The weather has been really great this week and at last some heat

 with the grass growing pretty hard, we have been using our brush before cutting to help stand up the grass and lift lateral growth

 In the afternoons we have been working on our turf nursery, it has been rotovated, stone buried, firmed, lightly raked, seeded then lightly raked again

 We all the growth, we have been out verti-cutting greens on both courses to help control the growth and thatch build up

all bunker edges and faces have been sprayed with a selective herbicide to control weeds

 After the welcomed rain on Saturday and Monday we are getting a lot of grass growth now, so we have been turf ironing behind cutting to help gain surface speed on the greens over both courses and we are now at our full cutting program

 We have repainted and replaced club logo sticker on our shoe cleaner

 Another irrigation leak at tee 5 on the Balcomie course

 When we get a chance we have continued working at the 13th path on the Balcomie course by adding in cross drains etc to save material washing down onto the course in heavy rain

 We have been getting of turf nursery ready for seeding

 This week we held a TGI event on the Craighead course

 With the very dry weather continuing, the irrigation system has been on most nights to water greens, surrounds and tees and hand watering through the day of any other areas and high spots, so we have been trying to keep up with repairs to the older Balcomie course system

 replacing ball valves for our hose points that were leaking

 mains pipe to the 4th green

 Replaced all pipework/valves etc in the box at green 10

 mobile sprinklers out on fairways 2 & 12

 We have replaced the 1st tee bin and Pro shop bin with larger sized bins to cope with the litter on very busy days

 The Craighead greens are recovering well and will be back to normal in a couple of days now, we have applied another light sand dressing to help in the recovery

 We have started to spray our fairways and semi-roughs with a selective herbicide to control the daises

 We hired a spray contractor to help us with all the larger fairways/semi-roughs and driving range

we have nearly completed edging/weeding and topping up our tee paths, just the 15th tee path and 13th maintenance path on the Balcomie course to complete