February

In the last couple of weeks we have been out with our Weidenmann aerator using 20mm solid tines to aerate those compacted traffic areas of the course around tees ,greens and paths.



We are working through our early spring maintenance on the greens a video to follow later as well as the new path work on the Heron coure

Some of the Maintenance staff attended a recent Bigga Seminar day at Oaklands College to listen to a variety of speakers covering topics from soil science to irrigation. There were two Course managers  who covered what its like to manage a big golfing event at The Grove and whats its like when a club committee decide to invest in there staff  machinery and course at Stoneham golf club. Interesting to hear what goes on at other clubs.

 

One of the tasks not seen by our members and golfers is the excellent work done by our Mechanic Justin who works on all the repairs to our equipment to keep them woking so we can carry out out our regular tasks on the course.Here he is working on the Kubota tractor wiring loom,The Ford Tractor in the background is split in half to find the gearing problem.

 

Spring is in the air with the daffodils coming into flower and crocuses on the clubhouse lawn with a honey bee looking for early nectar and pollen.

 

 

Carrying out essential work on the Greens

 

We have used the weather window after the snow and frost to carry out essential work on the greens see video below

 

 

 

Now that the greens are a little softer and more receptive to turf repair we have returfed the damage on the 9th Hawk green that was done  by a hydraulic oil leak a few months ago see video below