Nick solid tining greens to a depth of 2" at 2" spacing

The course is closed this week to allow us to complete drainage work on hole 14, rebuild wall at 12th tee and to solid tine the greens

We finished rebuilding the 5th bunker this week, today we rolled greens, moved tee markers, raked bunkers, set up corer for solid tining greens next week, petrol run and made a start to taking the 12th tee wall down as it's getting rebuild next week

This week the staff have been rebuilding & reshaping the 5th bunker, other jobs on the course have been bunkers raked Mon & Wed, markers moved daily & divoted and greens vibrate rolled. This morning Double a the John Deere dealer was at our Clubhouse showing local Greenkeepers a presentation of new machines etc

White frost Tuesday morning so we put pins on winter greens but with all the rain and thaw last week we had to syringe all the water out the winter cups

Our next winter project, rebuilding the 5th bunker and installing drains

No wonder it's not a good drainer with this clay under the sand

All clay dug out and new drainage pipe put in across bunker and is tapped into existing drain so hopefully problem solved

Other jobs were to cut greens, change holes set tee markers up, rake all bunkers as we had our Wednesday medal on, fill in the pot holes in road to shed then work at 5th bunker, this week we have a skeleton staff in as staff are down at Harrogate to the BTME exhibition

Golf Bloopers

The out fall which is for the drains on our 5th green which we tapped into just outside the man hole for our new drains

After turfing we broomed the area to clean up any debris then rolled area, other jobs today were to rake all bunkers, move tee markers, put hole 5 back into play and G.U.R the drainage area, divot par 3 tees, empty tee bins. The course is still very wet with the rain this week so we never cut or rolled greens

At last we are managing to lay turf on the drainage lines, the turf has been hard with the frost, the course is only open on winter greens on the back 9 as we still have lots of flooding

Ground solid after another night of low temperatures, so we closed the full course until 10.30am and opened the back 9 only on winter greens once the ice had thawed, jobs today were to carry on with the drainage project at hole 5 and cutting gorse on hole 17, hopefully tomorrow we can start levelling the drainage lines and then turf if turf and soil has thawed out by then.

8th winter green, no where for the water to go as ground solid

Tony back filling the drainage trench with gravel to 4" from the surface to allow us to put soil down before re-turfing

This week we have been working away at our drainage project on hole 5 and cutting gorse back on holes 16 & 17. On Wednesday the frost lifted so we managed to cut and roll greens to clean the surface up and also firm the surface and changed the holes.

At last we have managed to get back to work on our drainage project at hole 5 today, other jobs first thing were to put pins on winter greens as we have a slight frost, move tee markers and close the course toilets as we have 2 burst pipes.