring Trophy Results

Saturday 26th April, the sun did shine and the golfers at the MOG took to the golf course in wonderful sunshine in their effort to capture the Spring Cup for Men, the Spring Trophy for the Ladies and the Junior Spring Cup.

Gripes and groans were heard all around the course as the men entered battle to capture the Spring Cup and the honour of playing in a PGA Pro/AM at Old Ford Manor with our Pro Ben Goodey.

Men's Spring Cup (PGA Pro/AM Qualifier)

1st	Tony Cook	66 (78-12)
2nd	Mark Heffer	67 (80-13)
3rd	Colin McDonald	69 (79-10)

Congratulations to Tony Cook (pictured here with the Club Captain Coln McDonald) who now goes forward to Old Ford Manor with Ben Goodey.


The Ladies came in close on the heels of the men and with some excellent scoring.

Ladies Spring Trophy

1st	Denise Beasley	64 (83-19)
2nd	Tina Holyoake	74 (90-16)
3rd	Steph McDonald	74 (98-24)

Congratulations to Denise (picutred here with the Ladies Captain Jean Clarke) on an excellent score and well deserved.