Tuesday - Day 2 of Maintenance Week.

Back 9 Open for play with Front 9 Closed for Maintenance.

Front 9 getting a copy and paste of the Back 9 yesterday 💪 Sooooo the pics will mainly be the same 😆

Green's cut,

Greens double Verti-Cut and boxed off,

Debris remaining blown,

3 passes of the dresser in gear Low 2, Gate max, belt & spinners @ 100%.

Wiedermann over the top with 12mm tines to 9 inches at 2 inch centres,

Pro Core over the top with 12mm tines to 5 inches at 1.5 inch centres,

Wait for the 🌞 to do its work and dry the RH37 sand so it falls to the bottom of the various spiker holes when swept.

Heavy spots of sand blown,

Roller over the top to consolidate the surface,

Collapsed hole moved ready for play tomorrow 💪

Tees and Approaches trimmed on the Front 9,

Tee's & Fairways Cored on the Front 9,

Core's swept up and piled up ready for collection when labour permits.

Monday - Day 1 of Maintenance Week.

Front 9 Open for play with Back 9 Closed for Maintenance.... this will potentially be flipped later on to keep momentum going if all goes well.

No operations to the Front 9 this morning and played as it is found....

Back 9 getting the following-

Green's cut,

Greens double Verti-Cut and boxed off,

Debris remaining blown,

3 passes of the dresser in gear Low 2, Gate max, belt & spinners @ 100%.

Wiedermann over the top with 12mm tines to 9 inches at 2 inch centres,

Pro Core over the top with 12mm tines to 5 inches at 1.5 inch centres,

Wait for the 🌞 to do its work and dry the RH37 sand so it falls to the bottom of the various spiker holes when swept.

Heavy spots of sand blown,

Roller over the top to consolidate the surface,

Collapsed hole moved ready for play tomorrow 💪

Tees and Approaches trimmed on the Back 9,

Tee's & Fairways Cored on 9th then Back 9,

Core's swept up and piled up ready for collection when labour permits.

Sunday - Status Green.

Setup with greens cut,

Followed by a spray of feed on target and perfectly timed with tomorrow's Maintenance. In the tank is a smidge more than the normal amount of nutrition they get to keep them moving through Maintenance week. 0.7 units of N in the form of Nitrate, 3.7 units of N in the form of Urea. Also in the tank is some Fe to help with the risk of Disease, due to the stress we will put them under with sanding and aggressive brushing... plus some Mg to give them some Colour.

Holes trimmed,

Approaches cut,

Bunkers raked,

Daily divot.

Saturday - Status Green.

Normal daily setup greens rolled,

Pin positions moved,

Bunkers raked,

Tee set with a divot.

Friday - Status Green.

Big one today... Spamming with Info 🤯

Green's Cut no VL,

Fairway's Mown,

Tee's Sprayed with some N, PGR, Mollasses & Wetter... a splash later tonight so the PGR is absorbed into the leaf and then the wetter is pushed into the soil later. 😃

Daily Setup Task's Completed.

Few tanks of "Total" around the Clubhouse to keep some unwanted grass away.

Next week's Course Maintenance Setup works being completed to the Putter & Chipper as normal practice. This is to get the machines, Depth, Amount of Sand and routines set... ready to rock and roll Monday 😎

Green's Verti Cut in 2 directions,

4t of Sand over the top per Green on average,

Verti drain over the sand with 12mm tines to 9 inch depth,

Then a shallower tine over the top to 5 inches to vary the layers targeted,

Then a wait till sand is dry and a sweep to fill the millions of holes!

Bunker Rakes

Some comments recently on Bunkers and Bunker rakes being swapped etc.....

Bunkers for several seasons now have been flat raked (with the rake upside down)on the faces in an effort to not disturb the sand and make it more compact to help reduce the chance of plugging. An impossible task... but one we try our best to reduce with the above practice.

Then in previous seasons, we have used our "Landscape" Rakes to fluff up the bases which works well.

However... after we have prepared them in the morning, when (and if 😅) Members rake them after use, a different tooth patern is left with the rakes in the Bunkers.

Soooo... as always... in an attempt to every year raise the standards... we have adapted the rakes on the course to meet the same tooth pattern as our rakes.

The original close together teeth pattern were bad for pulling sand away from the middle towards the exit point of the bunker.... the area the sand is not needed!

The newer wider teeth pattern leaves the sand where it needs to be... but rakes the player mess even with one handed use.

Which leaves the bunker in a far better flatter condition for the next player.

Thursday - Status Green

Starting with new hole positions

Following that, Greens are getting a roll

Approaches having a cut

1st cut rough having trim

Tees getting a cut, Tee set up behing a of course a few fairway divoting

Few little strimming jobs on the way round

Tee banks having a cut