Out again with the members favourite machine topping roughs on the Craighead course

 the tar-macing has been completed for the entrance to the Balcomie 1st tee, it's just the surrounding areas need to be shaped and turfed etc to complete this job

 This week seen the main car park being re surfaced

 Once the staff had finished turfing tee 17 they completed turfing tee 9 as well this week

 The 4th new path is slowly coming on and hopefully will be completed next week

 Our new flags for both courses arrived this week ready for the new season

With having frosts in the morning it was ideal to give the shed a good clean out. other jobs this week was daily course set up, mostly putting pins on winter greens each morning etc

 We have managed to finish off levelling the 17th tee and made a start to turfing but the last couple of days has been frosty so we can't lift or lay the turf, so its been back to gorse maintenance around the car parks etc

 the new fencing at 17th has been completed

We are tarmacing the entrance to the 1st tee of the Balcomie course when the main car park gets done next week, so we have been getting the area ready

 Tee construction and levelling coming on well at the 9th on the Balcomie course

 17th medal tee on the Balcomie course has been extended and levelled to give us much more teeing ground plus cutting back all the over grown gorse in front to give us a view of the fairway etc

 I'm hoping to have both tees ready for turfing by the end of the week as these tees should of been completed and turfed by mid January! but the weather has held us up

The guys have been out extending the 14th tee path fence plus putting in a new fence at the 17th tee path

 We have been back cutting and collecting more deep rough on the Craighead course

What a difference a few days of dry weather does

 Great to have some nice dry weather for a change. This week the Craighead course is on it's mid week closure, so the main job was to get back to the drainage at 9 & 18 which consists of putting a 4" perforated pipe through the low laying area and connect to the main drain that we put in last year, this will allow all the gravel banding to connect and have an outfall

 Other tasks this week is to carry out course set up each morning on the Balcomie course and edge/weed the Craighead bunkers for the start of the season plus make a start to topping them up with fresh sand

 With another 5mm of rain on top of what rain we have had, we decided to raise the height of cut on our hand mowers to reduce stress on the greens and give them a tidy up

 The job at the old 11th wall is now completed, the golfers path has been extended and widen to allow us to use this for machinery

 At last a break in the weather, so it was full steam ahead to try and finish jobs that are still open on the Craighead course as it is on its mid week closure for maintenance

 2nd rear green side bunker on the Craighead course re build complete, just sand to put in

 Out cutting the drier fairways on the Craighead course, what a difference a cut makes

 The guys back at the job at the old 11th wall on the Craighead course, another couple of days will see this completed weather permitting