Dunnikier golf course information

04/09/2025

Thursday 4th September

The welcomed rain this last few days has been more than needed with tee’s and fairway’s burning up , recover has already began with colour coming back .
Greens were verti cut last week and have been sprayed this week , very pleased with grass coverage heading into autumn .
We plan to begin our maintenance week commencing the 22nd of September . This will involve a mixture of aeration and overseeding with not every green requiring hollow coring . We plan to close 9 holes at a time to allow us to carry out our works .
As we all know the weather plays a major part in our maintenance with a dry spell needed to remove cores . If however we don’t get the weather required we will return to certain greens at a later date.

Regards greenstaff

05/08/2025

Although the course is open for play we have many greens and fairways needing blown . We have a few trees down as well so please be patient if greenstaff are clearing areas.

30/07/2025

Our Divoteers were out sand and seeding this morning. They managed to get the 1st, 2nd, 4th, 12th, 13th, 15th and top of the hill at the 18th done. Thanks to all the guys for their time and also to Liam Duncan and his mate Gus Fritz for lending a hand too. Dunnikier members and friends at their best.
Thanks to Ian Duncan (Raith Taxis) for the drinks and rolls!

23/07/2025

Course update

Today we sprayed greens with there fortnightly feed.
To say the grass is growing is an understatement with the wet weather and humidity everything is bursting .
Greens are being cut at 4mm and will be given a light verti cut next week followed by a solid tine.
We are currently rolling Monday , Wednesday and Friday which has helped with speed and trueness.
Most tee’s are looking well but we plan to fertilise the weaker ones , we would encourage everyone to use the divot boxes as this helps greatly .
Bunkers will be strimmed and fly mowed next week followed by a spray of growth regulator .

Regards Chris

21/07/2025

Course open could we please ensure we repair pitchmarks .

20/07/2025

The course will remain closed today . After yesterday’s rain fall and the forecast for today to be wet the course is unfit for play . There will be an update tomorrow morning .

25/06/2025

Wednesday 25th June

This week we verti cut greens followed by a cut . Greens have been rolled everday to improve trueness and speed . Holes have been changed today and will be done again Friday and Saturday . We sprayed greens with foliar feed and wetting agent after the verti cut .
The 9th of July will see Robert Patterson back to analyse the greens and advise us on how to continue to improve surfaces .
Good luck to all in the remaining ties of the club championship .

Regards Chris

17/06/2025

Great to see some seed bursting through area at front of 11. We continue to overseed areas throughout the season .

10/06/2025

Tuesday 10th June

Greens have been sprayed at the start of the week and are beginning to fill in well. The mixture of rain and heat this week will bring everthing on nicely .
We plan to change holes Wednesday and Saturday the next two weeks for the club championships .
This past fortnight we have encountered a fair bit of damage with mainly greens being targeted , can we ask that all members remain visual and report back to the club if they see anything.

Regards Chris noble

29/05/2025

Course update

Greens were sprayed at the start of the week and have taken this recent spell of wet weather well, the poa has started to slow down with seeding under control .
We fertilised some of our weaker tee’s yesterday with a slow release granule which will help see us through the season .
Our rough mower has returned from the workshop and is working well.
Over the weekend we will be demoing a new electric greens mower seeing how it performs around our course . We are hoping to start replacing machinery in the coming months .

Regards Chris Noble

23/05/2025

You may have seen our volunteers out this week filling in the fairway divots. They are giving up their free time to make sure your experience on the course is improved. They have made great progress around to the 13th fairway…it’s an ongoing project throughout the season and it does make a difference.

What is noticeable on the course is the amount of new players and the average age seems to getting lower how good is that!!

A message we need to get across is for players to be playing their part in ensuring the course looks the same way that the greenstaff presented it for us. One of the areas that is concerning, is the amount of bunkers that don’t get raked after someone has played from it. Here’s a short video on how to do it properly if you don’t know already.

Please rake the bunkers and repair pitch marks please!!

There are a few things you need to do when you find your ball in a bunker to make sure you're leaving the bunker in as good, if not better, condition than wh...

20/05/2025

Good morning ,

Our apprentice Aiden solid tined the back 9 yesterday and the front 9 today , with temperatures being so high lately surfaces have tightened this will help relieve them . Weather is looking like taking a turn from Saturday which will benefit tee’s and Fairways’s greatly .
This morning we are verti cutting followed by a cut . Some bunkers will be getting topped up with sand tomorrow. If you can spare the time Archie and his team are out divoting fairways tomorrow morning.

Regards Chris noble