First Hit of the Year
Welcome to the very first instalment of the Maintenance Blog for 2023 ! On behalf of the greenstaff we wish all our members, staff and patrons a safe and happy New Year, bringing new beginnings, new hope drives find the fairways and your putts the cup ! As I write this, the first round field of our first major event of the year is making its way around our beautiful course. It is always a challenge to get the course into shape benefitting a major event and no more so than on the back of a 3 and 4 day week respectively due to the Xmas and New Year Public Holidays. with early tee times, it was a 4am start for the greenstaff No dinner by candlelight, it was bunkers by floodlights And once we could see The challenge compounded by the increasing winds we experience at this time of year, blowing debris through the course with 35km hr winds being relentless the last few days. Connor with the back pac blower cleaning