Saturday, 27 June 2020

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 

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