A GREAT WEEK

The weather this week let us get on with a number of jobs.
At the start of the week all areas still to be shaped and seeded completed.


After seeding jobs with dry mornings and sunny afternoons conditions could not have been better for scarifying fairways all completed cleaned the fairways up great.



At the end of the week we were irrigating after applying a 6-9-6 to seeded areas and a 12-6-6 to all areas seeded last october to bring some earlie growth on.

Course Info

Course is drying out after the heavy rain start of week and forecast looks good next few days.
Duties this morning greens brushed & cut 5.5mm, tees cut, approches cut & greens rolled.

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Some rain during the evening but not as much as there has been recently.
Morning duties have been carried out all greens in play.
We have laid further strips of astro turf to aid access to the 11th tees.
Ground temperatures are rising and the colour has returned to the course, and it wont be long before we see some spring growth.

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Thankfully a dry evening & a dry start.
Course inspection done first all greens playable ladies medal on.
Course set up for medal allot damage from wash down faces of bunkers.
Greens sprayed spring start mix to encourage some early growth.
Forecast for remainder of the week seems good.

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Worse nights rain this year we recorded 24mm and it is still raining hard.
41mm recorded since friday.
Course will remain closed.
We will monitor conditions as the day goes on but unlikely to reopen today.

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Well the weather man was right we recorded 10mm rain during the evening and it is still on. Course closed due to flooding and surface water on main greens and temps.
There will be another inspection around 11.30.

Inspection done course remains closed next inspection tomorrow morning.

Course Info

Another wet night but not as bad as Friday night.
4mm rain recorded and temps on at 9th & 16th.

Unsettled weather

What a difference a day makes course wet on arrival this morning with 8mm rain falling from just before midnight until 6.30am. Two members staff set up course and greens 1,7,9,16,17,18 on temps. Looking at forecast the unsettled weather to continue over Easter weekend so what ever dry weather we get make the most of it.

Frosty morning -3 but beautiful

Cold morning.

We will brush & cut greens today when the frost lifts at 5.5mm and with the firm ground conditions start removing wood pilled from the felled tree that was leaning right 17th green. I have been off for a few days and the boys have got on with allot more than I excepted both new tee's at 10 & 13 turfed and fairway sections at 9 & 10 finished job well done.