Chris over seeding the greens after they've been top dressed. This is part of our on going greens maintenance program.  

The 6th green is now open, slightly ahead of schedule i am pleased to say. There will be some interruption during the next fortnight to finish of the bunker lining and sand.

Club Captain Bill Hopcutt has played the hole and has made the first ever par on the new hole, well done Bill!.

Quiz Night          20^th May-7pm start

£2 a pint during the quiz & subsidised bar!

 

               Pie n Pea supper  

                                                      £5 per person, including quiz entry

Please register interest first in the office

Prizes to be won!!!

This weekends competition results.

Saturday 23rd April:
Paul Reed Trophy
1. D.Edwards & G. Cowley 39 Pts
2. M. Caley & G. Elstob 37 Pts
3. G. Bootland & J. Pavis 36pts



Dunera Malcolm mixed greensome
1. H. Cushing & I Halliday 62.2
2. M.Walker & B. Wakeman 62.6

Thanks to everyone for their entrance, well done to the winners.

Sports Turf Research Institute(STRI) have visited Pike Hills Golf Club once again and produced a report on the golf course, in particular the greens. The results were very encouraging, Adam Newton was impressed with the progress of the whole course.

Please take a good luck through the whole report on the link below

http://www.pikehillsgolfclub.co.uk/files/documents/90a2d026-0acc-11e6-902c-002590a5fe03.pdf

We have top dressed the greens this week now we have had some good weather. 

We will be hollow coring hope fully next week, depending on the weather then top dressing and over seeding immediately after. Following from this a light dressing through out the season, this will ensure we have a great surface and roll for putting.

Today all the greens will be Veri-Cut, with a view to top dressing them on Wednesday. This does conflict a monthly medal on Wednesday, however we have a window of nice weather in the forecast that will allow is to do it. The golf course will still be restricted holes in the short term so we feel for the benefit of the course top dressing the greens will improve the course condition throughout the season.

We have taken a decision to continue with the top dressing which will cause some disruption to play which we apologise for.

Julian Shanks, assistant head greenkeeper is trialing a new greens mower, which will give the greens a tighter smoother roll. Here is is on the putting green testing it. The machine is lighter and gives a slightly less compaction whilst mowing.

Peter was very impressed with the latest technology and we have purchased this mower.

Mark verti draining the 18th fairway. We are doing as much as possible to alleviate water retention on the course. It is not the ideal time to be doing it as ground conditions are wet and it's not relieving much compaction. This process is very slow and at 1km/hour takes time!, in fact to so 18 holes around the whole course is nearly a 3 week process. After a couple of days we saw a remarkable difference and the fairways were drying out very quickly.

Most golfers will notice that although the weather has been very poor this winter that the fairways have dried out pretty weel, the areas of concern have been the rough and areas from tee to fairway.

ROLL ON SUMMER!.

George verti draining the 1st tee. This will help relieve compaction, also help with drainage and encourage root growth. This operation is carried out over the autumn/winter  months depending on ground conditions. 

You will see some scuffing on and around the tee boxes, but with some decent weather this will quickly grow and be back and look fantastic soon. it will not effect play and the tee markers will remain on the tee area before and after the verti drain

We have a new staff member working on the greens. He is a young man, but with experience already in the greenkeeping industry so he will fit in well at Pike Hills.

He is from York and his name is Tyler , so please give him a warm welcome if you see him around the course.