Rubber Matting

We have recently installed rubber matting on the exit of Hamish`s Bridge.

This area gets very heavily worn and needs returfing at the end of every season, by installing rubber matting this year we will not have to returf it again saving time and labour costs!

The grass will grow through the matting and once it thickens up you wont be able to see the mat.

St Olaf Greens Maintenance

Today we have started to scarify the St Olaf Greens were going about 13mm deep and taking out a lot off organic matter .After this has been removed we are overseeding and topdressing them by hand .

Maintenance Week

We have had the main course shut from Monday to Thursday to crack on with our Autumn Greens renovations this included  15mm Solid Tining + Overseeding  then Disc Seeding with the Charterhouse 804 and lastly Topdressing .
      All greens approaches were either solid tined and overseeded or Hollow cored and Overseeded depending on thach levels .
     Fairway Overseeding continued throughout the week .
Several wet spots around the course will be drilled and filled to aid drainage with a Post Hole Auger Loaned Very Kindly By Royal Dornoch Thanks Eoin.

Overseeding Fairways

Weather this morning was perfect for seeding fairways no dew first thing and no rain forecast till late afternoon.

               

A Great Strike !

The two pictures below were taken before cutting in the morning and show very well what a great strike we have achieved from the latest Overseeding.

Overseeding Fescue.

Today we are overseeding the big course greens with Fescue .

                                          
 The John Deere Aerocore is used to make thousands of small plant pots at about 2 inch square spacings and about 1 inch deep.

                                   
 We then use a broadcast spreader to apply the seed and a light dose of poultry manure.

                                 

 This is then astro drag matted  into the holes ,after this a turf iron is used to consilodate the surface then topdressing is fired on and astro drag matted in.

The  final clean up involves a cut with the triple mower and a vibro roll in behind.                                                        

Rescue

Four weeks to the day we sprayed the chemical called Rescue(Pinoxaden) on the big course greens this was done too clean out primarily Rye grass on several greens but also some yorkshire fog and scruffy Highland Bent.

                                          1st Green 2.5 weeks after spraying .

                                     2nd Green 3 weeks after spraying.
Overseeding has been intensified on all the weaker areas for the last three weeks to get these infested areas filled in /closed up with finer grasses ASAP.