Open Day Sunday 24th June

Pro shop & course prep

The new pro shop opened at Piperdam a few weekends ago, it will be a great focal point for golf. So any golf related e.g. Tee times, clubs and accessories etc please go in and see our pro Owen Leslie who will be more than happy to sort you out. We're are also working hard to get the new locker room facilities opened ASAP.

A few more photos of the course prep today.

Club championship semi finals

The course is being set up for club championship semi finals tonight. The greens have been cut and rolled, the holes have been changed to pin position B and the bunkers have been fully raked. We have also carried on with our normal cutting regime with other areas.

Greens sprayed

The greens on the osprey course were sprayed with a tank mix that consisted off primo max (growth regulator), salute (stands the grass up) and vision pro. Vision pro was put on to aid in the recovery of the putting green after the graden work. Research has suggested that this will help with recovery as the pigment will make the plant take in more heat and you will get stronger growth in behind.

putting green

Ball roll on the putting green after graden operation.

Graden

We have tried out our new machine, the graden on the putting green. We fed it with dry kilin sand which goes down the 2mm lines that the thatch has been ripped out off. We also mixed a little bent seed through the sand. We then cleared up the debris, blew and brushed the surface and then rolled with the tru turf. The ball roll was very good afterwards, even though it is quite an invasive procedure. Below is a picture of the surface before, during and rolling after. I have a video of the green being putted on I will add once I get home.

Graden

We have purchased our new machine the graden contour sand injection, this will greatly help us with firming the greens up, drying up faster after rainfall and be more disease resistant. This machine will take out the thatch in 2mm channels 1 inch apart and fills with kilin dried sand. After a roll, disturbance will be at a minimum, it will just be visual lines but will not affect ball roll. We hope to start using the graden on the greens in the next few weeks, I plan to split each green in half and do half at a time then let that side recover before we do the other side. Using the graden is as affective as coring the greens 3 and a half times with large tines but with hardly little effect on the putting surface as the channels are back filled straight away with sand. Below are some photos.