Message from our Golf Course Superintendent


Cameron Smith, Golf Course Superintendent

 

This week’s focus has been on fine detail work across both golf courses, with attention given to irrigation management and ongoing bunker depth checks. Steady progress continues on The Pines golf course, where the sand is settling in well. A full granular fertiliser application has now been completed across all fairways and immediate rough areas on The Pines golf course. This will enhance the definition between the fairways and step cut, while also helping to slow ball movement towards the waterways.

Turf has now been fully laid on half of hole 10 of The Palms golf course, marking a significant step forward. The new concrete cart path is scheduled for completion this Saturday, with kerbing to follow late next week, finalising the hardscaping for this hole. With the turf now in place, the hole is beginning to take shape. Landscape planting for hole 3 will commence shortly, along with several palm tree transplants between holes 3 and 10.

 

This week, the maintenance team completed the following:

  • Applied insecticide and wetting agent on The Palms golf course aprons and fairways
  • Applied granular fertiliser on The Pines golf course fairways
  • Trimmed The Palms golf course fairway distance markers
  • Commenced irrigation trimming on The Palms golf course
  • Continued bunker depth checks and detailing on The Pines golf course
  • Sprayed the bunker runners with herbicide on The Palms golf course
  • Continued trimming and detailing The Pines Clubhouse gardens
  • Commenced mowing The Palms golf course rough
  • Carried out irrigation repairs on The Palms golf course
  • Top dressed the new green extension on The Palms golf course 3rd green

Next week, the following will be addressed:

  • Foliar fertiliser application to The Pines golf course fairways, tees, and aprons

  • Granular slow-release fertiliser application to The Pines golf course greens

  • Granular fertiliser application to The Palms golf course bunker surrounds

  • Continued mowing of The Pines golf course rough 

  • Continued trimming of drain pits on The Palms golf course 

  • Continued bunker depth checks and detailing on The Pines golf course 

  • Renovation of The Pines golf course southern range tee 

  • Trimming of the lake edges and rock walls on The Palms golf course 

The Pines and The Palms golf courses

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