CAPEL GOLF COURSE MAINTENANCE

For the first time in 4 years we had a clear run through our Spring Greens Renovation period with the weather, after the past 4 years of rain interruptions I was starting to think I was cursed and as today is Voice referendum day, I think it appropriate to thank Wuluwaid and Bunbulama for turning off the taps this time round ! Please let that be the end of rain affected renovations.   Thanks to my fantastic staff who tirelessly put in some very long hours and hard work over the closure period we not only managed to successfully complete the full greens renovation program of verti cutting, coring and sanding, we also completed all Green Approaches to the same program and Tees renovation which were dethatched using a pedestrian verti mower over some 1 Ha of tee area, along with coring and sanding. This outstanding result with the amount of work required could not be completed without the course closure, the help of our wonderful volunteers cleaning up cores and of cours

  The past 4 weeks have been busy to say the least, a pattern of which will only get busier as we head through Spring renovation period and Summer, as mentioned last month we are looking forward to a spring that is looking like a normal one this year.   Retic maintenance commenced this past 4 weeks with a considerable number of issues to attend, both as preventative maintenance and some remedial works as well, all this between course preparations for major events we have or are about to host, the Ladies 4s championships, Mens 4s championships and Mixed 4s Championships, we have hosted the Drummond 54 hole classic and of course to wrap the month the Capel 3000. All of these events require extra maintenance from the obvious grooming with the 1%ers attended to, and not so obvious nutritional, pest and turf stress programs kicking into gear through to behind the scenes work such cutting heights and sharpening of cylinders to meet the expectation for conditions of these events. Its not