Course update!!!
Great working conditions this week and we feel like we are now beginning to see the course take shape.
Monday was all about course set up preparation as we cut all surfaces.
Greens
tees
approaches
fairways
We also made a start on bunker maintenance with the redistribution of sands and topping up where low, this continued all week and will be complete by end of play next week, (very labour intensive & time consuming)
Holes still to do 2,3,4,5,6,17
Tuesday we undertook some essential greens maintenances.
Each green was dressed with 1-1.5 tonne of sand, then pencil tine aeration, brushed and hand watered in.
We normally look to do this work ahead of heavy rain forecast but we felt that waiting on rains would mean sand disruption could get in the way of competitions and events if we held off.
We did our best not to disrupt golf as we were out sharp on Tuesday morning at 5.00 am. Working in number order until golf was close to catching us, we then jumped to work 18th working back until we met golf and then we stopped for the day.
This only left us 8 greens on the course to tackle Wednesday morning 5,8,910,11,12,13,14, we then did the same work to putting and practice greens.
There is of course some excess sand on the greens but we are watering it in daily until down off the leaf completely into to the profile.
Thursday our bunker maintenance continued and we made a start doing a full blow and collect of debris across the course, we managed to have the course completed on Friday morning.
We are now much more tidy for that work.
All practice range surfaces was cut on Thursday also.
Various strimming and flymow work.
Friday…
Greens cut
Holes changed
Tee set up & divot
Fairways cut
Tees cut
Approaches cut
Blow and collect debris
Full bunker rake
Cundy guards removed
Soil spill from drainage left of 10th tee shaped and seeded.
Tree trunks removed from the left of 10th at fence.
Looking ahead to next week it looks like we could be in for some frost mornings as the temps look set to fall.
On a positive note, we have been comparing some historically weak bare areas which we did a lot of work with seed and rootzone dressing last year and to find them come through the winter with full coverage is very encouraging to see.
We will deploy the same plan much earlier on this time round and the challenge will be to have full coverage throughout the course going into June as opposed to the end of the season last year.
We appreciate the patience of our members on what has been a slow start getting up to speed.
Kind regards
Glasgow Greens Team!
