Checking the greens units cut and heights

Today we were meant to be applying lawn sand to the greens but when we set up the irrigation system we noticed a leak at in the pump house so that stopped that job until fixed, so jobs today were cutting greens raking bunkers but we left the ones we were edging this afternoon, moving tee markers and then after break start edging bunkers

Last night I was at the 225th Anniversary Celebration Dinner, The guest speakers were Gil Hanse , the designer of Craighead Links here at Crail and David Joy in his guise as 'Old Tom Morris'. A great night had by all. And today I was out playing golf with the Captain, Vice Captain and Gil Hanse which was a narrow victory for the Captain and I then after a bite to eat we had a course walk with some of the Committee to discuss any changes etc for the future.

14th green

The newly turfed 15th yellow tee which we just gave it's first cut and roll

At last some sunshine this afternoon after a wet start, today we cut and vibrate rolled the greens, changed holes and moved tee markers, finished cutting fairways, raked all the bunkers, carried on filling in potholes in road, checked all the G.U.R areas and cleaned up mess room etc.

This week we have been edging, cleaning up and topping up the tee paths round the course

8th fairway

Today tasks were to brush the dew off the greens, move tee markers and divot, cut the drier fairways, cut surrounds and fill in potholes in roads to both sheds. other jobs this week was to spray iron on greens, surrounds, tees and par 3 fairways

Scotty and I were on duty this weekend which entailed moving tee markers, touching up any bunkers, switching greens and putting pins back in. Yesterdays medal was postponed because of the weather which was high winds and heavy rain we had 10mm of rain so both courses were very soft especially Craighead with the odd puddle still here this morning.

This week we have had 500 ton of top soil delivered so we have hired in a local contractor to build a turf nursery at the end of our driving range. the course is still very wet this week so our jobs have been to start edging and cleaning up our tee paths etc, today we cut greens with no perimeter cut, rake bunkers, move markers and divot, clean mess room etc and re-level driving range car park as the lorries bringing in the soil caused slight damage.

More rain again. Today we had a winter medal on so jobs first thing were to roll greens, change holes and set up tee markers, rake bunkers then finish off work at the new 12th tee wall

Yesterday we cut the greens then sprayed liquid iron, finished off slit tining tees and cutting behind. Today we raked all bunkers, changed holes, changed holes in practice putting green, moved tee markers, emptied bins, started to clean up area round the new wall at the 12th tee

and collected all the balls off the range

With having 40mm of rain we have not been able to complete jobs from last week, so today we finished off slit tining fairways apart from 15 & 18 as to wet and have made a start to slit tining tees and cutting behind other jobs have been raking bunkers and fixing any water damage and divoting tees plus we are still working on the 12th new wall

New wall at 12th tee coming on

We had 8mm of rain so far but lot more to come by the looks of things so jobs today were to rake all bunkers, change the holes as we had slight damage to them with the high winds last night, clean up sheds and have meeting about machinery

Today we finished off the drainage work at 14th, then set up the slit tiner for to start the fairways which we got holes 1 to 4 completed and the verti-drainer to try and relieve the compaction around the new drainage lines at hole 5 then start verti-draining walkways etc and the rest of the staff were working at the 12th tee wall

The new wall at the 12th tee has been started after hassle this morning with the old cement mixer which we had to replace

Andy rolling greens after the greens were solid tined

Drainage line completed and cleaned up

Out fall for our new drain, we will back fill behind the wall tomorrow once the cement has set on the wall