Wet days are still causing lots of trouble as you can see below.  Not for the first time this spring on the Priors, soft isolated spots ready to catch us out.

We have new seasonal staff on the course including Tom back from university for the summer and Rob, who is acquitting himself well in a fresh challenge for him.


Fairways, tees and aprons are being feed with a concoction including Iron to strengthen the plant, and a product to slow down the growth.  This will be finished this week and will target the biggest weakness on the golf course at the moment.  Once these areas have filled in, the course begins to take shape.  Trees on the right of the 4th have still to be finished and the 5th bunker should be back in play soon.

Still not at spring yet but the course is beginning to improve.  Abbotts greens have had the height lowered as the weather has warmed up and surfaces have filled in well already.  We will keep aeration off the greens in this busy period concentrating on light regular fertiliser and topdressing.  Tees and fairways are still pretty poor and weak so the fertiliser and Iron being applied at the moment will push them forward and fill in the patches.

5th bunker is now finished and we will allow the rain to settle the sand before putting it back into play in the next few weeks.

5th bunker

The trees to the left of the 4th fairway are being removed.  Impossible to see from the Tee stepping near these trees would see you subjected to 2 inch spikes, not the ideal trees for a golf course.