Thursday 29 August 2013

 On the Balcomie course we were busy spiking greens and surrounds to a depth of 1", cutting greens and surrounds, cutting/divoting/bins etc on tees and raking bunkers
Craighead course - finish cutting fairways, vibrate roll greens in afternoon as dry, cutting any semi-rough needing done and cutting/cleaning/raking greenside bunkers and moving tee markers


Tuesday 27 August 2013

 Yesterday we tried to start our planned aeration work to the Craighead greens which we had to stop with the surfaces being too wet due to the thick harr that we had, but today we had the weather which allowed us to get on with the mini-coring, double verti-cutting, cleaning up, cutting, over seeding, top-dressing then rubbing in and hopefully we will complete this task tomorrow



Saturday 24 August 2013



So glad the Harr cleared up for our Pro-am that we held on the Craighead course yesterday, we had most of the staff work on the Craighead course to set up for the Pro-am - greens turf ironed, holes and flags changed, tees cut and divotted, tees set, surrounds cut, all sprinklers trimmed/cleaned and all bunkers raked, then after break to keep of the course we started to dig out old soak away at our old wash pad area, seed and top-dress drainage lines which we covered with mesh to stop rabbits digging

Thursday 22 August 2013



This week we have been out slit tining our greens, Cutting/cleaning any bunker faces and spraying greens with growth reg/fert/iron

Wednesday 14 August 2013




We are still full cutting all areas, other jobs have been to spray the greens with their monthly application of wetting agent and seaweed and continuing to heavy top-dress the drainage lines then rub in to create a sandy smooth surface

Thursday 8 August 2013


Balcomie course - we are back to full cutting of all areas plus we have been turf ironing as much as possible to keep speed on the putting surfaces also we applied our growth regulator/fert/iron to help reduce to top growth
Craighead course - full cutting of all areas, we spent all Tuesday to cut,clean,trim edges and reshape the sand in all the bunkers and hopefully tomorrow weather pending we will apply our growth reg etc to the greens

Friday 2 August 2013



Both courses starting to turn green and alive again after the rain we have had in the past week, so cutting of all areas is back to normal now, other jobs were to double verti-cut the Craighead course tees and at last getting our new recycling wash down area up and running