Friday 27 February 2015

 This week is the last of our winter course closures, so tasks were to clean/paint the sleeper bunker on hole 14 on the Balcomie course to help preserve the wood then reshape the bunker sand once the paint was dry

 We blocked our burn up to help dry the bottom to allow us to carry our repairs to the bottom of cementing any damaged or weak areas on the Balcomie course
 Re-turfing and matting going down at the walkway to the Clubhouse from the 18th green on the Balcomie course
Other tasks this week was to tidy up both courses in the way of cutting fairways and any semi-roughs, cutting and collecting deep rough is still on going over both courses

Friday 20 February 2015

 Cutting and collecting of the deep rough has been on going all week to help improve the playability of these areas on the Balcomie course

 With the temperatures a little higher, we have now installed our new drinking fountain on the Craighead course
 A job we really struggle to keep on top of in the summer months is divoting our fairways so we have carried out this task this week
 2nd green side bunker has been rebuilt on the Balcomie course
9th green side bunker rebuilt on the Balcomie course

Monday 16 February 2015

 2nd green side bunker being rebuilt on the Balcomie course

 9th green side bunker nearing completion on the Balcomie course
 Balcomie course fairways being slit tined
More tee pots painted and ready to go out for the season on the Craighead course. Other tasks today were to fully rake the Craighead bunkers and set tee markers up. On the Balcomie course was to cut and clean the burn

Monday 9 February 2015

 Craighead course greens & surrounds getting another top-dressing of sand after the mini coring last week
 Craighead course fairways being slit tined again
The 11th bridge completed on the Balcomie course

Friday 6 February 2015

 With the frost completely out of the ground we got back to our plans of mini coring,verti-cutting and cutting of the Craighead greens to help reduce thatch levels and these will be top-dressed next week

Another bridge on the Balcomie course being re levelled and worn areas re-turfed ready for rubber matting to be laid. it was great to catch up with course set up ie cutting greens, hole changing/setting tees and all bunkers being fully raked over both course

Thursday 5 February 2015

 This week our planned jobs have been put back because of the hard frost we have had for the last 4 days, so plan B was to make a start on rebuilding the 9th front green side bunker on the Balcomie course

 The staff doing a great job building up the new face
Other jobs have been to start painting tee furniture, out of bounds posts etc, cutting and pulling out brambles rear of the 16th green on the Craighead course