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An insight into some of the greenkeeping practices at Piperdam Golf & Leisure Resort
Tuesday 22 February 2011
22/2/11
22/2/11
A dry day at Piperdam today, we got all greens rolled with the pedestrian mowers and then fed the greens with a half rate of an organic fertiliser TX10. This fertiliser will not give us a flush of growth but it will help to strengthen the grass and help the plant stay free from disease. We didn't put full rate just in case we get another prolonged snow coverage and the fertiliser flushes up below the snow and we get hit by disease, with our climate, location and greens make up you had to be very care full with your nutrient inputs especially going in and coming out of the winter months. 
Monday 21 February 2011
21/2/11
Its been very wet at Piperdam since my last post, although on Friday we did manage to spot treat the greens with a fungicide to knock back any patches of disease, we have a little disease on some collars (this came in when we had snow coverage for 50 days) but we have concentrated mainly on the greens. We also have carried on with sharpening units but we have also been helping out with the new Vegas lodge that is under construction. With it being a little drier the last couple of days we sarel rolled the big greens today to let some air in and let them breath. This is the first work to be carried out on the greens since the end of November. 
Wednesday 16 February 2011
16/2/11
We have managed to start sharpening units, so far we have finished and rebuilt the fairway units we hope to get the rest of the units sharpened this week. We have also started painting O.B. and water hazard posts. Also we have started to work through the points that where brought up at the focus group so far we have limbed the trees at the corner at 16 and built the base for the new bridge on 13, once the weather improves we will get on with more of the jobs. AA have also been in carrying out winter servicing work. 
New bridge base for 13.
Sole plate on anglemaster grinder.
Malcolm from AA servicing rough deck.
16/2/11
Below is a copy of what was discussed and agreed at the Focus Group on saturday afternoon.
Piperdam Course Focus Group 12th Feb 2011
Present: Shaun Anderson
Gary Douglas
Martin Shaw
Bashir Okhai
Iain Gardyne
Frank Flood
1st Plant broom around tee complex.
Grow a collar of rough at front of 1st green.
Feed rough around green to try and get uniformity of grass.
Old osprey sign has been filled and will return to long grass.
2nd Fill pond.
Thin out trees at LHS of green.
Mark O.B. on LHS with white stakes.
3rd Mark O.B. on LHS with white stakes.
4th Cut back area of long grass on LHS just short of the first bunker.
Mark O.B. on LHS with white stakes.
Put warning sign on tee to shout FORE for 7th green.
5th Plant broom at back of tee complex.
Mark O.B. on LHS with white stakes.
6th Take out dead trees.
Move white markers to yellow tee.
7th Take out fence on LHS and replace with white stakes.
8th Bring cut of fairway on LHS higher to try and stop the ball rolling down the hill.
Trees thinned out and cut around at back of green.
9th White markers will move back to LHS tee.
Trees have been thinned out and will have grass cut down below.
Trees stumps at corner still to be taken out (will be removed on next frosty day).
10th Trees have been limbed on LHS of fairway and grass will be cut down below.
11th
12th White tee will move to top tee LHS.
Mark RHS over burn as vertical water hazard as it is marshland.
Put in new path at back of the 12th green.
13th New bridge to be added RHS of green.
14th Take out one strip of long rough at RHS of landing zone and maintain at regular rough length.
15th
16th Prune up trees on corner just before pond to give a line of sight to the green.
17th Move white tees to yellow tee.
18th
General
We had a very productive course walk with good ideas/suggestion coming from all present. There was a general sense in the group that the course changes e.g. new bunkers and tees have benefitted the course and will give course an extra lift to take forward and attract more members/visitors. Some of the areas that we will let come up to rough height will take a little longer this will be weather and temperature dependant until we get growth. The course will be remeasured in the following weeks and we will have the new score cards in place for the start of the season. We will strive to get the above jobs complete for the start of the season although this may be affected by the weather.
Piperdam Course Focus Group 12th Feb 2011
Present: Shaun Anderson
Gary Douglas
Martin Shaw
Bashir Okhai
Iain Gardyne
Frank Flood
1st Plant broom around tee complex.
Grow a collar of rough at front of 1st green.
Feed rough around green to try and get uniformity of grass.
Old osprey sign has been filled and will return to long grass.
2nd Fill pond.
Thin out trees at LHS of green.
Mark O.B. on LHS with white stakes.
3rd Mark O.B. on LHS with white stakes.
4th Cut back area of long grass on LHS just short of the first bunker.
Mark O.B. on LHS with white stakes.
Put warning sign on tee to shout FORE for 7th green.
5th Plant broom at back of tee complex.
Mark O.B. on LHS with white stakes.
6th Take out dead trees.
Move white markers to yellow tee.
7th Take out fence on LHS and replace with white stakes.
8th Bring cut of fairway on LHS higher to try and stop the ball rolling down the hill.
Trees thinned out and cut around at back of green.
9th White markers will move back to LHS tee.
Trees have been thinned out and will have grass cut down below.
Trees stumps at corner still to be taken out (will be removed on next frosty day).
10th Trees have been limbed on LHS of fairway and grass will be cut down below.
11th
12th White tee will move to top tee LHS.
Mark RHS over burn as vertical water hazard as it is marshland.
Put in new path at back of the 12th green.
13th New bridge to be added RHS of green.
14th Take out one strip of long rough at RHS of landing zone and maintain at regular rough length.
15th
16th Prune up trees on corner just before pond to give a line of sight to the green.
17th Move white tees to yellow tee.
18th
General
We had a very productive course walk with good ideas/suggestion coming from all present. There was a general sense in the group that the course changes e.g. new bunkers and tees have benefitted the course and will give course an extra lift to take forward and attract more members/visitors. Some of the areas that we will let come up to rough height will take a little longer this will be weather and temperature dependant until we get growth. The course will be remeasured in the following weeks and we will have the new score cards in place for the start of the season. We will strive to get the above jobs complete for the start of the season although this may be affected by the weather.
Wednesday 9 February 2011
9/2/11
Still snow on the ground at Piperdam so we have been catching up on some shed work. The markers are getting there next coat of paint and we have started stripping down the cutting units for grinding. We have also been tidying up branches and trees that have been accessible when the snow has been on the ground.
Sunday 6 February 2011
6/2/11
We had heavy snow on Wednesday night into Thursday, luckily it had all gone by Friday morning. We carried on with limbing branches on the golf course this week, we have cleared and area on LHS of the 10th fairway. This an area that has been up for much debate over the years so after discussions with Bashir (Greens Convenor) we came to an agreement that we should look at thinning the area out and making it more playable for the golfers. We also discussed the possibility of moving the white tee forward to the yellow block on 17, this will take the par 3 down from 210 yards to 181 yards this should make the hole more golfer friendly as the as it stands the par 3's on the course are quite long and tricky, the hole will still offer a challenge but it should make it more fun! We will also be looking at putting the white tee block on 9 back to the original tee on the LHS this will better accent the hole and golfers will be hitting into the hill rather than with the hill this will better give the hole the character and definition we are looking for. This will also stop any unfair run in to the bunkers. We have also been up at the lodges this week tidying up all the damage that has occurred to the trees so far this winter.
Below area of trees at 10 that has been limbed.
Below area of trees at 10 that has been limbed.
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