Friday 12th February

Frost this morning, not that hard though so we kept the pins on the main greens. A really nice day today giving us the chance to top-dress the remaining fairways.

Other jobs today:

raising the drain and re-turfing at the right-hand side of the 18th green,

re-turfing an area with heather at the 8th hole,

and revetting bunkers at the 11th green

and 3rd fairway.

Wednesday 10th February

Hard frost in the ground this morning, pins put on the winter greens. Even though there was a frost all the guys managed to carry on building bunkers. In the afternoon we brushed the greens and cut behind with triples at 4.7mm.

Another hard frost expected tonight again.

Tuesday 9th February

Can't believe we had a full day of sunshine. Today a few more bunkers were finished.

One at the 9th green,

and one at the 7th green,bunkers also underway at the 3rd fairway.

Other jobs today include turfing at the 10th fairway and spreading iron on the remaining tees from yesterday.

Monday 8th February

A nice dry day for a change gave us the chance to spread iron on the greens today.

We also managed to top-dress 5 fairways. Other jobs today included turfing areas around gorse bushes and spreading iron on the pro tees.

Wednesday 3rd February

The ground is still hard with frost today. Jobs today include gorse cutting and bunker building.

Due to the frost, the guys could only build so far. Luckily we have a few bunkers dug out ready for building.

Tuesday 2nd February

Frost still in the ground this morning, bunker building still carried on at the 2 nd fairway. In the afternoon we managed to dig out a few more bunkers. Even though the turf at the nursery was slightly frozen, we managed to put a few loads of revetting on trailers and workmans. At the end of the day, instead of putting the trailers in the tractor shed we put them in the main building. Hopefully the turf will thaw out with the heat of the building.

Today we also had guys at the 17th and 9th holes doing a spot of gorse pruning.

Monday 1st February

Cold start this morning, hard frost today with the pins staying on the winter greens from the weekend.

On Friday, we managed to dig out a few bunkers. We also loaded trailers with revetting ready for bunker building at the 2nd fairway today. Even though it was hard frost we managed to dig out bunkers at the 3rd fairway and 7th approach today.