Golf
One of the volunteer helpers was Ladies Captain Jayne Jones ...
Fairways take two days to cut - with a tees mower! ... now with improved muscle toning!
surrounds machine. A new Stihl strimmer and a Hayter rotary machine were also purchased very quickly. Things were moving fast and beginning to look up on the grass cutting front. I also have access to a new Ransome MP493 wide area rotary mower, which helps to make the cutting of the semi rough a lot easier. However, as well as the grass cutting which needed to be done to get the course into shape, there were still mountains of sand which needed to be removed, mainly from the fairways. I used a rotary brush which moved the loose sand into a hopper, but this could only be done when the course was not busy. The dust was horrendous. For the beginning of the season, we managed to get the course into a ‘playable’ state. As the weeks passed, the greens began to show signs of growth and the sand was being removed slowly but surely. There didn’t seem to be enough hours in the day to get all the usual jobs done as well as brushing the sand around. As if we didn’t have enough to cope with, the course was
now covered in Himalayan Balsam seedlings - hundreds of them! I first removed all the seedlings from the bunkers and then set aside one hour a day to hand remove the rest of them. Weeks went into months and things
began to grow and flourish on the course. However, at £300 a week to hire, the fairway machine had to go back. We simply could not afford this luxury. So, at the minute, the fairways are being cut with the JD 2653B tees machine, which is not ideal! They are now taking two days to cut which, in turn, means I have less time available to get other jobs done. Currently, the county council/golf club have not been able to source a fairway machine for the money that is available. I have recently been informed that the
county has bought a Verti-Drain 7215 demo machine. This will certainly help to spike the greens a lot more regularly. At the time of writing, we are now seven
months down the line since that awful day back in December 2015. Tynedale Golf Club survived everything that the River Tyne could
Some evidence of the floods can still be seen
42 I PC AUGUST/SEPTEMBER 2016
All bunkers are back in play
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