April Blog

Welcome to our April blog.

The beginning of the month showed regular periods of rainfall, however we continued our greens top dressing program. Greens were procored to continue the regular aeration work along with the continued applications of Revolution wetting agent. Paths were shaled along with general course preparation being raised as the days started to become longer.

Below are photographs showing the works.

March Update

March Course update.


Welcome to the update. We've seen a variation in weather conditions throughout the month with bitterly cold winds, frost and snow covering the course for a brief period. A Moderate amounts of rainfall was deposited on the course, 65mm in total.

Mallinsons came in to vertidrain the fairways and deep aeration was carried out on the tees.
The stumps from the tree work were removed, we managed to aerate and feed the greens and tees and top dress the greens.

Below are photographs showing some of the work carried out throughout the month. 

Let's hope we get some decent weather in April to help us prepare the course for the start of the season!!

February Update

Course update for February.

The rainfall continued throughout the month, however a brief period of dry weather gave us the  opportunity to deep aerate the greens and top dress.

Tree work continued and we managed to complete the bunkers at the 7th hole.

We also had a good covering of snow and the start of a cold period.

The photographs below show the work.

March work programme.

We will continue aeration and look to apply a fertiliser to the greens and tees. Mallinsons will be vertidraining the fairways and we will be shaling the paths for the start of the season.

January Update

Course update.

Welcome to our January blog.

The weather continues to dominate our programme, with heavy rainfall occurring regularly throughout the month with a figure of 133mm.

The greens team managed to work on the 7th greenside bunkers, start the tree work on various areas around the course and continued aeration on the greens.

Below are a selection of photographs showing the work.

We move in to February with aeration on the greens being important after the constant rainfall over the past month.

December update.


We continue to be discussing the periods of heavy rainfall, which totalled 127mm and made managing the course tricky, with damage limitation being the order of most days.

However we've managed to work on the 7th hole reshaping and changing the bunkering,removing the leaves around the course is coming to an end with most of them fallen and just needing blowing off the course or picking up

.Aeration on the greens has continued,and the tee's have been cleaned up with a cut to aid presentation.

In mid December we had a brief period of frost which whitened the grass for a short period and the flags were took off the main greens and put on the winter greens.


Below are photographs to show some of the work.

January work programme

We will finish off the bunkering on the 7th hole, the drainage work on various parts of the course will be completed.

Tree work will be tackled in the early part of the month were we aim to thin out copses to allow individual trees to flourish and in doing so will create better air flow and sun penetration to dry out areas around the course. The benefits of the work will be noticed in spring when the trees come into leaf and will give better definition to the landscape

Welcome to our November blog. 

We managed to complete numerous tasks throughout the month with the weather still hitting us with heavy rainfall, totalling 113mm. Aeration continued on the greens with weekly slitting, collecting leaves gathered momentum with plenty falling.

We started work on reshaping the 7th hole with bunker refurbishment on all of them,the fairway bunkers have been taken out due to health and safety issues with the adjacent busy road. 

We started to remove trees in various parts of the course that had been planted too close together causing numerous problem, some of these being heavy shade around the greens, root damage to the drainage systems and badly shaped trees with minimal growth on one side of the canopy.

The golf course needs all areas to receive good airflow and sunlight penetration to aid drying out which will enable better growing conditions.

The pictures below show some of our work throughout the month. 

December programme 

We will continue with greens aeration and removing leaves off the course, and continue with bunker work on the 7th hole. 

Welcome to our October blog. 


The weather played a large part in our work progress throughout the month with regular periods of rainfall,however we managed to complete various programs to move us along into the autumn/winter period with 129mm of rainfall.

The greens and tees were vertidrained with six greens receiving a heavy sanding to aid water percolation through the soil profile. We applied a conditioner through the sprayer on to the greens to harden the leaf blade and strengthen the sward. A preventative fungicide was sprayed on the greens to reduce disease outbreak

Drainage work was carried out in front of the 18th green to aid water movement in problem areas.

The pictures below show some of the work that was carried out throughout the month.

Vertidraining and heavy sanding.

                                                           Brushing in the sand.

                                     

                                            Preparing the area at the18th green surround for drainage.

November work programme

Aeration will continue on the greens,leaf collection will be continuous throughout the month,and we will start bunker work on the 7th hole.