LAKE KARRINYUP

The prestigious Lake Karrinyup Country Club Golf Course designed by renowned Scottish Golf Course Architect Alastair McKenzie took two years to construct and opened for play in 1929. The course takes advantage of gently rolling hills about 12 kilometres Northwest of Perth and 3 kilometres from the Indian Ocean at North Beach.


Shows the difference with TerraCottem

The current course superintendent Trevor Strachan is a talented turf professional and is relishing the opportunity to make his mark at the club. Trevor succeeded Wayne Miller who completed a six year stint at Lake Karrinyup before departing to establish his own turf consultancy business. Wayne departed on a high note after preparing and presenting the course in magnificent condition for the 'Johnnie Walker Classic' held at the course in January this year. High on Wayne's priority list in the run up to the tournament was the construction of a practise chipping green that could be maintained with minimal irrigation. TerraCottem proved to be the vital ingredient in the accomplishment of this demanding task. The green was constructed with a free draining sand root zone to ensure that it had the same putting characteristics as the greens on the course. Situated on high ground west of the clubhouse, Wayne was concerned about lateral run off and leaching of irrigation water from the green. After studying literature and case histories of succesful applications of TerraCottem in sand root zone putting green construction, Wayne decided to incorporate the soil conditioner into half of the green. His objective was to improve the water holding capacity and increase the biomass of the roots, while leaving the other half untreated for later comparison. TerraCottem was evenly spread over the prepared surface of the green site at the rate of 150g per m2, and uniformly incorporated into the upper 200mm depth of the root zone by rotary hoeing first in an east-west direction and then in a north-south direction.

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