On The Course July 15th

This morning the air temperature is 71 degrees which just happened to be our high temperature for yesterday. It is just the beginning of a nice hot stretch for the weekend. There are some storms in Western Minnesota that could give us some trouble later in the day. Yesterday we had a total of 0.38" of rain on the course and with a slight breeze most of the night the course has dried out pretty well.

Today we are mowing and rolling greens. Fairways, tees and rough are being mowed today. Yesterday we sprayed fairways with a wetting agent and some fertilzer. The wetting agent should help pull some of the surface moisture down into the soil profile and help firm up the fairways a little. With the extended heat forecast we will be managing our water by hand watering and syringing if necessary in the afternoons. The humidity and dew points are forecasted to be very high over the next 4-5 days which is always a good indicator of a possibility of some diseases being active on the turf. We will be scouting the course and looking at our indicator rough areas to determine what our disease pressure is and make any necessary precautions.

Member/Member tournament this weekend with a shotgun on Saturday and tee times on Sunday morning. We will be following the last group on Sunday spot watering and hand watering greens if necessary. We are having a Grounds Meeting on Tuesday, July 19th at 2pm.