Course Notes - 10.10.25

🌿 Course Notes 🗓 10th October 2025

✍ From Tom, Course Manager

🌦️ Course Conditions & Weather

Aside from the small matter of Storm Amy, the weather has been relatively settled since mid-September. The course continues to recover well from the dry summer months - reassuring for future years.

In September, we recorded 87mm of rainfall, slightly above the monthly average of 85mm.

⛳ Greens Update

Unfortunately, Dollar Spot disease has appeared on several greens. Frustratingly, the specific greens affected tend to vary each year. We’re maintaining our turf health programme to continue improving soil conditions and resilience.

We’ll also carry on with selective hedge and tree removals to improve light and air circulation, as recommended by our agronomist.

A liquid feed is planned for next week — our sixth this year — alongside two granular feeds, which is more than in previous years.

We attempted hollow tining recently, but the sub-surface remained too dry, so we instead solid-tined greens and surrounds on holes 7–9. The remaining holes will be completed next week.

🗒️ Project Updates

Alongside our regular greens maintenance, our Autumn and Winter focus will be on three key areas:

1️⃣ Tee Improvements

We’ll be improving grass teeing areas to ensure better playing surfaces for most of the year. This will include levelling, topdressing, and overseeding as required. Raised tees that aren’t cut by the Robots are now cut a little higher to help recovery from the Summer wear and tear.

2️⃣ Tree & Hedge Maintenance

We’ll continue to thin or remove foliage restricting healthy turf growth, while also planting new trees in ‘out-of-play’ areas to maintain biodiversity and habitat balance.

3️⃣ Bunker Maintenance

We’ll be edging, reshaping, and replenishing sand across all bunkers. Some, such as the 9th greenside bunker, will need more significant work to reduce the face and remove sand splash build-up.

🍂 Autumn & Winter: Protecting the Course

As conditions soften, we ask all golfers to adapt their habits to help protect the course:

• Switch to carry bags where possible; those using trolleys should carry divot sand.

• Replace divots and repair pitch marks — aim for two per green to make a big difference.

• Follow roped areas and avoid shortcutting to greens and tees; these routes will be added as needed to protect high-traffic zones.

📝 Next Update: End of October

— TN