Yesterday the team went to the BIGGA exhibition at Harrogate to see the latest products, materials and machinery on offer to the green keeping world. Today we were back in to action draining the 17th. We are progressing well given the testing conditions with 3/4 of the drainage in this area installed. The warmer temperatures are giving us issues leading away from the site as the snow melt is making ground conditions very soft. However we are trying to restrict serious turf damage by alternating routes.

We extended one of the drains in to the right hand green bunker where it was connected to existing drainage. This will ensure we have a good drainage outlet in to the main drainage system.

Drainage trenches were dug in the wettest areas around the green, we had to take extreme care in these areas as there are irrigation pipes and cables running through the trenches had to be found and avoided. We placed the yellow water hazard posts where the pipes and cables were exposed to identify to all staff the location of them and stop potential damage.