Happy new year to everyone!!!

The first couple of weeks of 2016 has seen us battle everyday with crow damage and also severe wet areas in some parts of the course.
The crows have been very active looking for chafer grubs and at the same time causing a lot of work for us.
They don't seem to be scared by scare crows, golfers or even gun shots and the chemical/insecticide we normally use to minimise chafer grubs has currently been taken off the market and is no longer for sale. Imidacloprid is the active ingredient in merit turf which we have used in the past.

We are hoping that the cold weather which is forecast over the next few weeks should hopefully slow their activity down abit.
All the surrounds and greens will be heavily over seeded and top dressed early spring and we're confident all the damaged areas will come back better than ever.
Please see below photos of damage and the grubs they are searching for.