February Green Keeper News

MID YORKSHIRE GOLF CLUB

FEB 2014

January Review

Wow! What a month and a start to a new year.  We have had over 100mm of rain this month, which is roughly 4”.  This has spoiled our good run this winter, with over 2.5 days lost to course closures.  We had to implement a few things to assist the course this month, for example: carry only, an 8 hole loop, more roping off and moving tees around in attempt to find drier areas.  I understand some golfers may not approve of these implementations, but I have to consider the long term determent to the course. With the course being so wet, it has limited the duties we can undertake, it has seen us doing some work on the 15^th fairway, levelling the hollows out in the centre of the fairway, also, we have filled in the fairway bunker.  The bunker is now ready for turfing.  We are also working on the 7^th fairway, levelling the hollows on the apron.  We have sanded large areas on the course to assist the drying out of the areas.  We have hand cut all greens this month.  Work has been carried on out ditches to enable better drainage and to encourage the water to run off quicker.

February 2014

Greens:

We hope to continue our aeration programme as and when the weather permits.  We intend to do some spraying of a fungicide/worm suppressant on all greens this month.  We will also continue to hand cut greens this month. 

Tees:

We will spray tees with a worm suppressant this month.  All tees will be divoted in preparation for the forthcoming season.  We will continue with our aeration programme on tees, as and when weather permits.  We will continue our relocation of tees to look after the areas.

Surrounds:

We will continue our traffic management of surrounds.  We will continue our aeration programme for surrounds, as and when weather allows.  We will re-turf some of our bare areas.

Fairways:

We will attempt to continue to verti-drain fairways, if the weather allows.  Fairways will be divoted this month.

Other:

We will carry on maintaining bunkers this month, some bunkers will be topped up and the 15^th fairway bunker will be turfed.  The area on the 7^th fairway will be levelled and turfed and some of the drain lines will have a dressing of sand applied in an attempt to level the areas.  Wet areas will be sanded in the hope that this will assist the drying out of the areas and ensure no further deterioration of the areas. 

Chris Webb Course Manager