The reduced Green staff are doing a great job trying to keep up with the maintenance over both courses & driving range etc, when possible we are trying to turf iron greens behind cutting to help smooth off the surfaces and add a little surface speed 

Greens being cut then turf ironed, the last 3 weeks have been damp/dewy mornings which doesn't help with surface pace due to a wet cut 

Preparing courses for daily play 

We have started to target weaker greens and carrying out some TLC, greens 5,6 & 10 on the Balcomie course have been spiked, over seeded 2 ways, heavily top-dressed, brushed in then a liquid fertiliser applied to improve the surfaces by incorporating more finer grasses and sand into the profile which is much needed 

top-dressing after the seeding to cover the seed and smooth off the surfaces 

Then greens slowly brushed to work in the sand to fill in the spike holes & cover the seed, which makes an ideal seed bed 

Then watered in, these greens will be lightly watered daily to keep the seed damp to help it germinate 

It's all these small jobs that we have struggled to carry out with being reduced staff, trimming of the fairway discs and sprinkler heads over both courses, these jobs make a massive difference in presentation 

The new short game area maturing well and being well used, this has been a great addition on our driving range 

 We have a junior member Ross Mallory who is helping us out on work experience for the last couple of weeks before he goes to College to study Greenkeeping, hopefully this will help him in his studies with getting some practical experience beforehand and getting used to the very early starts