This week we were very busy on the course. The greens height of cut was lowered towards our summer height but not all the way as frosts were expected over the weekend (and arrived on sat morning). We also groomed the surfaces to help smooth them out. From next week we will start top dressing greens more frequently.
All the playing surfaces were fertilised plus the start of the daily cutting.
Work on the new bunkers got under way, this included fly mowing and edging. We also sprayed the bases off with a total weed killer to stop grass contaminating the bases ahead of the sand being applied ( you may have seen the blue lines in the bunker bases indicating the areas sprayed).
The sand has been added to the new bunkers but these will be left for a couple of weeks to bed in before we open them up. We ended up having to add extra drainage into the 3rd bunker and will now wait for the area to dry before finishing off the sanding.
We cut the new collars out for the first time, so now we are starting to see the shapes of the new surrounds and they look great.
Turfing of the drainage areas has been again on going this week. We have turf cut areas out, shaped with soil, added seaweed and zeolite to help root development/moisture retention and then turfed. The main areas turfed this week were the right of the 2nd green and left of the 3rd.
In other areas of the course, we worked on clearing scrub and debris following the high winds. The surrounds were scarified and cleared. We will start to scarify fairways over the next two weeks. This will be followed with a weed and feed. Once all these are complete we will be asking for help to divot the fairways at the Divot comp on the 6th May.
Another busy week completed by the greenstaff but there is still a lot to do over the coming weeks as the season gets going... AT LAST!!!
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