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Shade on the 9th green back in 2018


The 9th green after thinning the trees


we don’t have to stress the greens out, we have lowered the height of cut to achieve decent pace, so they are a lot less prone to disease and produce fewer seed heads. We have managed to reduce our fungicide applications signifi cantly; going from fi ve or six a year to once in sixteen months, which I am absolutely delighted with. We are in a good position and Laurence has now gone from two visits per year, to once every two years.”


In January 2015 (Nathan’s second year in charge), the club had a new irrigation system installed. “It is a Toro system using the Lynx software package complete with a weather station, which we have never had before. We have the valve-in head sprinklers on the greens, and pop up sprinklers on tees and one approach. The water is supplied through a reservoir at the entrance to the course, which is gravity fed to a pump house. From there, one set of pumps sends it up to the


clubhouse and the other to the golf course. At the moment, I’m happy with the water levels in the reservoir for this time of year, normally by the end of the summer it will be almost empty.”


A lot of the drains on the course run into the reservoir helping to keep it topped up throughout the year. “When the course was fi rst designed, tees, greens, bunkers and fairways all had drains installed, which means it’s all now around thirty years old and,


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