Folks,   Busy week again cutting and shaping: Greens have been hand cut twice again, all tees cut and fed with cold start fertiliser to encourage the last growth of the summer (we know this because it’s getting dark at 04:50 when the dreaded alarm goes off), bunker surrounds and faces complete on all 27 […]

Folks, given the anthropogenic (of, relating to, or resulting from the influence of human beings on nature) aspect of our work sometimes we are reminded that:   “The best laid schemes o’ Mice an’ Men, Gang aft agley,”   When set against the wonder of Nature and the Earth’s rotation, we can but stand back and react […]

Hi Folks,   Usual cutting and shaping this week, with the emphasis on divot filling for all 27 holes. Greens hand cut twice again this week to 3.5mm, and will be cut and rolled Saturday morning with a target stimp of 9.5. New green required some extra feeding on Wednesday, with a quick start growth […]

It was only last week we celebrated a new addition to the Finlayson family, but a few days later we were reminded of the fickle and random nature of, well nature.   Our thoughts go the big man’s good lady who suffered two TIAs last Friday, fortunately swift action was taken and Carolyn was taken […]

Congratulations are due to Gary F and his good lady as they welcomed a somewhat stubborn (like her Grandad perhaps), baby girl Camryn 7lbs 13oz. Well done and all the best. But where were ye’ at the weekend, leaving some of the bunkers unraked to attend the birth, as you know the blog likes to […]

It’s been a strange week, Monday saw the debate on the deterioration of the holes get heated once again (more on that later). Wednesday brought rain that had us at 6 in the morning peering out from the sheds like some Australian bush baby, wondering what the hells that, searching our memory banks to answer […]

If you don’t know by now, and you should if you’ve been paying attention, out at the sheds we laugh in the face of mythical notions, sneer at superstition, chuckle at conveyors of doom, give the defiant finger to harbingers of bad vibes, take pleasure from dispelling old wife’s tails, rail at ….oh FFS get […]

Hi Folks,   Remember we mentioned disease last week (the grass one), well here’s one of the shedders flexing their knowledge muscles to give you the down low – It’s called Fusarium (or Michrodochium nivale to give it its proper name). Loves humid, damp conditions so the warm weather followed by the rain and cooler […]

Hi Folks,   Greens continue to improve with hand cutting to 3mm, mind you on Wednesday morning mowers swapped for squeegees as we had a good few flooded first thing.   Some disease spotted early on some of the H/H greens. Quick detection meant it was treated that same morning, so well done to the […]

A morality tale from the life of a Greenie’.   So picture this, you suffer from hay fever, got a flash motor that’s got a dodgy starter, and you’ve had one too many the night before and you pull in to work 5 mins late. The boys have already grabbed the cutters and fled to […]