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.