Scottish Men's Amateur Championships

 It's been a very busy time the last few weeks setting up both our courses for holding the Scottish Men's Amateur Championships with a field of 264 players. Practice rounds over both courses on the Sunday & Monday, Qualifying over both courses on the Tuesday & Wednesday, Match-play with the best 64 players from the field from the Thursday on the Craighead course through to the Saturday - 2 rounds each day 

 Hole 14 on the Craighead course

 Hole 13 on the Balcomie course

 Greens 1 & 12 on the Balcomie course

 18th hole on the Balcomie course

 Balcomie course 1st tee set up ready for play

 Craighead course 1st tee set up ready for play

We rolled our greens on both courses daily straight after cutting to try to get decent surface speed as we have been struggling with the wet & very warm weather, which is ideal for the grass to be growing so vigorously

 17th green on the Craighead course, holes changed each morning on both our courses

 7th medal tee on the Craighead course, tees were cleaned up, divoted and cut on both courses each morning

 Surrounds cut each morning

Fairways over both courses were cut alternative days through out the Championship and the harder growing fairways were cut daily in front of play

 When the staff's first jobs were completed we were back out to divot landing areas, setting machinery for the next days use and odd jobs 

for the duration of the Championship all the Greenstaff started at 4am to get as much cutting and prep work completed in front of play then back out at night to clean up and set up the driving range for the next days practicing

 17th green on the Balcomie course

 Another job was to get as much semi-roughs cut as possible over both courses

 11th hole on the Balcomie course

All mowers out to keep in front of play each day. A big thank you to both Companies Double A (John Deere)& Reesink (Toro)for lending us demo machinery before and during the Championship