All aeration work completed on greens and tees so today we cut greens and surrounds, sprayed greens with a fungicide, top-dressed greens and surrounds with sand then dragged the sand in, we are still working at rebuilding the 15th greenside bunker

Solid tining greens to a depth of 3"

Slit tining greens and tees and we have made a start to rebuilding the 15th greenside bunker

A bit colder today more like November, we set up the course for our winter medal tomorrow which was cut and turf iron greens, change holes, wash and replace white inserts in cups, rake bunkers and move tee markers then after was collect balls and set up corer for solid tining greens next week. Yesterday was completing 16th bunker, verti-draining tees, cutting and divoting tees then starting the verti-draining on walkways which will continue next week

Verti-draining with a 5/8" solid tine to a depth of 6" on the tees

The 2nd greenside bunker at the 16th getting rebuilt
We have completed our drainage at hole 7 yesterday, so we are now starting our aeration program which will continue into next week, with the mild weather still here we have cut greens Monday and today other jobs on the go are rebuilding the 16th bunker, top-dressing all the drainage lines and cutting surrounds and winter greens

Greens were cut then sprayed with an insecticide plus half-rate of iron
With carrying out drainage for the last few weeks we really needed to catch up with cutting so we cut fairways, semi-roughs and cut bunker faces this week
Irrigation pipes that I caught with trencher at 9th
A little pebble

Drainage started down at hole 7
Bunker at 16th green rebuilt and the face height has been raised to help reduce balls rolling in off the green

More drainage this week at the 9th surround and hopefully then down to the 7th surround other jobs are rebuilding the first green side bunker at the 16th on the left side. All the new drainage got well tested on Friday night with 11mm of rain

We manage to get back to the drainage project on hole 4 but only for a day as it became to wet and messy so we moved to another part of the course to drain the 16th surround, with carrying out drainage and bunker rebuilding in the last few weeks we have left cutting to a minimum so today we caught up with cutting of the tees, surrounds, winter greens, greens, strimming work and changing holes and also completed the rebuilding of the 7th greenside bunker

Bunkers at the 3rd completed and top-dressed etc

Skeleton staff today as they were away to the Scotsturf show, so I was over working on the Balcomie course first thing changing holes for the medal which gave our greens time to dry out before we carried out top-dressing and brushing in

Rebuilding the 3rd green side bunkers on the right, the drainage project is at a stand still as the area is to wet to work at after the rain at the weekend

Greens were cut and sprayed with liquid iron and wetting agent