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Quiz Night at Greenburn GC

April 6, 2022 by Greenburn Admin

Hope you can join us on Good Friday (15th of April) from 7pm as we host a night of quiz fun in aid of local side Fauldhouse United Football Club.

Your quizmaster will kick off proceedings at 7.30pm sharp. If you have any raffle prizes these would be very welcomely received.

Get your bank holiday weekend started with a night of quizzing at Greenburn.

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Footballer & Football Fans Offer – £10 Weekend Tee Times

March 18, 2020 by Greenburn Admin

Are you a footballer, or a football fan?

Do your weekend’s feel a little empty without ⚽️

Gutted that the football season is suspended?

We’ve got something for that! ⛳️

Weekend tee times for a tenner!

How much? – £10 for 18 holes.
Where? – Greenburn Golf Club in Fauldhouse West Lothian.
When? – Saturdays & Sundays after Noon.

Call 01501 770292 and quote “Football” to book your tee time!

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Greenburn Golf Club – Membership Application Form

March 2, 2020 by Greenburn Admin

Download Membership Form

With the golfing season just around the corner it’s a great time to join Greenburn Golf Club.

We have a variety of options, and ways to pay for your membership.

We also have a cracking loyalty scheme in place with our 20/20 vision. This encourages present members to promote the club and refer new members to the Greenburn Family. You can download an application form here. Or get in touch with the club for more information about membership or the 20/20 scheme.

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Upcoming Social Events

September 12, 2019 by Greenburn Admin

There are a number of social events over the Autumn and Winter at Greenburn Golf Club. Get involved!

Sept 27th – Prize Bingo Eyes down 7.30 pm
Oct 5th – David Goldie Golf Day Presentation
Nov 1st – Junior Presentation of Prizes/ Games Night
Nov 9th – Club Presentation of Prizes
Dec 15th – Club AGM at 10am
Dec 31st – Hogmanay Party 8pm/1am

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Spring update from our Head Greenkeeper

March 16, 2019 by Greenburn Admin

GREENKEEPERS UPDATE

Course Report February 2019

Welcome to my latest course report, thanks go to my staff and volunteers for their hard work and efforts over these cold months, I hope our Christmas lunch helped me to say thank you to you all for your help as its much appreciated. Our Christmas lunch has now been running for about 5 years now, and it’s a good afternoon all round.
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Since the last report we been working through our winter tidy up tasks and improvements when the weather conditions have been favourable to do so. The course has been drying over the period since the last newsletter, this is due to the soil drying out well during the summer and our continued aeration work being carried out on all our playing surfaces help-ing to reduce surface tension and dead grass materials building up to quickly. All surfaces have been deep aerated with a solid tine down to between 4 and 8 inches, our greens, tees and rough have also been slit spiked to help water move through the turf and soil profiles.
Following this we made a start to our winter work programme out with our normal winter aeration work etc., this work has been sketchy due to not having any extra winter budget spend allocated this winter (last year we had £10K). This has meant we have done lots of smaller jobs mixed in with some larger projects when materials and staff levels have al-lowed, we still intend draining our problem 7th green and hopefully our 3rd green before the start of the season.
Winter Work Carried as at end Feb
• Investigation work at 14th Green done by Coal Board, then front of green drained.
• Chainsaw work carried out over the course to remove diseased and dangerous problem trees.
• New 17th fence and garden developed in conjunction with West Lothian Council.
• New 18th O.B line/garden developed to the left of green, this area has further developments to come with landscaping work to be carried out on the back approach.
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• 9th Ditch across the fairway being brought into play as a hazard, complete with wood edge and new base.
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• 17th Burn base filled and improved following wash out over the seasons
• 4th Road edges have had their 1st infill of soil, ready for 2nd fill and over-seed to al-low mowing.
• New sand installed into bunkers prior to edging work being carried out.
• Water blockage repaired at old sheds and blockage at 12th burn exposed to allow water to reduce its levels.
• Problem tree stumps and bushes removed to top of putting green to improve area for mowing and tidiness.
• 16th Medal tee extended, and safety risk removed with ditch filled in.
Work still to be carried out leading up to the golfing season
• 8th, 9th and 10th Drain lines improvements.
• 7th Green drainage dig complete, turf going down as we speak. work
• 9th Ditch renovation complete, base upgraded for next season.
• 9th Main ditch cleared out at fence line.
• Tree stumps excavated out, to be soiled over etc.
• Worn areas over course to be turfed over bunker edges etc.
• 4th Road edged to be topped up and seeded.
• Bunkers to be edged and sand relocated where needed.
• General aeration work to surfaces.
• Red ash to be spread over paths.
• Continue to control moles over the course.
Just some of our extensive works over the winter.
The greens are currently performing well and have had some recovery following our disease issues from late last year, we do still have issues though with pest damage within our greens soil, ranging from Leather-jackets to Parasitic Nematodes. Once the temperatures rise in the spring again, we will tackle these issues and over-seed our greens as normal following our renovation works, hopefully prior to the season, this is as always dependent on the weather.
We continue to treat any disease issues with non-chemical applications as this is far healthier in the short and long term for staff, golfers, the plant/soil and the environment, not to mention the phenomenal amount of money that is saved and used more efficiently and allocated to other are-as of the golf course budgets.
Staff Training
The golf club continues to support Continued Professional Development of the greens staff, this is great as our industry is evolving all the time and we can all learn along the way.

