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Winter Work Programme 2007-08

The following work schedule for the coming winter was agreed after a tour of the course involving Greens Convener Harry Roulston, Assistant Greens Convener Neil Irvine and Head Greenkeeper Graham Dawson. This work continues the policy of the last four years of upgrading all the tees and bunkers on the course. As always, the order in which the work is done remains flexible, depending on weather conditions. However, priority is being given to the refurbishment of the tee and bunker at the seventh hole, as this area is difficult to reach with heavy machinery when conditions are wet.

First Priorities

*Seventh tee to be dug out, levelled and re-laid.

*Bunker short right of the seventh green to be dug out and rebuilt.

*Bunker on the right front of third green to be dug out and rebuilt.

*Bunker on left of fifteenth green to be dug out and rebuilt.

*Medal tee at the seventeenth hole to be dug out, levelled and relaid.

*All fairways to be verti-drained.

*All tees to be hollow cored.

Other work to be done, depending on progress with above (order not yet decided):

*Men’s medal tee at sixteenth hole to be dug out, levelled and relaid.

*Medal tee at eighteenth hole to be dug out, levelled and relaid.

*Bunkers at sixth green to be dug out and rebuilt.

*Drain to be installed from right-hand bunker at sixth green to cliff edge.

*Bunker on left of eleventh green to be dug out and rebuilt.

*Fairway bunker on right of eleventh fairway to be dug out and rebuilt.

*Bunker in practice area to be dug out and rebuilt.

*Bunker at twelfth green to be dug out and rebuilt.

*Two bunkers on left of fifth green to be dug out and rebuilt.

*Path to seventh tee to be astro-turfed.

*Drain to be installed on railway side of sixteenth green.

*Support matting to be laid on worn areas behind fourteenth green.