COURSE UPDATE
As per the above, our greens are being cored on Monday 19/04/2021 & 20/04/2021.... but why? What does "coring" mean you ask....
"Coring" is a golf course maintenance term that refers to the process through which putting greens (and sometimes fairways) are aerated. The process of aeration (also known as aerification) is a course maintenance technique that loosens the soil, opens up growing room for turfgrass roots, and helps air, moisture and nutrients get to the roots.
Coring is the way all that is done: A special machine removes small cores (also called plugs) of sod from a green, leaving a hole (and sometimes the removed core) behind. This process is done once, sometimes twice, a year at golf courses.
Coring the greens is also called punching the greens or plugging the greens. Sometimes superintendents will refer to the process as "core aeration," and "coring" might even be used as a synonym for "aeration." (Most golfers think of aeration/aerification as the whole process of coring, topdressing and waiting for the greens to heal.)
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