We have been out spiking weak areas on our fairways from the Summer drought to aid recovery, then seeding and top-dressing these areas, the spiking makes a small pot for the new seed

 After the aeration work last week on the Balcomie course greens - they are recovering well, we will only roll the surfaces to allow recovery then cut at a higher height of cut at 6mm instead of 4mm to allow the seed to germinate

 We have been applying irrigation each morning to wash in the top-dressing sand and keep the new seed wet to help with germination, this week we applied another 12tons of top-dressing sand to fill in any core holes still requiring topping up

 weak areas on 2nd fairway

 With applying so much sand to our greens we needed to clean out/trim the greens sprinklers not only to keep them tidy but to stop sand getting into the gearing of the sprinklers

 The old 11th medal tee on the Balcomie course is now being dug away and made into a banking as this tee can not be used since the new course toilets were built, but we will be extending the existing 11th medal tee this Autumn to cope with play

 we have applied our Autumn fertiliser to the greens over both courses to help with recovery and strengthen the plant up going into the winter months

Another task we have started this week is to cut and collect deep rough areas, this is to help make these areas more playable by taking the grass away and hopefully starving these areas of nutrients to help reduce the thickness of the grass sward for the next season