The first divot repair evening went ahead on Thursday 6th June it was a great success and enjoyed by all members who attended, thank you all as this kind of work really does make a difference. I will be organising further evenings in the future, I will keep you posted with dates.

Our main focus on the course has been presentation and making sure all surfaces are managed correctly with major club competitions scheduled over the coming weeks.

With the weather also warming up we have to keep an eye on soil moisture and making sure if we do irrigate we only use this as a tool to keep the turf alive, we use a soil moisture probe and irrigate when the moisture falls below 10%. We complete hand watering to isolated areas if needs be rather than using the irrigation system, this allows us to maintain a healthy sward dominated by the finer grasses, over watering would only encourage the shallow rooted poorer grasses.

Greens are currently being cut at 4mm with pedestrian mowers Monday to Friday and ride on's being used during the weekend. We are also rolling in the region of three times per week to increase speed without dropping height of cut and increase smoothness.