On The Course October 18th

Covering the range tee to promote some divot recovery

 We will be rolling greens this morning and blowing leaves. Sheldon will be out with the rough mower mulching leaves. Brandon was able to get 3 fairways deep tined yesterday and will be working on #13, 15, 16 and 18 today. We should be able to get all of the fairways done next week. The deep tine hole will stay open for the winter and allow some surface water to enter the hole and freeze causing a good fracturing of the soil beneath the turf canopy.

Jason raised an irrigation head on #9 that was not performing well because it was too far below the turf surface. We will continue to work on several low irrigation heads this fall getting them ready for next season. The crew will finish pulling annuals and cutting off perennials in our flower beds and preparing them for winter. We were able to get some bulbs planted last week that should look really good next spring.

We have a Grounds Meeting on Tuesday, October 23rd and will be discussing fall projects and course closing procedures. This weekend is looking to be perfect for golf with high temperatures predicted to be in the middle 60's. The long term weather models are showing a weak El Nino affect going into winter which should mean normal temperatures. The next 4-8 days are predicted to be a little above normal and then below normal for the following 7 days. The weather models change daily and we will be watching them very closely. We are planning on blowing the irrigation system out November 1st and 2nd and applying snow mold fungicides shortly after that.

Brandon will be working on deep tining the fairways over the next week

Jason worked on an irrigation leak on #18 approach as well as raising a head on #9 green

Great Sunrise yesterday morning