Friday 17th October 2014.

We have been very busy this week with the commencement of our renovation period.

All the tees have been hollow cored, meshed to knock soil off cores, broomed to clean up and mowed this week. We will also be looking to scarify and deck mow them in the coming weeks.

We have also commenced the coring of some fairways. We have completed the coring of the 1st, 5th, 7th, 11th, 15th and 17th fairways with a 25mm hollow tine to a depth of 6 inches. This depth of coring is necessary as we have a thatch/mat (organic) layer to this depth in some areas. It is therefore very important that we get down to the sand base to help with water and nutrient movement.

Once cored the cores are allowed to dry and then they are meshed to knock off sand before they are vacuumed and watered. This loose sand that can hold valuable nutrients, then makes a good topdressing material.

Some further fairway renovation will be undertaken in the latter part of next week but our priority early next week will be the coring and topdressing of our greens. This should be completed over Monday and Tuesday.

Hopefully the weather will assist us by being fine as this will give us a better finish to the renovation process. Once the topdressing sand is on the greens we shall brush and irrigate numerous times in the days following to work the sand into the core holes.

Everything going well our greens should return to normal in 4 - 5 weeks.

Cored and cleaned up fairway with topdressing sand.

Renovated fairway before watering and mowing.