August 2014

New 6th tee coming on well and will soon be back in play! Now getting ready for a busy 2 weeks of greens maintenance ....

6th Tee change..... July 2014

Change of 6th Tee -
Step by step photos of how we changed our competition tee due to it being too small and getting too much wear.
We lifted the old turf and used that for turfing the banks, we used the back arm to start digging it to make it one tier and a lot bigger, one we re-routed the irrigation, we used a lazer and Steve's magic eye :) to get a final level, we shredded the soil we had there to give us our top layer, a rake, tread and a dusting of dressing and we was ready to turf it with a hard Fescue and Dwarf rye mix turf, we hope to have it back in play as soon as possible :)

July

July has been a busy month with preparations for the Club Championships and also the Seniors Club Champs! Lots of cutting, bunker work and ironing of the greens and we managed to get the course in top shape and looking nice, even with such a dry month! Since then we've built a new tee on the 6th and I'll post photos of that shortly, also lots of hand watering on the areas which dry up on and around the greens! Congratulations to Sam Chick and Big Tone (Perella) for winning the two big comps!!

The dynamic change in Greenkeeper's Steve and Ollie since they started :)

It's amazing looking back at photos when we first started at Kirtlington Golf Club, and now look at us! Hard work does pay off :)
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End of June

Finally abit of rain come the end of June, just what the Doctor ordered!!! This week has seen lots of hand watering, cutting and also abit of machine maintenance..

June 2014

Another hot week on the Golf Course with the gaffer keeping on top of the irrigation system!!

A few Snaps from the last week or two including the Gaffer and his sheepish friends, Clivos's hedge trimming, ladies invitation set up, levelling the 14th rough area and the new black wooly Fairway mower lol