The 9th green drain is now complete, turf put back yesterday morning so the green is now back in play. All the new drains will need a roll to smooth out the surface, then topdressing out with sand to help recovery.
Hopefully this drain will save a lot of work pushing water off this green, it also will help the health of the turf. If puddling is still an issue following heavy rain then further drains may be installed, parallel to this one. We hope to hire a trencher or have contractors install further drains if needed as digging them by hand is very time consuming and difficult, although the team have made an excellent job of the ones they have done.
We have been concentrating on tree work for the last two days removing dead, dying and unwanted trees across the course ready for the stump grinder which is arriving on Monday. In total we have removed around 20 trees, a number of them were cherry trees which we have found are dying off over the last few years.
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We have removed some trees from the edge of the wooded area left of the 14th hole as they are starting to block out the vision to the whole of the green from the centre of the fairway. When the trees are in leaf the problem is far worse, a good tee shot to the corner of this dog leg was often punished, hopefully the work we have done will make it fairer for golfers without making to much of an impact to the woodland.
We are going to start fertilising the fairways next week so we started cutting them to tidy up any growth there is and improve presentation.
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