GOLF
We have three distinct types of greens to manage, and drainage has been the big issue on the older ones
Club history
Golf has been played in the Malvern area common land.
The Worcestershire Golf Club itself was formed in 1879 and, for several decades, played on Poolbrook Common using
The old clubhouse is located about one mile north of the current course on Poolbrook Common. In the 1920s, it was decided to move from the common, so a local farm, Wood Farm, one mile south of Poolbrook Common, was purchased.
The club invited golf course architects Harry Colt of Sunningdale fame whom, as a youngster, had himself played golf on the Poolbrook Common course, and Alister MacKenzie, later of Augusta the new course.
MacKenzie tendered the lower price and was awarded the work. In reality, MacKenzie’s price was well exceeded and, him, he apparently informed them that it wouldn’t have been any higher if they
The new Wood Farm course opened for 24 PC August/September 2019
of MacKenzie’s course was taken over by the Ministry of Defence to build a hospital several such hospitals were constructed within a short distance of the club.
This land was not recovered from the it was covered in brick buildings and concrete roadways
In due course, most of the buildings and roadways were removed or covered now covered some of the original by Hawtree and Co, were built and, when incorporated with elements of the
In 2000, the present clubhouse was opened. This replaced the original Wood Farm farmhouse that, with seventy years.
to rebuild the bunkers, lay drainage and put in sportscreat into the bunkers. Unfortunately, a year after the work was completed, the company went bust ... and the warranty went with it!”
“My budget was significantly less to solve the problems, so I went back to the basic principles. We’ve got good drainage outlets in the base, so that was fine. Every time we rebuilt a bunker, we shaped it so it only had to deal with the water that lands in it, not the runoff from other areas; that reduces all the washouts. As a liner, we just went back
to traditional methods and used turf, laying it green side up. We gave it a month to root down a bit, then sprayed it off with Roundup, filled with four to five inches of pack sand, wacker plated it down on the bases and a couple of inches up the faces.”
“We have tried to make the bunkers more visual by raising a lot of the faces, and we’ve added some extra bunkers for the longer hitters. Over a four year period, we have revamped or installed sixty-two bunkers altogether, which has provided much more visual impact out on the course.”
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