Yesterday we were stopped in our tracks when a torsion spring broke on the weidenmann, a replacement was dispatched immediately however we couldnt get it fitted until this morning.
We finished the greens we had started by topdressing and seeding, when the sand had dried we then brushed it into the holes.
Today we continued with 10-18 holes, sand, seed and brush them and then we started on the 19th and 27th green. The 19-27 greens are alot newer greens, when built they were not built using a 'rootzone' mix, simply built using the native soil.This has resulted in poor turf on a number of the greens for a few years, this picture illistrates our need to deep hollowcore to remove the deeper native soil and replace with sand.
The picture shows where the tine has penetrated down the side of a hole cup on the green, the top 3 inches is sand/ thatch that has accumilated over the past 20 years. Beneath that is the native soil, which on this green is very silty causing root and drainage issues.
Here is a core from the same green clearly showing what I described above. It also shows the work we have been doing in the last 3 years, the top inch of the core is sandy and the thatch is more diluted than deeper in the soil profile.
Also today we cut the fairways and fertilised some of the 10-18 greens that have been cored recently.
