12th green - 11.00am Thursday!
As you can see, Wednesday night and Thursday this week saw us receive 50mm of welcome rainfall which caused more than a few problems for staff trying to work out on the course. Wednesday was also an exceptionally windy day which brought down a large amount of debris across the course. We have spent the majority of our time today cleaning the course prior to the weekend. The photo below shows the turf tidy clearing the 2nd fairway of pine needles.
Staff have also spent time today pumping water out of some of the bunkers which hold water to help to dry them out as quickly as possible.
Over the past two weeks greens and fairways have received an application of iron to promote colour, boost leaf strength and disease resistance as we head further into winter. A second application of gypsum was also applied to selected fairways prior to the rainfall; and time has also been spent removing a significant number of tree roots from pathways.
Wow, that looks very wet! Hope it will all be gone very soon :-) Do we actually get preferred lies / placing in winter?
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