On The Course May 15th

Pear Tree and Tulips in Bloom

 

It has been a very raining stretch of weather but we were finally able to get out and get some turf mowed. There are still a lot of wet areas but there is some hope in the forecast. The crew was able to get fairways, approaches and bunker banks mowed yesterday. Sheldon and Craig started to work on mowing rough around the greens and tees. They will be skipping some of the wet areas and we will get back to these when the grounds dries.

 

 

Our greens aerification was rained out on Monday and has been rescheduled for May 19th. If the rest of the course remains dry enough we will start on tee and fairway aerification also. We will be scarifying fairways and topdressing them with sand. This will take a few days to complete and we might be making some late evenings or overnight shifts to catch up on this task. Below is a picture of what the needle tine process will look like on the greens. Minimally invasive but will provide some much needed air exchange to the roots of the putting surfaces.

 

 

Fernando needle tining greens in 2013



Tony Duerr mowing approaches yesterday

Corey Heasley working on an irrigation repair on 11 approach

On The Course May 11th

Mr. Talberg out of the Bunker on #18 during the Men's Opener Event

We have received 0.25 inches of rain overnight. The crew will be mowing greens and touching up bunkers this morning. Jenna Wolff will be setting pin locations today. Greens aerification starts tomorrow and we will be lightly topdressing, needle tining and brushing. We will start to work on fairway and tee aerification once the greens are done. The fairways will be verticut and topdressed with sand. Once the sand in on the fairways they will be solid tined with 1/2" tines. This will take a little over a week to complete as soon as our Kubota tractor arrives from the dealer.

On The Course May 9th

Ladies Scramble Event on May 2nd

 We received another 1.5 inches of rain overnight and the golf course is pretty wet. We will be assessing the golf course this morning for playability. The crew will be working on pumping out some low areas as well as finishing up the bunker edging project. If we do not receive any more rain this morning we will be mowing greens and setting the course up for play. We will be cart path only today and probably tomorrow with the wet conditions.

We have been working on charging the irrigation system this week and only have found a couple of small leaks. Corey and Jenna have a couple of them fixed but we have a couple more to go on the back nine. There is a quick coupler off of the steel main line that is leaking on #12 right in the middle of the landing area. These areas are marked with stakes and should be avoided with all traffic.

Jenna and Rubiel working on an irrigation repair #5 Fairway

 We will be aerifying greens on Monday, May 12th. The weather does not look promising for Monday but we are hopeful to get the work done. We will be using a 8mm solid tine on the greens similar to what we did last spring. We will topdressing the greens lightly with sand, needle tine and roll the greens. This process will be minimally disruptive and the playability of the surface should be back to normal in a couple of days. Fairway aerification will also be started next week. This process will involve scarifying the fairway, topdressing with sand and brushing the sand into the turf canopy.

We will be having a Grounds Committee meeting on May 20th at 2:00pm. We will cover course conditions, equipment update and a report from the Maintenance Facility Committee.

Craig Carpentier mowing the Intermediate Rough

Failed glue fitting on the pvc