With the wet weather that we have experienced for the past two years, the clover has taken a stranglehold on some of our rough areas. Our department uses various methods to control clover. We use back pack sprayers around greens, tees and bunkers with a liquid herbicide. We use a large boom sprayer with a liquid herbicide in the vast areas of the course. Last but not least we use a granular herbicide to spot treat areas of high concern. We have applied herbicide to all of the areas around greens, tees and bunkers. We are doing our best to get out with the boom sprayer to control the clover in the larger areas around the golf course. Unfortunately, the rainy, wet weather that helps the clover flourish, also prevents us from spraying. We need dry conditions with minimal wind to apply the product properly and safely. To eradicate the amount of clover that we have will take a couple of years, but with diligent planning and effective management of these areas we will control it.
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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