Mid Yorkshire Golf Club

MID YORKSHIRE GOLF CLUB

Sept 2013

August Review

Oh, how things change, from July the hottest month of this year to August the wettest, with around 90mm of rain falling.   I­­­n the early part of this month, we continued with our vert-cutting/brushing operations to maintain speed and regular rolling.  We brought our course maintenance forward to August, with the hollow coring of greens down to 1.5” with the core being removed and then the cores removed from the putting surface.  We top dressed all greens with a medium grade sand, we used approximately 60 tons of sand, this was then worked in to the core holes and then we over-seeded with a bent seed.  We applied a liquid feed to the greens.   Tees were sprayed with a wetting agent and regularly divoted.  Further areas of rough were cut back.  Bunkers became a big factor in August with the bunkers being washed out several times.  Sand was moved around and thrown back up the bunker faces, which exposed stones.  We have started to sieve the sand and remove stones and de-compact the sand.

September

Greens:

We will continue doing light dressings to improve the putting surfaces during the month.  We will also apply a granular fertiliser towards the end of the month.  We will keep rolling greens to maintain speed.  We will start to prepare winter greens towards the end of the month.  Greens will be cut to 7mm and top-dressed.

Tees:

Tees will be brushed to improve the quality of the cut, also tees will be over-seeded and top-dressed.  We will continue divoting tees, aeration will commence at end of this month.

Surrounds:

Having monitored surrounds for high traffic areas, we are going to use white lines to try and ease some wear areas.  If our members could follow the white lines, we will all benefit from this in the short and long term.  No golfer likes playing from a bare area.  We will also commence aeration of surrounds towards the end of this month.

Fairways:

We will be commencing verti-draining fairways at the end of the month.  We will start on some of our wet fairways before they become too wet to work on.

Other:

Further areas of rough are to be cut back.  Some bunkers that require sand movement, will be attended to.  Flymo and strimming will continue.

Chris Webb

Course Manager