I am sure that you have noticed we have a new fresh look to our blog. I hope that our members will continue to utilize this form of communication throughout this season. As we work through the winter I will be posting different topics pertaining to our department. Topics like weather trends, professional developement and tasks that are completed in the shop will be presented. With the warming trend that we recently went through we continued to have snow cover (for the majority) which is good for the turfgrass. We do have some ice formation on fairways and tees but nothing to speak of on our greens. We will continue to monitor and evaluate conditions throughout the rest of the winter.
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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