Balcomie course we spiked, cut, turf ironed greens, cut surrounds then sprayed them with wetting agent and liquid fert. other jobs were to rake bunkers and moved tee markers

Craighead course greens cut and vibrate rolled to help smooth the surface off after the aeration work, changed the holes and moved tee markers, cut surrounds in afternoon after Balcomie surrounds then all staff on cutting/cleaning/raking the bunkers and filling in potholes in road to shed 

 The area on our driving range after the amateur's practising off grass which had to be cleaned up, seeded and divoted

 Aeration work on the Craighead course greens this week which entailed slit tining, double scarifying to a depth of 6mm, blowing/switching,verti-cutting then hand cutting this task took longer than anticipated with the wet weather that we are having just now

This area is the rear of the 15th green on the Balcomie course which we have hollow cored, over seeded with Fescue and then top-dressed in preparation for trials with a product called Rescue which will help kill off the rougher grasses if this is successful fingers crossed we will look at completing all of the 15th green

In the last week we have held the BIGGA spring outing, Secretaries and Captain's day, Senior Open and a 72 hole Open Amateur so focus was on preparing the course to a good standard so early in the season and with all the rain we have been having

Hollow coring the putting green outside the Clubhouse

Verti-cutting after the coring to help clean the surface up before seeding, top-dressing and rubbing in

An other irrigation burst on the Balcomie course, other jobs have been to spray all greens with an insecticide against leatherjackets (Crane fly) and generally keeping the course neat and tidy

Craighead course - with the cold weather we have only been cutting greens 3/4 times per week and today we just turf iron greens then sprayed our monthly application of wetting agent, watered wetting agent in, raked bunkers, moved tee markers, cut fairways, cut semi-roughs and divoted some landing areas
Balcomie course - cut greens, raked bunkers, moved tee markers and collected balls off the driving range

The local Scouts were out helping with a beach clean along holes 4 & 5 on the Balcomie course

Today we applied Lawnsand at half-rate to the Craighead course greens, other jobs were cutting greens both courses, cutting fairways and semi-roughs on the Balcomie course and putting all the bunkers back into play after the rain yesterday

With the heavy rain yesterday we caught up with painting new tee pots and OB posts etc

That's our new driving range tee back in play with our new matting

After the strong easterly winds last week we have had to try and blow/ clean up all the sand that blew up over the 2nd fairway

On the Balcomie course the irrigation system is now 23 years old and we are starting to get more burst in the old pipe work

We have replaced our old fairway yardage discs with new ones at last

Today we were catching up with cutting greens, vibrate rolling and cutting surrounds on the Balcomie course and cutting and turf ironing the greens on the Craighead course and all tee markers moved and divoted then after break was divot landing areas, clean shed/mess room etc and changing holes

Back to winter

The weather has turned back to winter with over 35mm of rain and high winds