Courses looking greener than usual at this time of year

 We have been cutting back the gorse at the corner of the 2nd fairway on the Craighead course to allow better sight for your shot to the green

 After the greens and surround on the Craighead course were cut we applied a Fungicide as we have had an out break of disease

 Work has started on extending our material storage bays from 2 to 4 outside our shed

 We have been out with the favourite machine of the members lol, cutting a couple of problem areas on the Balcomie course at hole 4

 We had a broken swing joint on a sprinkler on tee 8 on the Balcomie course

 We starting putting irrigation on last week when things were getting dry and very warm but things have turned wet again which is giving us problems of wet cuts and little bits of grass clippings left on our fairways and semi-roughs

 On the Craighead course we have managed to apply another top-dressing of sand on our greens and surrounds after they were cut on Monday

 Cracking day

 Sand going on

 Sand being rubbed in

The greens were then fertilised with 4.0.6 to help strengthen them up for the rest of the season

 Our Apprentice Graham being shown how to use the turf iron

 This week we have done some extra work to green 15 on the Balcomie course, we solid tined to 4" to relieve compaction and make holes for the seed, over seeded 2 ways, top-dressed with sand then rubbed in, this will will help us improve the grass species and surfaces, we are planning to target 1 green each month so not to interfere with play etc

 Sign to inform the golfers/visitors of the work that has just been completed to green 15

 Work is still ongoing at our dump area of building a perimeter bank and extending area

 It was our monthly cleaning and blowing of the car parks and road/roundabout to the Clubhouse

 Ongoing mowing to all playing surfaces

 We have been out hand weeding our Balcomie course greens for daises etc

 The Craighead greens have had an application of liquid fertiliser and iron to perk them up

 This week I was lucky enough to get a tour of Kingsbarns Links with other local Greenkeepers to find out all the prep work for holding the Women's Open next month

 After our course walk we had a tour of the local Kingsbarns Whiskey distillery

 With the wet Summer we are having, it's meant we have had to spray our fairways and semi-roughs on the Balcomie course again to control daises. It's cost affective to hire in a local spray contractor to complete this work as they can spray the fairways and semi-roughs in 3 hours so not to be in the way of play and usually before the wind picks up

 We are mostly getting wet or damp cuts at the moment, so the surfaces maybe a little slower than usual. The Balcomie greens and surrounds have had an application of fert and iron to keep them ticking over

It's all go setting up the courses for the Club Championship this weekend, hopefully we get some nice weather