Christmas has come early

Today we ordered 5 new machines which were a Toro 3100 sidewinder, Toro 3500 sidewinder, Toro 4000 workman and 2 John Deere 2500E greens mowers which will be delivered mid September the machines that are getting traded in are 2 John Deere 2500A greens mowers, Toro 2300, Toro workman and a John Deere 2653A. tasks today were to cut greens, rake bunkers, move tee markers, cut up roadside and strim, fill ball dispenser then cut fairways

Today we cut greens with no perimeter cut , cut aprons, cut tees, divot tees, spray tees and surrounds with wetting agent and after break we had to take down the main flagpole as the rope was damaged, collect balls, spray total weed killer along the roadside and in the turf nursery and strimming work we managed all tasks today with being back to full team

Today we have Fife Golfing Association Tri Am on Fife team V's USA & Canada under 18's, so tasks today were to cut greens, change holes and set up tee markers, rake bunkers I was hoping to roll greens but had a member of staff call in sick first thing so we had to drop that job after course set up I had a meeting with the staff to go over any points from the Greens Committee meeting last night that I attended then all on strimming work keeping away from the golf matches the greens are still running at 9' on the stimp

Today our tasks were to cut greens, divot tees and move tee markers the divoting is usually done on a Mon and Thurs but we had 2 guys on holiday yesterday so was completed this morning, cut fairway bunker faces, double cut surrounds in 2 directions to reduce napping, cut semi-roughs round all greens and tees then after break the driving range was closed so we could collect all balls, cut and set up junior course for coaching at night. yesterdays tasks were cut greens, collect balls, cut all fairways and cut tees

11th greenside bunkers

12th greenside bunker

Today's tasks were cutting greens with a perimeter cut, spray greens behind cutter with wetting agent and liquid iron, move tee markers, cut greenside bunker faces then after break we raked all fairway bunkers, finished of cutting greenside bunker faces, spot spray any weeds reappearing on the surrounds and stimped the greens which they are running at 8' 11" which is not bad considering the rain we have had this week plus it was a damp cut this morning

Today we spiked our greens, cut behind spiking, changed holes, cut tees and divoted then after break we started cutting the semi-rough, lightly scarifying the 2nd fairway and cutting with boxes on behind 6mm solid tine down to a depth of 1"

2nd fairway the job became messy when the rain came on so we will give the fairway another cut tomorrow when it's dry hopefully. the reason for running the scarifiers over this fairway was to cut out lateral growth and cut the long ends that were appearing

This morning we have been trying out the new Jacobsen Eclipse hybrid mower which we have on demo for a few days, we switched off the middle unit and only used the 2 front units to give us a hand cut affect by straddling your last cut line this was possible because the mower is all electric so you can switch each cutting unit off independently, to cut all 18 greens took another 50minutes on top of our usual time, other jobs were applying a preventative fungicide to the greens on Thursday night so the greens were only rolled on Friday then raked all bunkers, moved tee markers, cut fairways on the front 9 and collected balls from the range before the rain came which we have had another 31mm since Thursday

Thick harr

13th green & surround 10minutes after all being cut and already a dew
This week we have been starting at 4am as the courses are fully booked with the Open being at St Andrews, so jobs today were to cut greens with no perimeter cut, cut surrounds, change holes, cut tees, move tee markers for cutter, divot tees and empty bins then after break jobs were to edge fairway yardage discs and trim irrigation boxes these jobs should hopefully not get in the way of the golfers, we had 25mm of rain last night which has left a couple of areas slightly flooded this morning, the greens are stimping at 9' which is great in these weather conditions

This morning we have had 3mm of rain through the night and it looks like we are going to get more, tasks today were cutting greens, raking bunkers, changing holes and setting up the markers for the Competition ( Summer Meeting) also we stimped the greens which are running at 9' which is good for a wet surface, the only problem this morning was we got a puncture on the greens mower with only 2 greens to cut typical!!

We allowed the players on Tuesday to practise from the turf in front of the mats, so after we raked up all the divots cut the area to clean it up then gave it a heavy top-dressing to smooth off the surface

This morning we shut the driving range so we could collect all the balls and cut as next week the range has to be kept open as it's so busy with the Open at St Andrews so next cut will be a week on Tuesday, other jobs today were to cut greens with triple with no perimeter cut, rake all bunkers and check tee markers etc we have done well today as we are 2 staff down plus it was meant to be rain first thing

6th green Craighead course

Clippings off 18 greens

13th Green Craighead course

This week we have been carrying out extra work above our cutting program which is cutting bunker faces, all strimming work, spraying wetting agent on tees & surrounds and fertilising greens & surrounds with Scott's 12.4.6 with liquid iron at 1/3 rate to give them a little feed

Andy cutting the 15th green

slight damage to our 18th greens which i have top-dressed to keep surface smooth

PGA Scottish region 2010 Pro-Captain challenge being played today so our jobs first thing were to cut greens, change holes, rake all bunkers, finish off cutting bunkers and finish semi-roughs in front of the golfers our plans were to roll greens behind cutter but the officials said the greens were fast enough as they were running at 9' 7", yesterday was a busy day for us as we cut all fairways, greens, surrounds, tees, 4" roughs and most of the semi-roughs for today

We are carrying out our weekly cutting of greens daily, tees and surrounds twice a week, semi-roughs and 4" roughs weekly etc extra jobs have been hand watering high spots on greens, spiking greens and spraying selective on gorse areas on holes 15, 16 & 17 . the course is really browning up now so we have been using the irrigation system at nights to keep a little moisture in the profile another job we have started is to top certain areas of deep rough and collect the clippings to starve these areas hoping to have a less dense sward