Braving all weathers

The weather doesn't look to be clearing up anytime soon, it seems to be getting worse if anything! The team have still been working through it and progressed with some smaller jobs, but will still improve the course. We aim to make the tee complexes more accessable for machinery, and also for us to operate on the surface safely. This week we have took away the sleepers at the front of the 16th tee box, and shaped it to act as a suttle tee bank. This now gives the mowing equipment more area to turn, saving wear and tear. The tractors/aerifiers plenty of room to run off the tee, and also looks better visually. We installed new edging, and we have decided to seed the area, once the weather warms up. As you can see in the picture below, the weeds along the edge. As we don't box off our tee clippings, they can often blow over the front of this tee, this encouraging the weeds to flourish. The works we have done, will prevent the clippings from going onto the path, therefor helping us overhaul the weeds situation. We do spray our paths with total weedkiller, when the weather is on our side.

Before - Clearly needed some work

Compacting and grading the soil

Going back to seeding areas when the weather warms up, you may have noticed the back bunker on the 3rd has been filled in, and shaped up. This will also be seeded once the temperatures rise.

This morning we started aerifying fairways, we simply cannot get anough of aerification at the moment. It's a practice that turf needs to improve the health of the plant, then improving playabilty and the visuals. This time we are using the small tines going down 3 inches, but have added some heave to give the profile a kick. In simple terms - no heave is when tines go staright in straight out, increasing the heave gives the tines a kick action when it's in the soil, this allows the water and air desperse alot easier.

Pop on the 1st this morning

At the moment we can only take a day at a time with this weather. We have some feeding to get on top of, fertilsing greens, tees and surrounds. And also to repair some of the course boundry fences.