We had another very successful "F-Troop" day today getting a lot of work done around the course. Led by Martin Gallagher today the troops did some tree trimming, loose timber and rubbish pickup & removal, raking, planting of new native and Mondo grasses recently donated to the club. We had about 15 workers & those that I saw were Martin Gallagher, Peter Martin, Garry Trigg, Gary Sammons, John Coddington, Peter Murphy, Geoff Bridge, Warren Gray, Arthur Verlander, Di Beechey, Anne Burgess, Yvonne Wilson, Des Wilson & Noel Fenning.
The rough cutters were out of action today so Garry Trigg applied himself as a good raker & cleaner around the course helping Peter Martin pickup with the tractor.
Yvonne Wilson pruned & deadheaded the Hydrangeas on the 3rd tee.
John Coddington arrived late and was immediately put on the job of digging in the grasses with me on the path leading to the practice nets and under the trees nearby. John did a fantastic job & with the help of Di Beechey we managed to get all the grasses in place & watered in by morning tea. A task that I thought would be impossible judging by the amount of grass we had to deal with. Di & I planted a little more of the Mondo grass on the second tee after morning tea & that dealt with all of the grass.
I had earlier planted the "Little Gem" Magnolia in the small garden near the entrance path to the first tee. It will grow beautifully there & is just about to come into flower (Large white flowers).
Anne Burgess watered the bourganvilleas at the back of the 10th.
Later I finished trimming , fertilizing & watering the azaleas in the front car park.
I did not get out to the rest of the course until later but I believe that there was some cleaning up done on the 6th and some tree trimming done around the course.
The promised "King Tide" was not as big as I had anticipated. The gardens at the 15th were still intact with no water damage & the tide was going back out at 12.30pm.
We had a look at the new watering system from the Council Bore which is to be fed into the 3rd dam. When I left today it was all hooked up and ready to go - so I hope we have some water happening in the 3rd dam tomorrow if all went well. (photos attached).
Images attached: The new "Little Gem" Magnolia; planting of the grasses with the help of John Coddington & Di Beechey; Garry Trigg & Peter Martin doing a rubbish pickup at the practice nets; various photos of the bore water connection to our old fairway watering system so that it can be filtered into the 3rd dam & put to good use on our fairways.
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