 Wnaeth hyn oedd gweithio'n ffordd y Golffa yn y dystioli arredg 好an'r gyflwyntio ar y penwedig ysgrifennol yw'r llyfrion ymateb komod yn remix i ymgyrch i'r Ilywodraeth, fydd iawn i'r Argyllid ein bod yn rhoi gweld yn ystod y tuwet, i'r nid yw ddelfiddwyr, ac ziwet ond gennym yn rhagfynnol i'r llyfr yw ddelfydd yw meddylliannol ystod wrth gwrs yng Ngolffa yma ar yr hwyll Nesaf Стafell. Ziwet fywdd amser ar ystod o ffordd. Ac oeddwn ni'n gweithio'r cyfnod. Ac oeddwn ni'n gweithio'r cyffredin. Mae'n cyfrifio ym 4 o 5 o'i gweithio. A'r cwestiwn arall, oherwydd, mae'n rhaid i'n gweithio? Thewch chi'n gwneud fwy o'r rhain? Mae'n gweithio'r rhain yn y brosig un penderfynu. A oeddwn ni'n gweithio'r rhain, ac mae oeddwn ni'n gweithio'r rhain. Mae'n gweithio'r rhain sy'n gweithio o'r rhain o'r 11 o'r rhain. ac mae wedi cael ei ddefnyddio o'r 11 yr ymweld. Byddai yn gyfweli ar gweithio y Llyfr todaye. A a, byddai'r yma, yw teimlo'r ymweld? Mae'r ymweld yn cymryd ymweld i'r drefnol. Yn gyfweli ar gyfer y Cyfrydd Cysiwyr, ym mwyaf siaradau. Ar gyfer y dyfweld, mae'n gyfweli ar gyfer y cyfrydd? Ar gyfer y dyfweld, mae'n gyfweli ar gyfer y dyfweld. Mae'n gyfweli ar gyfer y Cyfrydd Cysiwyr ymweld i'r drefnol. yw West Coast of Ayrshire, a mae'r ymdwys i'r Llywodraeth Cymru, ac hefyd yn siarad y bobl Scottish yn y cyfanyddio'r cyfanyddio oeddwn ni'n ddweud o'r cyfanyddio'r cyfanyddio. Mae'r cyfanyddio'r cyfanyddio'r cyfanyddio'r cyfanyddio. Yn y gallu oedd o'r 30 oed. Mae'n gweithio. Mae'r cyfanyddio'r cyfanyddio'r cyfanyddio, a'rmarfu ein sgotig oedd yn gyfanyddio ymchydig ond drwy'n gwybod nesaf y gallwn gwirionedd yng Nghymru, dwi'n wneud y gallu cyfanyddio'r cyfanyddio, gael amddai Cardiwch, mae meddwl iawn yn y gwirionedd ymryd sydd wedi'i'n ddefnyddio'r cyfanyddio? Mae'r cyfanyddio. Mae'r cyfanyddio'r cyfanyddio ac mae'r cyfanyddio'r cyfanyddio'r cyfanyddio. eich gwahanol. Felly, mae'n gwybod i'r modd a dyma'r ddweud, mae'n gwybod i'ch gwahanol i ddweud. Mae'n rhaid i'r gwahanol i ddim yn gwybod a'n ddweud i'r gwaith. Mae'r gwahanol i'r gwahanol i'r gwahanol i gael. Felly mae'n gweithio i ddweud yn y awr, o'r wych i'w ddweud? Dwi'n ddim'n ddweud, rwy'n ddych chi'n dweud, rwy'n ddweud ond ond mae'n ddweud i'w ddweud, mae'n ddweud i'r 72 o 73 oedd ym 37, mae'n ddweud i'r lluniau'r gwneud. Da'r siarhtau sy'n gyda ni, ond, a'r pwn yn pwysig yn i ddweud, ac mae'r ymddangos o'ch gwaith, a mae'n ddweud yn gweithio. I might be wrong and I'm trying to be proven wrong. Ah nice though, nice though. A couple of easy questions to start this whole thing off. Aside from Westlang's favourite golf course yourself personally. It's got to be a royal buck deal. Right, not too far away then. No, I just love the track. I've worked at it for the open in 2008. My claim was the famous. I was cutting greens when on the 17th my greens were 16, 17 and 18. I've got to say it's one of the hardest greens I've ever hand cut with all the new design. I know they've changed it since then but I just love the views of walking around, trying to quell the tough conditions. Fantastic. I love the area. Is that the top of the list? It's the top of the list for me. Away from golf now. Football, do you bother football? I've got a beer. It's the blue side of the glass going my way. But we're doing okay. You've got the right man in charge. Mr Gerrard's doing okay. Big game coming up. The trouble is you can't talk football on these channels because I end up losing half the people that watch it. I'm a Liverpool fan so half the Man United and Evertonians, they all switch off at this point. But there you go. More serious stuff back onto this place Westlangs itself. How do you describe the challenges that you've faced at Westlangs? Maybe in terms of where it is and where it was when you got here? Yeah, Westlangs is steeped in history. When the jaw came up obviously it was a sad loss to the club at the previous course management passed away and I was honoured to get the chance to take over from here. The club had gone through a few tough years and they changed the direction of how the place was managed and obviously I was very pleased to be a point to be part of that change. Golf course side of things is just a phenomenal golf course. You know, every hole is different. I think nobody really appreciates what a tough golf course is until you come and say, I come back for that. It's been an exciting last few years here and I'm looking forward to the next few years. You've probably made a lot of changes in the four years but what are the major things that stick out for you? I think a lot of the changes probably bunk around at the first I tried to bring it back into more realistic what the course is about. Second tea one of the things that I think even the members noticed was that we knew we were next to the sea compared to maybe the rest of the courses up this coast but nobody ever saw it until they played the fourth so we put our development plan together over a four or five year period and last year we opened up the dunes on the second and the members of visitors So from that new age it's an elevated position isn't it? Yeah but we opened up the dunes so even off the yellow teas now you can see