Another great year at Crail Golfing Society,All the best for 2017

 10th green on the Craighead course

 Holes 1 & 14 on the Balcomie course

 15th on the Craighead course

13th tee and the old lifeboat shed on the Balcomie course

 Merry Christmas & a Happy New Year from the Greenstaff

 Greens on both courses looking really well and playing well for this time of year

 We are in the process of fixing, adding heavy weights to the lids and painting the tee bins, hopefully this reduce wind damage

 The 5th fairway bunker rebuilt on the Balcomie course, sand will be added at the start of the season to reduce sand blow until then

The 17th fairway bunker rebuilt on the Balcomie course. Other tasks have been a full cut of all playing surfaces ready for the busy Christmas period.

 Monday was a frosty morning

 With the Balcomie course being on it's mid week winter closure we took the opportunity to spray the greens, surrounds, tees & fairways with soluble iron to help harden up the plant cells, which should help reduce disease pressure

 Playing areas darkening up with the iron application

 Before we sprayed the greens and surrounds, we gave them another top-dressing of sand to continue to help produce firmer and drier surfaces

 The 5th fairway bunker on the Balcomie course being rebuilt

 Water pipe trench work ongoing

This week I attended a seminar on bio pesticides, as this is a hot topic in Greenkeeping at present with so many chemicals coming off the market

 This week the Craighead course is on it's mid week winter closure, so we have rebuilt the 9th green side bunker as the face was worn out

 Graham checking the steepness of the new face at different stages of the build

 With the Craighead course closed, we have a drainage contractor in carrying out work to our 2nd fairway which has surface drainage issues

 They are digging out channels down to 12"

 Each channel is being filled up to 8" of pea gravel then 4" of sand above to allow the water away from the surface much quicker