If you played golf on Thursday you probably noticed us working with an excavator on some drainage repairs. Some of the older drains that are situated near trees have been damaged by tree roots. On the 3rd hole we replaced a drain next to some poplar trees that had been completley plugged with roots. This drain tile was the main feeder line from the 3rd tee and 4th green complexes. Tree roots are incredibly good at invading drain tile. They can find their way into every opening, connection and hole that is in the pipe. In the picture here you will see what I mean. The roots have made a fully functioning drainage system non existent. Once the area was trenched we removed the old pipe and lined the trench with a synthetic liner, then installed new solid drain tile, with minimal connections. This should give us some longevity out of this drainage system.
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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