Not quite so cold in the mornings this week but a cool southerly most of the week kept our jackets on. The greens have really tightened up with the colder weather which is quite natural and greens on both courses are putting nicely. The fairways have a good cover of grass which as I often say is critical going into winter.
Some new bunker rakes have been installed on both courses for a trial and first reactions have been positive. It is a very different rakehead and is designed to be pulled rather than pushed with one disadvantage being that you can't really smooth out the face of the bunker by pushing sand if you need to. One of the problems with most bunker rakes is that when they are pulled they drag the sand to the exit point but this one doesn't allow that to happen. So far with the bunker sand being very dry they are working a treat (by those that use them!!) but the test will come when the sand is wet so we will wait and see on that front.
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The new rakehead. |
We hosted the Australian senior matchplay this week and they were given a very well prepared golf course and I would have thought we would have got some respect shown to our courses in return. The photo below shows the shared buggy on 1W very nearly on the green. The Australian senior OOM is used to qualify for this tournament so its not like they are novices with no knowledge of golf etiquette.
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Really?? |
The irrigation install continued this week with the short range and practice greens being installed. Thanks to the members for working around the contractors as they went about their business in such a busy area. We are really on the home straight now with just 1R, 10R, 11R and 1W to be done. We move to 1R next week.
I am off to the Australian Sportsturf Conference next week so there will be no Blog post for the week.