On Tuesday and Wednesday of next week the golf course will be closed for Aeration. We are going to aerify, verticut, topdress and fertilize our greens. We will also be aerifying our fairways and approaches on these days. We will completely finish all of these tasks on greens during the closure. The fairway aerifying portion of the process will be completed during the closure aswell. However, we may have some clean up on the fairways to complete throughout the week. All staff will be working from sun up to sun down to complete as much of this process as possible.
The fall is a great time to perform a number of necessary cultural practices. Our goal is to amend the upper portion of the greens surface with enough sand to help insulate the crown through the winter as well as removing and diluting organic matter. Below you will find a schedule of cultural practices that we aim to complete before the covers go on and the snow flies!!! Wednesday, Sept. 30th- Light topdressing followed by a Cocoa matt Tuesday, Wednesday October 13/14-Course Closure full core aeration with heavy topdressing. October 19th- Light topdressing followed by a Cocoa matt October 26th- Light topdressing followed by a Cocoa matt November 2nd- Light topdressing followed by a Cocoa matt November 9th- Deep Verticut, followed by a sufficient topdressing. November 16th- Post Course Closure, Heavy topdressing followed by Deep tine aeration. Of course this is all in hope that the weather cooperates...happy fall!
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