On The Course July 19th

Thanks To Mark Steen and Friendship Ventures for enjoying the golf course yesterday!

Another hot and humid day yesterday! We are catching up on some mowing and other maintenance task on the course after the big rain. Most of the finer turf on the course got mowed yesterday but still needs a little clean up today. Fairways are getting mowed again and are extremely soft. Justin will finish spraying the fairways for Brown Patch and several other turf diseases that could show up over the next couple of days.

Justin Spraying for Brown Patch on Fairways.

Today we are rolling greens and trying to keep as much stress off them as possible with at least 2-3 more days of extreme heat. The humidity is very high and we are expecting the greens to be on the slow side for the next couple of days. We are looking at an Evapotranspiration Rate of 0.31 for tomorrow which is extremely high. The "ET" is the sum of evaporation and plant transpiration. We can use this number to predict what our water losses could be with the current weather forecast. We have site specific data on this coming in from our weather station every day and are using this to determine our watering schedule over the next couple of days. This morning we had a heavy dew and still enough soil moisture for the turf to get through today.

Sheldon had a helper with rough yesterday and Troy got a good picture of the fox.