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| Fernando Solid Tining #9 Green |
Greens aerification went very well yesterday despite the light rain showers. The crew did a great job of staying on task and getting everything done. The greens were verticut, topdressed lightly and then solid tined with 8mm tines. The aerifiers help drag most of the sand into the turf canopy. Troy fertilized the greens and then watered the sand and fertilizer into the canopy. After the greens were able to dry a little bit we rolled them and they are looking very good this morning. We will be adding another light topdressing to them later this week or early next week.
We will be starting fairway aerification today getting all of the equipment set up and converted over from the greens set up. With the forecasted temperatures to be in the low 90's we will probably only get a couple fairways done today but will have a couple long days Wednesday and Thursday. We are starting to see a lot of growth in the ice damaged areas of the fairways and the aerification will only help open some channels for new plants to emerge. We will be seeding and sodding some more areas of the fairways later this week.
The broad leaf weeds are starting to emerge and we were able to get some areas of the course sprayed yesterday and will continue the rest of this week as weather allows. Troy has been working hard on getting the irrigation system up and running. We have had several steel pipe leaks and some valve leaks. We are getting close to getting everything fixed and should have the system dialed in by the end of the week.
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| Surface disruption was minimal with this aerification process |
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| Bill Ruone verticutting #15 Green |
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| Close up of the verticut process with debris left on the green |
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| Sod Patch on #15 fairway |
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