What a year 2024 was. With plenty of ups and downs and lot of lesson learnt along the way. I feel heading into 2025 we are in a good position.

With 12 months under my belt as the Course Superintendent, I personal feel we have made a lot of progression moving in the past 12 months.

In saying that, it hasn’t all been smooth sailing. The obvious stand out is a hand full of our greens that haven’t performed how we would like them to. A handful of reasons for that being the weather, high foot traffic over the festive season and a few culture practices that was a trial and error that resulted in an error.

With all of that, we have full confidence that our greens will make a full recovery. Apart from a few areas that are a looking a little worse for wear our greens are in good position heading into our greens renos in late March. We have lifted the heights on our greens mowers to reduce them stressing out over the last few weeks of summer.

Once Temps start to drop and the greens start bouncing back. We will drop our heights back down again and get them firm and fast as they were last winter. you may notice the greens will definitely slow up over the next few weeks and that we understand doesn’t suit everyone game, but for us, more importantly it going to help hold them in better shape before our major greens renos.

Coming towards the back end of the season, things will start to slow up for us and we will once again turn our attention from keeping the course alive to continuing and adding to our project lift. Bunkers will also be a focus for us. Adding/replacing some new drainage in the worst areas. We are hoping we can add a path from the 7^th fairway around to the 8^th tee with a new material that we would like to test for potentially doing a cart path around the course.

Thank you.

Course Superintendent

Bhodi Johnston

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