With the surrounds and approaches just about finished our attention turns to tees and fairways in the coming weeks. We are using the same technique, 12mm solid tines with around 12% heave to fracture and de-compact the soil structure. Over the last 2 years some areas have been overly compacted due to traffic, both golfer and machinery, leading to poor growth. We saw on a few of the approaches the lack of root structure due to compaction, starting to aerate could pull a few areas up but regular tining will gradually improve the turf quality.
Tining the 14th fairway
Removal of reeds out of the 8th pond continues next week, winter tees have been cut ready for when the weather changes, they wont be in play until into November. Preferred lies are now on due to the tining more than wet ground conditions. An application of fertiliser has been put on the greens, a
4-0-14 partial slow release fertiliser applying 9kg N over 5-8 weeks.
