Greenkeeper's Blog

Cameron has created a new trolley stand along the side of the clubhouse, which will assist tidying up the front of the clubhouse.

With drainage and regrading now complete the team hope to lay the turf in the next few weeks.

Thats the 10th hole turfed with the 4th and 6th to follow. The new turf will be GUR until the turf takes to the soil.

New 11th path.

The area to the right of the green has now been regraded by Greentech, whilst it was planned to move the out of bounds by 5m the regrading has been taken to the ditch. The ground will variously be turfed and seeded and once suitable for play, the out of bounds will be moved to an appropriate position

Over the last two months work has been ongoing to fell various identified trees through out the two courses. By carrying out this work the aim is to encourage healthy strong growth in the remaining trees and allowing less of a barrier so increasing wind flow over the course. Come time this should assist greatly in drying out the course. Work is now ongoing to remove the remaining stumps.

As part of the winter programme it was intended to remove the mounds of soil and debris positioned within the out of bounds to the right of the 13th hole. Davie over the last four days has removed all the mounds and levelled the ground and you will see by the photos a wider area of ground has been levelled. This ground will be seeded and initially kept at rough height. A decision is still to be reached as to where the boundary will be positioned.

With last weeks window of milder weather, Neil was able to order the turf and the team over three days laid 1700 m sq of turf. We will now require favourable conditions for the turfs to bed themselves in.