As of this week we have almost completed our capital projects for 2009. The new bunkers, tees and cart path are all sodded in. We will be sodding the tee surfaces early next week with a Dwarf Bluegrass variety. Vergeer golf construction did all of the shaping and sodding to this point. I think that we would all agree that they did an outstanding job here at Highland. Vergeer was very flexible and extremely easy to work with.
A week has passed since our annual spring greens aeration. We have had a mixed bag of weather, hot, dry, cold, wet and even frost! These conditions make it challenging to aid in healing, but with the more recent consistent warm temperatures we are seeing solid recovery. We were fortunate to have decent weather to complete the process on time, allowing us to fill all the holes created by the 1/2” hollow tines. As there are some minor depressions within some of the holes we will be beginning our bi-weekly topdressing program early next week. Our team is mowing and rolling our greens daily, while slowly lowering our height of cut to our summer norm. We all know that spring cultural practices are not popular among golfers, but these all important tasks are the building blocks for high performance greens conditions throughout the heart of the golf season. Check out this video produced by the USGA on Aerations effect on putting...
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