Update
Its been a while since I have written something very substantial. The trend of Twitter seems to have got to me as quick posts during work seem the order of the day.
With no let up in the weather I think the golf course will steadily lose colour and I thought I would just post a up a few recent photos of the golf course looking good. The reviews of the golf course in the last few weeks have been great. We always try to manage the golf course to be the best it can possibly be every day, but sometimes mother nature helps us out. It also shows why the reservoir is much needed. We only have a daily allowance for water and much like your pocket money as a kid, only £1 per day meant you could never get anything big. We are not allowed to save up and just have to spend the daily amount. We have not used much water so far this year, but we just dont have the capacity to ET match the water application, and it will go brown sooner or later looking at the forecast. On the plus side it is great for the members to get great weather and enjoy being a member of this great club.
From the 4th greenside bunker
The 11th hole
The 10th hole - a great viewing point the members rarely see
The 6th hole - we have top dressed this hole a few times in spring and it seems to have made the difference
The 4th hole from the black tees
The third from the blacks, tough shot!!!
and relaxing with a beer after work!!
But there has also been much more work completed before autumn.
The drainage of the chipping green has been completed. We are constantly looking to upgrade this area. The chipping green approach in the winter is very wet and we are always looking to provide first class year round facilities. Hopefully this will go some way to doing that. We have also compleed many projects which will improve the course next year, most of which are drainage. We have improved the drainage on the 2nd dip, chipping green, 11th ladies tee and the 12th ditch. One of our biggest complaint is winter condition and with all the work done last year we should be in much better shape. Thanks to Gary for his continued investment
To keep the fairway in good condition we need good quality tractors to undertake a large amount of work. Our largest tractor, a John Deere 5400, which we use for our woodchipper, vertidrain and fairway topdresser needs and new clutch and other remidial works. It has sone 4000 hours, which is proably the equivialnt to a car doing 100,000 miles.
We are doing more and more of this work in house to ben able to spend our money more wisely. Jim, our Workshop Manager is doing this after work, whilst keeping on top of all his other duties. It is going ok so far, although it might not look like it!
