GOLF What’s in the shed


Toro Greensmaster 3250-D greens mower x 2


Toro’s Greensmaster TriFlex 3400 greens mower Cushman Turf Truckster Toro ProCore 648 Toro Workman Yamaha buggy Toro Reelmaster 3100D triplex mower Toro Reelmaster 3100D Sidewinder Jacobsen Fairway 305 mower x 2


Toro Groundsmaster 4500-D semi-rough mower Bobcat zero-turn mower Iseki TK538 with Lewis front loader Kubota L2501 John Deere 6x4 Gator x 2 SISIS Variseeder/Sorrel roller Turfco Widespin topdresser SISIS Rotorake TM1000 deep scarifi er Core Harvester True-Surface vibrating green roller Accu-Pro fertiliser spreader Redexim Speed-Brush Gambetti 600 litre sprayer Wiedenmann Terra Spike GXI8 Wessex leaf collector


Magnum BR600 leaf blower x 2 Mountfi eld rotary mower Flymo


Marston Trailer 5-gang ball collector Ryan Turf Cutter Stihl M5 251 chainsaw Husqvarna 135 chainsaw Chapin Knapsack sprayer x 2 Elite Pro Edger


the fairways and we are now getting to the stage where we are on top of that. So, we are now focusing on looking at plantation and thinning out the weaker trees to leave the stronger trees you know will be around for years to come. It is giving us a more desirable presentation throughout the course and even opened up some views of the estuary, which we did not have before.” Nathan talks me through the general annual maintenance of the greens. “For the club championship, we try and get greens up to nine and a half feet on the stimp which, in the past, has proved more diffi cult due to a high percentage of poa. Now we are developing bent it is a little easier, so we are not having to stress them out. I tend to cut down to 3mm for a couple of big events throughout the year, but I would say we average about 3.5mm throughout the growing season. I will aim to roll once a week but, when the course is this busy, we can be cutting seven days a week. My view is that, if a visitor plays tomorrow, they do not know that is the day I have rested the greens because they have been stressed out for weeks. I will try and pick a day when I know


it is mostly members out on the course, but even on the rest day, they will get a roll with the vibrating rollers. We have midweek roll ups Wednesday and Saturday so, if I can spare the staff , we will cut and roll to put that little more on the stimpmeter.”


“In winter, we will average around 5-6mm. This year, with weather being a bit warmer, we managed to keep them at 5mm (until lockdown), then obviously raised them up.” “For verti cutting, we have historically worked with a thirty-year-old set of blades, but recently purchased some GreenTek Thatch-Away units - which perform so much better. We will go over the greens once a month at a few millimetres depth to just get into the thatch layer. If we have time, I will do two passes but, since lockdown, we have not had the chance to get on there. Once a month, we will religiously go over with the Toro ProCore 648 with the needle tines ranging between 2-4 inches and alternating depths, to reduce risk of forming a pan. Then we will add between eight and ten tonnes of topdressing and our yearly aim is to apply one hundred and fi fty tonnes on the greens. When we started this process, we managed


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PC October/November 2020


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