December Blog.

Welcome to our December blog, the team have been busy on various projects.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank the Greens team for their workmanship and enthusiasm in delivering great surfaces at Haydock Park this year.

 The weather in December made some of the work difficult with periods of heavy rainfall and the end of the month we seen significant snow fall.

                          The view down the 9th hole with the club house in the distance.

              The picture above shows the trench dug from the clubhouse to the colonels wood.


13th Green Bunker Work

The pictures below show the green side bunkers at the 13th, we positioned a new drain in the left  hand side bunker, the picture shows the dig ready for the pipe to be positioned and stoned.


                                                                                 

Below you can see the bunkers sanded turfed, and shaped ready for play in the spring of 2015 when the turf will be rooted.

Both bunkers had a bunker mat positioned in them to aid drainage, reduce stones from effecting the sand quality,stop discolouration and washdown of the sand in periods of heavy rainfall.

They now match up with the cross bunker on this hole.

January 2015 will see us cleaning up the lower branches on the trees, continuing turfing worn areas, and edging up bunkers.

Thanks for reading the blog, i hope you find it interesting.  

 Have a happy and peaceful New Year from all the greenkeeping team.


                                                                                 Terry Wharton  Head Greenkeeper

November Blog

Welcome to our November blog.

Over the past few weeks we have been busy removing leaves from around the course. The leaves first started falling around the end of September, this work can continue through to December,depending on the wind speed and temperature throughout the period.

November was quite dry with an overall rainfall figure of 55mm.

We sprayed the greens with soluble Iron, to harden the plant against disease going in to the winter period.

The picture below shows the bottom of the hole cutter taken from the 6th green,a good root structure is visible at a depth of ten inches .Its great to see, showing the benefits of the continuous aeration programme.

 In December we will reshape and drain the 13th greenside bunkers,and continue with the aeration work on the greens. Throughout the month, worn and weak areas around the course will be turfed.

 A trench will be dug for an electric cable to be positioned from the supply at the club house to the Colonels wood for a water pump to be positioned in the pond.

                                                                              Terry Wharton  Head Greenkeeper.