June storms

Although we still have a week of June to go our rainfall chart show that for this year so far, June has been our wettest month.The recent storms across the south east caused many issues locally  including South Essex with the entrance to the club flooding and much of the course deluged for most of the day.

Most of the bunkers flooded after 58mm of rain,much of it falling in a very short time span,some paths were washed out and debris was washed across some greens.What is referred to as the Bomb hole on the 2nd Heron which had no water in it Wednesday was full by Thursday.There was some marking up from golf carts on path ends on Friday but the sun shone and we  cut all the greens, tees,aprons and some fairways  and the course was being enjoyed by members and societies.

Course Furniture

We have recently updated some of the course furniture on the course , and on the putting green new pins are in place hopefully golfers will take more care of them as some of the previous ones were snapped.

On the greens new cups ,pins and flags have been put in place to give a good standard of presentation  to the green

The greens were recently sarel rolled and top dressed  to aid smoothness and then sprayed with a soluble feed

New bunker rakes have been put out to replace those broken or damaged


To help clean and tidy up the course we have been around with the strimmers along ditches and posts

One of our regular tasks is divotting the tees to help in there recovery from wear by adding and dressing in soil and seed.

 Some of the recent thunderstorms passed over the course, these sudden downpours quickly fill up some of the bunkers requiring us to pump them out so that they can dry out and then we can get them back into play

The flower bed by the clubhouse provides a nice contrast of colour and is attracting many bees to feed on the flowers

In July we are hosting an educational seminar and course walk for Essex Bigga  green keepers on golf course ecology

You will notice on the Heron and Hawk greens we are testing what are called  hole stabilisers these are plastic inserts which help define the hole and make it more visible from distance,it will depend on how long they stay intact and in good condition as to whether  this is something that we will consider for regular use as the cost will come into it