On The Course April 24th

Sheldon will continue to work on aerifying fairways with the Vertidrain

 This week will be working on a lot of different projects throughout the golf course. Sheldon is working on aerifying the fairways with the deep tine Vertidrain. It is a slow process but he has finished 1, 9 and 2 fairways. He will be working on 3, 4 and 12 today. Yesterday the crew started to edge some cart paths during our morning frost delay. Troy was able to get all of the greens sprayed yesterday with some fertilizer and our summer patch disease preventative. Brandon worked on getting most of the bunker banks on the front nine sprayed with herbicide and fertilizer. He will continue to work on the rest of the bunker banks this morning. Jason fertilized the front nine tees and check all of the irrigation heads on those tees. He will be working on the back nine tees today and will be checking more irrigation heads.

Today we are going to be mowing greens with walk mowers for the first time this season. We have been using triplex mowers to this point to help with labor and have been keeping the height of cut a little higher to prevent early season stress. The walk mowers are set up slightly lower than the triplex mowers and we will be running the groomers on them at half the height of cut to help clean up the bentgrass that is laying down. We have seeded some stump holes and covered them with erosion fabric. Please avoid these when driving carts off the path. We are going to continue to hit from the turf portion of the range tee today and will look at covering the tee again next week.

We will be mowing some native areas today with the flail mower. We only have a small area left between #2 and #7. The areas are looking pretty clean right now and we will be looking at trying to get through the rest of the course over the next couple of weeks. Please keep carts out of these areas at all times.

Edging cart paths yesterday during the frost delay

Tom Hoverson dropped off the Columnar Oaks that will be planted along the main drive