Its been a couple of weeks since my last post as we have been busy preparing the courses for Captains week and then Club Championship. Most of our time at this period in the year is centred around presentation and making sure all surfaces are in good order for the busy club schedule.

Greens are currently being cut at 4mm and rolled/ironed up to three times per week to maintain good pace whilst not sacrificing the finer grasses by cutting at low heights. Collars and aprons are cut three times per week at 8mm as you have probably noticed we have in some cases taken this collar cut further out from the green to improve the quality of surface and to increase the playability of the immediate surfaces around the greens. The collars and aprons are maintained exactly the same as the greens apart from the height of cut.

Fairways are cut at 14mm three times per week, we have over the last couple of days had contractors in to apply herbicide to a number of fairways which have areas of clover infestation. Divoting is continuing and it was unfortunate we had to cancel the scheduled divot repair evening yesterday due to the bad weather, we hope to have another date soon.

This week we have continued our top dressing and aeration programme with all green being solid tined with 8mm tines followed by a light top dressing of around 11 tonnes. This will be completed on a monthly basis.

I will leave you this week with a number of picture from over the last two weeks.

Pedestrian cutting Captains day Morning.