This week we have been out doing the usual daily cutting plus we cut all our bunker faces, slit tined our greens and applied a selective herbicide to areas round the gorse plantation's

We solid tined our weak 14th surround then over seeded, top-dressed and watered in, we will top-dress it again tomorrow then give the area a light feed

8mm solid tine used to a depth of 2"and 1.5" spacing

The weather was perfect for our tasks today as we were verti-cutting greens, cutting greens behind then we verti-cut surrounds, cutting surrounds behind, cutting tees, moving tee markers, emptying tee bins, cutting 4" roughs and work on the 14th surround so it was great to get a dry cut for once, we took off 4 box empties from the verti-cutting per green

Today we spiked the greens with a solid 6mm tine to a depth 10mm, cut greens then sprayed greens with wetting agent behind cutter, finished off cutting semi-rough and raked all the bunkers and moved tee markers

spiker

1st green during spiking

We have had cattle damage on the 5th green Balcomie course this morning

This week we have been carry out the weekly cutting program plus we have been out verti-cutting greens which I hope to repeat next week again

The amount of clippings from 5 greens

Work this week

We sprayed a selective called New Estermone on surrounds 16 & 17 as we had signs of Pearlwort

Wednesday 2nd June

Cut greens, roll greens, cut fairways, cut semi-roughs, cut surrounds but in the opposite direction to stop napping and then we had a demo of the new Jacobson eclipses greens mower which we tried on 6 greens and at the end of the day we started to strip down our greens units ready for sharpening and strim along the 14th OB line

Bottom blades sharpened and HOC set at 4mm

Nick spraying the wetting agent before spraying greens with fertiliser

Thursday 3rd June

Cut greens with spare cutting units as we were sharpening the bottom blades of our units, cut tees, divot tees, empty bins, top-up ball washers, spray wetting agent on tees and surrounds and water in, spray greens with a liquid fertiliser (5.0.10+2fe) and we had 3 men help on the Balcomie course in the afternoon, the water was set up on greens and surrounds to water in the wetting agent

Friday 4th June

The greens were cut and rolled, surrounds cut, bunker faces and banks were all sprayed with a selective weed killer as we have signs of clover on them, collect balls and top-up ball dispenser, check tee markers, both fairway mower cutting units were taken off and HOC & cut set on them and 2 men help on the Balcomie course

Today we have seeded the area that we lift turf from each year for winter work on the courses, the area was rotovated, harrowed, de-stoned last week ready for us to seed and this wet weather will help the new seed germinate

The area was seeded at a rate of 20gm2 with a fescue/ bent mix, all its left to do is for us to run over the area with our small harrow to level off any wheel marks and cover the seed, other jobs today are cutting greens, cutting semi-roughs and 4" roughs, trimming fairway yardage discs, then everyone on the driving range for collecting balls, cutting and setting up junior course for tonight