October-end of season

    As we come to the end of what has been a successful and reasonably dry summer season we enter the winter months and a change in tasks carried out on the golf course. With most weeks consisting of the same work over the summer months the winter period will give us a chance to post some different things on the blog that may be of more interest. Some construction and maintenance operations will take place and images and a description of what has been done will be posted on the blog. Here is an update of some operations recently carried out.

Greens

• double scarified to a depth of 6mm
• autumn fertiliser 8.0.16 terralift applied @ 30gm2
• fungicide applied twice along with a wetting agent and phosphite

Hollow coring of greens will begin on Monday 7th October.

Tees & Approaches

• hollow cored and cleared
• double scarified at 6mm
• top dressed and over seeded
• tees fertilised 13.4.20 everris @30gm2
• approaches fertilised 6.5.10 everris @30gm2

General cutting of all areas has been ongoing and will continue until growth stops.
Height of cut has been raised on greens to 3.75mm.
A new practice net has been installed replacing the old worn one beside the clubhouse.
Frames have been built for new mats to be installed on the practice range. these mats will be of much higher quality than the previous mats.
All tees and fairways have been divoteed.
Work has started on cutting back some of the long areas of rough including the 5th, 6th and 15th.
Winter greens will be marked out and prepared in the coming weeks. These will be cut, spiked and top dressed to try and produce the best surface possible.