Events & informations of April

#NEXT MONTH EVENTS From March 31^th to April 2^nd: green spiking
Saturday April 16^th: Spring Cup Thursday April 21^st: Seniors Azuréens Friday April 22^nd: General assembly ‘Association Sportive’
Saturday 23 & Sunday 24 April : Rattan Chadha Cup
Tuesday April 26^th: Trophée Madame Figaro Thursday April 28^th: Seniors Azuréens Saturday April 30^th: Dutch King's Day

#INFO
Because of private events, please note that the restaurant will be closed for dinners on the following days:
- Saturday 9 April
- Sunday 24 April (Dinner and prize giving ceremony of the Rattan Chadha Cup)
- Thursday 28 April

Reminder : Don't forget that the restaurant will be open for dinners every evening from Monday 18th April.

Winter Green

Just for you information, the Hole number 10 will be in winter Green during 2 weeks.

Thanks for your understanding.

Senior PACA 2016

Dear Members,



REMINDER:


The Senior PACA takes place this week-end the 5th and 6th of March.

You will be able to play only after 2.00pm.

Thank you for your understanding.


Proshop team.

Pitch marks remain the biggest single problem on the greens

Due to the better weather this Holiday season, Royal Mougins had more members playing over the break. This has resulted in massive numbers of badly repaired and non-repaired pitch marks on all of the greens. To give an example of this Mikael has placed a yellow ball on each pitch mark on the 10^th green. This is astonishing and the absolute majority of play has been the members.

At the moment the greens look like they have a disease where in fact it is the pitch marks creating the only blemish

GreenKeeping

THEY WILL BE NO MORE TEE TIMES

TODAY

FROM 3.30 PM

 BECAUSE OF SPRAYING ON GREENS

Thank you for your understanding.

Some news regarding your golf course

Dear Member,

Over the coming weeks we will be commencing our Hollowing Programme for the autumn.

This is slightly inconvenient for the members but an absolute necessary for the conditioning of the course. We have come through the hottest June and July on record with only a small amount of grass drying out on the course. For those who played golf in the early morning just after the irrigation the course seemed too wet, however in the late afternoon the course had completely dried out due to the heat and more influentially the wind.

Temperatures are now dipping back and this will bring relief to the course. It has allowed us to reduce the irrigation from 1300m3 of water a night to 800m3. This is a significant reduction.

Besides giving the course water during the heat stress, the most important thing for the grass is its ability to breathe air. By aerifying the greens, tees, approaches and fairways we allow oxygen back into the ground, giving the root system the ability to oxygenate. Compaction is one of the biggest differences between a lawn and a golf course with all the traffic from golfers and machines causing layering especially in greens where the grass is only 3mm in height. By removing some of this compaction the plant has a better chance of survival.

This time last year Royal Mougins were hit with serious disease throughout the course. The Greenkeeping team are working tirelessly to ensure this doesn’t happen again. With the extreme temperatures, the roots have come closer to the surface making them more susceptible to different diseases but these are being monitored at the moment and so far the greens are clean. There were a few mole crickets in the putting green and the 14^th and we had an outbreak of Cutworm but these have disappeared.

Starting on 24^th August a very small 6mm tining of the greens will take place. This will be top-dressed after and will have little effect on play. We will also be doing a 10-12mm tining of the approaches and tees followed by an overseeding and topdressing. We are sorry for the slight inconvenience but this is for the future of the course. We know that the members understand and we very much appreciate if this message could be passed onto guests that might be playing too.

Later in October we will Hollowtine the greens in preparation for the winter and next season.

Thanking you in advance for your assistance and patience.

Jurgen Wondergem                                                 John Clarkin

Royal Mougins Golf Club                                       Turfgrass

Soon we’ll miss hating the summer heat.

Some news regarding the golf course, the weather and new members

This is the latest report from Jurgen Wondergem and our consultant John Clarkin regarding your golf course and new Members joining the Club.

Please click here if you wish to download the document.

Golf course Update

Greens Spiking

The golf course will be closed for green spiking, on Thursday 13th & Friday 14th November 2014.
Thank you for your understanding,

The management.

The Terrace Provencal opened on Thursday July 10th !

This Thursday July 10th : Rendez-vous at the Provencal Terrace !

Due to the restaurant rental  this Thursday, July 10th, "the Provencal Terrace" welcomes you from 3.30 pm to 6.30 pm with a refreshing orangeade or lemonade and also sets of balls to ensure that you have a good time in the late afternoon. For information, the restaurant du 18 will take your last order for lunch at 1.45pm and will be closed in the evening.

Dine in the old village of Mougins

A free shuttle service will drive you between Royal Mougins Golf & Resort (clubhouse entrance) to the old village of Mougins from 7pm to midnight.