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 | Winter Work Ahead!
| With winter fast approaching Ally and the team have put together a short term plan for winter course work. Over the next week or so the greens will be solid tined, seeded then a heavy topdressing applied. The reason for the heavy dressing is to achieve good soil to seed contact. This is particularly important now that the temperature has dropped. Th tees will also be tined but this time the cores will be taken out and bunker sand will be used to top-dress and they will also be seeded. The 9th medal tee and 13th tee will receive extra seed to encourage better grass quality. As the temperatures are now lower, cutting is slightly less and the greens height will steadily be increased. However, due to the recent purchase of the Iron Greens machine, green speed should be able to be maintained throughout the winter period, with less cutting reducing the stress on the leaf.
It has obviously been a very testing year but I think we all owe Ally and his team and also the volunteer team a huge thank you. In particular, I think the volunteer squad have been exceptional. Scott Arbuthnott, Bill Morrison, Steve Cooper, Bob Whyte, Gary Smith, Blair Fletcher, Lee Strachan (apologies if I have missed anyone) thank you for all your hard work, I definitely appreciate it and I'm sure the members who are aware of some of the work that goes on also appreciate it.
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 | | Currently | Last week an email went out to all members of Arbroath Artisan Golf Club. I understand some of you never received the email sent from the club so hopefully the info here will help you understand what it was all about. |
 | | Covered over? | I recently took a proposal to the club to build a swing studio within the clubhouse. The swing studio would be multi-purpose, there would be a coaching use, custom fitting centre and also a simulator facility. The location selected is the "dirty bar" |
 | | How it could look? | The technology being used would begin with a Launch Monitor called TrackMan 4. If you have watched any golf on tv recently there are many Professionals and Coaches using this particular unit. |
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 | | Another example | From a cost point of view I will be covering all of the costs of converting the room. The only minor cost to the club would be to close of the bar and smooth off the wall to fall in line with the rest of the room. There may be a lock or two required but again, minimal costs. I would cover lighting changes and any security camera etc. going in.
Some of you may be thinking, "how will the club benefit from this?" My thinking is that the increased footfall into the club can only be a good thing. With this increase comes extra opportunities for food & beverage sales, new memberships, retained memberships all of which surely benefit the club? There have also been some early discussions, should the project go ahead that I would pay a rental fee for the facility so this would be another cost benefit to the cub? |
 | | Sound & Noise Proofing | In particular I see this facility as a massive benefit to you the members. To have a state of the art facility that can be used all year round that you can hire for an hour to practice or to play a round on one of the 75 plus courses currently available on the TrackMan Simulator package would in my opinion be the envy of many clubs around. However I am not looking to put this facility in place to be the envy of anyone but to increase the facitlites we currently have to offer. |
 | | Trackman 4 | Junior development has always been something of key concern to me. It has also always been something exceptionally difficult to do for 12 months of the year. Often when winter comes we don't see most of the kids until the following spring by which time they certainly haven't progressed. I truly believe a facitlity like this will greatly help grow our junior section and help secure the future of Arbroath Artisan Golf Club. I understand this area has been and continues to be an area used by members and I by no means underestimate the importance of the support of these members. That being said I feel like we can move some tables and chairs to the other side of the double doors if required to create a "new style dirty bar" If you have any further questions please get in touch. |
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