Killermont Course update!!!
It’s been another big week for the team as we increased our cutting routines while ticking off another big project as we prepared the chipping green at the pro shop and transferred the greens turf from 18th green at Bearsden GC.
It was a challenging operation and very physically demanding but the guys smashed it with all work completed in 2 full working days.
Tremendous effort!!!
Monday and Tuesday our staffing levels were really low due to holidays etc..
The guys focused on cutting all surfaces…
Greens
fairways
tees
approaches
greens and bunker surrounds
aprons
and semi rough
various fly mowing
We got the confirmation on Tuesday evening that the 18th Green at Bearsden was available to lift from Wednesday.
Wednesday morning as I was collecting the trailer and hired turf cutter the guys got straight out onto the putting green doing all required preparation, pencil tinned the green, dressed and levelled in rootzone.
We all headed down to Beardsen GC for 10.00
and cut the turf as thick as possible 2” deep 24” wide. This meant the turf slabs were really heavy to manoeuvre around 20kg per slab.
The idea is to take as much of its original profile so that the green will establish as quickly as possible.
So we began cutting and lifting onto the trailer slab by slab, we could only manage 40m2 in one load due to the weight of the tick slabs, we were able to drive down to our PG which meant we could transfer and lay the turf into place on the green with no double handling.
We persevered until around 17.30 and got around half way through.
Thursday morning we teamed in again and met at 6.00am, tooled up and down to Beardsen GC for 6.45.
We continued lifting and laying the turf until all 300m2 was lifted and laid, 8 loads in total.
We actually split the team up from lunch time so that 3 guys were able to get out onto the golf course and undertake some very important maintenance and course preparation.
Ryan was out spraying a nutritional mix onto greens, tees, approaches and aprons.
Frazer had his first attempt at over-seeding the greens, this is normally undertaken by a more senior member of staff but Fraser has shown a lot of competence lately and he worked on until 1900 to give all the greens a full bent seed mix application and he even managed to hit the weaker greens 2x… all in perfect timing for the temps set to rise next week.
The guys done a fantastic job to prep, lift and lay a full green in 2 days work, Fraser applied the new green it’s first bent seed application while the seems and joins were still open, we then began to work across the green forking & thumping any high corners and finished off by running our turf iron over it in 3 different directions.
Unbelievably we were putting across it with minimal ball deviation straight after!!!
Really happy with how it’s worked out, we will now look to apply some heavy sand dressings and apply a recovery fertiliser to push the seed and begin the process of getting it up to standard.
Friday was all about course preparation.
Greens hand cut 4.75mm
aprons hand cut 2x
fairways cut
Tees cut
Approaches cut
Greens sprayed soil & roots nutritional mix and bio stimulants.
full tee set up and seed divot
full bunker rake preparation
turfing the wee practice fairway right of 2green
various GUR white line
Saturday Boby Jones shotgun preparation.
Greens hand cut
Greens rolled
holes changed
full tee set up
full bunker preparation
Now with all the projects out the way and germination temps on the rise we will be completely focused on course preparation and turf quality throughout the course therefore improving week by week.
Kind Regards
Glasgow Greens Team
