Needless to say the rain events of the past 2 months have been troublesome for the management of the golf course and grounds. As mentioned in a previous post, we are very behind on our spring tasks and jobs. To date we have yet to touch up our bunkers with new sand. Shifting and adding new sand with the consistent rains to date makes little sense. With the forecast looking better, we will be looking at some bunker work in the next week or so. Mowing has been sporadic. The rough is very thick and lush, our mowing has been haltered by saturated soils. We have yet to have a solid week of our regular mowing routine in all playable areas. Let's hope for a great June!!
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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