The course has looked good this week with steady growth and dry days creating good definition to all parts, although no areas of the course have had time to fill in so there are plenty of holes in all surfaces. Abbotts greens mower has had new bottom blades and the cylinder has been reground.  This week we have verti-cut greens on Abbotts to remove lateral growth and encourage new shoots to fill in any holes.  Greens have had three-quarters of a ton of sand on each together with a fertilize to help fill in and smooth out  surfaces.
  The 18th pond is partway through dredging out some of the pond weed, this is choking the pond both for the fish and aesthetically for the golfer.  As you can see below someone had to volunteer and this time it was the course manager.
   

The weed will be left on the bank for a few days to allow wildlife to return to the pond.  During our clearance we found Roach, Rudd and goldfish, together with American Shrimp and the rather dangerous looking Alderfly larvae that you can see below.