Rainfall for the week 0.0 mm
Rainfall for 2025 1036.5 mm
A great week of beautiful
spring weather is having a positive impact on course conditions with playing
surfaces responding just in time for this weekend’s Men’s Club Championships
and Mixed Foursomes Championships.
With the removal of the
preferred lies for the Championship’s, we have marked some weaker areas with
blue paint as per previous years, and you have a choice of preferring your lie
if your ball comes to rest within these areas. Signs will be placed on the tee of any hole where these blue-painted areas are in effect to notify
players.
The scarifying of all tee
pads was completed this week, and the tees were mown for the first time since
Autumn to tidy up their appearance. We will continue to prepare tee complexes with
insecticide applications for mites with a liquid fertilizer to try and
stimulate some early season leaf growth to bring some color back into these
playing surfaces.
We are back to mowing
fairways twice a week with our staff operated mowers, and the robotic mowers
are mowing their fairways at least 3 times a week. All roughs have been mown
this week, and greenside sprinkler heads have been trimmed along with all the
fairway bunker edges.
The greens were lightly
dusted with sand on Monday morning, and this practice will continue on a weekly basis. Regular light topdressing helps
produce truer
and firmer putting surfaces
by addressing the build-up
of thatch over time. Reducing thatch allows water to infiltrate more effectively, improving overall turf health and
resulting in better
playing conditions year-round.
Our volunteers were
on course Monday morning performing a bunker run in front of the competition
players, fairway sprinkler heads were trimmed, drainage pits were trimmed and
cleared, and they were heavily involved with the removal of lockers from the
men’s and ladies locker rooms. Thank you, gentlemen, for an impactful morning’s
work both on and off the course. Your assistance with these works is always
very much appreciated.
Greens will be cut and rolled on Saturday morning and then cut again on Sunday. I will be setting pins on both mornings.
Happy Golfing
The Course Team.