Bird Boxes
You will notice we know have bird boxes going up over the course, this is to help encourage friendlier Starling birds to the course, these birds will help reduce insects over the course and cause very little damage compared to Magpies and Crows.

Greens Maintenance for 2019
As indicated in our last course report/newsletter, following the results we have received back from our most recent soil tests, we are now looking to adjust our renovations works to be carried out this coming season. We will now be carrying out more and less disruptive scarifying work to the greens and we can accommodate a smaller core to be removed from the greens in the spring/summer this year, this along with the continued seaweed and com-post tea applications will at this point control the buildup of dead material that we need to keep removing or recycling to produce good healthy playing surfaces.
We hope all golfers and visitors have a good season ahead, and we look forward to catching up with you when on the golf course.
Any feedback or ideas on how you feel we can improve our facility for you all, then please contact us and we can hopefully help to make this year another great golfing year.
Scott Corrigan
Head Greenkeeper

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20/20 Vision. Membership Discounts at Greenburn Golf Club

January 18, 2019 by Greenburn Admin

Most club’s new membership drives benefit the introduced member and forget the loyal full fee paying members.

Not Greenburn’s 20/20 vision.
TWENTY TWENTY VISION

New members: All new members* will receive 20% discount on our 2020 ordinary membership fees for both 2020 & 2021! 

Existing members: Any member who introduces a new member will receive 20% off their annual subscription in 2020.

The 20% discount will then apply providing the introduced member rejoins in 2021.


Should a member introduce a 2nd new member to the club then they will receive a £40 bar credit as a token of thanks.
This also applies for any subsequent members introduced (3rd or 4th etc).
For further information and an application form contact the club on 01501 770292.

* Members cannot have been a member at Greenburn in the previous season.

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Course Improvements Update

February 19, 2018 by Greenburn Admin

Winter programme – Update from our Head Greenkeeper

Welcome to my Winter Work Update report for January 2018, I would like to start by welcoming on board Gordon Thomson as our Greens Convenor, and we look forward to working with Gordon over the coming seasons.

Since the start of the winter we have worked our way through the winter improvements we hoped to achieve as per our winter work schedule. The weather up until the start of December had been as favourable as we could expect but since then the weather has been consistently cold with some very low temps(leading to frozen soils) and some spells of lying snow cover over the golf course. Over this period the course has been closed due to snow or severe flooding on a couple of occasions, over December 2017 until January 12th 2018 we have been closed for 10 days, December closed 8 day and January we have been closed 2 days, most of the time when we have been open we have been on temp greens due to severe frosts.

