Continuation of paths

 

Over the last week the weather has been far kinder to us. It has been mostly dry however last weekend we had around 14 mm of rain which flooded around the 21 and 24 green once more as the river derwent rose quickly again. Fortunately the dry weather meant it went down as quickly as it came up. 

Those two greens are still out if play due to saturated ground conditions. 

The wet ground conditions still remain in a lot of areas. A lot of these areas are made worst by constant play and foot traffic going across them. Please avoid all wet looking areas especially of they are roped or hooped off. The winter cups are used to protect greens and surrounding areas, these are not meant to be puttable, simply to keep the course open and the enlarged holes make it possible to chip your ball close, discretion from playing partners has to be used as to wether the ball is finished into the hole or not. It's not a priority for us to ensure they are cut and trimmed regularly. They are simply to keep the course open as much as possible.  

Last week we continued with pathways. This time working on the 13th. 

The stone path running from the 12th to the 13th was partly stone and green matting which due to high water levels in the lake was saturated and made the matting uneven. We decided to remove the matting and simply replace with stone as we feared the same might happen again.

We started at the rear of the 12th.

Before working around the tee.

We built up the height of the stone around the rear of the tee to dry out the walkway. Using boards against the fence to hold in the stone. The whole path was then given fresh stone. We also scraped out an area for the winter mat which will double as a place for the large summer benches. 

We have also been busy with machinery and tidying our shed area as we have had a few cold mornings where machinery is limited from going on the course.