#2 planter

I hope everyone has had a chance to view our new look in the planter beds. If you have not seen already please check out behind #2 tee and #3 green as we are in the process of removing cleaning up the planter. We will be finishing up next week with mulch and drought tolerant plants. I'm excited to get some color back in these areas on the course. Hope you all like the new look!

Warmer Weather

Over the last couple weeks, the weather has continued to be a little on the warm(er) side then what we had a couple weeks ago with the frost. The course has started to dry out a bit from our rainy weather. Number 12 is now dry enough to be played as a par 4 again. We have also noticed a little bit of a growth spurt, specifically on our greens. The poa has begun producing some seed heads. Rather than spray chemicals to control it, as we would during the growing season, we will lean on cultural practices to control the seed heads. We verticut our greens this morning and will do so again tomorrow morning. Our greens were stimped at 12 PM rolling at 11.8 feet today.

Planter Beds

Last week we were finally able to add some life into our planter beds out on the course. Here are some pictures and descriptions of what plants were planted. Wood chip mulch was also spread out to add some color.

                                                      #1 Regal Mist

#9 Dracaena Palms

#17 Mexican Feather

COLOR CHANGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The golf course had 7 of 8 days this past week with frost. All warm season grasses were affected by the sub freezing temps. Just two weeks ago we had been mowing fairways and now there is hardly anything to mow. Our fairways are almost all Bermuda/Kikuya and with the frost the lies are becoming tighter. Yesterday we sprayed another fertilizer app and with the warmer temps the first part of this week hopefully we can get some turf growth. Our greens were stimped at 12 p.m. yesterday rolling 11.7 feet.