We have carried out the finishing work to all the Railway sleeper work that was carried out last winter at the 15th tee & path areas on the Balcomie course with building Railway sleepers round the bench/bin area

 In-house built recycling bin/ball washer

 With the nice weather we took advantage to get the 14th Railway sleeper bunker painted to help protect the wood for going into the new season

 We have now completed irrigation repair at the rear of the 13th green on the Craighead course which then allowed us to complete turfing the course side of the new bank to help hide the sheds

 We are still ongoing with recycling our crushed glass by using it as a top-dressing on tees to help reduce worm casts on the surfaces

 We have edged/weeded our 18th path on the Balcomie course

 This week we held a BIGGA Green-keeping talk/walk on our new irrigation system project, showing them the latest in sprinkler technology

 The mole plough pulling in the 63mm lateral pipework/cabling round the 15th green and surround

 installing swing joint and sprinklers round the green

 Then afterwards I presented to all the Greenkeepers on the project on a whole plus some history of irrigation systems at Crail golfing Society etc

The irrigation project is still going great and now they are installing the lateral pipework/cabling & sprinklers etc on the last 4 holes & practice putting green

 The irrigation project is going really well on the Balcomie course with 14 holes completed, plus the new short game area and main putting green completed too, they are in the process of updating the electric decoders on the Craighead course to all work off the same control panel and computer as the new Balcomie course system

 The last fairway bunker on hole 8 on the Balcomie course has been rebuilt

 the 17th fairway bunker on the Balcomie course has been rebuilt

 The Craighead course fairways have been slit tined for the 4th time to relieve compaction and help in surface drainage

 Our in-house new signs are ready to go out on the Balcomie course

 We have now made a lid for our new Railway sleeper bin at the 14th tee path on the Balcomie course

With the decent weather we have been able to re-paint our Railway sleeper bunker at hole 14 to help preserve the wood

Happy New Year

 That's us back at full staff after the Xmas period, so we have been back out slit tining greens and surrounds on the Balcomie course

 Slit tining fairways on the Balcomie course

 Cutting fairways behind to tidy up the surfaces

 We have also been hollow-coring certain tees on both courses to help reduce thatch levels and the cores have been re-used at the 8th fairway side of the new 15/16 dyke that was rebuilt before Xmas on the Craighead course

 We are now rebuilding the last 2 fairway bunkers on hole 8 on the Balcomie course

 We have a damaged old field drain before our burn on the 10th fairway of the Balcomie course, which we are hoping to have fixed by the end of this week

 The Balcomie course new irrigation system install is going great with 11 holes fully completed

 11th medal tee irrigation being installed

 11th medal tee

 10th green and surround irrigation being installed

 Wiring up and testing of the new sprinklers

We have build another Railway sleeper bin and ball washer stand which has been placed at the 14th tee on the Balcomie course, we are in the process of building a lid for these 2 new bins after seeing how they are in the windy conditions

We are also replacing and adding new signs on the Balcomie course, using the same theme of Railway sleepers to fit in