Last of the frosts for this winter hopefully!

Old Pictures of Camberley Heath

Spring Maintenance 2016

Bringing to a close our Spring Renovations for 2016. Couldn't have asked for better weather for the week. Looking forward to some fast recovery and into the playing season!


Fantastic effort from the whole team, lots of hard work has gone into making this week a success.

Our new Workshop Manager, Gary Boxall



Our new Workshop Manager, Gary Boxall has joined us from West Surrey GC, Please say hello to Gary if you see him on the course and welcome him to Camberley Heath Golf Club.



Gary Boxall

Spring Maintenance Week 2016

Course Maintenance Week

Spring 2016

March 14^th – 18^th

 

Planned Work to Greens; (Weather Dependant)

 

Deep Aeration, (3/4in Vertidrain at 9in depth)

Shallow Aeration/Thatch Removal (8mm Hollow Tine at 2.5in depth)

Top Dressing (Approx 80 tonne sand over 19 greens)

Brushing in the top dressing sand

Overseeding with Barenbrug BAR All Bent (Agrostis sp.)

Greens Iron to smooth

 

Planned Work to Tees; (Will continue beyond maintenance week)

 

Deep Aeration, (1in Vertidrain at 9in depth)

Shallow Aeration (11mm Solid Tine at 2.5in depth)

Top Dressing

Overseeding with Barenbrug Extreme RPR

Feeding in preparation for recovery following winter play and enable establishment of new seed.

 

Planned Work to Fairways; (Will continue beyond maintenance week)

Deep Aeration, (1in Vertidrain at 9in depth)

 

Some Temporary Greens will be in play during the week whilst work is carried out. Thank you for your patience and support during this time.

The Grillo!

Our new heather management machine.

Badger Damage!

Overnight damage from Badgers searching for food on and around our 9th Green. We have some measures to try to prevent this using a sonar device. This has worked well at deterring animal digging in the past.

Update! The Culprit, a fox and not badgers as first thought, the sonar alarm has kept him from digging again.

New Arrivals!

In recent weeks two of our greenstaff  team have departed for pastures new; Adam Brackley, who joined us in 2013 has moved to Sand Martins Golf Club as their new First Assistant Greenkeeper, Chris Eggleston who has worked at Camberley Heath for 12 years has joined Nurture Garden Landscapes as an Assistant Workshop Manager.

 

Jake Morries, who has been with the club for 17 years  will be leaving us this month to build on his experiences with a new challenge at Temple Golf Club, I would like to wholeheartedly thank Adam, Chris and Jake for their hard work and team contribution during their time here with me and wish them all the best for the future. Claire in the office will be collecting any offerings that the members would like to make to contribute to leaving gifts.

 

Following the departure of these members of staff I am pleased to announce the addition of three new members of the Greenstaff Team.

 

David Harman has joined us from Sonning Golf Club as an Assistant Greenkeeper.

 

David Harman

Aiden Marie, who is a junior member of the club has joined us on an apprenticeship programme and will be studying towards his level 2 diploma is Sports Turf alongside working with us full time.

 

Aiden Marie

Finally, Gary Boxall will be joining us next week as our new Workshop Manager. Please say hello and welcome our new members of staff if you see them on the course.

4th Tee Makeover

The 4^th tee has undergone a makeover during the last week or so. Following the removal of all the low growing scrub surrounding the tee which will increase the available air/light component which is essential to sustainable grass growth we have also installed a grid drainage system, levelled and re-turfed the tee.

 

The construction and position of the 4^th tee offers multiple challenges in the ongoing retention of grass cover particularly during wet and wintery weather, with the desire to maintain as much coverage as possible throughout the year for both playability and aesthetic purposes we have also taken the decision to install an artificial teeing surface to be used when weather conditions dictate.

 

 

This is also in part to the lack of available teeing ground when the main tee is being rested due to the small size of our forward tee on the 4^th.

 

This artificial tee instillation will be wrapped up over the weekend and will be in play as soon as possible.

 

Following the turfing of the main tee we will improve the area further next week and have this main tee back in play in early spring.