Well septembers here and the nights are drawing in but there's plenty of golf to be played. This week we have been treated to some warm weather. The warm nights and little wind have given dewy, misty mornings but bursting in to glorious sunshine. The course is still looking great and now we are over 10 days since tining greens 19-27 they are filling in well.
However with the amount of fertiliser and the warm weather plus irrigation has given plenty of growth. The result is that they are slow and very different paced than 1-18 greens which are now fully recovered.
We have had a lot of good complements and with major renovations over for the year we hope to see good surfaces throughout autumn. The anthracnose disease is slowly growing out. Little and often applications of fertiliser have encouraged new healthy growth.
With good dry weather in the afternoons we have been cutting down the long rough. Areas that have been left throughout the year have to be cut down and collected to ensure we can maintain the course through the winter months.
Another application of compost tea has been applied to the worst greens, by that I mean wetter, higher percentage of Annual meadow grass, higher thatch levels and higher disease potential. Applying the tea is supposed to help add benifical fungi which in turn improves grass health.
Also irrigation has been applied as and when needed.
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