An insight into some of the greenkeeping practices at Piperdam Golf & Leisure Resort
We have finished shaping the pond at the green side on 18. The new fairway slip has also been shaped and top soiled up.
Can I also remember all golfer to stay off newly turfed areas. The weekend showed up quite a few inconsiderate golfers. This is totally unacceptable. We have enough work to get on with without doing the job twice.
We have put in some mounding at the back of the par 3 15th green, this has also been planted up with trees. This will strengthen up the back off the green.
The new 5th tees have been rootzoned up and our digger driver has been busy top soiling around them. There's is a nice shape around them and really make for a really interesting hole.
The 17th green tee top has been finished today, we used all off the 5th green and 3/4 of the 6th green.
We have made a good start at turfing the new 17th green, we are using native turf from the old 5&6 greens. We have so far stripped the 5th green and this has given us enough turf to do about 2/3 of the new green top. We will finish the green top tomorrow with turf from the 6th green. The 14th green will be turfed on Friday with bought in turf from tillers.
Can I remind all golfers to stay off newly turfed areas as some are quite soft below. A little bit off common sense would be a great thing sometimes!
The tee at 15 has been turfed we used native turf off the 8th fairway. This will settle in nicely and a little feed at the start of the year will bring it on.
The two new greens surfaces have had top soil around the edges. Kenny from team Niblick has now gone over the rootzone on the greens with the bunker rake this will take out any imperfections and leave a surface ready for turfing next week.
The weather worked in our favour today. Conditions where very cold overnight and the ground was firm enough to drive on. Both greens have been rootzoned and we will hopefully tie up the soil around the edges tomorrow if the temperatures continue to stay cold.
The 17th green mounding at the back of the green has been shaped. This will incompess catch basins they have also been drained. The irrigation has also been installed around the green. Root zone has been getting delivered and this has been stockpiled in the car park waiting for a window of hard frost to get it onto the greens.
We've turfed the tee top on the new 9th mens tee, we will tie the rest of the tee bank with turf when time allows, the walk on and walk off has been turfed. The next tee we will be turfing is the new back tee @ 17.
The Tees have dried out enough over the weekend to get the root zone on. We got root zone on all new tees except the new set @ 5 & 16, we will hopefully tie them in tomorrow. The material gets loaded on with dumpers and then level out by the 360. We have a guy dipping for depths to make sure it's going on at the right depth. We then have a bunker rake working on top to give final levels before turfing.
