Work has progressed well this week and the main focus of our work has been refining and preparing all surfaces which are improving daily.

Our maintenance and management work this week has involved applying our programmed liquid seaweed to greens collars and aprons, seaweed helps with recovery and is a general tonic for the turf.

Rolling of greens has also been completed to help restore surfaces after the recent aeration work, during the growing season we aim to roll the greens at least twice per week. Rolling also enables us to reduce the frequency of cutting during periods of stress without sacrificing pace in the greens.

We are always looking at ways to improve the quality of cut on all playing surfaces and this week we have been trialling a brush system which is attached to the from of the mowers and helps to lift the grass before cutting. the brushes in the pictures below have been very successful. Brushing at this time of year also helps to stand up procumbent growth, this is especially the case with bent grass and given we have a large proportion of bent in our greens brushing does really help to stand up the grass before cutting.

We are currently cutting greens at 4.5mm, collars and aprons are cut at 10mm and fairways at 15mm. We have cut all these areas at least three times this week to improve surfaces.
We have also spent time this week plugging out rye grass from the collars, rye grass at this time of year is very evident given its very clumpy growth habit so we use the tool below to plug it out and replace with good turf from our turf nursery.

Finally the 5th Highagte will be fully open this week, no GUR and bunkers in play. It really does look good and a great improvement.