Killermont Club championships
We are fairly satisfied with how we presented the course throughout the club championships and the feedback sounds like it performed well too which is great to hear.
It’s always great to see the course and team peak in performance and conditions leading up to our main events.
With a really tough start to the season on the back of a harsh wet winter with as much as 1.6m of rain, followed up with a cold spring, it was tough to get our surfaces to recover to our standards in time for early spring play.
Then it was straight into to some 20 days without a drop of rain in extreme heat so it was all about moisture management with limited irrigation pop ups to greens only, and issues with water feeds etc… that was a challenging period.
But with all of our wetting agents and bio stimulants in place the one measure which stood us in the best possible conditions was raising heights of cut above the stress point, This ensured we maintained full coverage throughout this period, out with the old sand filled drain lines which got away from us.
Mid season maintenance and renovations was welcomed to get some essential aeration, sand and seed into the ground, followed by some good balanced nutritional applications which we are now seeing the benefits.
Our team now have in place some brilliant course preparation routines which is maximising the product for our members, big focus on having all surfaces cut ahead of golf daily, back out for detailed works like strimming, or getting a dry cut to some lush surfaces etc…
Our Club championships and all other evening events we are taking it in turns to do a 2nd course preparation ahead of each round so the course is set up like it was first thing in the morning, managing green speeds, raking bunkers, tee set ups, changing or setting holes and blowing debris etc, we feel this has presented a consistent set of standards for our members.
I cant thank this team enough for all the work and sacrifices when working long unsociable hours, with as early as 5.00am starts to ensure we keep ahead of golf. We do make sure the guys get their down time back and have come up with a weekend rota system that ensures they only work one in 4 weekends, and on the main events when we are all in for full course preparation and they have the Monday off, only the guys who’s weekend it is in, will cover the Monday prep. With exception to this Monday as it is part of members guests preparation, the next couple of Mondays we will be running as a weekend crew to ensure some time back (this won’t have a negative impact as we will have had everything cut on the Saturday or Sunday depending the main event day)
Now onto members guest preparations this weekend and if the weather behaves we should be improved across the course again🌱🏌️♂️⛳️😎
