All drainage plans for this week have been put on hold because of the weather and we have been lucky here compared to other areas of the country, so we have been doing odd jobs like replacing a leaking hose point, starting to paint ball washers and tee benches and cutting back gorse between fairways 14 and 15 and at 16th tees

Our new toy arrives

The trencher we are buying to undertake all the drainage issues we have

trial trench at the wet area in front of tees 14

Today we had frost so we put pins on winter greens all day, inside job today was to make up the dance floor in the Clubhouse for presentation of prizes tomorrow evening then once the frost started to thaw we raked all bunkers & move tee markers then we had a demo of the new trencher etc

Replacing leaking hose point valves

Edged & reshaped bunker short right of 1st green.

Monday - this week we are 2 men down, jobs were to rake all bunkers, move tee markers, cut greens with no perimeter cut divot tees, re-turf worn area at front of 8th medal tee

Tuesday - spray greens with liquid iron & Fungicide as a preventative, check course & move tee markers, work at bunker on 1st & divot fairways 9 to 12

Wednesday - set course up for winter stableford which was roll greens, change holes & put all markers back on main tees, rake bunkers, edge all irrigation boxes etc & clean out drains in car park

14th coastline

Fairway after being sprayed

Slit tine marks to a depth of 4"

Monday - we had our first frost so we put pins on winter greens till 10am, Jobs were to back fill holes at 2 irrigation leaks we had, move & divot tees, rake bunkers & reshape after heavy rain on Sunday, start spraying fairways with soluble iron and start slit tining fairways till tractor broke down

Tuesday - Nearly another frost but greens were ok just a little white in semi-rough areas, jobs were to rake all bunkers and move tee markers, carry on spraying fairways and cutting any semi-rough etc after frost had lifted

Wednesday No frost but cold and very windy thank god we got the spraying completed yesterday jobs were to cut greens & vibrate roll, cut aprons, move tee markers & touch up bunkers, cut fairways on the back 9 then close the driving range so we could collect balls and cut and we cut areas at roundabout & 1st tee that's tractor fixed so spiker back on ready for tomorrow

Thursday - Windy again no spraying for us as it was planned to spray tees behind cutter so we cut tees, divoted tees, trimmed holes & switched greens, slit tined fairways, finished off cutting fairways, drained down irrigation system for winter and cleaned shed & mess room areas

Today I was along helping out Anstruther Golf Club by verti-draining their greens, At Crail Rab & Andy are on duty this weekend checking courses, switching greens, moving tee markers and raking any bunkers that need done

9th bunker completed

yesterday we finished off rebuilding the 9th bunker then started to rebuild the bunker down at 6th other jobs were to cut greens and cut aprons. Today we sprayed greens & aprons with liquid iron, finished rebuilding bunker down at 6th, collected balls from driving range and fill ball dispenser, rake bunkers, move tee markers & trim holes and carried on verti-draining walkways

At last nice weather but cold first thing, today we carried on with building the bunker at green 9, started digging out old face and sand from bunker at green 6, raking bunkers and moving tee markers, verti-draining fairways 1 & 4 and digging out areas to fix 2 small irrigation leaks that we have

Today weather very windy and heavy showers blowing through so we made a start to rebuilding the 9th greenside bunker first job was to dig out the sand which will be screened and put back in when finished then dig out old face also we verti-drained the 2nd fairway

Andy verti-draining the 14th Ladies tee

We are using a 5/8" solid tine to a depth of 5"

Today we postponed our morning jobs as we had heavy rain through the night so we brought in the pins and cut off old worn bottoms and replaced with new ones and washed the flags this should stop the pins blowing out as much in the high winds and we re turfed a worn area on the 12th surround we also rolled and top-dressed the newly turfed 15th tee then after break we cut and rolled greens and started the verti-draining on the tees jobs we never got done was to top-dress greens and rub in

Today we finished off the work on the 15th tee, slit tined greens and set up verti-drainer