News and Events

The course is playing wonderfully and we haven’t had too much moisture. Come out and play the excellent conditions, book your tee time today!

Kids golf free July 4-10! Come out and enjoy the beautiful weather this week!

This May newsletter feels much overdo. With some sun and heat and maybe a break in the rain we can
finally get going with golf and growing some grass. I hope that everyone was able to get at least one
round in during the past weeks.

Our greens came through the spring well, some were a bit waterlogged but have dried up nicely and we
will very soon be able to begin speeding them up and making them more consistent. This will take a
week or two but then we will maintain the same consistency throughout the summer so our members
will always know what to expect. Our overseeding project will begin to take place this week and we will
put a big emphasis on the par 3 tees to start with. This will mean some temporary tees at times, please
use the designated area between the markers to hit from. Other areas that are barren soil, mostly along
cart paths, will either be roped off, or a sign will be up if there is fresh seed, please follow direction of
ground under repair for those places. Our divot boxes are almost ready to be put out, so please utilize
them when they are available. Yes, our bunkers will be worked on this week to be playable. Thank you
for your patience.

No, this drone shot is not from this year, the leaves are not quite this full yet, but we like it nonetheless!

We are looking for weekend Course Hosts and Greeters. There will be 4.5 and 9 hour shifts available. Hosts and Greeters can choose to be paid or earn golfing privileges or passes. 

Job descriptions:

Greeters:

Greet customers and communicate their starting position as they arrive at the first tee. Monitor pace of play and record start times, turn times, and finish times. 

Hosts:

Course Hosts will actively monitor pace of play throughout the course and remind any groups that fall out of position to catch back up. Hosts will help customers with anything that may come up during a customer’s time at the golf course and guide them in the right direction. 

Please apply to info@scotswoodlinks.com

As of Monday, May 16th, all 18 holes are fully open!

Scotswood has teams in two interclub leagues:

Central Seniors Golf League – open to men 55+. Every Monday at 9:30AM six players from each participating club form a team to play against the scheduled opponent for the day. Participating clubs in past years include: Morden, Winkler, Carman, Portage, Bridges, Warren, Assiniboine, Selkirk, Larters, Meadows, Wildewood, Transcona, Scotswood, and Oakwood. Half of our matches are played at home and half are played at another course. This league is open to members only and participants do not pay for green fees at any course, home or away. If you are interested in playing, please send us an email. We hope to form a team of 12 players, so you would play half the weeks. We will hold a tryout and the lowest 12 will form the team!

Prairie Putter League – this interclub league is open to all men and is played 18 holes each Monday evenings at 5:00. Eight players from each participating club form a team to play against the scheduled opponent for the day. Participating clubs this year are: Morden, Winkler, Carman, Portage, Bridges, and Scotswood. Half of our matches are played at home and half are played at another course. This league is open to members only and participants do not pay for green fees at any course, home or away. If you are interested in playing, please send us an email. We hope to form a team of 12 players, so you wouldn’t have to play every week. We will hold a tryout and the lowest 12 will form the team!

Finally, some weather to get excited about! We had about as good of a winter as we could’ve asked for.
We had enough water to fill our irrigation reservoir and will get back to normal
watering schedules for 2022. The greens look like they had a good winter as well, although it is still very
early, and a lot can change with unpredictable spring weather. As of right now, we haven’t discussed any
opening date as the weather still looks cold and wet for the foreseeable future.

For anyone who was around last season, they were able to witness the (much anticipated) automatic
irrigation installation around the front 9 greens. This will go an extremely long way with being able to
restore our greens to be firm, fast, and consistent, that will align more with the greens we were able to
experience last fall. As for 2022, our goals remain simple, bringing back fairway and rough conditions
from pre-drought years (cross your fingers that it is over) and reclaiming areas of barren soil with turf.
Larger projects in 2022 that we will be picking away at are continuing to add automatic irrigation
throughout the front 9. We ask that you please continue to be patient as this is a huge undertaking. We
will also be finishing up our new wedding ceremony area that we began late fall of 2021, which we are
very excited about. We also cleared some brush along #6 on the creek side to open a visual toward the
green and prevent blind shots at the group ahead, so we will be growing this in to be playable turf. As is
the case from the last few years we will continue with the addition of cart paths to eventually create one
continuous cart path throughout the entire course. Lastly, yes, we are aware of #12, and yes, it is at the
top of our priority list however it is something that needs to be done correctly to mitigate risk of erosion
again. As for the tee boxes on #12 we did start with some tree trimming and removal of trees to create
more usable tee space, but also, more importantly, allow more sunlight for growth. This will also be a
very high priority throughout 2022.

As for a couple things members can do that will go a long way for the grounds crew are as follows: we
will have a larger than wanted amount of ground under repair this year. A lot of spots need an overseed
from drought and/or cart traffic. We hope to be able to clearly mark every single one of these areas and
we would greatly appreciate your help with staying out of these areas to allow for regrowth. I will do my
best to spread these areas over multiple holes, and not do too much at once. This is a multiyear process.
We also hope to have our sand and seed boxes ready for opening day to be placed on the par 3 tees, it
would be great for our members to lead the way on utilizing these boxes and always filling 2 or 3 extra
divots on the tees when they are finished. And finally, always remember to rake the bunkers and fix
your ball marks on the greens! These simple acts go a long, long way in helping all grounds crews at any
course.

Here’s to hoping we see each other soon.