Killermont course update!
The last couple of weeks the course has been slightly off peak with a quiet period in regards to events which is great, as gives us an opportunity to get some of the disruptive but “essential” maintenance done. From greens maintenance, drainage works, all mid season fertiliser applications and much more.
It’s all about timing of these applications so that we recover and peak throughout the club championships into members guest.
This week it’s all been about course preparation, ramping up all of our cutting routines getting all growth down to the desired heights and manicuring in our presentation. Now that we have the recovery and coverage on all surfaces we have now applied growth regulators to all surfaces so all growth will be under control and with the best possible turf quality in place.
Since our greens maintenance we have been working the greens back to the speeds we have maintained throughout the first half of the season. We aim anywhere between 10.5- 11.5 depending on the conditions and looking back at our daily updates we worked out that our average greens speed the season so far has been (10.9) and that has been fairly consistent since the Edward trophy week.
Obviously the last 10 days or so speeds dropped off due to the maintenance etc but we are quite pleased with how our greens have performed this year.
Speeds back up to 10.5 this morning with just a cut, a cut and roll could get us 11+ depending on what moisture comes at us.
Also, now we have had the full team in place for a few weeks or so we feel like we are starting to manage some of the more detailed work like flymow and strimming around the course.
We are in real good shape for this weekends club championship qualifiers, one or two things like weeding around signage just got away from us, but we will tick these jobs off early next week before we head into club championships finals weekend.
We noticed that we had been managing to present the course set up to a much higher standard for our Tuesday medals than we had for our Saturdays medals, reason being we would almost certainly have the full team in on a week day which was frustrating.
We have come up with a plan now for us all to be in on for our Saturdays medals for a full course preparation, with half the team in on alternative Mondays to get time back.
We want to present the best possible course set up on all of our main events so we are keen to see what we can deliver on this front moving forward.
This Saturdays club championships qualifier set up is as follows.
Greens 2x cut
Greens rolled
Holes changed
Tees cut
Full tee set up divot & blow
Full bunker preparation
All fairways cut
All approaches 2x hand cut
All weather permitting as there could be some adverse weather but fingers crossed for a good weekend of golf here at Glasgow GC for our championship qualifiers.
Glasgow GC Greens Team
