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Exclusive … New Practice & Performance Hub Opened At Crail Golfing Society

It was a dramatic day with a first thunderstorm alarm ringing out in the morning over the two courses and then for a second occasion in the later part of the afternoon at Crail Golfing Society at Fifeness in Scotland,

Though it was also a day at golf’s seventh oldest club filled with excitement and pride on the occasion of the official opening of the club’s Practice and Performance Hub.

Plans were unveiled early last year to enhance the club’s golfing membership facilities with a new covered practice facility that will feature seven covered bays, including a Trackman-powered swing studio.

The project had been driven by the requests from members for improvedpractice facilities, particularly among junior golfers and the future at Crail.

Club Captain Derek Park welcomed fellow members and guests to the (Friday, June 26th) official opening and spoke of the club’s enormous delight the practice facility is now completed.

Crail Club captain Derek Park (in jacket) along with Head Professional David Snodgrass (left), Head Greenkeeper Bob Meikle (middle) and Club Secretary David Roy (right). Image – GolfByTourMiss.

Club captain Derek Park along with Head Greenkeeper Bob Meikle and Head Professional together for the official opening tee shot. (Image – GolfByTourMiss)

Derek also singled out those directly involved with the planning and construction including key Crail Golfing Society personel in Alan Green, Head Professional David Snodgrass and Head Greenkeeper Bob Meikle.

“Alan Green was the club’s Project Manager and the club is indebted to him for his work along with Bob Meikle who has been down here at the worksite on a daily basis, checking every nail that’s gone into the building and every screw, and if the wood didn’t match then Bob was your man that sorted that out, so a big thanks to Bob,” said Park smiling.

“There was John Matthews who looked after all the renewables. We must also thank club member Ryan Dougherty who undertook the quantity surveying.

Crail Golfing Society – New Practice Performance hub opened on June 26th at golf’s seventh oldest club. (Image – GolfByTourMiss)

View from one of the practice bays. Noting that landscaping work is still to be competed. (Image – GolfByTourMiss)

“David Snodgrass, our Head Professional, along with Bob visited countless driving ranges before all this came to fruition and here in front of you in the excellent finished product. Well done also to ‘Snod’ for all your hard work.

“So, the management here at the club like it and I sine”rely hope that the members like it because, it’s immaterial (applause).

“When the present board is long gone and I am also no hear anymore, the members in 20 or 30 years will say: ‘What a forward-thinking board they had at Crail’.

Wekcome … A ew Practice Performance hub opened on June 26th at golf’s seventh oldest club. (Image – GolfByTourMiss)

Facilities now on offer to Crail Golfing Society members and visitors. (Image – GolfByTourMiss)

“And when you see it driving in, and with all our visitors asking ‘what is that’, the response will be ‘that is the club’s new performance hub’

“So, well done to everybody. I hope you all enjoy it and I am about to hit a golf ball, and hopefully up in the air”.

On that note, Park took off his Crail Captain’s jacket and stepped forward to hit the official tee shot.

GolfByTourMiss spoke with Bob Meilke to seek his thoughts on the opening of the practice performance hub.

Crail Head Professional Bob Meikle ready to tee-up at the new practice facility. (Image – GolfByTourMiss)

“I am very proud to be here at the opening having been involved directly in the project management,” he said.

“Everything has proceeded just so well while the build quality is superb, so I am very happy and just hoping now the members and our visitors will also be just as pleased.

“It’s just a great new asset for the club, as well,

“The landscaping still is to be completed but from being present when the ground was first dug, and seeing the foundations put in place, till now see the first practice ball being hit is just unbelievable.

“It’s such a great new edition to further improve everything here at golf’s seventh oldest club”.

And last by no means least, David Snodgrass also spoke proudly of also being heavily involved in the project, and this just moments before personnally sounding the second ‘storm warning’ of the day at Crail Golfing Society.

Crail Golfing Society Head Professional David Snodgrass tries out the new club practice facility. (Image – GolfByTourMiss)

-“I am very proud and also excited for the future of Crail Golfing Society and what this practice facility will do for all the members along with the local community, as well as our many visitors heading into the future,” he said,

“It’s all positive and with the facility there for use each and every month of the year, including those months when the weather is poor.

“After the all the challenges we faced a couple of years ago, such as planning permission and so on. So, after all the hard work it’s just fantastic that it’s now open”.

The new Crail Golfing Society practice facilty alongside (to the right in the photograph) of the outside practice range. And landscaping work still be completed. (Image – GolfByTourMiss)