November was busy with various projects taking place on top of the usual course preparation.
We fitted a new drainage pipe in the middle of the 14th green to try to drain the water away more quickly.
The 2nd tee turf was stripped off and the tee was relevelled,some of the old turf was reused and new turf was laid to finish off the surface. leaf blowing continued has we kept the leaves off the course.
In the middle of the month we sprayed a preventative fungicide on to the greens to reduce turf disease from Microdochium patch. The greens were deep aerated with the soil reliever and rolled to maintain surface smoothness. Aeration continued as we use the slitter weekly to keep the greens open and aid drainage.
In December we hope to continue with aeration on greens and tees. We will start tree work on various holes to reduce trees that are closely planted together, to enable air flow and sunlight penetration to dry out the areas around them, and enable the trees that are left to grow into specimen trees.
