The renovation work done to the greens this week has been a great success and recovery is well underway. The greens were scarified and we removed around 15 tons of material which was replaced with free draining topdressing.
We have applied around 25 tons of dressing to the greens and this has been brushed and matted in. The down side to these procedures were twofold. Firstly the weather in the build up to it was not kind, in fact approximately 21mm of rain fell over the weekend before we carried out the scarifying.
This obviously had an impact and the greens have softened up in the short term. It goes to show that this kind of work is very important to the general improvement of the putting surfaces and more work is needed on a regular basis.
The other short term issue is that putting down the amount of dressing we did then blunts the blades of the mowers. This leads to a poor quality of cut. Together with the softer feel the greens do slow up.
Today after cutting the greens the mower has been sharpened and cutting heights lowered so that they perform better over the weekend.
We thank you for your patience during this period as we have been on the greens quite a lot recently but the work is essential in improving the greens for the future.
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