Posts by Leigh Powell

Tuesday – Status Green, Front 9 Open with Back 9 Closed. Same process as yesterday…. just with the Dresser power unit behaving 🙏🤞 Green’s mown. Approaches nipped. Scarification. Debris that doesn’t make it in the boxes blown. Slinging Sand behind. When bodies are available….. Deep tine over the top of the sand to 8″ and…

Monday – Status Green, Front 9 Closed for Maintenance with just the back 9 open. Greens mown. Greens Scarification. Greens blown. Approaches nipped. Top Dressing postponed for today due to Machinery breakdowns…. hoping to get this fixed or Source a “loan” for tomorrow 🙏 😬😶‍🌫️ It wouldn’t be Maintenance Week without some hiccups!

Sunday – Status Green, with a tinge of white coming in 🥶 Greens rolled…. where possible as frost is forming on some as i type this. Application of Dew Suppressant in and around the Frost. This is being applied to help with disease prevention, but also to do what it says on the bottle…. suppress…

Saturday – Status Amber, Frosty Start…. Greens Dew Removal where possible. Daily Setup Tasks. Flags put out to mark the access pathways through the long rough. Long Rough will soon be creeping up! Practice Ground Ball Collection later.

Friday – Status Red, chucked it down early hours…. 😒 Water movement from surfaces. Green’s rolled. Approaches trimmed. Fresh Pin Position’s. Car Park Blow. Daily setup. Bunker TLC…. Flymo, Strimm, blow and a scratch.

Thursday – Status Green, Practice Ground Closed 12-2 for Maintenance. Greens trimmed with no VL. Fairway’s mown. Newly leveled Tee’s trimmed while dry and firm, before tonight into tomorrow’s rain. Daily tasks. Some granular fertiliser applied to specific area’s. Seed and soil on some beaten up area’s.

Wednesday – Status Green. Green’s Rolled. Green’s having some plant protection in advance of next week’s maintenance…. which will no doubt stress them out. Approaches trimmed. 2nd Cut of Semi topped. Tee Banks mown. Daily Tasks. Tee signage with hole yardages etc are being gradually removed. Don’t panic, they aren’t being stolen…. just being sent…

Tuesday – Status Green. Green’s Cut. Fresh Pin Position’s. Tee’s cut. Smaller & Newly built Tee’s hand mown. 1st Cut of semi topped. Daily tasks completed. Practice Greens getting some Cultural work in preparation for next week. This is to get rates of sand and spacing of holes correct etc

Monday – Status Green. Green’s rolled. Approaches nipped. Green’s getting an application of Turf Hardener prior to Maintenance week next week. Fairway’s cut. Daily tasks completed, plus some posts painted where the Treatment has absorbed into the cut timber. Machinery setup for Maintenance next week. We will be doing some tasks to the Practice Greens…

Sunday – Status Green. Daily setup with greens cut and holes trimmed, Tee set plus a divot from yesterday’s play, Bunkers raked.