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Getting everything cut and down is hard work. I must say, though, you do get used to it. I don’t get bored or lonely, or anything like that. I suppose that’s just because there's such a varied workload


bringing out their own fix‐it solutions, but I’m yet to try any of them.”


A lot of the trees are still to be removed, because of either natural felling or death, but this will be managed before the club opens for paying customers. They will also prioritise avoiding an excessive number of pines close to fairways and other playing areas, because they want to avoid building a too‐challenging course early on.


This is because management initially wants to open the course as a pay‐and‐play, to encourage as many aspiring golfers to play the course as possible whilst in its infancy, before introducing subscription payment options eventually.


Ryan works by himself for most of the year, with a casual helper during the summer months, who cuts the rough and semi‐rough. For a man working alone, he does well to keep the greens at 8mm, the fairways at 16mm, semi‐rough at 35mm, and taking the tees down with the semi‐rough mower,


keeping it healthy, but not yet at playing height.


He alluded to this difficulty: “It’s been an eye‐opener after working exclusively at established courses in the past.” “Getting everything cut and down is hard work. I must say, though, you do get used to it. I don’t get bored or lonely, or anything like that. I suppose that’s just because there’s such a varied workload.” “But, hopefully, next year we’ll have another couple of members of staff and it’ll get a hell of a lot easier. And I will need that too, not just want it. Right now, when a tee accidentally gets a bit too long, it doesn’t matter. But, come April, there’ll be no room for allowing things like that.”


He hopes to have a Deputy Head taken on beneath him by around February 2018, or at least in enough time to settle into the course conditions properly.


Two of the tees have already been reconstructed, as they were not holding their own after so long untreated.


The greens aren’t USGA-spec or anything like that, but they do have drains in them. Underneath that, it’s just that there’s some slightly, let’s say, ‘non-useful’ soil


22 I PC DECEMBER/JANUARY 2018


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