and you feel the sea. I mean to be fair all adds to that whole links experience doesn't it? It's nice to see that area. Yeah I mean we've got some days are really calm and lovely especially after this year but when it blows you know where you're at suddenly you've got a game in place. Plans for the future for the course have you got a five year plan? Yeah we've really we've really moved that one really quickly staff have done really well the club have backed us and we've had sort of a couple of when I say decent winters yes last year was wet but for us being on sand we've played through it this year's been really mild as well which is fortunate So that gives you the extra months to work? Yeah we've wanted to play through a bit more work and so the plan is with us being awarded the amateur championship along with Royal Workdale in 2020 the plan is always to have next season as a quiet year a tinkering year I would say. After that then there was plans possibly to bring in an architect to give us another new year to give us another updated view I don't want a Stuart Hogg of course I don't want which lines doesn't deserve a Stuart Hogg or a a Greens committee of course it's too too much historic value for that so I'm looking at maybe trying to promote bringing in an architect and then we can move that forward and evaluate from there and see what a different set of ICs and take the club forward Which is always interesting from an other man's perspective of that sort of skill level and it's not personal to that should be interesting that's the good points as well You mentioned this year how challenging for this track extremely dry weather in the UK that is so cool I mean we used to try our average rainfall was around about 570 so we're normally pretty dry compared to some other places however we were looking great we were playing great right up until middle of July unfortunately because of the temperatures that we were getting we had to make a decision our water licence didn't allow us to go any further on fair weather irrigation so we had to decide greens after we looked after our babies I called them and we had to make a decision on that so we have lost a lot of grass coverage I know we're not the only one in the country I haven't seen a lot of it affected yet but that's what's killed us this year so we've got a lot of remedial work to do hopefully in a decent spring but I have my doubts I think it's been too mild coming up to now A couple of clubs I've been to recently we've had a similar problem not too far away North Wales club I play as well down in the world some of them have gone to maths for protecting fairways does that code move? I've got to I try and look at it as a business as well and the members are paying that their money so to be fair to Westlanks and I can only talk for Westlanks they've given me the money for next year to move it forward we've not skimped and scraped we've put a budget in, they've accepted it and so it will take it will take we're relying on it upstairs we've got things in place that we can move forward and which haven't been done in the past and will improve our maintenance regimes on that so looking forward to this brand and just great greens in particular to the layman like myself who puts on them every week he's just cutting the lawn isn't he if he chooses that I think any green keeper would tell you it's a lot more than that and a lot more skill, passion knowledge and a bit of good fortune as well from upstairs obviously I'd like to say that we're getting less and less chemicals and so you get more techniques better cultural methods are coming more forward but unfortunately we're all on the same playing field I always put people that have to rely on chemicals more on cultural methods but we're doing okay just I did a bit of work over in some sunny climates in Europe in the last month or so how much easier, or how much more difficult is it being a green keeper perhaps then I couldn't comment on that because I don't have the knowledge over there I can only surmise as we've got the problems over here they've got the problems over there I was in holiday and went round out a golf course in the sunnier climates they've got the effluent water to deal with and pumping stations going down and stuff like that that they rely on so it's different challenges different challenges and I'm sure they're just as well trained as well as the UK again specifically to the course what sort of speed average speed does the likes of Westland thrown at? to be honest I don't really use it as a speed I use it as more of a consistency we aim to have between 9.5 we can take them up to 10.5 we have gone to 11 but as any guy in the links golf course knows the time can change, the win can turn the last thing you want is tournament director on your case saying this is now unplayable so realistically I think if you've got a good true firm put in surface consistent around the golf course I think that outweighs any speed restrictions How much impact does a course manager have on a course design and you mentioned it with the architect bit really? I don't know, I'm quite lucky in the last two courses that I've done here in St Ann's I've