On The Course May 31st

If you haven't been in the native area to the right of #7 our herbicide is working on keeping it pretty thin.

We have had a little more rain overnight and will remain cart path only today. We are mowing greens and approaches. Sheldon is mowing the rough on the Executive 9. We are spraying tees this morning with fertilizer and fungicide. We have also added a wetting agent to help get some infiltration of the rain water. There were a couple of asphalt patches done on the drive into the club yesterday. Next week, if the weather is nice, we will be crack sealing the parking lot areas.

We have seen a very wet May (almost a record) and I would hope we are in the trend that June will be a lot drier and we will be able to get a lot of golf played. We are hosting the Minnesota Superintendents Association on Monday, June 3rd. Superintendents, crew and people from the industry will be playing in our association's Research Scramble. We will have Monday outings for pretty much the rest of the season.

We had a couple of asphalt patches completed in the main drive yesterday. Crack sealing will be done next week.

 We have been working on some native areas with a product that eliminates some of the stubborn grassy weeds. We will be mowing a couple of these areas again and doing the follow up application in a couple weeks. If you have been in the native areas to the right of #7 you may have noticed it is a little thinner than in years past. We are going to try to make this area more fescue dominated and keep it playable. You might be able to find your ball and actually get a club on it. Walking the area yesterday I did notice a few divots here and there.

Reed Canary Grass sprayed with Sethoxydim herbicide. Treated on left and non treated on right