Over the last week we have been catching up on jobs around the course that take time but help with the whole aesthetics of the course. As the bank holiday week end looms it is important for the green keeping team to ensure all the small but time consuming jobs are done to allow us to maintain the course during a shortened week plus the next stage of our aeration work is to begin. Such jobs like strimming around trees, hedgerows, benches, areas that cant be reached with machinery and course buildings, also flymoing banks, bunker faces and tee sides. Other infrequent cutting has also been done, intermediate rough, copses and tree lines. Normal cutting and maintenance continues plus we have been fixing a couple more irrigation leaks and continuing with the 23rd drain problem. Some of the trees between holes are causing issues with machinery and the playability, so some branches have been pruned to solve this issue.

 The tined areas last week are recovering more slowly than the previous areas, I think this is due to a couple of reasons, firstly the weather on Monday afternoon was showery, making the sand moist and difficult to fully work into the holes, secondly the night time temperatures have decreased over the last week reducing to growth potential throughout the day. To aid recovery further we have applied another application of liquid fertiliser and wetter, watering in to ensure up take from the roots of the grass plants.

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