This amazing run of weather continues and we have had to actually apply some growth regulator to the River fairways this week and the West fairways will be done next week along with the tees on both courses.  We have never applied growth regulator before in August and the application in September is normally to just control seedhead.  Even the heavily shaded 4R tee has shown some recovery.  Let's hope it continues because as I mentioned last week it is essential for us to have a very healthy sward of turf given the cart and player numbers we experience.

But no matter how good your turf is you won't beat players who decide to practice from the middle of the fairway on 16R or drive stupidly in a shaded weak turf area at the start of 11R.

At least they tried to sand some of them.

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The irrigation install continued this week with most of 15R being completed.  The contractors didn't work on Friday due to the GC show day so they will be back next week.  And next week we start the installation of a new power supply to the new pump shed which will require a substantial trench to be dug across 16, 14 and 13W fairways.  Some of the conduit was delivered this week and we did some ''potholing'' to locate some of the various services that we need to cross including the town water supply to the clubhouse and the NBN cabling amongst others.  Play on some of these holes will be affected with some temporary tees required to ensure the safety of staff and contractors.  The new pump set is also due to be delivered next week along with its control board for it.  We have selected Grundfos pumps which is the same as our current set which was installed in 2000 and has barely missed a beat.

I will be on some R&R for three weeks from next Thursday so the blog will take a break for the same period.  Till then......