Both courses looking well going into the winter months

 Giving all surfaces a cut going into the Xmas period before going down to a skeleton staff till after the new year

 Congratulations to Nick Horsfield our 1st assistant on his 25 years service at the Club

 The 11th left greenside bunker was rebuilt on the Balcomie course

 The surrounding area at the newly built dyke at holes 15/16 on the Craighead course has been levelled off and turfed

 We have now started to re-turf the golf course side of the newly built banking at hole 13 on the Craighead course

 We have made a start to our next big winter project of re-levelling the 7th red/yellow tee on the Balcomie course

 The pathway will be widen by 600mm and we will then build a railway sleeper bank on the tee side of the path which will incorporate 2 sets of steps, bench and bin/ball washer etc

 All the greens and tees on the Craighead course were slit tined to a depth of 6" to relieve compaction

 The Balcomie course fairways were all brushed then cut to remove worm casts and tidy them up for the Xmas period, the plan was to complete the same work to the Craighead course fairways but this has been delayed due to the wet ground conditions 

 We have made a start to rebuilding the 8th fairway bunker on the Balcomie course, this will hopefully be completed before Xmas, weather pending

 The new Balcomie course irrigation install is going great and on schedule with 8 holes completed and 3 holes partially completed going into the Xmas break

 Installing the new irrigation pipework, cables & sprinklers to tee 12, green 8 & 11

 I have been trying my hand at some joinery, we have a real issue here at Crail with high winds damaging our tee bin lids etc, so I'm trying to continue to use the railway sleeper theme throughout the course by building bins out of railway sleepers, these should last for years as solid wood, we have also tried to re-use our old bottom blades from our greens mowers to connect the sleepers together

The first built bin has been put at the 18th tee on the Balcomie course