Today we were out cutting greens with groomers on, cutting hairy bunker faces and blowing sand off faces, raking bunkers and moving tee markers, emptying tee bins and after break all on strimming work and spraying strimmed areas with growth regulator then had meeting with greens convener

This week we have been carrying out the usual cutting program with extra turf ironing on the greens to help speed up the playing surface extra jobs have been to investigate any irrigation problems and fix, spraying weedkiller on tee paths etc
The bunker rear of the 7th green has been targeted by rabbits lately so we are trying out a rag soaked with diesel to see if this stops them causing damage an old trick I was told about
Yesterday I attended a demo at St Andrews Links on building bunkers with recycled astro turf instead of turf

Yesterday we cut greens, cut fairways, cut tees and divoted then after break we cut surrounds, finished fairways and top-dressed tees and drainage lines at 5th and 14th. Today we cut greens, raked bunkers, collected balls and topped up ball dispenser, emptied tee bins and moved tee markers, cleaned up broken tees, filled in pot holes in road to shed, divot landing areas and clean mess room and office
Top-dressing 1st tee

Tony spiking greens in front of cutting and turf ironing
Nick spraying greens behind the boys with wetting agent and liquid iron
We have now re-turfed and levelled off the area at green 6 where we had our irrigation burst
After Tony finished spiking greens he went onto slit tining tees which should be completed tomorrow, this should help relieve any compaction on these areas
Other jobs were to spray bunker faces and strimming work with a growth regulator, cut driving range and set up junior course etc and machine maintenance

Yesterday we cut our tees, divoted tees, cut greens, changed holes for ladies medal then cut fairways and surrounds
We have now fixed the burst at the 6th green it was a cracked saddle joint which comes off the main pipe to the sprinkler swing joint but I don't think we will need to use it with the weather forecast for this weekend, jobs today were to rake all bunkers, cut green, collect balls, move tee markers, empty tee bins and top-up ball washers, finish off fairways then it was all staff on strimming work after break and we managed to top-dress the drainage lines at hole 5 again

Today we cut greens with groomers on to help tickle the grass up to give us a real clean cut then turf ironed behind, trim holes, spray tees with wetting agent and soluble iron, cut semi-roughs then collect balls, cut driving range and set up junior course

Lush areas on certain greens from seagulls droppings
Monthly application of wetting agent to greens & surrounds
forking up and turf ironing of the damaged area on green 6 from the burst irrigation pipe to help smooth off area

Cutting tees
divoting and putting tee markers back behind cutter, the reason we divot behind cutter so not to blunt the cutting units with the divot mix or lift seed
Today we had a Lombard corporate day which was a 2 tee start at the 1st and 10th so course set up was to rake bunkers, cut aprons, cut and iron greens, cut tees and divot tees, the holes were changed yesterday and luckily the weather was not to bad today breezy with a couple of shower in the afternoon a lot better than yesterday

Burst irrigation pipe on surround of 6th green which has caused some damage to the green and surround surfaces, we have received over 28mm of rain in the last 24 hours which has caused the odd puddle on the course so golf buggies stopped for the day, jobs today were machine maintenance then rake bunkers and change holes glad we cut all the fairways yesterday
Deer running across 12th fairway

Jobs first thing were to cut greens, change holes, move tee markers, rake bunkers, collect balls, empty tee bins and top-up ball washers then after break we cut surrounds, finished of cutting 3.5" roughs, fertilising the 2nd fairway and walkways with a slow release fertiliser (24.5.13) at half rate and knapsack spraying of weeds in the gorse areas between holes 1 & 18 and catch up on some machine maintenance