On The Course July 5th

Brandon spraying green this morning

 We are mowing rolling greens this morning. The high heat index has been stressing the course and the staff a little bit over the past couple of days. We are seeing a little Brown Patch on some collars on the Championship Course and Brandon is out spraying some fungicides this morning. We are on a pretty good preventative program but with the extreme temperature and high humidity we are always going to have some disease pressure. The putting surfaces look pretty good and we are looking for the weather to change a little bit over the next couple of days. The weekend forecast looks to be perfect with temperatures back in the low 80's. Fairways, collars and approaches are also being mowed today. The crew will be working on cleaning up some of the debris left from the fireworks show last night. We have most of it cleared of the fairway on #9 and #5 green but will have remnants around for a couple of days.

We have Senior City League on the course this afternoon at 1:30pm. Next week we will be venting greens on Monday and working on fixing some irrigation problems. We have heard several complaints over the past couple of days about the moisture on the course. Please, email or call me directly if you would like a detailed explanation as to why we water the course in a particular way and what we can do to fix the problems.

On The Course July 3rd

The crew blowing debris off greens this morning

 We had a little rain move through overnight with some heavy wind and rain. We received 0.65 inches of rain at the shop and 0.85 out by #4 tee. We had 0.78 inches in our weather station on #3. The course is pretty wet with puddles on the fairways and most of the bunkers are still holding water. The crew has blown the debris off of the greens and will start mowing them around 7am. Once the greens are mowed we will begin to fix bunker edges and rake all of the bunkers.

The wind is blowing and they are still saying high temperates near 100 degrees for today. We will be getting as much done on the course as we can before the heat sets in. The drainage area on #14 that we have been working looks like it will definitely help the ponding we have seen on the west side of the cart path.

On The Course July 1st

We are mowing and rolling greens this morning. Brandon and Javier are setting the course up for the shotgun this afternoon. Great morning on the course but we are still expecting the heat to continue over the next week. We will be hand watering greens later this morning if needed and will be spot watering some fairways. We had some small rain showers show up on radar this morning about 3am but did not recieve anything significant. This has kept the humidity fairly high but it is suppossed to drop as the day goes on and should be hot but pleasant today.