13/12/17, Not a lot happening on the courses just now but at least someone has found it constructive . |
13/12/17. Snow and hard frosts seem to be the norm at present . Hope it clears soon so we can get some golf ! |
6/11/17. Digger in to clean out pond at 10th . |
6/11/17. All vegetation will be taken out . Pond wasn't drained to help minimise the wildlife impact on doing this work. |
9/11/17 . Both our deep aeration machines have been out de compacting the Fairways on Hawkshill. 7" depth. |
13/ 11/17 . Badgers at this time of year can be very disruptive to turf digging for grubs and worms . |
14/11/17. Put up hoops to deter golfers from walking over the weak turf to give grass a chance of recovery only for badgers to rip it up . |
16/11/17. Staff removing branches that are hanging down too low on pine ,birch and alder trees. |
20/11/17. Channel drain installed on the path at the 11th on Swailend . |
21/11/17. Finished drain at the 11th path on Swailend. |
16/11/17. All lower branches are removed to make it easier to cut around and for golfers to play away from . |
16/10/17. New matted path from 6th green on Swailend through to the 7th tee.This is to save the area beside bunker and the tee banking getting damaged . |
16/10/17. Trees in woodland right of the 15th hole slowly getting taken down. |
27.10.17. This article is related to a ban by the European union on the chemical used to control worm casts . This will cast up a lot of issues with Greenkeping course presentation . (pardon the pun) |
26/10/17.One of our staff Dennis Grant is part of a new initiative to get young greenkeepers more educated in all aspects of greenkeeping by ways of better training and education. YGC (young greenkeepers committee ) was lauched at Auchterarder golf club where Dennis was part of a 4 man team to promote this aim. There was also a course walk on the Gleneagles courses by the Head Greenkeepers there ,
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3/10/17. Total rain fall since start of August. 252.7mm |
3/10/17 . Chris Lamb does well at Greenkeeper National Championships. |
4/10/17. Trees behind 16th tee (in forrest) getting taken down by the forestry commission. This will make a big difference to the sun light coming onto the tees and 15th green. |
10/10/17. Eventually we got going and with a good team effort we managed to get all Hawkshill done and then started Swailend . |
Top tine is a top eject hollow tine and the bottom one is a side eject hollow tine . |
11/10/17. Updated weather station readings . This is from the start of August when I installed the station. |
14/9/17. Trees at the 1st getting thinned out , this will help make better viewing from clubhouse of the 1st hole |
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19/9/17. View from the putting green. It has fairly opened up the hole. |
19/9/17. Squirrel box on tree next to club , lets hope we get a few to use it . |
22/9/17. The rain gauge doesn't seem to stop mounting up . Now sitting at 233.9mm of rain since start of August. |
10/9/17 .All worth it in the end to see the local team pull through to win this title . well played lads . |
Some nice comments from the players. |
8/9/17. Both courses were getting used on Friday and tee off 7.30am so meant 5am starts . |
8/9/17, Early morning for the staff on Friday , just as well we had both lights on . |
10/9/17, Great week just a pity the rain tried to spoil the week. |
4/9/17. Scottish area team championships this week . Hopefully weather plays ball .Courses were looking good at the weekend with greens running very nice . |
8/9/17. Being a Greenkeeper does have some perks :-) . Beautiful skies this morning.
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12/9/17 . Double scarification of the greens on Swailend .
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12/9/17. This will help remove any thatch that's built up and cuts open any moss that is visible . |
13/0/17, Weather station rain gauge this morning at 9am . This is the rain fall since start of August when the Weather station was set up. 185mm of rain ( 7 and a 1/2 inches of rain |
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14/9/17. No end to the rain at present . This was at 9am |
14/9/17. This is the 15th fairway on Swailend . |
19/9/17. Rain gauge shows 216.7mm of rain from start of August (when weather station was installed) to now. That's a serious amount of rain . |
21/8/17 6th hole on Hawkshill looking very smart , Heather on the hill starting to flourish with purple flowers. |
27/7/17. Verti cutting greens on Hawkshill. 27/7/17. Double pass on greens . |
15/7/17. New weather station now up and running , ready to monitor and store useful information . |
27/7/17 . Verti cutting helps to aid vertical growth of grass , cutting off horizontal blades of grass , removes seed heads . this will help speed up greens , and creates a smoother putting surface . |
27/7/17. Brushing greens will lift up any seed heads and grass that was missed by verti cutting . |
27/7/17. After brushing Greens , they were cut again . |
31/7/17. Terraspiking greens on Hawkshill . 8mm solid tines going in at 7" depth . |
31.7.17, This Aeration work is vitally important in keeping grass healthy, promoting better root development , better drainage , and airing the rootzone . |
31.7/17. To check the working depth of the machine , we use a tie wrap which inserted into the tine hole gives us a measurement , then we put it up against the depth sticker on the machine. |
31/7/17. Topdressing greens . |
31/7/17. Brushing in the Topdressing. . |
31/7/17. Checking depth with a tie wrap. |