We received almost 2 inches of rain overnight. The course is holding water but should drain off pretty quick with the dry conditions. There are still some puddles on the greens but should be on time for a 9am start. We will be changing cups and blowing leaves off of greens and tees. We will not be running the tractor blower in the fairways until it has dried up. The crew will be working on cleaning some equipment and several other off course projects.
We have started to auger some drainage holes in a few of the greens and will continue this process later this week. We have added some holes to most of the greens over the past couple of seasons and it has helped with some of our drainage problems. As you can see in the pictures in this post we are drilling about a 4 foot deep hole, 4 inches in diameter and filling it with pea rock. The plug we take out to auger the hole is then placed over the pea rock until we cover the greens We will then remove the plugs and add a little more rock and leave open for the winter.
Closing the golf course is always left up to mother nature. We are closely watching the forecast and will be discussing some options at the Grounds Meeting today. We have scheduled our irrigation blowout for November 1st and 2nd and will be spraying our snow mold protection early next week. We need about 3 good days to get all of the golf course covered and closed. We will finish drainage holes this week and start removing golf course accessories.
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| Troy, Jason, Bryxton and Rubiel augering holes. |
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| Rubiel filling drainage holes with pea rock. |
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