16/06/2026
Wednesday 17th June
Weather
Another dull and cloudy day forecast ahead. The chance of showers and drizzle remains reasonably high overnight into Wednesday morning, though we didn’t see much at all on Tuesday at the time of writing. The most likely time for any significant rain seems to be early on Wednesday just as the cathedral cup is getting under way, which is becoming a bit of a pattern for the early starters over the last few Wednesdays. The likelihood of rain decreases slowly in percentage through the day but it will remain cloudy. The light south westerly breeze will still be dragging up warm and humid air, 19-21° the expected midday temperatures.
Wednesdays jobs
Greens cutting and rough cutting will get going early on Wednesday ahead of play. We will also be strimming and cutting the carpark entrance bank which is long overdue before the carpark fills up. Later in the day we will be finishing cutting tee banks and carrying out the last bit of high pruning for the week. Some more safety netting pole lagging might get installed as well.
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Tuesday was a very busy shift. Greens, tees, tee banks, fairways and rough were all cut or at least started. Holes were changed early on and bunkers full raked.
A granular fertiliser was also applied to the greens early to provide some baseline nutrition for the next six weeks or so. It’s an organic product so other than being a bit smelly it’s harmless. The forecast rain was supposed to start washing it in during the day, if none arrives we will use the irrigation tomorrow.
We had a busy day carrying out some high pruning using our working platform. The overhanging trees in front of the 16th (old 9th) tee were pruned back, this will enable us to use more of a very small tee to help spread the wear, just a few branches makes quite a difference.
We also hedge-trimmed the tall laurel hedge next to the 2nd ( old 13th) tee, this was in desperate need of a trim and a yearly task. We also managed to cut back the branches as far as we could on the right over the chasm, it’s certainly opened up the tee shot a fair bit again. Thanks to the volunteers who helped us clear up the debris from both jobs as well as having a good old general tidy up round the course.
Lastly the very first small wildflowers are starting to come out in a few of the beds, the rest should soon follow, especially if it warms up next week as forecast. Much later than normal this year, at least by two weeks, shows what an odd year of weather it’s been.
Dom
