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Title: National Golf Club (Aust.) - Maintenance during shutdown
Post by: Greg Gilson on April 21, 2020, 04:11:56 AM

Nice communication to the membership. A little bonus footage of all 3 courses for anyone interested:


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Title: Re: National Golf Club (Aust.) - Maintenance during shutdown
Post by: Thomas Dai on April 21, 2020, 06:22:41 AM

Thanks for sharing Greg. Nice to get some insight into what's going on. A record for history as well.
atb

Title: Re: National Golf Club (Aust.) - Maintenance during shutdown
Post by: Mike Bodo on April 21, 2020, 10:01:55 AM

Very cool and gives the viewer a good perspective and appreciation of the type of work maintenance crews perform - not only to the course in question, but the equipment and tools they use to maintain the course. Very impressive.

Title: Re: National Golf Club (Aust.) - Maintenance during shutdown
Post by: Tom_Doak on April 21, 2020, 10:48:50 PM

We have worked with 7 or 8 different greenkeepers in Australia now, including Leigh Yanner, and I would take any of them to run one of my courses any day.


When we set up the Renaissance Cup, I felt guilty for exposing Leigh -- here we had a big group coming from all over [including seven or eight top end greenkeepers] to play a course that still hadn't quite had time to mature, just a couple of days after playing at Royal Melbourne in peak form.  He did not even blink about it.  Come next summer, I would not be surprised if he has the best playing surface of anything in Australia.


I did wonder why they were going out at dawn when there aren't any golfers around, but I guess it's to space out the crew so they aren't all in the building at once.

Title: Re: National Golf Club (Aust.) - Maintenance during shutdown
Post by: Tommy Williamsen on April 22, 2020, 06:52:12 PM

How close is the Long Island Club to the National?

Title: Re: National Golf Club (Aust.) - Maintenance during shutdown
Post by: Greg Gilson on April 22, 2020, 07:09:14 PM

Hello Tommy. the Long Island course (no longer "club") is about 30/40 minutes drive away from the other 3 NGC courses which are all at the Cape Schanck site.

Title: Re: National Golf Club (Aust.) - Golf back "on" in Victoria (Australia)
Post by: Greg Gilson on May 11, 2020, 10:42:51 PM

[size=100%]Golf in Victoria restarts tomorrow after 6 weeks "down". Tee time booking websites for all the clubs are crashing under weight of booking requests![/size][/color]

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