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Golf Course Update

The end of the 2011 golf season has come...our staff has been working away at preparing the golf course for the long winter months. We are currently deep slicing the fairways and will then move into the rough. The weather has cooperated nicely for our winter protection/snow mould preventative fungicide application. Greens, Tees and Fairways were all sprayed this week. It is important for us to complete this in perfect conditions, as we require the product to dry completely into the plant for long term efficacy. We also have begun our dormant/late fall fertilizer applications to Greens, Tees and Rough. This application will aid in carbohydrate storage for winter, also helping with spring green up. We have one more Vertidrain aeration to perform on our Greens next week. More holes = More drainage.
The crew has been continuing to work away at bunker edging. Using a pitchfork, we have been ripping back the overgrown, sandy edges (mostly on the backs).The edges are then tamped down by hand to roll the edge to the sand. This practice returns the bunkers to the original size and shape. As mentioned before, the look of our bunkers is more natural with this technique. No longer do we have a sharp, defined soil lip at the edge. This task will be completed by the week's end. As the temperatures slowly drop we will schedule the permeable cover installation on our Greens. Historically we have the covers down by American thanksgiving...it is a benchmark for us, although it is all weather dependent.

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