verti drain

•  verti drain all greens last week 12mm x 330mm tines down to a depth of 200mm .
• this is a slow machine but it does a good job puts lots of fractures into the soil & reduce compaction.





 

• hollow coring all greens straight after the verti drain
• as you can see their is alot of cores to pick up of the green
• push core off the green to be pickup
• once green is cleared change hole brush green then cut ready to be top dress the following week

• 50mm x 50mm spacing

•  this week we be top dressing all greens

• before top dressed we applied a seaweed meal
• brushed into holes over seeded greens with pure bent grass also brushed in ready  to be top dressed
• 13th green top dressed
• brushed & drag mat

spiked greens to get air into the greens this was done 2weeks ago

4th fairway

6th hole also are greens mower a john deere 2500e 

13th fairway looking back to tee 

8th fairway brushed and cut

3rd green

VERTICUTTING GREENS

          Verticutting is a process by which the grass plants are sliced vertically to promote lateral movement of bentgrass.  By promoting lateral movement, any weak or thin areas will fill in more quickly than if left alone.  This process is augmented with seed, fertilizer, warm temperatures (without frost), and water.  Our verticutters mount onto one of the greens triplex mowers, so it looks very similar to mowing greens.

new root growth

Fertiliser on all greens, tees, approaches. rough cut today tomorrow we set up the course for the weekend. rain forecast for tonight. as you can see from the picture new root growth over 6" 

some pics of the course

6th hole

15th fairway

8th fairway

1st tee





1st tee





looking across 18th fairway towards 17th green





5th hole



18th fairway

don't walk on bankings please

pic 13th tee above rake and seeded
pic 13th tee below to someone now has walk up and down bankings
 at 13th tee 5th tee we have seeded these areas

top dressing greens

3rd & 9th green top dressed ready to be brush and dragmat in.

view from the 5th tee of the 4th green

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5th tee banking

raked and seeded all these areas will be classed as ground under repair

sarrel roll greens then verti drain greens



sarrel roll greens



verti drain 1st green

new sand in one of are bunkers

thatch away greens again and rolled i will keep this going on a through the summer, we have also got the tee bankings,humps and bumps, round bunkers cut.
i've cut fairways and cut semi rough.

5th fairway brush and cut and reshaped

5th tee behind 4th green landscape work on the 5th tee banking to make it safer to cut

9th fairway reshaped brushed and cut

winter work 2010-2011



ditch at back at 14th green




ditch at 15th

                                                                     

                                                                 


ditch at  back of 14th green


                                            


13th tee banking



13th tee banking




ditch at 13th




ditch at 13th




18th green looking down to 1st green




banking front of 1st tee left hand side




8th Approach reshaped