Forres Golf Course Greenkeepers

A late night verti cut off the greens. This will remove some of the lateral growth in the greens. We will hopefully do it again in the morning before cutting the greens. 🌱

Despite Andrew being away on a two day spraying course and the bunkers we’re needing repaired after the heavy rain and hail washed the sand from the bunker faces into the bunkers, we managed a fair bit of maintenance to the greens.

✅ usual course set up
✅ repair washed in bunkers
✅ verti cut greens
✅ sand dressing applied to the greens
✅ sand brushed in
✅ rolled greens
✅ soil and seeded tees

After a cold period we have seen the growth in the grass check back a bit, allowing us to keep on top of all the cutting. Despite our 2nd application of liquid fertiliser and wetting agent to the greens some of the grasses is still sitting down with the colder weather and frosty starts. This areas will look more yellow and will mostly be found on the more sheltered greens on the front 9.

We’ve started our first cut of thick rough, in line with our rough management plan. This has not been done since September last year, we’re really starting to see the benefits of cutting and collecting the rough.

Our summer labourer has started this week,so if you see Ben out on the course please say hi.

We also have oyster catchers nesting to the left of the 12th yellow tee so please be careful in this area. 🐣