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of them. I’m sure they look very nice in a formal garden, or on the seafront at Torquay, but the leaves used to cause havoc with the mowers and, if a ball were to go into them, it would never be seen again!” If all that wasn’t enough, Simon confirms
that their new washdown area will soon be completed. “This has been built by local builder and past captain, Ian Churcher, who, at first, had no idea what were asking him to build, but now only requires planting of the reeds to be completed.” “Having looked at the price of purchasing
a washdown area, I decided that we could do something similar ourselves for a fraction of the cost. It has taken a fair bit of planning, but I’m hopeful it will serve us well in the future.”
With so much work going on around the
course, I ask Simon if this has impacted on presentation. “No,” is Simon’s short answer. “Presentation ranks very highly with us. I like to think that we try to make the course look and play as good as we can, whether it be Ladies Day or a Friday afternoon roll up. Although, we did struggle to maintain the bunkers through, what seemed, an endless wet winter. In our fixture list, we have just over twenty days free from 1st April to 31st August when there isn’t some kind of competition or another. It is sometimes difficult, but the 8.00am, 1st tee start helps us.”
“We have a maintenance week in early March and late September. During these
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weeks the greens are ours to perform whatever maintenance I feel is required for the next few months. We always apply a heavy topdressing during these weeks and usually combine deep aeration and scarifying, if possible.” “We find that, being so far down the
country, the haulage costs for getting topdressings and other supplies are very high so, as a result, we perhaps don’t put down as much as I would like throughout the
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