Yesterday we cut and vibrate rolled greens to tidy them up, changed holes and set tee markers and raked all bunkers, next week it's a skeleton staff out checking the courses daily
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from Crail golfing society

Course back on full greens after 4 days of hard frost, today we were catching up with cutting surrounds, cutting tees, divoting tees and finishing off a turfing job on hole 4 other jobs this week have been painting and cutting gorse back as the ground has been frozen

Progress has been slow with the 15th bunker with the frosts and play as its a blind shot to the green so we will wait till we close after Christmas as we have 2 courses from November till March we close the courses fortnightly to complete winter programs and rest them up but we have half the new face up and have re-routed the irrigation pipe work
This week is catching up with cutting fairways and semi-roughs plus with the other course closed we have staff over helping with winter programs so we are at skeleton staff

With the frosty mornings we have been carrying out jobs away from playing surfaces which have been draining down the irrigation system and the toilet block on the course, painting tee pots then when the frost has lifted we have made a start to cutting and collecting the deep roughs, extending the 15th medal tee and working at the 15th bunker rebuild
Hopefully with taking away the clippings from the roughs will help to starve these areas to produce a slightly thinner rough and reduce the rougher grasses

First frost

15th greenside bunker completed
Making a start to the other greenside bunker at 15th which we are extending the bunker left and back to double the size the reason for this is to help deter golfers playing from the 14th fairway to this green, once we have reshaped this area we will re-route the irrigation pipes round the rear of the bunker
Today was our first frost so greens were put on winter greens till 9am then filling in potholes in road other tasks after were to rake bunkers, move tee markers, spray greens with wetting agent and iron and work at the 15th bunker