On The Course July 17th, 2015

Trash Pump earlier this week moving water out of a low area on #14

 Member/Member Tournament this weekend. We are mowing and rolling greens this morning. Fairways, tees and large rough areas will be mowed today. The course has dried out well from the rain earlier this week and we only saw a trace of rain last night. The crew will be working on bunkers later this morning after the fine turf areas are mowed.

We had 1.7 inches of rain earlier this week and Corey and Kurt did a great job of getting a lot of the low areas of the course pumped out and ready for play. The large transfer pumps have been working pretty good down on 2 Green. They have been running the past couple of nights to try to get the pond level as low as possible before the next rain event. We are getting closer to finish grade on the Executive Course Project and should be seeding the areas next week. We will be installing some irrigation and then fine tune the finish grade.

There has been perfect conditions for Turfgrass Diseases this week and we have seen some activity in some of our test plots on the executive course. On Tuesday morning I took a couple pictures of Dollar Spot mycelium growing in some tire tracks and a footprint depression. It may not sound too exciting to most but it was a pretty cool TURF GEEK moment. Why nature behaves the way it does is pretty cool.

We are looking at some pretty extreme heat conditions this weekend with a possibility of storm activity. The course is playing pretty good right now and we should have some great golf this weekend. All shots count on the back nine of the Member/Member. Always a fun finish to the tournament.

Cottony mycelium from the fungus Sclerotinia homoeocarpa, Dollar Spot

Turf Geek picture of the week! Dollar Spot mycelium in a foot print on the Executive Course

Kurt Wacker handwatering collar on Practice Green #1