 

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Big greens were off!

Our Winter work has gone well, and as I write this we have carried out a complete major drainage system install work on our 8th, 9th and 10th greens (we still have turf to tidy and edge etc. once the frost has lifted).  We managed to get ahead of our schedule and on 28/11/17 and it was decided by the team and the club officials at this point, that we would adjust our programme and remove the drainage work from our 7th green (this to be done next winter) and focus our attentions on making a start on improving our 18th approach (lots of work to be done in this area over the next couple of winters) and to drain the front of our 14th green as these areas have become extremely wet over the last 5 months or so.

Unfortunately we have not been able to get to these areas as we would have hoped due to the current weather, this though has allowed us to remove troublesome trees from the golf course at our 18th green area to the right hand side (to allow better air and light into green and eventually to allow this bank to be graded better and free up the soil to regrade our 18th approach area), trees to the left and the back of our 14th green have also been removed and thinned out to allow air and light in and to remove the problem of needles being dropped onto the 14th green from the closely planted Larch trees.

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18th green before tree thinning

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18th green after tree thinning – some much needed light and air flow

 

Over this winter we have continued on with Aeration work when conditions have been suitable with all areas of the golf course having some sort of aeration work carried out on them, we have aerated the fairways twice, our tees and then we have slit, the greens have been deep tinned and shallow slit over this period, this aeration work will continue through the rest of the winter and into the spring as we prepare the course for the season ahead once the frosts have come completely out of the ground and machinery becomes available.

2nd green-side bunker remodelling project

One project we’re undertaking will put a smile on the face of most members!  The complete remodelling of the front green-side bunker on our second hole. This bunker has cost most of us a shot or two over the years. 

The shape and depth of the bunker has changed entirely, gone is the sheer drop face that has seen many a play out sideways, instead a more ‘fair’ bunker that will still protect the green from the bigger hitters. 

Water Issues

We have had unforeseen issues with a major water blockage underneath the access road at our old shed.  This area has now been excavated and cleared following an approach from the council to repair this area to stop any water entering the main roadway.

While they were on-site they also identified the entry to our top car park that has water leaving our ground and entering the roadway, this unplanned work had to be carried out immediately and we have managed to install a drain into our own land to divert this water (we still have some grating work to complete) down into to our own car park.

We have further issues with water entering our land that have to be dealt with.  Due to the extra unforeseen works carried out we now expect that one or two of our anticipated winter improvement works will have to be rescheduled due to time constraints. 

Major greens coring work will be taking place prior to the season as we need to remove excessive organic matter from our soil profile, this has built up again with the extreme wet end to the golfing season we endured.

This work will be followed up with a heavy top-dressing of sand and greens over-seeded where required.  This work will be carried out once we have better temperatures and better recovery conditions.  Hopefully this work will be carried out between middle of February and the middle of March to allow the surfaces to recover prior to the season beginning.

Over the next month we will continue to mow when conditions and growth allows as well as continue with or winter programme work.

Upcoming maintenance is as follows.

  • General Maintenance Work
  • General Course Tidying of branches and weeding work etc.
  • Continue to apply Soil Improvers and Nutrients when required to encourage a healthy plant growth on greens and tees.
  • Mow tees and surrounds. 
  • Light Verti-Cutting of greens when conditions allow prior to coring work. 
  • Weed Reduction control to path edges.
  • Begin edging work to bunkers.
  • We hope to carry out Vee-Mowing off fairways prior to the new season, again following an inspection of the soil profile we are building up thatch quicker than we are controlling it and this will lead to wet soft unplayable fairways over a short period of time, ideally we need to get back to applying sand when possible and soil amendments over all fairways but due to cost this operation has been restricted for some years now.

 

Chainsaw Work

We continue to carry out chainsaw work when needed, as mentioned earlier in the report we still have many areas of trees to be removed to reduce unwanted needle/leaf drop, open up air/light movement and save labour on endless tidy up work required year on year and reduce damage caused to our cutting units.

