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With the amount of cutting we do and the hours we can put on the machines, we are looking at a three or four year deal


tonne of sand a green and brushed in using our new Charterhouse speed brush. Like any parkland course, we are governed by the seasons. Sometimes, there can be a lot of seed heads no matter how we try and control it.”


The remainder of the course is built on a sandstone/clay base with only six inches of topsoil in places. This can cause issues with drainage which Matt is trying to address. “Some drainage work has been carried out


on the fairways in the past, and we have done some drainage work to try and catch the worst areas. When I first joined the club, I put a vertidrain plan in place, which is carried out by Chappelow Sports Turf twice a year. The beauty of that is they bring in four machines and can be in and out in a day. When we first started, we were probably getting a depth of eight-inch; now we are getting down to twelve inches. This has made a massive difference on the fairways


drainage-wise. There was once talk that you couldn’t grow grass on them, but now we have good coverage on all the fairways.” The irrigation system was put in during 2011 and is a fully automatic Bailoy Gemini system, with Toro heads around the greens and into the aprons, Rainbird and Hunter heads in the tees, and two sprinklers in the first fairway. Matt has a few issues he would like to resolve. “In their wisdom, they decided to put the sprinklers in the middle of


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