Goring & Streatley Golf Club Blog
GSGC Team Win 2nd Bronze Award
Fantastic News! The Goring & Streatley Team won a Bronze Flag Award’ at the 59club Service Excellence Awards for a 2nd time recognising exceptional Customer Service/experience again. The 59 Club have 3 flag awards; Bronze, Silver and Gold and a Golf Club is awarded these from the combined result of the 4 mystery shop visits […]
Course Manager, Matt Aplin wins 6 in a row!
Fantastic News! Matt Aplin, Course Manager at Goring & Streatley GC has won Greenkeeper of the year for 2023 at the prestigious 59 Club Service Excellence Awards for the 6th year in a row. This award shows the ongoing commitment by Matt and his team to consistently produce a golf course of outstanding quality. Click […]
Course News February 2022 to March 2022
February 2022 The start of February was very busy for us, we had a delivery of 127 trees and 300 gorse bushes. The trees were for planting on the 13th hole and the 1st hole, and the gorse for the 16th hole along with an oak tree that was planted for the queen’s jubilee. We […]
Course Manager, Matt Aplin wins 4 in a row!
Fantastic News! Matt Aplin, Course Manager at Goring & Streatley GC has won Greenkeeper of the year for 2021 at the prestigious 59 Club Awards for the 4th year in a row. This award shows the ongoing commitment by Matt and his team to consistently produce a golf course of outstanding quality. Click the link […]
Course News October 2021 to January 2022
October 2021 The start of October saw myself and Conor completing our tree felling qualification. This was a must have for us due to all the tree work we do over the winter months, it means we will be able to complete more jobs in the time we have. During the month on the course […]
Course Manager, Matt Aplin Goes For 4 in a row!
Matt Aplin Goes For 4 in a row! Great News! Matt Aplin our Course Manager has been nominated for greenkeeper of the year by the 59 club for 2021. Matt has previously won the award in 2018, 2019 and 2020 and 2021 would make it 4 wins in a row! He is up against some […]
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JH Taylor Designs Article by Rob Smith, Contributing Editor – Golf Monthly August Edition
Course News July 2021
There’s been a fair bit more activity with the bees this month. We managed to split our hive so that now we have two hives, we are just waiting to see if this has been successful or not. One of the hives has a egg laying queen in it which is what we need and […]
Course News May 2021
It has been a very busy month for the greenkeeping staff. A busy month in which we saw very high amounts of rainfall throughout with less than a handful of days having no precipitation. This has made it difficult to find opportunities at times to cut certain areas, but we have managed this well. The […]
Course News April 2021
April has seen a lot of frosty mornings which has meant the grass growth is very low for this time of year. However the course is starting to take shape with the fairways starting to show and rough being cut. You may have notice the changes to these areas, fairways have been made wider to […]