20/10/010

Team niblick are making good headway with the bunkers, taking full advantage of the good period of weather. Bunkers on 4,6,8 + 9 have been started and we are going behind turfing and tidying them up.

Greenside bunker on 4.

Greenside bunker at 6, the front of the collar has also been lifted and reshaped to try and allow water to shed of the front of the green.

New greenside bunker at 8.

New bunker complex on 9th fairway.

20/10/10

Greens have been cored on the big course on monday and tuesday, this allowed us to top dress the greens on wednesday and get them brushed in with our vibrating brushes.

We have also put the cups in the winter greens and cut the greens before topdressing.

16/10/10

We have the Piperdam open this week on sunday. We have being preparing the course and generally getting it ready for the open.

We have also started construction work on the golf course, we have worked on the greenside bunkers on 1,2,5 and 11. We have either kept the original placement of the bunkers and dug/edged and cleaned the bunker sand or moved them to properly accent the hole and to stop washout in the bunkers. Also we have put in drainage just short of the 18th green to dry out the landing area.

The greenside bunker back right before and after construction.

The greenside bunker at 2 just before being turfed.

The greenside at 5, two bunkers getting made into one and the surround being shaped to stop washout.

The two exsiting bunkers at 11 have been reshaped and a new bunker put in on the right hand side.

Drainage at landing area on 18.

07/10/10

Well after my what seemed like very fast holiday, i got back to work today. Its been very wet in my time off but Gary and the team have done really well to keep the course tidy and keep the general maintenance on routine. Apart from regular cutting the guys sprayed rocastem/t-thatch (liquid aeration) on the big greens, also the tees and approaches where sprayed with liquid iron to colour them up for the Mens Open next sun. The bunkers have also been flymod and a majority of the trees have been cut and strimmed around. We will have to wait for certain areas of the course to dry up before we make an attempt to cut them.

When i was in Mexico i visited the golf course that is connected to the hotel, the course opened i June and i have attached a couple of pictures.

We hope to start some of the winter reconstruction work on Monday the 11th of October, all jobs we start will finish for the open.