February / March Course Up date

Good morning

We are nearing completion of our winter program with only a few projects still outstanding.

I have been happy given some periods of wet weather with what we have managed to get through this winter.
We have tried to use the colder spells to our advantage and this has left very little damage by heavy machinery on the course.

Below are some pictures of recent projects with brief description.

14th hole before changes. Bunker on the right no longer in play, and a very narrow lay up area

14th hole completed. New bunker on the right. Fairway bunker moved left allowing  fairer lay up

16th tee after leveling work  

Fairway sand dressing ongoing


Burns needing edged & cleaned out

Cleaning out burns


All ponds 10th hole cleaned out

Bunker renovation at 4th complete 

Aeration work ongoing 

Fairway aeration ongoing Blec ground breaker 

The new TB200 greens brush on the putting green

Areas that were prone to flooding gully pot installed 14th fairway

Areas that were prone to flooding gully pot installed putting green

Low lying rough area right 6th fairway

Path installed new tees 17th

10th path extended

On the bad days review our Risk assessments & Safe working practice.
  

Hopefully we will come into some warmer weather soon until then then mail focus will be aeration work to get as much air into the ground as possible.

Frost

Hi
We seem to be going through a welcome dry spell.
This has seen some low temperatures and frozen ground which has lead to temp greens be used to protect the greens please see attaches a short video highlighting why we use temp greens during frozen ground.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QR7eAloWCpM

Gerry

Jan 2013 Up date

    Good afternoon

Am sure everyone has got over Christmas & new year and are looking forward to the start of the season. 

The end of December seen some unseasonable temperatures which was good for the golfer & the course.

This lead to some growth and main playing areas were cut during this period.

The weather soon changed and the firmer ground conditions gave us the opportunity to continue with bunker renovation work and other jobs.

Below is pictures of works carried out with a brief description

7th green side right 

7th green side complete

4th back left original

4th back left now visible from the tee 

                                  

4th back left new position

4th green side left 

                               

4th green side left extended drain. Bunker face revetted

5th green side right 

5th green side right ready for turfing

16th medal tee re leveling work underway

14th fairway bunkering

This picture shows how far the right fairway bunker is in the rough and the left fairway bunker closer to the centre of the fairway.

Goals discussed to re position these bunkers

: Create a fairer landing / lay up area between the bunkers.

: Re shape the fairway around the bunkers slightly to the left to improve the frequent sliced shot over towards the 10^th tee walk off.

: Bring the right fairway bunker back into play

14th fairway bunkering proposed

This photo shows a better positioned fairway bunkering which covers the goals set.
To date both bunkers have been re shaped and drained just some finishing work to carry out before re turfing 

Please keep up to date with project pictures 

http://www.flickr.com/photos/16068144@N08/collections/72157631684854504/

Gerry Bruen

This made me laugh

1st cut 2013

The weather never fails to surprise me 3rd January air temperature 12 deg.
1st cut 2013 and there is some grass in the boxes.

Happy new year

From all the green staff
Gerry, Kevin, Willy, Alan, Stewart, Alistair

Happy new year & a great season for 2013 

Dec Update

Good morning
We are coming out of the end of a most welcome cold spell which allowed us to carry out some drainage issues in areas that were letting us down during the playing season.
To date 130m of drainage was installed and the conditions could not have been better.
Below is some pictures showing the work carried out during the cold snap.


                                                 Left side 18th green

14th right rough

                                                   
                                            18th right rough 

10th Fairway

                                            2nd back right green

                                       

Car park prepared area for new clean down bay

Sump dug for flooded irrigation box 16th

                               Stone feature pond 15th 

              Burns from 13 medal tee to back 8th green cleaned out

                   Started new path that will take golfer to 17th tees

      Cleaned any branches growing through boundary fence Clarkston rd

We will be going to a skeleton staff during the holidays and I would like to wish everyone at the club from the greens staff  a Merry Christmas  & Happy New Year. 

Roll on spring 2013