Summer at last

I think summer is finally here, today and the mid term forecast is for a warm dry fortnight. This will allow us to make progress with course preparation and maintenance. Today we took on one of our junior members to help us rake the 70 bunkers on the course, he will be working two days a week, this will allow the green staff to concentrate on more high priority tasks. Now the weather has turned for the better we groomed the greens, sprayed them with fertiliser, iron, seaweed and primo maxx, then top dressed and matted the sand in.

 Scott on the 13th

Adam topdressing the 6th

We also spent some time today tidying some of the wet areas, cutting copses, semi, fairways and tees. Scott spot sprayed some patches of clover in the semi rough this afternoon with Praxys selective herbicide. We started to put the second diagonal cut on the fairways to create a diamond cut pattern.

The 3rd fairway

The drain that we installed on the 23rd is filling back in nicely, the turf is knitting well and the bunker drains will be finished tomorrow, also some sand will be put into the bunker and allowed to settle ready for use in a couple of weeks.