The courses are starting to green up since the rain, this will help reduce the stress on all the playing surfaces from the 11 weeks of no rain

The reduced Greenstaff are doing a great job on keeping up with essential maintenance to the main playing surfaces during this pandemic 

Early morning watering of greens & surrounds, our irrigation system mostly works between the hours of 10pm and 5am as this doesn't affect any maintenance or golf, lower temperatures so less evaporation of water during the night plus usually calmer winds so better water coverage to all playing surfaces

Most of our cutting has been reduced to about 50% each week apart from our greens which are being cut every day, thank you to the members for being patient and understanding during this pandemic as we are not at the usual course standards

 watering in of fertiliser and wetting agent products on the Balcomie course greens

 All greens over both courses & PG's have had an application of wetting agent and fertiliser applied

When we get a chance we have been making headway into getting bunkers ready to be put back into play by weeding, cutting faces and raking and shaping the sand, this is a very slow process due to the reduced staffing levels at the moment

Any newly rebuilt bunkers from the winter will be getting the same treatment to tidy them up but these will stay G.U.R until we get the chance to dig the sand out, re-shape the bases then add fresh new sand 

 Both courses are now really starting to turn brown and playing as they should a true Links

We have reduced cutting even more to reduce stress to all playing areas until we receive some rain. we have only had 17mm of rain since the end of March

With the reduced cutting it's allowed us to concentrate on hand watering of high spots on greens and certain weaker tees, also we have had sprinklers out on our 1st fairway to help this area, fingers crossed for some rain 💧to help us through