Scoonie Golf Course Information

23/10/2026

Course closed for the weekend⛳️ ❌

15/10/2026

Tidying some bunkers, as well as verti-draining.

14/10/2026

Today, we completed the vertidraining of the greens. Just over half of the greens have now been top-dressed and brushed in.
Tomorrow, we’ll continue top-dressing and brushing in the remaining greens as conditions allow.
There may be a few temporary greens in play, but once each green has been brushed in, it will be brought back into play.

13/10/2026

Today, we carried out verti-draining on some of our greens, with the remaining greens scheduled to be completed tomorrow.
- Seed and top dressing will then be applied. Once the top dressing has dried, we will brush it in to complete the process.
- Temporary greens are likely to remain in use until the top dressing has been brushed in. Once this work is complete, the greens will be returned to normal play.

04/10/2026

02/10/2026

New tees mower in action

02/10/2026

Tractor with blower in action 🚜 🍂 🌬️

02/10/2026

September Update

Another quick month has come and gone, but there has been plenty going on at Scoonie.

We thought we had our full fleet of machinery upgraded, but just to complete the package, we welcomed the arrival of our new Iseki tractor. This is very welcome at this time of year, as we can attach our new blower to help us keep on top of the leaves falling from the trees.

Unfortunately, Scoonie is quite open, with plenty of trees around the course, which can make blowing the leaves quite difficult. For now, where possible, the leaves will be blown into the long rough and boundaries of the course. Where this isn’t possible, we will try to keep them within the tree lines, giving players a fair chance of finding their ball in the rough.

Ideally, going forward, we would have something that could collect the leaves from underneath the trees once they have all fallen.

There has also been plenty of backpack blowing carried out on tees, greens, bunkers and anywhere the tractor would struggle to get into.

The greens received a double verticut, which was carried out over two lovely afternoons with minimum disruption to play. Most of the approaches have also been verticut, and everything is already showing good signs of recovery.

We have also kept on top of bunker strimming, tee signs, yardage markers and any shin rail fencing that needed attention.

The new machinery is proving to be a big hit with the greenstaff. The only thing that has proved difficult is dealing with worm casts on the tees and approaches. Hopefully, going forward, we will be able to get scrapers fitted to the rollers to help prevent the build-up of worm casts.

There is definitely a change in temperature now, with September seeing around 55mm of rain, an average high of 16°C and an average low of 8°C.

October we have some greens maintenance planned but with minimum disruption. Golfers will be made aware in advance.

28/09/2026

This afternoon, we carried out a double verticut on 9 greens. We took advantage of the beautiful afternoon weather, which provided better conditions than the damp, dewy mornings we have had lately.

There will be slight disruption to the playing surface this afternoon/evening, with the greens being cut and rolled tomorrow morning.

The other 9 will be done hopefully tomorrow afternoon. 🙏 🤞

08/09/2026

August Update

August has been another productive month on the course.

All the tee signs, marker posts and tree bases were strimmed. We have mown the line of out of bounds between holes 5 & 6. Previously, there was an awkward couple of metres of semi-rough which made it difficult to decide from the tee whether your ball was in bounds or out of bounds. It should now be much clearer that if your ball disappears into the long grass, it is most likely out of bounds!

This month we also received the results from Robert Paterson’s independent data testing from July. The feedback is very positive and shows that the coring carried out last autumn has has had the desired effect and rectified the increase in organic matter meaning this year the work will have minimal disruption. I have attached his overall summary below.

The greens were solid-tined using 8 mm pencil tines which is essential routine maintenance and helps reduce any surface tension and aides moisture movement throughout the profile. Once greens are rolled it’s barely noticeable and doesn’t affect the surface.

This work will be carried out regularly, either monthly or every couple of months, depending on the needs of the greens, without causing the level of disruption associated with hollow coring.

We also tidied up the bottom of the tree at the 2nd (picture below). We identified golfers who go slightly right were struggling to see their ball landing, so this should help improve visibility. There are other holes where doing the same to certain trees could be beneficial.

Scoonie has taken delivery of the last of our new machinery. Fife Golf Trust has invested £2.4 million in new machinery across all seven courses.

For Scoonie, we now have:

* 2 × Jacobsen Eclipse 360 Electric Triple Mowers
* 1 × Toro 5010-H Hybrid Fairway Mower
* 1 × Jacobsen AR530 Rough Mower
* 1 × Toro 1260 Greens Roller
* 1 × Cushman Hauler Pro Electric Utility Vehicle

This represents a monumental step forward for Scoonie and provides the staff with state-of-the-art equipment to help us continue improving course performance, playing conditions and presentation.