week 51 2011 update

Just a quick rundown of the week 51 of jobs done after all the mowing...

Greens sprayed with wetting agent

Greens sprayed for grubs, redheaded cockchafer, cut worm and sod webworm

We did not verti-cut greens this week as they were under stress and close to the wilt point (40%)

Tidy up Tuesday hole were 5,6,7,8

Trenches filled on 3^rd 15^th

Turf areas on 7^th, 9^th, 15^th

Bunkers completed 4^th , 3^rd, and 17^th walking turfed and finished off, sand watered and settled in and raked

Oob on 4^th  done

Patches on 6^th green dug out soil put in levelled and turfed

Garden ladies piles picked up

Greens mower blades sharpened (backlapped)

Fairway unit backlapped

New bunker bike arrive Thursday morning

Turfed areas hand watered

Stick run done wed and Friday

And we tried our extra mow at 10.00 Thursday where we mowed the carriage ways (middles thus 90% of green and no circle cut) on the greens just before the comp – this acts as a roll or shine of the green and will cut only alittle but should get that extra half a foot on the stimpmeter.

Well that’s all for this week have a happy Christmas – we will be mowing the greens and rake the bunkers on saterday then in on Monday morning (not early…about 8.oo am) to mow and change holes if they need it….till next time keep swinging  pete

bunker update

The Bunker progress is coming along well with the final shaping and edge cutting and slopping done yesterday on the 4th and 3rd bunkers, all these have now had the drainage cut into and installed along with flushing out the pipe lines to the creeks.
The next process is the instillation of the bunker matting and pegging that down, this will be started today on the 4th bunkers just hope the rain stays away...

The new front 18th tee was opened up for the vets on Tuesday, this tee will have the white mens markers and in the future will also have the ladies black markers on it. till next time .. keep swinging... pete

week 49 update

If you have played golf over the last week or so you will have noticed the bunker rebuilding taking place on the 4th bunkers, we did hope to have the two on the 4th done by the weekend but with the rain it makes it impossible to put in the drainage trenches so halting the process, so late in the week the 3rd bunkers were also shelled out.
Today was a dry day so hopefully we can get into the 4th bunkers tomorrow. please note that there will be temporary greens in play if there is work happening in the bunkers but all greens will be in play for the weekends.
We continue to treat the bare areas on the fairways caused by the floods recently we put turf out on the 16th and 17th patches we were having trouble with. the left hand side of the 7th has lots of new shoots starting and once these grow and spread a little that whole area will knit in and become a good surface.
well till next time ...keep swinging  pete