Changing weather

The start of this week brought more great warm and sunny weather and helped us continue to present the course in fantastic shape.

The warm temperatures and drying winds started to take there toll on a few of the sandier parts of the course and round some of the trees. The root barrier we installed on the 5th round the pine trees is working very well. The idea to prevent the roots raking water from the semi rough where a lot of balls land. 

To the right greener lusher rough, on the left drier barer rough under the trees. 

The irrigation was used to give the greens a little water. 

The majority of the week has been spent cutting, with another bank holiday looming. 

We have also started strimming trees, and filling some bunkers with more sand. 

Now we are into the middle of May it is around the time chafer grubs start hatching out into beetles. These then lay eggs ready for the next batch of chafer grubs. To help break the cycle we are trialling chafer traps to catch adult beetles. This is alongside chemical applications. The traps look like this, please do not touch them as they contain a pheromone to attract the beetles.