That's us setting up our corer etc and coring our practise putting green so we are ready for doing our aeration work etc on the Balcomie course greens, surrounds and tees next week

 It's that time of year when the leaves starting falling from the trees luckily we only have an issue at green 3 and tee 11 on the Craighead course

Tam and I replacing the bottom blades on our tees mower

 What a great tour which I was fortunate enough to get on at the Gleneagles PGA course prior to the Ryder cup next week, good luck to all the staff for next week

 Last week we held the Belhaven Best Captains & Secretaries finals over the Craighead course

 trying out the demo Toro turf iron

 setting up the Balcomie course for another busy days play

Today we started our minor aeration work to the Craighead greens which consists of mini-hollow coring, cleaning up, double verti-cutting then cutting this process has very little affect on the putting surfaces when completed. we managed to complete 5 greens until the rain put pay to the work

On the Balcomie course we have been carrying out irrigation repairs and edging and cleaning the valve boxes. On the Craighead course we have started our rough management program of targeting certain areas and collecting then burning the clippings to help starve these areas for next season

Last month I attended A John Deere demo roadshow. Jobs that we have been carrying out on top of the usually cutting programs was to apply the monthly wetting agent to all greens and to double verti-cut the Balcomie course tees