October Spring Greens Renovations Update

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 course the efforts of our brilliant staff, my thanks to everyone involved, from behind the scenes scheduling with our Course and Match directors, Management and Golf shop staff to ensure smooth transitioning of play to closure times through to our volunteers and staff, thanks again.

 We normally remove excess sand once we are confident all core holes are filled, this year as we have over-sown a number of greens we will be leaving a little more sand on the greens than we normally do, we should still be cutting by day 7 at a higher height of cut (5mm), and by all accounts be getting close to having the greens back in 2 to 3 weeks but please allow at least 4 to 5 weeks for full recovery.

During this time can all players please pay extra attention to repairing pitch marks, the greens are at their most susceptible to damage immediately after renovations, the more care you take now, the greater chance we have of bringing them back into normal play conditions sooner.  

 

After all it only took 15 seconds to repair this


Some interesting tit bits

Total Area of renovations 2.5Ha

6 million holes punched in

Removed 5 cubic meters of compacted soil material

Applied 75 cubic meters of sand over all renovated surfaces ( varying depths per area)

 15 labour hours pre renovation preparation ( sand excavation and piling and equipment set up)

200 labour hours to complete all renovation procedures.

20 volunteer labour hours

50g pure coffee

24 muffins

1 carton Dry

Ok I jest, the volunteers drank way more than that J

 

The practice tee refurb is next on the list commencing October 23 followed by our Fairway renovations, details of which including closure requirements have been advised by member email.

No rest for the wicked

 

Till Next Time

Happy Hooking

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