We will be topdressing our greens early Wednesday morning (as opposed to today). Last night's rain has softened an already wet golf course to the point were we do not want to drive on or around our greens. We will not be letting out carts this morning, but we will re-evaluate cart use at 12 noon. We are going to focus our work today on continuing some minor clean up, adding topsoil to the new Native planting bed behind #15 tee and sod prepping the stump holes.
Last fall we utilized a “new to us” method of revitilization for our practice tee. Our contractor TDS, fraize mowed the surface of the tee to remove organic matter as well at to aid in leveling. The tee was then aerified and seeded to a new variety of creeping rye grass. We chose this type of turf grass as research shows rapid recovery and a low growth habit. We were able to get some great growth in the fall, but the tee is still not ready for traffic and full use. The plan is to utilize the mats until growth has filled in some of the voids etc. We will then begin to slowly set up hitting areas on the grass tee. For a while we will alternate between grass and the mats with a 50/50 ratio of use. Once the grass tee is established and is in adequate recovery mode, the practice areas will be back to normal. As always our membership’s patience is appreciated as we try to improve these areas for use.
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