Rickie Fowler really stepped up a notch with his incredible finish at the TPC in Sawgrass. His fantastic finish to the his round set up a three way playoff called the Gauntlet over three holes - this new format looks the perfect way to decide a tournament. Click here and take a look at this video from the US Tour site, ultimately Ricky's control of distance on the island green 17th made the difference. He played that hole 3 times that day all of them inside 6 feet and all of them were 2's - incredible!

I have added a short and basic video based on Rickie's incredible control, maybe you can find a little bit of that magic too, and if you can't I can take you out onto the course and we can work on it.

A very challenging week for the head green keeper with two staff leaving and one on maternity leave, every job that was humanly done was done.

But rest assured one new Greenkeeper has started and another dozen interviewed, it's a bit like a new manager coming into a football team with new personnel working his way with his methods. It genuinely is an exciting time ahead with Daniel and Murray adding a professional and scientific approach.

One who has moved on is Russell Tate who was with us in the shop before going on to greenkeeping. We all wish Russ the best of luck but with a young family he took a job 5 mins from his home to work on the course at lee on Solent.