 

Education

 The greens staff continue to develop our education on a regular basis through BIGGA and online courses/webinars and through networking through Facebook closed groups and being one of the founder members of the Compost Teas Association Group.  Michael continues his education through GOSTA Training and is on course to be Level 3 qualified in Greenkeeping come the end of April.

I will be attending Harrogate BTME event where I have taken 4 days Annual Leave to further my education on areas such as Fairway Thatch Management, Developing a Comprehensive Golf Course Master Plan, Recognising and Rectifying Fairway Drainage Problems, Thatch Reduction and Root Mass Development by Using Wormpower and Continued Research in Soil Microbiology. During this event I will also be able to connect with all the industries major suppliers and catch up on all the new innovations and developments within the industry and in turn network with many fellow greenkeepers also.

 

Staff Levels

During the playing season we will be on the look out for a bunker boy/girl to help out every other weekend and I will shortly be posting a small advert to help fill this position.

 

Volunteers 

Our volunteers continue to help over this winter period when they are available, these people are a great help indeed, our volunteer group and staff had a good afternoon at our Christmas lunch, and we look forward to next year’s event already.

 

Scott Corrigan

Head Greenkeeper

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Online tee booking – iPhone app

June 13, 2017 by Greenburn Admin

This season saw the biggest technological advance at Greenburn since medal woods replaced persimmon clubs, in the activation of the online tee booking system. 

We have seen over 250 of our members register to use the online tee booking system, and it’s being used; a lot. Over 2,000 rounds of golf have been booked by our members so far this season.
The feedback has been very positive in the main.  One of the only negatives we’ve seen was the way that the system displayed on mobile devices. Unlike our own website it was far from mobile friendly.  

Screenshots of the old system
 
User log in
Select competition
Pick your time
Confirm players

As you can see the user experience wasn’t pretty with much pinch and zooming going on, and it was very easy to make mistakes.

It’s not possible to always be by a desktop computer when the tee opens for booking. 

BRS Golf have recognised that this is an issue and have set about rectifying the problem.  The first phase of their mobile strategy sees the launch of a native iPhone app.  The app is available in the app store (search BRS golf). 

Screenshots of the new iPhone app

Search BRS in app store
Home page
Search for Greenburn
Log in with your BRS details
Your home page has upcoming times, and also the competitions you book now
Pick a tee time
Select players
Booking confirmed
Cancellation confirmation
Cancel or amend booking

The user experience is much improved, and I would urge any one who has an iPhone to download the app. You can thank me later!  There is no timescale for the launch of the Android version of the app, however given Golfnow has Android versions of their other applications I would imagine the launch will be imminent.  

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Greenburn 2019 Silloth

April 20, 2017 by Greenburn Admin

Members should be aware of the dat for this years Silloth. The draw will place in the club on during a date in May TBC .

The entry fee is payable on the night. 

As per last year, the Silloth is now a one-day event and is being held on Saturday the 1st of June. Don’t miss your chance to get a tee time.

 

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Opening Weekend Events

April 2, 2017 by Greenburn Admin

This week sees the World’s best golfers gather in Georgia for The Masters.

We’ll all be glued to the TV to see if Rory can complete the Grand Slam, DJ can continue his amazing run of form or Speith who has never finished worse than second can regain the green jacket and complete the sequence of 2-1-2-? 

This is all very well however, the real golf starts this Friday Evening with the official opening of the season at Greenburn.

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The opening weekend fixtures

Friday: Opening Ceremony – 5pm followed by a 10 Hole Shotgun  Texas Scramble for the Macintyre Trophy. Registration for the texas scramble closes at 4.30pm. 

Junior induction day. 1pm in the main hall.

The Captain

Saturday: Gents opening day with a number of trophies to compete for.
 
1st Class – Russell trophy

2nd Class – Greenhorn trophy

3rd Class – Chalmers shield

The Committee trophy is also up for grabs. 

 

Sunday: Ladies opening day. Thomson trophy

 

 

 

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