Summers here at last and I have just been saying that we are starting to reduce our cutting program lol, at the start of the month we received very heavy rain which caused the 10th green side bunker face to collapse slightly down into the bunker so we have made a start to digging out and will rebuild next week, today we cut greens, cut surrounds, move tee markers and divot tees, machine maintenance, sprayed weed killer round driving range tees and car park then top-up the 4th green side bunkers with new sand

Rab out testing the new Toro demo greens mower

This week our plans were to cut fairways yesterday so we could then spray all the fairways with soluble iron other jobs today were move tee markers, re-turf rabbit scrapes on tees, trim and clean tee sprinklers after the top-dressing last week and divot winter greens, we never cut or rolled greens today as we are not taking many clippings off with the drop in temperatures

verti-cutting, cutting, over seeding, top-dressing then rubbing in of tees was started today after we cut greens and raked all bunkers also we finished off strimming work, hopefully we will complete the work on tees tomorrow weather pending

heavy dew this morning and the course was still soft from the rain yesterday. this morning we slit tined the greens, cut greens, raked bunkers, moved and divoted tees then collected balls off the driving range, started strimming work and started cutting semi-roughs

This morning we set up the course for an open day and medal, with the greens being just fertilised on Thursday we cut yesterday and today with grass boxes off
I caught up with a job that was down to be done on Friday but the rain stopped us which was over seeding and top-dressing the turf nursery as we have some thin areas on the lower side
Newly planted Gorse which is coming on really well the only positive from this wet weather

At last we got our fertiliser on the greens, the weaker tees and the turf nursery we used 4.0.8 + 4fe at half-rate then we watered in, other jobs were to cut fairways, mark out winter greens, clean and trim winter hole cups then top-dress and cut tees and greens in front of the fertilising
watering in of the fertiliser
2nd fairway