Frustrating week,

The weather has held us back this week, with frost deep in the ground from Monday thru to Thursday. Even today when the rain came, the water sat on the surface unable to penetrate the frost.
We had planned to scarify all the fairways and semi rough, but that quickly went out of the window. Instead we spent 3 days getting on top of our machinery maintenance, 
Many of you may not know that we carry out all our machinery repairs and servicing in house, without the need for expensive outside dealers. This means we are able to save the club a huge amount of money and it gives the staff a real insight into how the machines work and what ongoing maintenance they need.

We did manage to carry out some work on the course, concentrating on repairs to the ditch crossing on the 10th hole.
As you can see, we have used the plastic Netpave material underneath the red shale. This, we hope, will stabilise the shale and prevent washouts in periods of heavy rain. If this is successful, we intend to repeat the process on some of our other damaged paths.