20/6/11

The greens on both courses have been fed with nutri pro 12-0-11 granular feed, this contained iron and we got quite a reaction with foot prints it even showed up a few golfers who have been taking there golf trolleys over greens!!!!!!! They have lost there blackness after a few days and have got a nice colour now. We have been carrying on with our regular maintenance regime. The new synthetic tee surface at the driving range has been decided upon and we hope to have it installed very soon.

We have also managed to get to some of the smaller jobs taken care off we have edged all pop ups, gully pots, yardage markers and the drop zone mats at the first. A drop zone mat will be added at the 13th and we will also edge around the dropzone mat at 11.

Course set up on friday, the greens being rolled and the holes being changed.




The drop zone at the 1st being edged.



Reaction from the iron on the putting green, this discoloration was gone after 3 days.

10/6/11

We have tried two new products on the greens this week in a tank mix. The first product is the new version of osprey wetting agent called osprey active, the new osprey active has amino acids so unlike its predecessor this will help to produce chlorophyll which will increase in levels of photosynthesis to help with growth and the amino acids will also help the root structure. The second product is called stand up this basically makes the grass stand up so we can get a cleaner cut and will also aid in the removal of seed heads when cutting this will reduce bobble and increase green speed. The tees and approaches have also been taken down in height slightly this generally is giving a better finish.

We are still only cutting the greens with pedestrian mowers during week days and this is giving us a really nice finish and ball roll.




greens being sprayed

06/06/11