On Saturday 30th November, we had a very interesting and insightful presentation and tour of the Greenkeeping department to members and members of the Committee to let them see behind the scenes and what all goes on

 Tour of the new shed extension and an update on the new irrigation project

 At last dry enough to get back to levelling off the surrounding area at the newly built dyke at 15/16 on the Craighead course

 The guys are doing a great job finishing this area off, which will be used as a maintenance track in the future

 Our irrigation project is going really well and is on schedule with 35% work completed to date. the 90mm main pipeline is completed round the course plus extra hose points at fairways 4,5,8,10 & 15 

 Next step was the irrigation designer Adrian Mortram on site to mark out and measure all the sprinkler heads for holes 1 to 14 on greens, surrounds and tees plus fairways 2 & 12

then all these points have been GPS'd plus the mains line for the future and will be on a plan which will be on the pump-house wall

 The irrigation company are working at the 12th Green and surround this week installing the lateral pipe work, cables and sprinklers, then they will start the 12th & 2nd fairways

 the final boxes being installed on the main pipeline at 17th tees

 lateral pipework and sprinklers being installed at 14th green & surround 

They have hit rock rear of the 14th tees down to the coastline along the path, across the 17th fairway and at the 17th medal tees laying the 90mm mains pipework, which has all been dug out to get the pipe to the correct depths

 The newly built railway sleeper steps are completed from the Clubhouse to the Putting green with anti-slip grips on each step, these will be in use from the start of the season to allow the surrounding turf to establish 

A new heavy duty fence is being built to help hide the rubbish bins and the new back up fuel tank for the Clubhouse heating system