Winter Improvement Programme 2025/26 – Balgownie Links

Hole 1

Reconstruction of left-hand fairway bunker. Add new revetted face and replace surrounding turf

Reconstruction of both greenside bunkers. Add new revetted face and replace surrounding turf

Hole 2

Increase size of Green tee and turf to allow more tee space and improved wear tolerance.

Hole 6

Reconstruct left hand greenside bunker. Add new revetted face and replace surrounding turf

Hole 7

Reduce height of green tee to improve visibility of fairway and right hand fairway bunkers. Increase size of teeing area to allow winter play and increased wear tolerance.

Hole 8

Reconstruction of green and approach to include the revetment of all 10 bunkers and improved walk off to 9th tee. Remove existing turf, improve roortzone, re contour green and bunkering and re lay turf. 

Hole 10

Reconstruction of left-hand fairway bunker. Add new revetted face and replace surrounding turf

Reconstruct 2 Right hand greenside bunkers. Add new revetted face and replace surrounding turf

Hole 12

Reconstruction of both Right and left-hand fairway bunkers @ 50 yards from green. Add new revetted face and replace surrounding turf

Hole 13

Reconstruction of Right-hand greenside bunker. Add new revetted face and replace surrounding turf

Hole 14

Reconstruction of Right-hand greenside bunker. Add new revetted face and replace surrounding turf

Hole 15

Reconstruction of both yellow/white and red tees. The tees will be raised and new rootzone added to provide a drier links like surface and a better view of hole/less intimidating tee shot. Reduce mounding short of road to give better visibility of the fairway and north sea/ city backdrop from the tee. Improve pathway from tee by removing gravel and introducing double width turf pathway. 

Reconstruction of all 3 greenside bunkers. Add new revetted face and replace surrounding turf

Hole 16

Reconstruction of all 3 left-hand greenside bunkers. Add new revetted face and replace surrounding turf

Hole 18

Reconstruct 3 x greenside bunkers. Add new revetted face and replace surrounding turf.

Improve pathway from tee to fairway by increasing width and removing out of character steep gravel path

Turfing worn areas

There a quite a few areas around the course which require re turfing due to drought conditions and wear throughout 2025.

Gorse Management

This will continue throughout the winter period using our own machinery and the hire of a machine suitable to work on steeper slopes. There was also fire damage to gorse which will need to be cleared to allow regeneration