As many members have noticed, the recovery from our August 2nd greens aerification is coming along nicely. The greens have recovered completely. We are now back on our growth regulation program and you will notice the greens begin to play as they were prior to the completion of the cultural practices. The weather has been just about perfect.....good for golf and great for growing grass. As you will see in the first picture aeration holes are no longer noticeable. In the second picture, you can faintly see the overseeded bentgrass growing in the holes.
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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