CAPEL GOLF COURSE MAINTENANCE

Before I update green renovation outcomes I would like to thank the many Volunteers who arrived to pick up and level cores. To many to name individually, and at risk of missing anyone person, all as important as each other, a massive thankyou from the greenstaff !!! It's the same bunch of blokes that put their hand up each and every time they are needed and without which, the club would be all the more poorer for it, figuratively and literally. I would also like to thank my fantastic staff, especially my 2IC Ben for working extra hours over the 2 1/2 days, some 30hrs at fast pace, to get everything done. Thankyou ! I was very pleased with our processes during renovations which have lead to a very clean finish, probably the cleanest finish of renovations I've been involved in 35 years.  As a result of that, the initial expected recovery time, due to the amount of pre renovation works we carried out of 4 to 6 weeks has been reduced by near half that time, anticipating maximum 4 w

I hope this post finds all our members happy and healthy, green renovations are on the way and we all know how our members just love this time of year, happy days ahead !😁 When I last left off, I was bemoaning the frustrating period we went through planning work which eventually was forced to be postponed due the tractor being out of action, we were sweating bricks as we got closer to renovations without the tractor as we use it to load up our native sand for renovations, we need at least week to do this prior to renovations so all sand is ready to go and no delays are experienced.  Thankfully the tractor is back in operation and we have commenced stockpiling sand in preparations just in the knick of time.    Green renovations commence Sunday afternoon 12th March, from 2.30pm and continues through Tuesday 14th. The front 9 holes will close on a progressive basis from 2.30pm Sunday, full course closure Monday and Tuesday.  During the renovation closure all greens will be c