Course Update

Please download a copy of the latest Course Update.

Winter Programme

Please download a copy of the latest Winter Programme.

The Nature of Pleasington Greens

Please download a copy of a report written by the Course Manager on The Nature of Pleasington Greens.

Winter Policy Review Results

Please download a copy of the Winter Policy Review Results. The Green Chairman and his committee would like to take the opportunity to thank all the members who took the time to complete and return the questionnaire.

Whilst the results overwhelmingly endorse the original decision with regard to the use of mats there were many useful and constructive views expressed about slight amendments to the policy. There were also a small number (11%) of members who felt the policy should be abandoned.

All views will be taken into account at the September green meeting when winter policy for 2006/07 will be agreed.

Ground Staff

Pleasington Golf Club have a regular compliment of 6 green staff lead by our Course Manager.

During the summer, the team is boosted by one or two additional temporary greenkeepers to provide extra help with the many tasks necessary to ensure that the Course is kept in pristine condition.

Course Manager is responsible, in conjunction with the Green Chairman and Secretary/General Manager, for the implementation of Club Policy as laid out in the Course Policy Document. His duties include but are not limited to:

Planning maintenance schedules in relation to fixture lists and Societies
Liasing with the Green Chairman and Secretary/General Manager on any problem areas
Machinery maintenance and repair
Planning and preparation of annual and long term budgets
Attending all Green Committee meetings and reporting on agenda items
Maintenance of schedules and records relating to machinery and staff
Personnel education - training, discipline, allocation of daily tasks
Implementation of the Club's Health & Safety policy
Purchase and storage of fertilizers, dressings, pesticides, fungicides and chemicals
Storage and safety of all equipment and materials
Ecology

The Pleasington course contains a mixture of parkland and natural heathland. The Club are very keen on the ecological aspect of the course, and feel that it is important to preserve the natural habitat of birds, animals and flora on the Course. There are a number of breeding pairs of roe deer on the course.

Woodland maintenance is carried in such a way that it has as little an impact on the natural habitat as possible and encourage wildlife. Sand quarries on the 6th and 15th holes are managed to encourage wildlife such as sand martins.

Trees are an important aspect of the Course, and every effort is made to ensure that they are managed sympathetically. Careful planting of indigenous trees takes place where and when necessary, to ensure that they will mature into specimen trees over the years to come.

Care is taken to encourage seasonal flora and fauna, such as blue bells, daffodils and rhododendrons, together with birds and water creatures in ponds and water courses.

Management of certain areas of the course, which are essentially heathland in nature, especially the area across the railway (holes 5 through 10), is of great importance. Here the growth of heather is encouraged by a combination of measures, including seasonal burning and ground clearance. The growth of self-seeding saplings is actively discouraged in all heathland areas, and the removal of trees takes place where appropriate.