Update on the Golf Courses
On The Palms this week, the Golf Course Maintenance team completed general maintenance works. The team’s primary attention lay with The Pines golf course renovations, which have progressed well in their first week despite delays on Tuesday due to rain:
Greens
- Verti-cut and dethatched four times over
- Large putting green and practice hole greens were also scarified four times over
- Aerated using 8mm hollow tines
- Amendments applied and top-dressed
Zoysia Collars and Green Aprons
- Aerated using 14mm hollow tines
- Scarified four times over
- Mown at 8mm
Tees
- Aerated using 14mm hollow tines
Fairways – holes 1-10,12 and 18
- Aerated using 14mm hollow tines
- Scarified four times over
- Spiral mown at 12mm
Rough
The Pines Golf Course Annual Renovations
The annual renovations on The Pines commenced on Monday 31 October, being the first full course renovation since the greens’ reconstruction. This year’s program for the greens will differ to other years, as the greens will only require a light renovation due to their age.
More energy and resources will be put into tees, fairways and aprons. These areas will receive a heavy renovation due to the amount of thatch accumulation from the rainfall and after only undergoing a minor renovation earlier this year.
Greens
- Verti-cut at -1mm in two directions (matt and thatch removal)
- Aerate with 10mm solid tines (provides a corridor for oxygen in the root zone)
- Apply soil amendments (helps to correct any short falls in the greens’ soil profile)
- Heavily top dress with amended sand (assists in evening out any imperfections with the playing surface)
- Fertilise with Turf Starter at 3kg/100m2 (helps with turf recovery and vigour)
The estimated recovery time of the greens is 2 to 4 weeks.
Tees
- Scarify at -20mm in two directions (matt and thatch removal)
- Aerate with 12mm hollow tines (provides a corridor for oxygen in the root zone and removes thatch)
- Heavily top dress with amended sand (assists in evening out any imperfections with the playing surface)
- Fertilise with Turf Starter at 3kg/100m2 (helps with turf recovery and vigour)
Fairways
- Scarify at -20mm in two directions (matt and thatch removal)
- Aerate with 12mm hollow tines (provides a corridor for oxygen in the root zone and removes thatch)
- Top dress with amended sand at 5-7mm (assist in evening out any imperfections with the playing surface)
- Fertilise with Turf Starter at 3kg/100m2 (helps with turf recovery and vigour)
The tees’ and fairways’ estimated recovery time is 4 to 6 weeks. On re-opening after three weeks, these surfaces, having been heavily renovated, will be back to 50-60% of their normal condition subject to weather.
To view videos on course renovations, click on the below links:
In line with a recently conducted tree audit on both The Pines and The Palms golf courses, relevant works on The Pines will be completed during the upcoming annual renovation period. Click here to view a video on the importance of tree works around golf courses.
