23/8/10

Busy weekend at Piperdam we had captains day on sunday which was rearranged from earlier in the season when it was washed out. We had the course prepared to an extent on friday, so the weekend work comprised of cutting and rolling greens on sat morning, cutting some fairways and the approaches on sat afternoon. We then cut the greens with pedestrian mowers on sat night and changed holes, moved markers and put the new cups and flags out.

Sunday morning we pedestrian cut and double rolled greens and raked the bunkers.

We let the greens rest today, as they would start to stress out if we kept such a prolonged maintenance programme. So we dew brushed greens and then sprayed them with seaweed and primo maxx (growth regulator). We also cut fairways, tee's and approaches on the big course, cut rough and greens on the wee course and changed all holes. As well as that we started edging sprinklers and yardage markers for the open.