We are cutting down and collecting all our rough this winter to help thin it out

We fertilised the greens straight after rubbing in of the top-dressing with a slow release (0.0.37) at 15gm2, this will let us put the water on tonight to wash in top-dressing and fert

We decided to use a golf buggy as it was very light weight for rubbing in top-dressing

Here's Andy top-dressing greens after being spiked it's a very light dressing

This week we spiked our greens with a 6mm solid tine to a depth of 1"

This week we have divotted all our fairways which we managed before the heavy rain today then after break was getting the shed tidied up and hopefully tomorrow we can get back out on the course for maintenance work on the greens which i have planned

Nick changing the holes for tomorrows winter medal, other jobs today are to sweep the winter mats on the par 3 tees, rake all bunkers, hand cut greens, carry on verti-draining fairways and fill in pot holes in road to shed

Here's Tony verti-draining fairways with a 3/4" solid tine to a depth of 5" we have managed to complete fairways 14 to 18 this week

Hand cutting greens this morning in the heavy dew

What's been happening this week

High tides next to hole 13 on Craighead, we will have to watch out for salt damage and erosion

Coastline left of the 14th hole Craighead

We have placed all our par 3 tees on mats for the winter to allow the tees to recover ready for the next season, these tees will be top-dressed and feed hopefully next week

We have reduced our cutting of the greens to twice a week now but will roll the greens in between cuts to keep a smooth surface

Here's Nick spraying the tees with a liquid iron this morning before the wind gets up

At last we have completed our verti-draining,scarifying,over seeding and top-dressing of the tees, this was the amount of thatch and clippings from the 16th tees

16th October

Here's Rab & Andy finishing off cutting the fairways that they never managed to complete yesterday, other jobs today was raking all bunkers & moving tee markers

After the greens were cut I cut the aprons as it was dry this is the first cut in 2 weeks as we gave them a top-dressing

Rab, Andy and I hand cut the greens first thing

We have made a start to verti-draining our fairways which will be on going through the winter months, we are using a 3/4" solid tine to a depth of 5"

week commencing 12th October

We have had to apply a little water this week because of the high winds drying out the surface and also to wash in the fertiliser

Here's Rab and Tony applying (4.0.10) autumn feed to the greens, this should help harden up the greens going into the winter months

The greens have been hand cut twice this week to keep them smooth and true and the first cut after the fertiliser will be with grass boxes off

Thursday 8th October

We have decided not to cut the greens today as the temperature has dropped and the greens are still running at 9.5 on the stimp so jobs today were raising the height of cut on the greens to 5mm, checking greens and moving tee markers, cutting fairways, trimming greens and apron sprinkler heads, Verti-draining tees with a ¾” solid tine to a depth of 6”, scarify 3 ways, cut, over seed, top-dress & brush in we managed to complete 6 sets of tees.