Thunderstorms

 Last Wednesday we had thunderstorms with over 30mm of rain in under an hour

 All bunkers over both courses had water damage and had to be reshaped etc

 Most of the Tee paths had water damage too

All the Tee path drains had to be cleared and unblocked as well

Dyke repairs

 The dyke that runs along the left of hole 12 on the Craighead course was getting some needed attention in the way of cutting back all the gorse and rebuilding any damaged areas of the dyke

 The seeded area on our turf nursery is coming on really well, it's just the perimeters to get finished this week hopefully and be ready for lifting in winter 2017

 That's us making a start to our rough management plan of cutting and collecting certain areas of deep rough areas mostly on the Craighead course to start with

Another small job was to deep hollow core the low lying area on our putting green, then top-dress with sand to help aid drainage and improve the soil profile

 Courses greener than usual at this time of year

 Great definition when the sun comes out

Graham our apprentice being shown how to cut tees

 All bunker face were cut/blown and bunkers shaped & raked

 Both sets of greens & surrounds getting an application of growth regulator & seaweed this week

 The fortnightly application of growth reg is working well on the greens with under a box of clippings from 18 greens plus both putting greens

 In the Afternoons we have been busy rotovating, levelling and getting the turf nursery seeded as this is out the way of any golf, we will hopefully see the seed germinate in about 2 weeks

The seeded area will be watered daily to help the seed germinate

 We have started to cut & collect problem areas of deep rough to help speed up play plus allows us to keep to our rough management plans, the only issue we are finding is that once these areas have been cut we need to spray a selective herbicide to control Thistles

 The area of deep rough at hole 16 on the Craighead course has been cut & collected and sprayed with a herbicide to kill off the rougher grasses, which has worked well

 Marsh Orchids at the right of hole 7 on the Craighead course

 Both courses in great shape ready for the Club Championship this weekend. 7th green Craighead

 8th tee Craighead

 16th green Craighead

 17th green Craighead

 10th green Craighead

 16th green Balcomie

 15th & 17th Balcomie

 16th tee Craighead

14th & 15th  fairway Craighead