On The Course June 26th

We have had a pretty nice stretch of weather lately and it looks to continue through the rest of the week. If is almost July and we will be having some warmer weather stretches over the next couple of weeks. It is supposed to be in the low 90's tomorrow with a slight chance of storms moving in for Thursday. We are seeing some rain on the radar this morning in South Dakota heading  this way but should not develop into anything significant.

Yesterday we were able to get all of the greens and fairways sprayed before the Outside event. We were applying fertilizers and fungicides to protect the turf over the next couple of stressful weeks. Brandon was able to get all of the Championship course fairways, Executive course greens and fairways done yesterday before the outside event. Troy sprayed all of the putting surfaces on the Championship course and was also able to get some bunker banks sprayed with fertilizer. Mondays are a really busy day for the crew and we were able to get a lot done.

Greens will be mowed (with groomers) and rolled today. We will be hand watering some greens this morning and working on others into the afternoon. We will be spot watering fairways and approaches this morning checking irrigation heads and making sure the irrigation system is working properly. We are heading into what appears to be a very dry stretch of weather with some warmer temperatures. Brandon will be spraying tees and several fairways this morning. We have adjusted our cultural program on a few of the fairways that consist of predominately peat soil. The peat soil has some built up nutrients and we have not put a granular fertilizer on these fairways for a couple of years. They have always grown more than the clay based fairways and by making this adjustment we have seen a more even growth pattern over the fairways.

We are working on some drainage on #14 to help with an area that has been sitting in water most of the spring. We will be adding drainage pipe and pea rock to the trench lines. We will install a catch basin at the low point that we will utilize until we are able to put a pipe under the path and exit it to the east of #14 fairway. We will be aerifying, seeding and keeping this area roped off for the next couple of weeks.