Bunkers

We began edging the bunkers today, we will priorities the most untidy traps, hopefully we will have time before the seasons start to get around them all.  Below is a before and after.

Redevelopment on the OB 18

As you may have seen or heard about.  Piperdam are investing yet more money in the complex with the addition of a new out door activities centre.   This building is situated adjacent to the 18th fairway in the area that was OB, this will be a great addition to the facilities we can offer.   Just now it looks like it may impose onto the 18th but this is just purely the safety fence and when the building is finished it will have no impact on the hole as it falls within the area that was mounding before. This will in fact tidy up an area of the complex that has perennially been quite untidy.

Full course

The frost finally came out the ground enough on Friday.  This allowed us to get the summer greens back on.  We cut them today with hand mowers,  this has tidied the surfaces up.  A big thanks to all golfers over the weekend as I can see a great effort was made to fix pitch marks.  This is especially important just now as the greens are a bit softer than normal.  The greens have also been sprayed with a liquid iron (toughten up sward), fungicide (prevent disease) and a green pigment (harness the heat in the sun).

Tree limbing

This cold weather is a perfect opportunity to get on with some tree limbing.   Some areas have got quite a lot of low growth and require the crowns raised up.   This tidy the trees up but also help promote healthier vertical growth.  The 4th and 10th were limbed today.