On The Course August 16th

Jose mowing #18 green this morning.

Yesterday we received about 0.5" of rain right in the middle of our morning greens preparation. We were not able to get all of the greens rolled yesterday. We needed to try to finish spraying greens yesterday before the event and were able to get all but 13-17. We will be finishing spraying greens this morning after we are done mowing and rolling greens. The wind blew all night long and has dried the course out very nicely. The high temperatures over the next couple of days should be in the low 70's and tonight it could drop below 50's.

We are mowing fairways, collars and approaches this morning. Troy will be changing pin locations today and will also be marking pin locations for the Club Championship. We will be in full mow mode over the next three days mowing most of the fine turf areas each morning before the Club Championship. We will have the crew in at 430am to get the course prepped each day and are looking forward to a great Club Championship. We are going to be getting ready for Greens aerification that will occur right after Labor Day. We will be starting solid tining and deep tining some fairways in the next couple of weeks to help with surface drainage. With the temperatures cooling off and some of our larger events past us we will begin working on some small drainage and irrigation projects. We have a pretty good list of small areas that we would like to work on that should not disrupt play very much. The new growth on the evergreen trees have hardened off enough where we can start moving some spruce and pine trees. We have replaced a tree around the pool area already this week and have plans for several more tree planting throughout the golf course.

Can Tony Ahl repeat as Club Champion?