Tree pruning 12th tee

The 12th tee shot is always going to be a tricky one due to the narrow gap to find the fairway. However I felt it was getting a little too narrow. It is a difficult area to try and open up due to the spruce trees on either side. These trees cannot be cut back to regrow. If branches are taken off back to a point with no living growth then they will not send out shoots, the branches will remain dead. So to try and do what we can, we have remove branches selectively where we can and to a reachable height. Some other species of tree have been taken as back as possible knowing these will fill back in over time. 

Else where we have seeded the remaining area on the 20th hole where the hedge was removed, we are still waiting for the irrigation to be completed on the new 20th tee before that can be tided and then turfed. The badger damage has been slow to recover due to the cold weather and poor spring. But now warmer weather is on its way and rain is due we hope to see recovery soon.

After the rain the 10th green surround and 13 Tee area drained very well.

Now soil temperatures are improving the grass is starting to grow, The course is looking good however along the rough will start to be a test over the next couple of weeks. We plan to leave a lot of long rough similar to last year due to time constraints.

We have had a demo turf iron to test against our current vibrating rollers which need replacing. This machine is a self propelled sit on vibrating roller. Whereas our vibrating rollers are placed on a triple machine which is also used for cutting greens. We are going to try other sit on machines and a new set of vibrating rollers to compare the difference in speed of use and speed of greens.