End of the maintenance week 2

We have reached the end of the first two weeks of course maintenance. Overall it has been a great success. We have triple tined 1-18 greens and both putting greens, put around 100 tonnes of sand on the 20 greens, fertilised, topdressed tees, surrounds and approaches. 

They are now in the recovery period where we will still work on them to get then smooth as possible.  

The 10-18 greens for there first cut today and will be back in play tomorrow. Over the next week they will recover in similar time as 1-9 did. 

We have also finished edging 1-18 bunkers and tidied the shrub border near the first tee. 

The work we have done on the greens will supply air and nutrients into the soil where new roots will grow making the grass plants healthier and stronger. Here the tine holes can be seen full on sand which is exactly the result we were hoping for. 

We finished work just in time as we had a cloud burst at 2.30, this will have washed the sand in well but didn't please the golfers on the course.