Today we set up the corer ready for solid tining greens later in the week and tidied up top shed first thing until the weather cleared then raked bunkers, moved tee markers and divoted tees on the Balcomie course, then after we got back to rebuilding the 16th bunker on the Craighead course

Also we started the rebuilding of the other 16th greenside bunker, cutting the harder growing fairways and divoting tees/empty bins/trimming holes on the Craighead course

Rebuilding of the 16th greenside bunker on the Craighead course

Cutting and turf ironing on the Balcomie course greens

The start of making the 18th fairway bunker on the Craighead course into 2

Job completed

The Craighead course greens and surrounds sprayed with iron after they were cut

Happy New Year to you all, sorry no photo's problem with the blog site

Balcomie course - This week we have been cutting or rolling greens daily with the mild/damp weather, raking bunkers and moving tee markers daily too other jobs were to cut the surrounds, finish off spraying fairways with iron, divoting tees, digging out drain outfalls as they were blocked from the high tides at hole 5 and verti-draining walkways

Craighead course - This week this course is closed for rest and for winter projects, so we have been rebuilding the 16th greenside bunker, digging out the newly rebuilt bunker at the 3rd to make a much bigger soak away to help reduce flooding and making the 18th fairway bunker into 2 as this will help stop the wind blowing the sand out the bunker, other jobs have been verti-draining tees which we had to stop after the rain on Monday,cutting greens and surrounds then these areas being sprayed with iron and potassium nitrate also we have made a start to cutting the drier fairways as hairy with this mild weather

I hope you all had a Merry Christmas and are set for the New Year lets hope it's a drier year. With it being the Christmas holidays we have only had a skeleton staff out checking the courses daily plus with having over 40mm of rain in the last week and a half we have left any cutting as not to cause damage to soft surfaces but today with things drying up we cut greens, changed holes, moved tee markers and raked bunkers on the Balcomie course and Rolled greens, raked bunkers and moved tee markers on the Craighead course.  

 Verti-draining of the tees to a depth of 9" then all cut was completed on the Balcomie course, the holes changed after the slit tining on the greens and greens and tees cut/divoted on the Craighead course

 After the path was made through our gorse at the 18th we burnt the gorse that was pulled out before the adverse weather hits us

 The 3rd bunker completed all we need to do is extend the drain in the bottom and then fill with sand

 Coastal clean up finished until the next time

 Rain is due later in the week so we brought forward plans of slit tining greens & surrounds, cutting greens & surrounds on the Balcomie course from Thursday to this afternoon

 The landing area on the 5th fairway on the Balcomie course after we cleaned up all the debris washed up from the high tides, hopefully this deep verti-draining will help reduce surface capping and allow to drain better, then we started to verti-drain tees again

A local contractor was back in continuing with making a path through the gorse at 18th for a path to the erosion project at rear of 17th green

 More damage on Saturday night from high tides

 The clean up begins today

 At last we were back working at the 3rd bunker on the Craighead course

All we need to do now is add soil to surrounding areas to fit in with new bunker face then start turfing. Other jobs were to turf iron greens and rake bunkers and move tee markers.