Golf
Towering sand dunes, hidden valleys and undulating greens are the main features of the back nine, played with prevailing westerly winds either in your face or on your back
straggly growth. “Cutting at around 3.75mm
through the summer of 2012 enabled us to comfortably achieve our desired green speed of 10.5 or higher,” he said. “Golfers appreciate the measures being taken to achieve truer, more even putting surfaces.” Fertiliser applications are being tailored also to suit the club’s meaner, leaner approach aimed at starving out Poa annua. Paul pointed out that he would normally use a 4:0:4 granular fertiliser with added iron in early spring, but the cold, dry conditions of 2013 had forced a change to a 7:0:7 formulation. “We usually make two granular applications in the spring and then switch to a liquid tank mix, tailored to suit the needs of the turf. The main difference now to, say, six or seven years ago, is that we are not applying fertiliser as a matter of course. Every application must have a purpose.”
Having benefitted from the benchmarking of the quality and performance of P & K’s greens, Paul is now looking to extend the benchmarking approach across wider areas of the golf course.
“Not only do we sit next door to a nature reserve, but part of the course is an SSSI,” he said. “The aim, over the next few years, is to continue thinning and removing the trees, scrub and vegetation that are not a natural part of a dunes system neighbouring the sea.” “To help us restore and manage the land properly, we will be commissioning shortly an ecological survey of the entire golf course. But that’s a story for another day.”
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The Welsh flag proudly flying over the clubhouse
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