On The Course May 7th

Fernando, Rubiel and Emmanuel working on # 9 bunker

 The course has taken some great strides over the past couple of days and will continue to get better. The crew has been working hard on getting some of the detail work done around the course and playing conditions will continue to get better. The course has firmed up enough that we will allow carts off of the path later this week. We wanted to let the damaged areas of the fairways get a little jump before we let cart traffic on them. Please avoid the ice damaged areas of the fairways with cart traffic whenever possible. We will be roping and staking off areas of the fairways to help direct traffic.

We were able to get some spraying done today on greens and fairways. We sprayed a little fertilizer on them to help with growth and get the fine turf areas ready for aerification next week. We are still analyzing the fairways to determine the best aerification practices to employ next week. The greens will be verticut, topdressed and solid tined with 8mm needle tines. We used this same process a couple years ago with great success. Disruption should be minimal and the greens will heal very quickly.

Troy spraying some fertilizer on the championship course greens

 We have several areas of the fairways that have been damaged from the winter. The turf is starting to grow and we are seeing a lot of plants growing in certain areas. There are several areas that will need a little more attention that the rest and we will be working on some of these later this week and into next week.

We will continue to get areas of the golf course mowed and cleaned up. The greens were mowed today and will be rolled tomorrow. We will start getting into our normal mowing schedule later this week and will make some adjustments with aerification next week. Troy and Brandon were working on getting the irrigation system charged up with only a couple leaks so far. We had a broken swing joint on #17 rough between the tees and green, a pin hole leak in the steel pipe on #5 fairway and a broken pipe in #3 approach. We will continue to get the system up and running and fix any of the major problems we come across. When we aerify and seed some of the fairway areas we need to make sure the system is running and most of the winter problems are fixed.

We will be making more progress reports on the golf course this week and work back into a regular schedule for blog updates. Please feel free to email or call me with any questions about the golf course.

#12 Fairway ice damage!