Covid - 19 so far......

Strange times, mowing fairways, greens and tees for no body to play.. The sad truth is that the course has never looked so good... The lack of traffic and wear and tare really helps the course, bit obviously its a double edged sword.

All fertilising, spraying, mowing, aerating cant stop, and truthfully its a chance for our greenkeepers to get ahead of the curve. Thanks to all of them for the tireless work in strange circumstances.

Today Thursday the 9th of April, we lightly sanded greens. This is an effort to even out the surface, and reduce thatch. We hope to do this weekly for a month.

Saturday the 4th, I got my 11k steps in, spreading slow release granular fertiliser over the greens. This high grade fertiliser, will slowly feed the greens, through the roots, while we spray to top up the feed. We put out a really strong dose, after purchasing a pallet load to feed the greens. You can already see the difference. 

So whats ahead, we have sprayed a number of fairways, and all aprons for weeds, along with all tees, they also got a granular feed which last longer that liquid. So we have to topdress the tees and aerate them. We will aerate greens again, and as previously said sand them little and often over the next few weeks.  We have a few more fairways to spray for weeds and we are hoping to divot mix fairways while we get the chance.

On a personal note, I really hope everyone is taking this Covod-19 serious, minding themselves and their families. If any of our older members need anything, you should have all gotten a text with my personal mobile number just give me a call and I will drop whatever you need off..

Stay safe, and wash your hands. 

Colm. 

Last week of March ahead

Its been an odd few weeks over Covid-19, but golf is still ok to play. Certain restrictions apply and we are busy, yesterday the 22nd of March, was something else.

We are hopeful that a number for these people coming up, who may not have played the place in the last number of years, or golf for that matter, will consider joining course and club, and take up golf. The sad truth is that this may be one of the best things to happen to golf for some time.

On the course, we have gravelled the footpaths on the way to the first hole and the 2nd tee. We need to get the 8th green to 9th  tee done this week.
We also bought a 2nd hand pedestrian topdresser, (sand spreader). Makes our lives a little easier on smaller tee boxes. We have sand ordered so all tee boxes and greens will get sanded soon. This is just after a micro hollow coring of greens. Tees will be micro solid tined now, maximum air, minimum disruption.

All tees and greens got a liquid feed on Friday morning, we are waiting on granular feed to arrive, couriers are slower than normal. Then all greens will receive a good feed. Tees got granular last week also, so we are pretty much set up for the season now.