Summer in the UAE translates into the “busy season” for the agronomy team at the Troon Golf-managed, The Els Club. Dubai’s near perfect golfing weather for nine months of the year has the golf course busy throughout, leaving us with the summer time being the only realistic time for the team to complete our vital agronomy cultural renovation programs.
Our staff does an outstanding job, working in the extreme weather conditions to achieve all this in readiness for the more ideal weather golfing conditions. Adhering to the important summer UAE labor working hour laws and the reduced Ramadan working hours is currently all part of our summer program.
The Els Club is a wall-to-wall Bur muda turf (warm season) golf course, which is over seeded with imported cool season grasses for the winter. All year round, our goal is to prepare the course to a championship standard.
To allow us to accomplish this, annual cultural renovations on the turf must take place.
Turf/grass is a living organism and our cultural renovations allow us to remove its ongoing build up of unwanted organic matter, along with re-introducing sand back into the profile. Adding the sand helps maintain air circulation under the turf and encourages root growth.