The weather has not got any better with hard frosts then more rain, so jobs have been continue to cut gorse etc and trying to pump water out bunkers

 Today has been the first chance we have had to cut greens, with the soft conditions we have raised the height of cut on the mowers

 The guys back to working at the new 4th path on the Balcomie course

 With all the turf re-used from tee 9 on the Balcomie course we can now start to rotovate and re- level this area

With the hard frosts lately and not wanting to cause damage to the courses its ideal to catch up on gorse management, the area the staff are tackling is the right hand side of the 18th on the Balcomie course, the gorse is getting cut back to about 2' then allowed to regenerate back into a bush instead of being tall and leggy

 At last a break in the weather, well so I thought. Monday was a nice dry day which meant we could get back on to our winter projects on the Craighead course as it is on it's mid week closure, but on Tuesday more wind and heavy rain came

 Plans were to get back to the 11th old wall area

 Rebuilding the 2nd greenside (Rear) bunker

 it is very rare to see water lying on areas on the Balcomie course, just proves how wet the last couple of months have been

 The drainage work from last winter in front of tees 9 & 18 on the Craighead course has proved to be a big success, hopefully we will finish this area in the next couple of months weather pending

 With the Craighead course being to wet to work at the old 11th wall, we changed plans to get back to the new 4th medal tee path on the Balcomie course as much drier to work at

 This week the weather has been mostly stormy and wet

 With the adverse weather and not wanting to cause damage on the courses, the staff have been busy in doors painting tee benches, ball washers etc and mixing soil

Today we had a break in the weather so we took this chance to get the greens cut and the courses tidied up for the weekend