In Part 2 of our series highlighting the contribution of volunteers to Duntryleague, we catch up with Bron Ryan. Bron Ryan has been instrumental in leading a group of ladies in looking after the gardens at Duntryleague for the past…
The mild Autumn conditions have soon given away to the Winter freeze with sub zero temperatures and some light snow falls over the past 3 weeks indicating its time to bring out the thermals, adapt your play to some frozen…
L-R: Peter Byrne, John McGoldrick, John Brennan, Ian Forrester, Warwick Wheatley, Peter Fox, Phil Pile, David Swallow, Tony Barwick & Richard Benson. This week is National Volunteer Week (May 20 - 26, 2019). National Volunteer Week (NVW) acknowledges the generous…
Thirteen years at the helm, Duntryleague Greenkeeper Grant Barrett is still loving his job. After yesterday hosting the Blue Mountains and Western Districts Greenkeepers Day, Grant was bubbling with enthusiasm when he spoke about his work and explained what goes…
The big dry continued in April with no rainfall being recorded at Duntryleague putting added pressure on our already limited water supplies however with good irrigation management our course remained in a good shape for our Club Championships. The addition…
The Autumn weather conditions have been well received with some much needed rainfall being experienced mid March and early April promoting improved playing surfaces across our course. The renovations completed during the warmer than anticipated conditions in February tested the…
The continued dry spell is severely impacting on our course conditions with substantially depleted water storage levels necessitating course irrigation to be restricted to tees and greens only. Only 35mm of rainfall has been recorded during February and if it…
The condition of our golf course is holding up quite well particularly after experiencing another extended dry spell up during 2018. For the 2nd year in a row we received much less than our average rainfall with only 555mm measured…
Another year is out of the way and we are very pleased with the course improvements that have been undertaken in the later half of 2018. After the prolonged dry conditions experienced in the 2017/18 Summer months where our water…
The course improvement projects undertaken on several holes have been commenced by our greens staff during this past month under the leadership of Grant Barrett. The mounding to the left hand side of the 4th green is now ready for…
