*FIRST FOUR GREENS READY TO TURF AND SEED*

Premier Turf have started turfing the greens and tees-surrounds this week.  

The turf-line runs right up to the edge of the putting surface construction and includes all bunker surrounds and bunker faces.

The putting surfaces and the tee-platforms will all be seeded.  

All Taylor-mounds added-back in the fairways and greens working-areas will be seeded.  

Turfing starts at the JHTaylor 8th green area

Premier Turf board themselves in and out of the working area

8th tee platform and surround ready for turfing

Elsewhere the proposed wetland areas are complete and MJAbbott shapers are now returning 3-inches of low organic matter, sandy topsoil to line the banks and base.  It is anticipated that this minimal layer will provide for;

*  moisture retention in any event these, 'compensation-areas,' capture water

*  austere nutrient retention to encourage desirable vegetation to thrive around the margins

Medal & Ladies tees at the 8th - and final shaping within the limits of the borrow-pits

4th green shaped in the sub-base and signed-off by the course-architect

The 4th, 5th and 6th greens are ready to have the drainage installed.  Quickly after this the stone-carpet and rootzone will be installed in advance of the topsoil being returned to the green and bunker surrounds.  

2nd green with rootzone installed & surrounds ready for topsoil re-spread

1st green and surrounds ready for pre-turfing fertiliser, turfing and seeding

The hand-over to RMS greenstaff is triggered when the seed hits the putting surface.  At this point all grow-in activities are owned by RMS.  Our primary ambition will be to stabilise the turfed surrounds to guard against animal damage and erosion at the same time as managing seedling germination to protect the putting surfaces against weed invasion and wind-erosion.