On Monday Sam Holtby started at malton and norton golf club. He joined us from ganton golf club.
Sam here pictured on the right has slotted into the team well. Bringing loads of energy and a wealth of experience that can only enhance the maintenance on the course. Also pictured is Matthew Turnbull our apprentice greenkeeper who has a lot to learn but he is keen and gets stuck into jobs. Please if you see them on the course make them feel welcome and say hi.
Well last week was bitter/sweet. Nice to have an abundance of staff. 8 for last week as we still have dave divoting the tees again. However with Sam starting, Matty to continually train and we started 19-27 greens maintenance it was busy to say the least. We only have dave for one more full week then we will be reduced back to 7 staff.
The greens on 19-27 are poorer than the other greens on the course due there construction and amount of thatch accumulations making them prone to moss and disease. With this in mind we hollow cored those greens with 16mm hollow tines to remove a good amount of material before solid tining them twice over. This ensured the maintenance worked both deeper in the profile to reduce compaction and nearer the surface increasing soil exchange.
That's maintenance over for another year. All in all it went well and the greens are fully recovered on 1-18, given a couple of weeks 19-27 will be back to normal.
Moving the hole on Friday it's always reassuring to see this.
Channels of sand penetrating through the upper profile. Overall the whole course is looking good.
We have been spot treating silver thread moss on greens which is always there in the background. All areas on 19-27 have been strimmed which needed doing. Matty helping out Will and learning how to use the strimmer.
We have a set of vibrating rollers on demo which fit on to our john Deere mower. These are similar to the ones we already have, just a newer more effective version which have adjustable vibration settings.
Unfortunately we didn't have the chance to use them for long as unbelievably on Tuesday both greens mowers broke down in the same morning. We have the greens mowers nearly 9 years and during that time very few hydraulic breakdowns. So to have 2 hydraulic breakdowns in a morning was simply unlucky. A motor seal and a hose burst downed them for a day until we got parts.
Hopefully we will get chance to use the rollers again. This coming week no doubt will be another busy one as it's only a four day week but the team are doing a great job.
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