The Harr lifted early this morning unlike yesterday, so we were out cutting greens, turf ironing greens then spraying them with growth regulator because after the heavy rain the greens have came back to life from the drought and are growing hard again which means we are losing the surface speed.

After the heavy rain on Tuesday night we had to carry out extra work on our bunkers and tee paths from wash outs. Other jobs have been carrying out more cutting again, spraying tees with wetting agent and seaweed.

 Out hand watering dry areas on the surrounds

 Mini-coring, double verti-cutting & cutting the Craighead greens to help reduce thatch levels

 Friday we applied our monthly wetting agent to our greens then watered it in, this will help allow any water applications to penetrate into the soil profile more effectively and reduce surface tension

Other tasks have been daily set up and cutting then out hand watering high spots on greens

 Courses both looking very Linksy

 More light scarifying to the fairways

 With the continuing dry weather we are out hand watering high spots on the greens etc

 We have spot sprayed a weed called Pearwort which is on greens 12 on the Balcomie course

Carried out more top-dressing on the drainage lines on holes 6 & 18 on the Balcomie course. Other tasks today were to rake all bunker, move tee markers, cut the Balcomie greens, turf iron the Craighead greens, strim the roadsides to the courses, change the holes in both putting greens, cut the Craighead fairways and making a start to divoting fairways

  

This week we are lightly scarifying fairways over both courses to help cut out lateral growth and long ends

Yet another irrigation burst on the Balcomie course, with this very dry weather the system is running every night to irrigate greens & tees over both courses

Club Championship

 Course set up this morning was to cut greens, turf iron greens, change holes & set tee markers and rake bunkers ready for the start of our Club Championship on the Craighead course and tomorrow the same on the Balcomie course

Setting up the courses for the weekend

 The Greenstaff busy getting the course set up for daily play

 Spiking of the Balcomie course greens to a depth of 1" to help relieve surface tension/compaction and allow air and water easier into the soil profile

 This week we started to dig out area ready for our new and bigger recycling wash down area at the rear of our shed hopefully this will be completed, up and running by the end of the month

Polishing up fairways, other jobs were to set pins for the weekend as it's the start of our Club Championship over both courses, more cutting, cutting/cleaning of the burn that runs across holes 10, 11, 12 & 2nd on the Balcomie course

applying growth regulator to the greens

 This morning most of the guys were working on the Craighead course cutting greens, cutting tees, spraying greens with fert/iron/growth regulator, cutting/cleaning/raking bunkers, finishing off cutting semi-roughs and trying to catch up with divoting the worse fairways. On the Balcomie course we cut greens, touched up bunkers, moved tee markers and blew/cleaned car parks

First cut on the greens turf nursery with boxes off since we applied fertiliser to it last week