Greens

The big course greens have been top dressed (10 ton of medium course sand) and had a liquid feed applied.   We sarel rolled the greens in 2 directions dressed on top and then went over with the sarel rollers again with the drag mat behind.   We then worked the sand in with vibrating brushes and the tru turf roller.

They had 30 litres of 25-0-0 which works out about 9.7 kg-n/h, this was tank mixed with 20 litres iron (strength and colour), 0.4 litres of primo max (growth regulator) and salute (stands the plant up).

The wee greens have also been top dressed (5 ton of medium course sand) they then had a 4-0-8 fertiliser applied.

6th fairway open for play

The landing area on the 6th fairway is now open for play, the turf still needs a little time to knit together so we will be keeping the height up for the next few weeks.  Please treat the fairway as preferred lies.  If your ball ends up on the surrounding seeded areas please take a free drop to your nearest point off relief.   Under no circumstances take any golf trolleys or buggies over the seeded area, please choose the shortest walk on and off these areas, many thanks. 

We have carried on with our regular course maintenance and we have also sarel rolled the greens this will introduce some air into the surface.

Course presentation

The course is coming up nicely with the cutting that is going on just now.  We're managing to pretty much get most areas cut by ride on mower except the 2 new greens and approaches these are still being hand cut.  Can I remind all golfers not to be silly and stay out of all seeded areas as it's very unhelpful and lazy on the golfers behalf.  Please only step into areas areas of GUR to retrieve balls don't take your trolley through.

14th green

The 14th green has also opened this week this was in play for the mid week medal below is a photo of the pin on the green but we still had to cut and roll.

Seeded areas

The soil conditions finally got to a workable dryness at the tail end of the week.  This allow us to get out and get the  areas at the 6th fairway surround and 16th tee carry stone buried and levelled off and over seeded.  This will now tick away and we should see some greening up over the next few weeks.  The areas we seeded out a few weeks ago e.g. 17th green surround have started to turn green with the seed bursting out and starting to grow.  The turf on the 6th fairway has also been getting flymod this week and is starting to firm up nicely.

14th green

With the 17th green now open we've turned our attention towards the 14th to get that ready in preparation for opening.  This turf was imported unlike the 17th which we used the old 5th & 6th greens.  This means we have to be a little more patient with it as it's younger turf and hasn't been treated like a normal greens surface.  We have just about got the height to where we want it to be.  We have given it a few more top dresses to smooth the surface and we have also over seeded it.  We needed to get the rest of the green  site sorted, we have edged and filled the bunkers and have started to get the approach down to the required height.  This green is just about ready, we are still be on time for opening, we may even get it on early as well.