Great definition on both our courses as we are at full cutting and the rain lately has really helped the courses come on

 The new short game area is coming on really well and has been really busy with play, great to see it being utilised

 I am fortunate enough that the Club backed me in furthering my education in the last year with me completing SVQ in Management at SCQF level 11, which will really help me with the day to day running of the staff, courses and planning etc

 Not only are we removing the grass clippings from our fairways over both courses, we a have started the same process on our driving range to produce a cleaner surface and to help remove weed seeds, this process does take much longer to complete but well worth it 

 With us having the heat and rain now, we have started to deep scarify, clean up, over seed, top-dress weak areas on our Balcomie course fairways from last years drought as fairways 2 & 12 are on pure sand and dry out very quickly, this will continue through out this season

 All the debris was cleared up before seeding

 the scarifier makes a great seed bed for over seeding

 The surfaces are softer with the rain we have had, which is great for the seeder to make a decent hole for the seed and allow the seed to drop in the scarifying lines then a heavy top-dressing of sand to cover the seed

 We have cleaned up the surrounding area round the newly built 3rd storm hut on the Balcomie course

Even though we have had rain and are not using the irrigation systems at present it's a great time to catch up with repairs so we are all up and running for going into a dry spell again