Rainy Weekend

The course was hit with just under 2 inches of rain over Saturday and Sunday. Most of the heavy rain was on Sunday afternoon, which left us with a lot of clean up out on the course on Monday. #12 fairway is currently flooded, and because of that the hole will be played as a par 3 until further notice. The rain came at an unfortunate time, just when we were finally getting our green speeds back up (our roller is now back up and running). Last Thursday and Friday mornings the greens were stimped at 10 1/2 ft, this morning the greens were stimped at 9 ft, just after a double mow and roll. The slower speeds are obviously because of the moisture in our greens after the weekend. We are confident we will be able to get the green speeds back up, and will follow up with our green speed progression throughout the week as we wait for our greens to dry up.

#12 fairway Monday morning

#12 fairway view from the green 

Fairway/Rough Definition

Here is a look of what our new clean up pass in the fairways look like using our smaller triplex mower. 

View of #2 fairway, looking back from #2 green.

Fairway striping

We wanted to finally get a definition on are fairway line from the edge of the rough. We have played around with several ideas and it is very difficult to acheive this on kikuyagrass. This past Tuesday we experimented mowing the clean up pass or outer edge of the faiway with a smaller and slower mower. The results were tremendous and alot of great reviews from members, and staff. We are implenting this in our program which will be done on a regular basis. Things are shaping up out there and the warm season grass is dominating over the poa/rye. There is alot of positive things that are going on with the golf course and we will continue to improve.

Greens Roller Down, So Are Green Speeds

We have been without our greens roller for about a week and a half now. On June 20th, the main hydraulic hose busted on our 17th green. The green was re sodded with sod from our new bentgrass nursery. With our roller currently out of service, our greens have lost a little bit of speed. The greens were stimped today at 10.4 at 11 o'clock. Keep in mind that with this weather, our greens are growing tremendously throughout the day. A green can lose up to about 2 feet of speed throughout a good growing condition day. We will be keeping up with our applications of growth regulators on our greens throughout the summer and this should help keep the speeds up. Once we can get our roller back up and running, the greens speeds should jump back up as well. Until then we appreciate your patience with slower (not slow) green speeds.