Bunker sand

It been cut, cut, cut since my last blog, although the weather hasn't been all that warm its been warm enough to continue the growth. The moisture has retained in the soil on the shadier sections of the course, moisture equals growth. The long rough and the intermediate rough has seen the most growth has has thickened up substantially in the ast couple of weeks. This week we are cutting all intermediate rough and getting all the other areas cut between trees. We have strimmed around all trees in the cut rough to tidy bases up.

Other bits we aim to strim over the next week are the entrance lane sides and bits left on tee banks.

Its been a hot weekend and start to this week so the irrigation system is being used every night to water greens. We are also having to hand water dry bits on greens such as bunker backs and ridges on some of the more undulating greens. The 3 greens that are not connected to the system are being hand watered during the day and they visually look drier than the others even they are getting some water. the issue we are facing is that watering them during the day leads to a lot of initial evapouration, meaning less water is retained in the soil to be taken up by the roots. When the greens are watered through the night a lot less evapouration occurs and the water can penetrate deeper in to the soil profile and more can be taken up by the plants. This hot spell is not set to last so the irrigation will get a rest. It looks like next week could be more unsettled.

We have had 60 tonne of bunker sand delivered and is being spread into all green side bunkers initially, should we need more for the fairway bunkers this will be ordered for the coming weeks