Arriving at the club on Monday morning knowing the weather forecast was predicting a storm, I knew we would be in for a rough day following the heavy over night rain (25mm). The winds at 6am were strong but not exceptional then between 6.30- 9 am the wind speed really picked up with gusts over 80mph.
This caused a lot of damage to the trees. The main reason being the trees were still full of leaf and the ground conditions very wet following over 100mm of rain this month.
On our first inspection the damage seemed to be just a couple of small limbs but as the day went on we found more and more damaged trees some had come down and others with dangerous hanging branches.
Below are some of the photos
Split oak tree behind the 5th green
Poplar trees down (left of the 6th). Another one had to be felled as it was cracked all the way up (see picture below, rear tree).
Silver birches also suffered
And more oak damage
Once the storm had past the clean up operation started. Firstly we assessed the damage to the trees.
We then prioritised the trees that needed to be made safe and down to ground level.
Followed by trees that needed climbing to cut the canopy's to make them safe.
Then followed the large debris that needed chainsawing to be moved
lastly the debris.
We had help with the climbing and the more technical fells from the clubs trees surgeons 'Woodland Tree Surgery ltd'. I would like to thank them for there speedy response to help us get the course open. The rest of the chainsaw work and clearing was carried out in house. The greenstaff have worked tirelessly to get the course open and tidied up. I would like to thank them also.
Below is a map of the course. The red areas mark where we lost trees and the yellow marks areas of bad debris.
Hopefully the weather will improve now, this will allow us to get back out cutting the course and we can get back to completing the construction work on the 3rd,4th and 5th tees.
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