Cleaning and blowing the car park a job that we have struggled to keep up with this year with being so busy on the courses keeping up with cutting etc

 More rain and flooding again this week

 I hope this sunny and dry weather continues to help us prepare the courses, catch up with jobs and lets the courses start to drain/dry up

We have a demo grass collector in to help us lift  grass clippings from the hard growing areas on the courses

 Sunshine at last but will it last, we received over 25mm of rain yesterday

 Its the last Tuesday night of the season for coaching the juniors on the driving range

 On the Balcomie course we have been cutting fairways and surrounds in different directions of cuts to help stop napping as we usually cut fairways in 2 halves traditional to links courses

Other jobs have been edging/weeding the rear of the 1st tee, cutting/cleaning bunker faces and trimming all sprinkler heads on the Balcomie course and cutting all 3.5" roughs

 At last a dry cut on the greens, today is round 2 of our Club Championship on the Balcomie course so jobs were to cut greens, change holes, set tee markers and rake bunkers an extra job which we caught up with was cleaning areas at shoe cleaner and in front of clubhouse and car park areas which have been messy this year with the grass being so wet most days. That's me on Holiday now so will catch up with you in 2 weeks time

 Never seen the courses so green at this time of year it's just cutting and more cutting so far this year

 Today we had our Senior Open on the Balcomie course so we were out setting up with cutting & turf ironing greens, changing holes and tee markers, raking bunkers, finish cutting fairways and finish off replacing the anti-slip strips on the tee steps, with the course being so busy after set up we had most of the staff over on the Craighead course apart from trimming tee sprinklers and divoting the par 3 tees again

On the Craighead course we cut greens & surrounds, raked bunkers, cut tees, divoted tees etc then after break we cut the harder growing fairways and Semi-roughs again and other jobs were to collect balls of the driving range, top-up the ball dispenser and refuel golf buggies

 We applied wetting agent & seaweed today on the greens & surrounds after they were cut

 While I was waiting on the cutters before I could spray I was hand weeding the greens

 Other jobs were to cut tees, fairways, semi-roughs and switching/blowing any mess from cutters as very damp again

 We have made a start to replacing the anti-slip strips on our tee steps

 At last we have been catching up with spraying fairways with selective herbicide as the weather is good

Spraying total weed killer along dyke's and tee paths, other jobs have been the usual cutting, if possible turf ironing greens to help speed up surfaces and trimming sprinkler heads etc hopefully this good weather continues to allow courses to dry out

 Today most of the staff were out on the Balcomie course cutting greens, cutting surrounds then spraying greens and surrounds with growth regulator/fert and iron, cutting tees, divoting tees and cutting/blowing/ cleaning bunker faces

 Rab and Andy out cutting semi-roughs

 Cutting the driving range and setting up the junior course for Tuesday night coaching

Liam cleaning and blowing bunker faces after they have been cut