Today is our first day of course clean up. With the beautiful weather that we have had lately, the golf course has dried up enough for us to get out and begin cleaning up branches, sticks and other debris that has come down over the course of the winter. Our staff will be on foot and carts will be restricted to cart paths only. The weather is going to take a dive next week (cold and rainy), which will slow down this rather large task of course clean up. There have been a number of members out on the golf course walking their dogs and enjoying the sunshine. I would just like to remind everyone to please come prepared to clean up after your pets. Thank you and here's to a warm dry spring!
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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