Good day today, starting with an enlightening visit to the greenkeeping headquarters at Nansha Golf Club. There’s a huge range of equipment available to greenkeepers and knowing how to use it correctly and how to maintain it is critical to the success of the development.

I know that this is a big subject that you will potentially be involved in teaching to students in the future, so keep hold of your log in details even after the PDA training is complete and I will start to compile a growing resource for you to tap into about greenkeeping.

We went on to talk about the 9 Options for golf hole design, which is a great reference point to keep coming back to, especially when combined with Alister MacKenzie’s 13 Principles…you could easily be a golf course designer!

Then we started to create a Mindmap for the work that needs to be covered for the assessment of the units I am teaching. I admit we had a wobble this afternoon, when confidence was low, but I know that you will all produce a professional and exciting plan on 6th April…I’m looking forward to it.

So tomorrow, we will complete the mindmap of assessment items, take a photo of it and pass it around to everyone.

Then it’s on with the show. From now on, we will have one lecture/discussion in the morning and project time in the afternoon.

Thank you for all your kind help with my insect problems. The Chinese remedy Yu Li Li gave me really works well and I am feeling much better already. I also tried the cactus plant remedy from Qin Xing Yao and yes that works well too. Finally thanks to Zhao Bao Jin for taking me to the supermarket last night for “Raid”, no more mosquitoes in my room after spraying that!

Good day today and hopefully a better one tomorrow. We’ll finish the mindmap about assessments and answer some questions about design layout such as yardages for pars 3, 4, 5 etc, as raised by Kaisy.

Then I think we should do some work on Stakeholders and have some project time in the afternoon.

Regards

John