Today we cut tees, divoted tees, cut greens and worked on the 4th fairway drainage
The drainage lines were all rolled, top-dressed then brushed in

2nd green side bunker
3rd green side bunker

Today it was high winds but dry. We had to stop the drainage project today as we had a break down on one of the tractors so plan b was to start rebuilding bunkers on holes 2 & 3 instead so hopefully we are back to drainage tomorrow but forecast is looking very wet & windy which will test our drainage so far that we have completed fingers crossed lol, other jobs were to check course first thing, collect balls, mark out more lateral drainage lines and lower and re-turf a mains water valve cover at hole 11

The drainage boys

First cut and roll on the greens since they were top-dressed
Bunker at 1st green finished and top-dressed

This week sees the start of our drainage project on the 4th fairway and the re vetting of the 1st green side bunker. yesterday afternoon seen 19mm of rain fall not the best for trenching


top-dressed drainage lines
Last Friday I visited a local club to check out there fairway spiker as we are looking at replacing our existing spiker

Tees cut and divoted, fairways cut, greens switched then we set up the trencher and started to trench the 3rd medal tee along the length of the left hand side to help drain water coming down from the bank on the left instead of it running onto tee fingers crossed!

we cut out areas in the rough next to the par 3 tees for our winter tees

other jobs were to re-turf rabbit damage on tees plus we put down wire mesh over the new turf hopefully it will keep the rabbits from digging, raked all bunkers, switch greens only today as they were top-dressed and a 0.0.37 autumn fertiliser applied, started to dig out 4th fairway soak away for the new drains and divoted winter greens

This morning we spiked our greens, cut greens, cut surrounds, raked bunkers and moved tee markers then when it dried up we top-dressed greens and surrounds with sand, rubbed in, vibrate rolled and cleaned and trimmed sprinkler heads.

marking out the proposed drainage lines on the 4th fairway which we will be starting on the 17th of October
10th bunker rebuilt

heat wave away and back to normal weather, this week we have only cut greens Mon, Wed, Fri and tomorrow they will be rolled for the Sat medal also we applied a liquid iron to the greens. other jobs was to rebuild 10th bunker, cut all semi-roughs and fairways and gave the tees their first cut since the hollow coring, seeding and top-dressing.

Demo over seed units that fit on greens mower that we tried out on green 2

Rubbing in of top-dressing after the seeding
Started to rebuild 10th bunker after we completed our tasks of cutting greens, moving & divoting tees, raking bunkers, over seeding etc on 2nd green, started to cut semi-rough and sprayed greens with a preventative fungicide, today we were back to full staff but only for a couple of days.