Forres Golf Course Greenkeepers

GREENS MAINTENANCE

All greens have now been -

✅ scarified
✅ hollow cored (12mm tine)
✅ sand dressing applied and brushed in

After the 26mm of rain that fell on Tuesday night it has washed the sand dressing well into the profile of the greens and these greens will now require more dressing. We hope to apply early next week as we are waiting on a new delivery of sand.

We would also have hoped to roll the greens after the above works are complete but we’ve had a mechanical problem with the roller so we’ve not been able to carry this out.

Many hands make light work.

Thanks to all the volunteers who came out this morning to help lift the cores from the last 9 greens.

We’ve also started applying a sand dressing to fill in the holes. We hope to have this completed by tomorrow afternoon.

Thanks.

🔴GREENS MAINTENANCE WEEK🔴

A reminder that we will be carrying out some essential greens aeration work all next week.

This will unfortunately cause some disruption to play.

We will be carrying out the following work to the greens

Hollow-coring ☑️

Scarify☑️

Sand topdressing☑️

Solid tine☑️

Brush in all sand☑️

Repeat Dressing where required.☑️

We will close 9 holes at a time to allow play on the other 9 .

🟢Monday 21st September - Wednesday 23rd September

Holes 5-14 will be closed leaving 1-4 15 -18 open for play.

🟢Thursday 24th September - Friday 25th September

Holes 1-4 15- 18 will be closed leaving 5-14 open for play.

The darker mornings maybe starting to creep in but the sunrises are worth it. ☀️

It’s been a few weeks since we posted anything but with staff holidays over the last 3 weeks, it’s just been about keeping on top of the growth.

This week we’ve been up to

Usual course set up ✅
Spiking greens (8mm tine)✅
Verti cutting greens ✅
Tiding up around bunkers ✅
Soil and seeding tees and fairways ✅

One man and his dog 🐕
11 greens done today Chris should have the rest finished before golfers are finished tomorrow. 👌

Over the next two days we’ve got Chris Pearson in aerating the greens with his air2g2 machine. His machine has minimal disruption to the surface and we will have the hole back in play as soon as he’s finished on each green.
We hope to stay out of everyone’s way but if he is working on a green can you please wait until he waves you on or pick up and move to the next hole.

Thanks

Another busy week out on the course.

A very wet start to the week meant we finally had a weather window to get an application of granular fertilizer on to the greens.

This is to help the greens recover after a stressful month of tournament preparations where lots more double cutting and verti -cutting can put surfaces under much more stress than normal weekly maintenance routines.

This is vital in not only improving general plant health but also to help combat the chances of disease outbreaks which can be common at this time of year.(Anthracnose)

With the rain and the heat came another surge in growth so most of the week we had to focus on catching up with cutting and general presentation.

We also had a full senior open to prepare for mid week and with the Stables Cup coming up on Saturday and the Forres Mechanics golf day on Sunday all in all another full on week at Forres Golf Club .😁🏌️

Charlie Cameron receiving his Cabot Highlands Fourball voucher.

This was the prize from our recent raffle fundraiser with all proceeds going towards a new irrigation water holding tank for our golf course.

Thanks again to Edmundson Electrical for donating the fantastic prize and to all who have supported us so far.

Happy golfing Charlie.🏌️

Forres Golf Club

🔴 RAFFLE WINNER ANNOUNCEMENT 🔴

Congratulations to FGC member Charlie Cameron who won our Cabot Highlands 4ball voucher at last nights draw.

A massive thank you to our Club Sponsor Edmundson Electrical for kindly donating the fantastic prize.

Also a massive thank you to everyone who helped support this by buying tickets.

I will update everyone with our fantastic total raised once we get a chance to count it all up.🙏

That’s the last shift for us in the 2026 5 day open. I would just like to say well done to our small team on the course as they’ve done a great job this season and especially this week. 👏
Also a big thank you to the bunker boys and all the volunteers that have helped us in different jobs. 🤝

Good luck to all the finalists 🍀