Hundreds of silver birch and scrub oak were removed - much to the members dislike at the time!
potash to help retain sward density and colour.
The course does have an
Above: Winter work includes replanting heather and gorse
Right: Bernhard Langer’s famous tree shot is preserved for posterity
Below: (l-r) Colin Loseby, Iain Leakslot, Alex Pansar and Mark Mennell
irrigation system capable of watering tees, greens and parts of the fairways. However, Mark will only use it as a last resort to restrict his watering programme to a minimum. For example, last year he only used 1685 cubic metres of water for the whole course. During hot spells he tends to use the irrigation
system to cool
the surfaces down applying about three minutes of water per green. This is supplemented by a programme of hand watering when, every morning, a team of four staff will go out and walk the greens and hand water them whilst, at the same time, applying a wetting agent.
Cutting heights on other
grass areas are: collars 8mm, tees 8mm and fairways 10mm all year round. Semi-rough is kept at 50mm and rough at 100mm.
The feeding regime is kept to a minimum with a combination of granular and liquids feed being applied throughout the growing periods. A granular 5:0:14 is applied in April and followed up with a liquid iron programme as required. Further applications of fertilisers are applied - a seaweed extract of 14:0:9 and, in the autumn, at 5:0:28. Following an ecological
report by the STRI’s Bob Taylor in 1997, hundreds of silver birch and scrub oak, that had been encroaching into playing areas were removed, much to the members dislike at the time. However, this has resulted in the return of the heathland type grasses, molinia etc. replacing the rye grass and Yorkshire fog, and reinstating the natural heathland appearance of Fulford. Mark explains that spraying on the golf course has also been cut back dramatically.
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