A lovely week weather wise with lots of sunshine around and temperatures climbing through the week.  Irrigation is our current priority job.  With greens being made of sand it doesn't take long before they dry out.  Normal watering as the temperature goes above 20c is about 10 minutes per green every other night.  As the temperature rises above 25c we will water most nights.
 Greens and tees can be watered manually from the irrigation box or with a hose connected to the box but more often than not we water automatically at night by programming a computer.  This has the benefit of allowing us to avoid wasting water by not applying it in the middle of a hot day and not disturbing you during your round.
 This week on the Abbotts the greens have been Scarified.  This involves cutting  1mm wide 12mm deep grooves in the surface, we remove the thatch, firm the surface up and take away some of those seed-heads we don't want.  Grooves are filled with dressing, brushed and then cut.  All work was finish on Tuesday where we heavily watered in the dressing ready for a liquid feed on Friday morning.

Deep grooves cut in the green

cleaning up with greens mower

Ready for dressing