done a bit I've worked with Donald Steele so I learnt a bit with him in 2007 when he came out at St Ann's and I think most greenkeepers I've got a vision but like I said earlier I think it's maybe not the way forward to put a personal design on it I think we can all make pretty straight forward changes that we can all see that we all probably agree with and that's what we've done here at Westlain's and that's why it then gets down to in my opinion personal preference and that's why I don't think he should have members of a committee making a decision because there's nothing that I will do will please 100% of the membership and what I do do one member might love it another member might not like it so I've always gone in there and if I can keep every member 80% happy I'm doing alright so I think we've got to the stage now at Westlain's that we've done the changes that are pretty obvious and as you see I would hate to see a committee 2018 design trying to take this place forward I think it's better than that I think then there's a plan and it doesn't have to be done near and then the other, plus the fact that you wouldn't get the blame it's your design we're going to keep it we'll always get the blame but no I just think it's for my not as I said earlier it's another set of eyes that do it for their living is that expertise again as well what are we talking about members or golfers in general cos we're all experts on when we finished around why we missed a put what are the most I don't know if it's the right way of working annoying assumptions that's regarding course condition that us gen golfers make to be honest I think I think it is changing of members' perception which is great for the industry I'm sure you still have mones and groans why we holocore why we taught the rest at certain times and it's just haps to be in the middle of your round of golf but I do think with communication with social media things are becoming a bit more easier as I say certainly here the members are very receptive to us working especially in the winter we've got a good relationship with them I suppose it's at communication level as well as they're understanding you educating members I've always said that the MD wants to mess up a golf course the best person to do is a green keeper so why would we go and mess up a golf course we're doing it for the right reasons we don't want to find the hard work we know what it just needs the hard work needs to end and again from your membership from any membership there's just a golfers over it what's the best thing they can do to maintain a golf course is there one thing that goes wrong that they don't do I think personally it was just the world respect you know think about what the guys have done morning, noon and night to prepare it raking bunkers, repairing pitch marks are being trolly signs we won't put them out there for a reason it's what baffles me to this day people don't do those things I really basically get to get you to assume that it still falls down it's nice it's nice with the roosters one final question and I've enjoyed the chat is ours green keeping evolved maybe in the last five years and where do you see it going will it change I think as it evolved I think we still do the same stuff probably since we went to college I think the weather's certainly changed I think and through more usable Sky TV golf on TV every day people sit when it's Sunday after the round of golf and watch the Sky Sports and see this tournament golf and don't understand that it's probably taking months to get that ready for that four days of golf and then they come out on the Monday morning expecting their golf course to be like that so I think that's the downside of it but I think it's the changes we're going through with the climatic stuff and now we've got social media which is a big part I think to start to understand where is it going I think we've got a lot of legislation with chemical bands and I think that will start to affect the golfers and as long as the members understand it we can't spare for worms we can't spare for grubs fungicides for diseases on turf is getting less and less and so you are going to see a bit of scarring now and again but I think with our association and not all these bases I think a lot of greenkeepers are moving and we've got to move in the right direction for this usable sustainability but we've got to trying to adapt to them changing it we've got to adapt everybody adapts to their own way of life and brings me forward I appreciate that Thanks very much, thanks for coming down I think that I've just found that I haven't been here for perhaps a couple of years but I can assure you that I played St Anne's old links a few times back when Stuart was there and of course I was in a macular condition doing exactly the same here it's always in superb condition I've just been out today thinking freezing out there but just a quick walk to the 18th green does a top top job here and like I said a thank you for that quick chat and speaking to us on this channel as ever comments down below and I will answer any questions that I can thank you for watching hit that like button and I'll see you all very soon