Greens maintenance

We sprayed all the greens in both courses with a tank mix of seaweed and transition (green pigment). This will help strengthen the greens and allow them to absorb more heat as the dark pigment will draw more heat.

We have also started to core the greens on the big course, we have so far got the putting green and the front 9 completed. We are using a mini tine again, this will ensure very little or no disruption but will remove organic matter and allow better air circulation. As it is a mini tine we are blowing the debris to the collar picking it up and then cutting in behind with a pedestrian mower to roll and tidy the surface. Weather permitting we will finish coring tomorrow (wed). This is stage one of my early season greens renovation, if we get a good run of weather I'm planning to use our graden machine to do 18 half greens on the big course. This will ensure that they are still playing well as we will keep the pin to the untouched side but will remove thatch and put dry killin sand straight back into the greens. This will help to firm the surfaces, help water pass through and give a more uniform grass species coverage.