Hollowcoring 10-18

Today we started coring 10-18 greens, the weather looks good for the next couple of days so we will hopefully get these greens done and top dressed. We will start matting, rolling and cutting the initial greens we did, this week, The sand is bedding in well, however we keep lifting the sand back out of the sward when holes we have made start appearing, lifting the sand enables us the drag it around the green.

Currently we are having problems with badger damage around the course, they are digging up the turf looking for food, mainly worms and grubs. We can not do a lot to stop badgers digging the turf at the moment, other than spray carbendazim, a worm suppressant. We regularly treat the turf with a product that kills chafer grubs and another product that kills leather jackets, unfortunately we can not treat all of the course and the badgers search for areas that are high in food sources. We routinely put back any ripped up turf however there are some areas on the course that will need seeding when conditions are right.