Course update

Added gravel to base of the ditches at the 10th and 11th to level out and improve flow.

Cleared gorse at the left of 7th green and cut back the edge of the rhododendron bush at the 8th to improve line if sight to the green.

Continue digging out more tree stumps and roots from the right of the 7th fairway and 11th fairway. Also the big stump from the back of the 10th green from the tree that was cut down earlier in the winter has been removed. This proved to be more of a task than initially thought and required a bigger machine which we had to borrow from our neighbours at Gleneagles. This should help to improve the back edge of the green.

Continue with turfing works on patches throughout the course. The 18th is almost complete with just a small in the approach to be finished off. More turf due this week to continue areas at the 3rd/5th.

All greens cut at 5mm with pedestrian mowers once this week. Tees and approaches cut with triple mower at 7mm. Hopefully we will get more growth as soon as we get some heat then the height of cut will be reduced and the frequency of cutting increased.

Paths at 7th, 8th, 6/11 and 12th all blown to remove debris and tidy up.

All greens and approaches sprayed with phosphite, insecticide and iron.

Clean up vine which was over hanging the fence at the 8th beside the road. Strim remainder of gorse at 6th greenside, rake branches and debris on 13th fairway and all excess material burnt at fire site.

Turf the approach at 11th and tie in all edges and topdress. Clean up area and remove turfing boards. This area is now complete and will just need time to settle and knit in before it will be brought back into play. As with all newly turfed areas this will be ground under repair until further notice.

All divot mix boxes on each par 3 have been filled. We would like to encourage more golfers to start using these more often which will help to improve recovery on teeing surfaces.

All course furniture including tee signs, tee markers, fairway marker posts, bins and flag pins put back out onto course for the start of the new season.

As I'm sure you will be aware the toilets have returned to 9th tee and are plumbed in and back in use.

Special thanks to club captain Alan Watt who has spent time this week doing some divoting. This is very much appreciated as it can prove to be very a time consuming task for the greenstaff. Hopefully we will be able to get some volunteers to help out during the season.